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Small Moments of Ecstasy

There’s a moment, on the dancefloor, when everything falls into place — the lights, the sound, the beat, the vibe, the crowd, the lyrics, the energy, the… intangible tribal quality of moving your body in time with the universe — where you consciously toy (for a microsecond) with the idea that if that moment of [...]

Inconsequential

Video: Pale Blue Films; Music: Mogwai

The spacecraft was a long way from home.

I thought it would be a good idea, just after Saturn, to have them take one last glance homeward. From Saturn, the Earth would appear too small for Voyager to make out any detail. Our planet would be just a point [...]

Terrorizing Y’All’s Neighbourhood

So we went to Thrill the World Vancouver 2009 at Yaletown’s Roundhouse this evening:

And scariest of all…

Have I Mentioned How Much I Love Sarah Silverman? Because I Totally Do. Love Sarah Silverman, I Mean.

After witnessing dozens of people wiping handkerchiefs, staggeringly cheesy dimestore trinkets and, I do believe, their panties on The Stone of Unction in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, I can’t help but totally love the latest from the Hebrew Badgirl:

Video: Sarah Silverman, “Sell the Vatican, Feed the World”

Green on Thursday #93: Ben, the Two of Us Need Look No More

Rugby star — and TTNO fan-fave — Ben Cohen strips for Attitude mag and says this about his physique:

I don’t think I’ve got a good body. And that’s not cause I want you to say I have. I don’t look in the mirror and go: ‘Fucking hell Benny, good body.’ I look at it and [...]

Aptly-Named Beach

C’mon, guess.

Aptly-Named Beach, Vancouver, 21 September 2009

Friending

What a great week. Got a shitload of work done, kicked cardio ass at the gym and, best of all, met up with and hung out with MikeP, one of my oldest and dearest friends (and, if memory serves, the first person to whom I came out), here in YVR on business. I can’t wait [...]

I Wanna Be Trash

You have no. Idea.

Video: The Whip, “Trash”

Thanx to MikeP…

I Can’t Unfriend You Because We’ve Never Actually Been Friends

Dear Evangelical Christians…

(Courtesy Glark – thanks, Dave!)

Dream Machine

Though I think religion is total horseshit, I deeply respect the religious experience.

By that I mean that we humans have a peculiar physiology and psychology which can lend itself to certain perceptions which we casually describe as “religious” and, because these perceptions and experiences have yet to be scientifically studied in any significant fashion, we’re [...]

“When Michael Jackson Dies We’re Covering ‘Blackbird’”

It’s no secret I’m a huge fan of The Dandy Warhols but it may not be widely known that The Beatles’ “Blackbird” is one of my very favourite songs. As it turns out, in the title track to The Dandys’ Welcome to the Monkey House, they sing

Wire is coming back again
Elastica got sued by them
When [...]

I Definitely Have a Thing for Canadian Bands Who Shout “HEY!”

Not again, right?

Video: The Arcade Fire “No Cars Go”

We’re In The Basement, Learning To Print (All Of It? Hot!)

Next to “Roam”, this is probably my fave B-52′s song*. Don’t think the grocers’ apostrophe doesn’t drive me nuts — they fixed it last year, with the release of Funplex — but self-identification is to be respected. The literal representation of the instruments cracks me up and, Cindy, you ARE my goddess!

Video: B-52′s “Legal [...]

Hey!

You either dig Toronto’s Hidden Cameras or you do not dig them. You either find them hopelessly mannered and naïve or you do not. You either find their music refreshing in a DIY/low-art-gay-churchy kinda way or you find it predictable in a samey-same kinda way.

I like them. A lot. They’re fun, they’re fresh, they have [...]

Don’t Let the Door Hit You on the Ass

So, as you may have gathered, the flavour of this here blog has changed over the past several weeks, without question due to the marked improvement in the quality of my life since I moved to Vancouver. I do promise, at some point in the near future, the inevitable YYZ/YVR Comparison Post, but in the [...]