The impending switch back to daylight savings time looms over my quiet moments this week. Just as we are able to enjoy the sun rising as we wake up, some completely random and pointless process is going to take it away again. Down with DST!
Winter contrast. So as we slowly rise towards spring, the light stays out long enough for me to get this shot from my office window. I love monochrome in the winter. The bones of the world seem to be laid bare. One can get lost in the structure of things.
NEW ON THE BLOG: Is this perhaps your first (of many) chances, to enjoy the fantastic Saya Gray performing her own music? Watch the video for “If There’s No Seat In The Sky (Will You Forgive Me???)” right now!
NEW ON THE BLOG: Is this perhaps your first (of many) chances, to enjoy the fantastic Saya Gray performing her own music? Watch the video for “If There’s No Seat In The Sky (Will You Forgive Me???)” right now!
The Edmonton Poetry Festival is back! It has been a long two years of having to translate, create, and participate through a screen. I’m not sure I even understand how much I am looking forward to sharing with you in person again. I’ll join you in the audience at an event and perhaps even see you at my reading on Friday, April 29.
NEW ON THE BLOG: Perfect in the way everything Elizabeth Fraser does is perfect. But not Cocteau Twins. Her partner Damon Reece (Massive Attack) has his own sound. Together, they have made this little something.
NEW ON THE BLOG: The new video from Pet Shop Boys and Soft Cell captures how I’m felling this morning. The Oscars were last night and the broadcast just made me sad. Cinematic mediocrity, sprinkled with nuggets of cringe, finished off with a splooge of toxic masculinity. Ugh, let’s get out of this life indeed.
There are some songs that are difficult to describe. There are some artists who are difficult to describe. This makes me happy. There is delight in surprise. Uniqueness is worth pursuing. Dan Bejar, the brains behind Vancouver band Destroyer is something else. Formed in 1995, the two threads running through
Regular readers know I consider the music video the highest art form, my generation’s (Gen-X) greatest contribution to western cultural life. So while the surprise of a collaboration between a couple of my favourite artists (Royksopp and Goldfrapp) is driving my creativity this week, the fact that the video for the song is a random morphing of almost images, is reducing my enthusiasm.
Widowspeak have created something magical with both the song and the video for “While You Wait.” Parts of the video remind me of San Diego, and La Jolla
Lunatic Engine 