So, as I’ve mentioned before once or twice, Janelle has been visiting the past few weeks. Tonight she goes back to Australia to continue her studies, but before she catches her cross-Pacific flight, I asked her to blog some of her thoughts about Vancouver and her visit here. Which she’s not shy about revealing, in…
Author: Eric, your haikuist
house-cleaning the blog: The Dark Knight! Hellboy II! Spaced!
As I’ve mentioned before, the lovely Janelle has been visiting these past few weeks, and updating this blog has somewhat fallen by the wayside. Still, I do try to keep things at least somewhat up-to-date, so that when I’m finally inspired to write something brilliant, I don’t have a backlog of bloggage to get through…
What is it? — The Crispin Glover Road Show
Being the adventures of a young man whose principle interests are snails, salt, a pipe, and how to get home. As tormented by an hubristic, racist inner psyche. Ah, crazy ol’ Crispin Hellion Glover. Portrayer of George McFly, near-decapitator of David Letterman, chronicler of clowns, and general surrealist-at-large. His 21st-century project of note is putting…
Wolf Parade rocks the Commodore
Wolf Parade rocks the Commodore, originally uploaded by Mister Wind-Up Bird. Janelle and I took in Wolf Parade at the Commodore Ballroom last night. I’m not in love with either of Wolf Parade’s full-lengths, but I love individual tracks on each. And after seeing them perform, I think I’d happily pick up a live album….
Slasher (2004) and Encounters at the End of the World (2007)
Two minor documentaries from two master directors, with two very different approaches. John Landis’ Slasher is very much in the cinéma verite style — in fact, it’s really not much of a step from the classic 1969 film Salesman. Like that doc, this is concerned with the life of a travelling salesman, in this case,…