I don’t really read the free daily or weekly papers, and haven’t for some time. Of the ones that are out there, I’d tend to pick up Terminal City or Nerve (which, admittedly is a monthly…). I can’t stomach the scavenger hunt for content between the advertisements in the Georgia Straight, so I rarely even [...]
Read more →I received an interesting phone call just now regarding my site here, and for the time being I’ll refrain from saying who exactly it was, the company they represent, or the post here on the bankrupt artist that they were calling about. They wanted me to delete a posting here that portrayed their company in a bad light; by simply quoting their own words….
Read more →I’ve started writing a bit for one of the newer Vancouver “portal bl0gs” by the name of Beyond Robson.
Read more →Sometimes I find out about a show from the artist’s page well before I catch wind of it locally. I found the November 3rd, 2005 show featuring Jello Biafra & The Melvins on the Alternative Tentacles web site, but am still unable to find much information on the show anywhere else online. The Vancouver show [...]
Read more →I hate movie trailers with blurbs from writers that make insane claims like this; ‘If you see only one film this year’ or ‘Best romantic / buddy / cop flick of the second week of July’ or whatever. I know that some of these guys play to the trailer people, to get their names in [...]
Read more →You may have seen the little “trick” that has been going around recently among iTunes users, allowing you to subscribe to specific file types with specific tags that have been bookmarked in del.icio.us. There are some amazing videos I’ve been seeing pop up on the http://del.icio.us/tag/system:filetype:mov+funny feed that iTunes uses to bring me funny (and [...]
Read more →I’m so sad that I missed out on this… what with the October 15th cut off… I mean, I could be an “Act” in the induction, casting and making of “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”. I wonder what the “deposit” that’s required for the Fed-Ex package will be; I think I’ll send them an email and see if I can still “apply”….
Read more →Okay, I’m a bit confused by this, and am beginning to think that it’s just some sort of bizarre caching problem on my laptop. I’ve setup a podcast for distribution of some old interviews and videos for Nardwuar The Human Serviette. The itunes:image tag looks fine in the RSS2 feed’s output, but I get the [...]
Read more →I just received the press release announcing the audience and jury awards from this year’s festival. To summarize, the films that won awards or had actors / actresses win awards are; Eve & The Fire Horse The Hamster Cage Live and Become Lucid Ox Hide Patterns The People’s Choice Award for Most Popular International Film [...]
Read more →Ran into Larry Kent (Hamster Cage) again, and he mentioned that he wasn’t stalking me; I laughed and had to talk him down. In retrospect, I’m not entirely sure if he was kidding around or not, but he stopped and talked regardless. We chatted with him about the level of Canadian film here this year. [...]
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