The English have long been renowned for masking their feelings, hiding emotion behind rules of etiquette and dry humour, and, dare I say it, exuding a sort of coldness. Yes, us Brits have always had a reputation for restrained passion – that is the beauty of British classics. The tension between Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. … Continue Reading
Books, Reviews
image above courtesy of wil-ru.com Finding a folk album that doesn’t indulge in horses or open fields is a feat. But, finding one that touches poignancy and sends you to a reflective place with every listen is also rare. While half heartedly browsing Bandcamp during a dull day at work, Davis Hooker’s Phoning It In caught … Continue Reading
Music, Reviews
artwork by Group of Seven Billion I had people over last week to see my new apartment in Hamilton Ontario. I call it an apartment, but really it’s the main floor of an old bank that’s been converted into a loft. I live where the tellers used to scramble around before the neighbourhood of Barton … Continue Reading
Film, Reviews
by Steven Partridge The end papers of Tibor Fischer’s new book take design inspiration from Greek pottery and the London Underground. The former prefixes a story about the Trojan War, the latter a woman who returns to her London flat to find the locks are changed. The reader can choose which story to read first and … Continue Reading
Books, Reviews
I’ll admit I’m a heavy user of Chuck Prophet product so my feelings about his latest, “Temple Beautiful”, should come with some sort of health warning about my levels of enthusiasm and lack of commas. Elliot Murphy says that literature is his religion but rock&roll his addiction and I have to confess that I’m addicted … Continue Reading
Music, Reviews
“Atmospheric Disturbances” by Rivka Galchen is like a large white onion, many-layered and sharp, and makes one blink the eye rapidly—in wonderment, of course. Very simplistically, it is the story of a search for a missing person. Or, if one looked at it upside down, it could be about atmospheric changes that are orchestrated. Leo … Continue Reading
Books, Reviews
Jack Conte constructs some of the most impressive D.I.Y. multi-instrumental mania humankind has ever known. It’s totally Zouch. No publishing, no record label (how’s that even possible?) from his mind to your eyes and ears. No mess, just the honesty of a true artist that WILL NOT BE IGNORED. This pure, noise making, throat soothing, body … Continue Reading
Music, Reviews
In this sequel to I’m With the Band, we get a behind-the-scenes look into the life of the world’s most famous rock and roll groupie, Pamela Des Barres. In 1987, a book came out that had people questioning the morals of the rock band groupie. What was once a world of sexual exploits, drugs and … Continue Reading
Books, Reviews
I’ve been hearing a lot about Tobias Wolff recently. After studying the Collected Works of Raymond Carver last year, I watched the Criterion Collection edition of Robert Altman’s film “Short Cuts”, a jazz-inspired pastiche of Carver stories set against the paranoid backdrop of early 1990s Los Angeles. In a documentary included on DVD’s bonus features, … Continue Reading
Books, Reviews
by Bjorn Gabriels Some thirty years after The Fly, which won him an Academy Award for short animation in 1981, Hungarian animator Ferenc Rofusz has a new short, Ticket. It tells the life story of a man from birth to grave, entirely told from his personal perspective. Rofusz stresses that Ticket is his first non-political … Continue Reading
Artists, Film, Interviews
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