April 18, 2013
Went to a bar tonight that used to be great, a neighbourhood bar in the old Arts Club Theatre. What happened? 14 sports TV screens happened, a contempo remodel, and all the clientele that comes with that stuff.
February 13, 2013
Lyrebird imitating construction work, Adelaide Zoo. Sound of the city, played back.
January 16, 2013
December 24, 2012
Animation from a kinder, gentler, classier time. Designed by R.O. Blechman and animated by Willis Pyle, 1996, for CBS Christmas station identification.
October 24, 2012
October 6, 2012
The single “Elephant” from new Tame Impala album “Lonerism”
Album cover for Lonerism by Tame Impala – fenced garden, Paris
The new Tame Impala album Lonerism is out.
Finally, a new album after ten years. Seems it’s only available on their tour merch tables right now. Beautiful album design, including the following:
More Godspeed You!
September 16, 2012
Thomas Anselmi of Slow singing Have Not Been The Same, circa 1985
Slow at UBC’s Thunderbird Stadium, dressed in bloody nurse’s outfits, circa 1986
Slow was a legendary 80s Vancouver band sometimes credited with spawning grunge.
March 18, 2012
Words and music by John Roby, a good friend of my Uncle Patrick. Video recorded and edited by Scott Stephenson. Lovely song in its own right, and a bit reminiscent of Randy Newman and Tom Lehrer.
March 5, 2012
Watch the whole thing. This is a Canada so different from the Canada from the one we’re in now, the Canada that now sits in a deep, dark, chilly trough dug by our illegitimate prime minister, Stephen Harper.
