“Government authorities should allow medically supervised sites where crack-cocaine users can legally smoke their potent drug, researchers and B.C.’s top public-health doctor urged on Monday after a new study suggested crack addicts are particularly prone to contracting HIV.” — National Post, Oct 19, 2009 I’m familiar with insite, BC’s safe injection site in downtown Vancouver. [...]
Read more →Okay… only tangentially… received an email from cineworks who has a couple openings; one part time $18/hr gig and one volunteer. Don’t comment here, I am not affiliated with Cineworks, I just figured I might know someone who’d be interested in one of these two gigs. Keep in mind that this post was made in [...]
Read more →There’s just something about getting a CD before everyone else; hearing a CD months before the pointi n time that the band’s label decided to open the gates to the public. That is really 70% of the attraction that I have had to music journalism; the other 30% split between free concerts, photo passes and [...]
Read more →I’ve just come up with a number of arrangements of small 6x6cm photos taken from contact sheets I had printed a couple years ago. I’m really happy with the arrangements and I think they look great as sets; there’s more than one set that I’d consider getting another set of contact prints made so that [...]
Read more →Okay, the basics of the story: Lululemon (Yoga clothing company) makes healthful woo woo claims for clothing LLL plays on sustainable production, claiming seaweed makes up 24% of fabric LLL gets slap on wrist from textile labeling, ordered to remove unproven, untested medical claims LLL claims of anti-stress and amino acids absorbtion are removed from [...]
Read more →Posting the latest newsletter to MySpace, Facebook, etc… Nardwuar’s CD and DVD launch tomorrow with the FREE all-ages gig at UBC. Too cheap to buy the album? Go listen to the whole thing for free on (yeah yeah, I know) the Myspace site we setup for this at http://www.myspace.com/nardwuar Hi! It’s Nardwuar the Human Serviette [...]
Read more →Odd collection of dreams… Now I want to find how I can get some frozen Kolachies (Kolachy?) and if I’m going to be shipping frozen food anyway, a couple dozen deluxe steamed buns from New Town Bakery. Kolachy I ran into Kolachy Guy on Spring Garden Road in Halifax. I was walking along listening to [...]
Read more →The plan involves driving back to Vancouver in about 18 months, and the working theory is buy a used band van and drive. That’s 18 months for Tania to learn to drive, 18 months for me to abuse the company’s training subsidy, and 18 months to decide which direction to go… Primarily that amount to [...]
Read more →Further proof that video budgets don’t need to be huge to be entertaining or broadcast worthy, Nardwuar the Human Serviette and his band, The Evaporators are Shakin’ With The Shaggy Shaker. Video directed by Joey McGarry from the new CD/LP “Gassy Jack and Other Tales” available Nov 6 2007 from Mint Records. I’m surely biased, [...]
Read more →There’s something about the latest tune from Nardwuar’s band The Evaporators, Float Plane, that makes me think of the Dead Milkmen. Okay, I might just be saying that bbecause I’ve been listening to Beelzebubba a lot in the last couple days, but see what you think with the video below… If you don’t see the [...]
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