Alienated in Vancouver

So I live (in the dream) in the same building as Jeremy, former Audiopile clerk and drummer for Shearing Pinx, and he's actually there, ...

I was, it transpires, unable, due to circumstances of some slight perversity, to preview GHOSTS... of the Civil Dead , screening tomorrow ...

There is much to do this Halloween weekend. Poison Idea at Funkys on the 30th? Maybe, though I expect that will be packed and rowdy. (Have...

How do people use the internet these days? Back before I used Facebook, I used to actually go looking for interesting things to read. I wo...

Not sure how to write about the ongoing Wim Wenders retrospective at the Cinematheque. Some great films are playing. I love Wenders...

My girl and I are both on the spectrum for Type II diabetes (a recent discovery, for me - my fasting blood sugars were around 7 the other we...

One of the main reasons that I wanted to talk to Dar Williams - and certainly the main reason I got into her music - was because of her s...

The Vancity Theatre's Tom Charity asked me today if I'd seen the director's cut of Little Shop of Horrors , and I looked at hi...

Elizabeth Fischer with the Animal Slaves, by bev davies Hey, I didn't know about this. The last few Facebook posts from Elizabeth Fi...

What a dignified and inspiring acceptance speech last night! I won't tease you any more about Triumph of the Ignoroids , promise. In f...

...Because I really like the idea of his Mom's beaver having been on the cover of a DOA album! Apparently Nardwuar was flashing this ...

Since, God help us, the article has become relevant once again, I am electing (with Gerry's blessing) to re-post it. The last time I p...

Well, TWO interesting things are happening on October 15th. Elizabeth Fischer is checking in to the clinic (Swiss time) to make her quietus,...

So I got invited to the Gang of Four show at the Venue on Tuesday (technically tonight as I write this). I hadn't planned to go, but n...

Jeez, I gotta get my head out of the death-spin here... Went to see Hinds, The Black Lips and Ariel Pink at the Rickshaw the other night. ...

There are certain bits of rock and roll that end up buried so deep in your brain you don't even remember they're there, but they alw...

Animal Slaves by bev davies: L-R Rachel Melas, Ross Hales, Elizabeth Fischer This is odd, but I guess I'm writing an obit for someon...

Thank you, Billy Hopeless, for recommending Dr. Donald Shuen (on West Broadway near Cypress, if anyone needs a skilled dentist). There's...

Beautifully restrained, very dark, utterly gripping thriller, superbly photographed (Roger Deakins) and scored ( Jóhann Jóhannsson ). If y...

Finally caught up with Into The Forest today, which screened just in time for me to make it to work by 1pm. Nice film. It's kind of u...