Saturday, January 28, 2017

This evening's violence, plus a surprise guest at the Rickshaw, and, yes, RIP Paul Leahy, John Hurt, and HMV

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Walking from the car along Main Street with Erika, I could hear someone raving and roaring, like he was begging for a fight. I was carrying ...
Thursday, January 26, 2017

Still sidelined, plus Paul Leahy, wendythirteen, and the Van-Cover cassette

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It's funny, views of my articles here are at an all time high - ranging from hundreds to thousands of views, depending on the piece, acc...
Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Sidelined, plus Sunday Morning

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Remember how I was having problems with my hands? Apparently warehouse work - constantly using staple and tape guns, and safety knives, bu...
Friday, January 06, 2017

Al's Disenfranchised Top 5 Films of 2016

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So UBC won't have me in their film studies MA program, and no local papers want to pay me to write about film at present, but fuckit, he...
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Thursday, December 22, 2016

Merry Christmas from Lobster Claus!

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Erika helped me with the design of this! Friends wanting a free unique Christmas card are welcome to print it out - though, um, we retain ...
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Sunday, December 18, 2016

All I Got For Now, plus gigs

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Strange days... started a warehouse job, checking and packing parcels. Basically my girl got me it - it's at her workplace - which is ki...
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Wednesday, November 30, 2016

At Lanalou's tonight: A Series of Dogs - a mini-interview with John Armstrong

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John Armstrong, 2016 (provided by Mr. Armstrong) Now updated with a brief email interview! The Modernetttes' John Armstrong ha...
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Tuesday, November 29, 2016

The Frank Frink 5: are you ready for the country?

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Before I listened to rock music - and long before I got into metal and punk, I listened - thanks to my parents - to country music. They play...
Friday, November 25, 2016

Thee Oh Sees meet the Ice Cream Truck (a Pere Ubu tickler), plus a Kyle Morton afterthought

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NOTE: This article got briefly taken down so the real Pere Ubu feature could be at the top of my blog. This is actually a post from BEFORE I...
Tuesday, November 22, 2016

The Unprecedented, Un-Subsequented Music of Pere Ubu: interviews with David Thomas and Robert Wheeler

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"I believe that long after rock and roll has run its course, Pere Ubu’s uncompromising and panoramic vision of it being not only capab...
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