Alienated in Vancouver

(rants and observations on outsider culture, music & cinema in The Big Wet)

Wednesday, January 01, 2020

Frank Frink Five for New Years': a brief review

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My one half-good Frink photo: Mink Frink (Scott McLeod)  The Frinks sure dug deep last night at Lanalou's. I knew about 20% of the ...
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Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Local live music for New Years: the Frank Frink Five and more...

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The Frank Frink Five, photo by Dave Jacklin Not much to say for the New Year... I am at a point where I kinda want to escape the writin...

John Sayles' Matewan, revisited: an unexpectedly emotional experience

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I could feel my wife looking at me, from beside me on the couch, as my chest chugged with something in between laughter and sobbing and I...
Friday, December 20, 2019

Daddy Issues, the Blow Up Dolls, and Clone

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So despite her outrageous milkshake gouge the other week, I keep planning to write about Betty Bathory - and in fact I already have some...
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Wednesday, December 18, 2019

David M./ NO FUN at Christmas: a whole lot of fun (and a few challenges)

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David M. prepares for the Good King Wenceslas Show. All photos by Allan MacInnis, taken at the Princeton on Dec. 16, 2019 Note...
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Saturday, December 14, 2019

The New Jack Reacher: Blue Moon by Lee Child, and the accidental Yojimbo

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I have not yet finished the new Jack Reacher novel, Blue Moon, but I just want to say that, 140 pages in, it is doing something that del...
Saturday, December 07, 2019

The Pointed Sticks present a very fun night indeed (with Strange Breed, Eddy D & the Sex Bombs, and the Modernettes!)

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Strange Breed. All photos except the Pointed Sticks by Allan MacInnis Ha! That was a very fun show, though suffused for some with a c...
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Friday, December 06, 2019

Modernettes! John Armstrong interview outtakes

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I have a major John Armstrong interview online , apropos of Friday's show at the Rickshaw (technically later today but it's only m...
Thursday, December 05, 2019

Karyn Kusama's Destroyer: No

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I like that Destroyer attempts to put a new kind of female character on the screen - the soul-scorched wretch played by Nicole Kidman is cle...
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Monday, December 02, 2019

Robert Forster and Breaking Bad

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I've been bugging my wife since Robert Forster died for her to revisit Jackie Brown with me, in tribute to him. I don't have muc...
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Friday, November 29, 2019

Toiling Midgets tonight! plus errata and omissions

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Apparently there is at least one error in my Toiling Midgets article . Somewhere in my checking in with Heather Haley, someone (coulda be...
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Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Body Count, "Cop Killer," and me

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I notice that Body Count has been including "Cop Killer" in recent tours. I assume there was a period - around the time the ori...
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Sunday, November 24, 2019

An odd night at Lanalou's

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Men's room toilet stall at Lanalou's. All photos by Allan MacInnis Well, that sure was different. So I'm not sure who Mer...
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