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Godspeed You! Black Emperor are back

LB — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 22:13:58 +0000

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!

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“They’d go to the opera, get inbred, poison each other, and send for someone like Poirot to sort it out.”

LB — Wed, 02 May 2012 19:52:06 +0000

Students protests in Montreal, Canada, over Quebec’s plans to raise tuition fees. Photograph: Rogerio Barbosa/AFP/Getty Images

Via The Guardian’s article “Quebec student protests mark ‘Maple spring’ in Canada: A revolt against a government tuition fee hike is growing into Occupy-inspired dissent against austerity and inequality”.

Leonard Cohen in the documentary “Ladies and Gentlemen.. Mr Leonard Cohen”

LB — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 02:06:09 +0000

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.

Leonard Cohen’s acceptance speech for Spain’s highest award

LB — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 21:02:33 +0000

Speech by Leonard Cohen

Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Excellencies, Members of the Jury, Distinguished Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen:

It is a great honor to stand here before you tonight.

Montreal vs. Vancouver Olympics graphics – a little comparative photo essay

LB — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:00:36 +0000

Ignoring the problems of hosting the Olympics, which are serious and many (and as a Vancouverite I’m speaking from experience), let’s just compare the graphic design from two different Canadian Olympics.

Official Montreal ’76 Olympics poster that would never pass a committee now

LB — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:36:33 +0000

Poster by Raymond Bellemare for the Canadian Graphics and Design Directorate (Graphisme et Dessin) of the Organizing Committee of the 1976 Olympic Games, Montreal

Only 32 years have passed since this fantastic official poster for the 1976 Montreal Olympics was produced, but from a 2008 vantage point it’s hard to imagine how a committee ever okayed it.