21 February 2009 – 2:43 pm
Via Can Media Layoffs Twitter feed, I learned that CanWest is ‘in serious trouble’. I posted my own Twitter/Facebook thought on this: “Fuck CanWest. Their failure just means Canadians have taste’. All based on this article in the Globe and Mail, CanWest seeks financial saviour amid credit crisis.
Let’s review CanWest’s crappiness shall we? Via their [...]
17 February 2008 – 7:53 pm
08w08:1 Review & Preview: The Canadian Art Reel Artists Film Festival 21-24 Feb 2008
[Cross posted from Goodreads 08w08:1]
The Canadian Art Reel Artists Film Festival, 21-24 February 2008
http://www.canadianart.ca/foundation/programs/reelartists/2008/01/24/
http://www.canadianart.ca/microsites/REELARTISTS//schedule/
screening at the Al Green Theatre, Miles Nadal JCC
750 Spadina Ave (at Bloor), Toronto
In his as-yet-untranslated book Formes de Vie (1999) Nicolas Bourriaud makes the argument that [...]
17 November 2007 – 7:36 pm
07w46:6 : Movie Review: Blade Runner: The Final Cut (1982; 2007)
1982: The first edition of Blade Runner is released on 25 June.
1992: The second edition ‘Director’s Cut‘ is released on 11 July. At the time I’m a student of history and as a pet project I’m trying to write a history of Earth from the [...]
14 November 2007 – 7:37 pm
Goodreads | 2007 week 46 number 5 (Classic Academic Bullshit)
Worth quoting in full (after all, it is a press release) with emph mine:
What’s in a name? Initials linked to success, study shows (Link)
Do you like your name and initials? Most people do and, as past research has shown, sometimes we like them enough to [...]
The Toronto Star ran a story (Luminato: Success or big disappointment?) this morning offering readers the chance to compare and contrast two opposing views with regard to the inaugural Luminato festival. I missed almost all of the festival, which is to say, I didn’t find it very visible. I’m on Christopher Hume’s side that it [...]
(from Goodreads)
This Goodreads is in part of confession of ignorance, and how wonderful things can be when you don’t have the full picture. Which is to say, they’re fantastic when not dulled by the acquired cynicism of ‘an inside story’. And perhaps it is by coming to the experience initially ignorant, having that wonderful first [...]
21 January 2007 – 3:45 pm
Mr. Mee by Andrew Crumey (2000)
Proust has already come up twice – first in Taylor’s discussion, but also it the title of the Gordon Bell presentation. What better way to introduce Mr. Mee? The truth is I wanted to publish a review of Mr. Mee in the summer of 2005, and it is a novel [...]
9 October 2005 – 11:11 pm
There’s an interview with Slavoj Zizek from the Guardian which pretty much confirms my suspicions as to why I shouldn’t take him seriously – I first heard of him a couple of years ago through a friend who was briefly infatuated with his writing; then looking into it I found it unintelligible, and then further [...]
@ MOCCA
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So, like I mentioned in my last posting, I was at the MOCCA opening last week. I wasn’t planning to go, really – I planned on going to the latest show at YYZ, but a friend told me about the MOCCA party where she was going so we made plans [...]
Queen Street’s New Old Masters
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I was at the MOCCA opening the other night (more on that later) and while there checked out the Dan Hughes show at Edward Day next door. To be absolutely honest, I was looking at the paintings while in the middle of introducing myself to a girl [...]