ExpoBounty
December 10th, 2011 § 1 Comment
It’s been a long time since I last visited Expozine, one of the biggest (if not the biggest- hurrah!) zine fairs in North America. Ever since I stopped publishing Lickety Split in 2008 (it was run by Sarah Beall for a while after that) it seems like I haven’t been able to make it out to the fair for one reason or the other, so it was a treat to be able to go and visit all the tables I used to hit up at zine fairs when I myself was bent from stapling/hauling/selling folded paper.
Here’s what Mike and I picked up:
- A couple of recent issues of Querencia Zine
- Culture Slut #25
- Femme A Barbe #1 + #2
- A few postcards by One Sentence Stories (one thrown in for free!)
- An issue of Paula Belina’s Good Good Bon Bon zine (excellent collages on each of the covers!)
- A CD of music by Steve Godin called Trust Me (with a horned goddess featured on the cover)
- The latest edition of Four Minutes to Midnight Issue 12 which commemorates the 10th anniversary of Expozine and includes selections from a sampling of zines that have been sold at the fair over the years including Lickety Split.
- Sherwin Tjia‘s new book You Are A Cat, a choose-your-own-adventure about, well, being a cat. So funny (plus makes for a great holiday gift!). He also kicked in a copy of his latest purring cat CD ‘E-Z-Purr‘.
- ‘Music Is Rapid Transportation…From The Beatles to Xenakis‘, edited by Daniel Kernohan
- Maidenheadlock, a beautiful silk-screened , magazine-sized zine
- Radical Montreal’s city guide zine
- An issue of Ghostbusters illustrated by Salgood Sam
- A print (not pictured) of a post-apocalyptic Montreal featuring the Big O
- Collier’s Popular Press, a collection of the Saskatchewan-bron artist’s work that was published in newspapers and magazines, which we bought directly from Andy at the Conundrum table who then pointed out that Dave Collier was sitting at the table. Mike’s been a long time collector of Colliers work and is also from Saskatchewan and so the two got along like a house on fire. Dave inscribed our copy of the book (and sketched our likenesses) and we left the fair as ultra happy customers!
David Collier
Do’s and Don’ts
November 22nd, 2011 § Leave a Comment
1. Do watch this video, don’t sit idly by! Thanks to Jordan and yay to Heather! From It Could Get Worse:
2. Do celebrate indie upstarts like the Archive Montreal crew and 10 years of the rad zine fair, Expozine! Don’t stay in all weekend, instead attend the Expozine 10th Anniversary and Four Minutes to Midnight launch at Drawn & Quarterly on Friday and then check out the fair on Saturday and Sunday!
3. Do stay warm! Don’t catch a cold!
4. Do follow my band Cobra & Vulture on Tumblr, don’t sit idly by part two!
5. Do check out Howl, don’t stay at home Thursday night!
A xo
Stuff I Like Today
November 16th, 2011 § Leave a Comment
1. The Road Ended at the Beach and Other Legends: This is a four part film program curated by my friend Brett Kashmere regarding the “Escarpment School” of filmmakers that emerged from Ontario (including, among others, Rick Hancox, Richard Kerr, Phillip Hoffman, Steve Sanguedolce), their film and video work and the work they then inspired in other filmmakers (Mike Rollo, for example). Programmers and filmmakers will be in attanedance and tonight is the first screening at the Segal Centre. For full details and detailed information visit Brett’s website or check out the Facebook event page!
By Sonja Elizabeth Ahlers
2. Rookie, the new magazine for teenage girls edited by teenage style wunderkind Tavi. I’m often late to the the party when it comes to pop cultural stuff, but i’m glad I finally made it over to the website! Sonja has made some lovely images for the magazine to boot, so cool.
3. Campus Mixtapes and mixes in general! I especially like this one and this one so far.
4. Natasha’s Montreal Sessions residency this month, great guests, interviews and music.
5. Quantum Leap TV series The only TV I’m watching these days.
6. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon (thanks to J for lending it to me)
7. Basin/Bassin by Andrea-Jane Cornell
8. Oh yes, the momentous support the McGill student body demonstrated for CKUT in our recent existence referendum!
9. Music, of course: getting ready to write another EP with Cobra & Vulture, mixing the full length record, practicing country tunes at the station occasionally with my co-worker Slick (we debuted a Patsy Cline cover live on air during the Venus Radioke show earlier in the month!).
10. Hats. In desperate love of them, especially with autumn stylings…my tumblr is kinda chock full of them lately!
a xo
Lil’ Biz
November 14th, 2011 § Leave a Comment
So, I’ve been invited to take part in an indie business seminar this coming Saturday called Lil’ Biz that’s being organized by Pop Montreal’s Puces Pop team. Here’s the title of my presentation…click the pic for more details!
Suggested Reading: Dos and Don’ts for DIY Publishing and Dynasty-Building: A personal account of running a big, collaborative project and how to keep it glorious even when it gets messy.
Saturday, Nov 19th, from noon-5pm, at The Plant (185 Van Horne)
This event is free and space is limited (first come first served). RSVP to reserve your spot: puces@popmontreal.com
stir it up
November 8th, 2011 § Leave a Comment
also: making mixes for this website these days, more about it here.
a xo
Make-Up Artist/To Make Up For Lost Time
November 8th, 2011 § 2 Comments
Busy, busy. Life has been wonderful and full. The well that is this blog, well, less so lately. So here are two videos for you: I don’t usually post my ‘real’ films and videos on-line, but for these two an exception was made. Enjoy:
Lyric For Our Home Song (Video Sketch) (2005): “A snippet of visual conversation steeped in domesticity and centered around the ritual of morning tea” – excerpt from Anitmatter 2006 festival guide
River Eyelid (2010) Super 8 (Dual Projection), Co-Direction with Mike Rollo: Lake takes a breath; looks left, swims right.
(((TOTAL ECLIPSE))) CKUT’s Funding Drive Music Series!
October 1st, 2011 § Leave a Comment
The first song I ever sang on stage was Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse of the Heart for my grade 8 talent show. I dueted with the music teacher and my back up singers were a small choir of girls I was learning to sing four part harmonies with. So, when I started working at CKUT and found out that the the music department has a show called Total Eclipse of the Charts, I was thrilled to no end. So when it came time to name a new concert series, I had only one suggestion in mind….
TOTAL ECLIPSE!
The CKUT 90.3FM Music Department presents:
TOTAL ECLIPSE
The first annual CKUT funding drive music series!
Join us this October for TOTAL ECLIPSE, three nights of radical music happenings benefiting Montreal’s own CKUT 90.3FM, the most genre-bending music programming in the city.
>>> Oct. 20th at Casa del Popolo (4873 boul. St-Laurent)
Presented by UNDERGROUND SOUNDS
Doors at 8:30pm
Mozart’s Sister
Stranger (members of Ancient Kids, Magic Weapon)
Sean “Nicholas” Savage
>>> Oct. 21st at Divan Orange (4234 boul. St-Laurent)
Presented by VENUS RADIO
Dekoder
UN
+ Special Guests
>>>> Oct. 22nd at “the old Hotel2Tango” (5607 du Parc)
Presented by DUCK TRUCK RADIO
LimbsWanderedAlone
Zimo
Dirtyboots
DJ Fiberglasspants
DJ Aaron Maiden
DJ Julie D
DJ Backdoor
DJ otherpeoplesmusic
Each night of TOTAL ECLIPSE (name inspired by the department’s Total Eclipse of the Charts radio show) is curated and co-presented by CKUT music programmers, specifically the long-running and newly revamped indie music show UNDERGROUND SOUNDS, the popular lady-focused show VENUS, and the free form late night shit show that is DUCK TRUCK RADIO. Each show is $8 at the door or $20 for a music series pass, which will be made available for advance purchase at CKUT (3647 University), Cheap Thrills (2044 Metcalfe St.) and Phonopolis (207 Bernard W.)
About THE MONTHLIES:
The Monthlies is a monthly donation program tailored to the gifter’s reality which allows them to support CKUT in a manageable and meaningful way. In exchange, every monthly donor will receive a monthly download-able music mix curated by the CKUT music department. Monthly donor programs are a sustainable way to commit to supporting this great radio station. Our goal is to increase our current monthly donor list to 50, with donors giving at least $5 a month over the next year. More on the DONATE Page.
By NOMNRYN
To every thing there is a season…
October 1st, 2011 § Leave a Comment
Draped leather vest with tapestry back // Citizen Vintage
Draped leather vest with tapestry back // Citizen Vintage
Time to switch out my summer wardrobe for cooler-months garb. It’s gonna take an evening of unpacking and packing large storage crates. Then I can fill in the gaps with awesomeness like the vest above!
Stuff I Like Today
September 27th, 2011 § Leave a Comment
1. Stayed healthy during the Pop Montreal festival: tabled both days of the record fair while finishing up my cold, didn’t haul too much home, just a few records (Mahalia Jackson, Roberta Flack with Donny Hathaway, Paul Simon’s Graceland for Mike, plus Yamantaka//Sonic Titan CD) as well as a Psychic Handshake t-shirt, which I love. Photo soon.
2. The Cindy Crabb (Doris zine) + Jeff Miller (GHOST PINE zine) reading at Le Cagibi on Thursday evening, which is the Montreal launch of Crabb’s The Encyclopaedia of Doris. I won’t be able to make it, but I urge y’all to go- both of these peeps are great writers and zine makers. Thanks to Radical Montreal for the tip!
3. Sick Friend’s The Draft Dodger
4. The latest issue of Good Housekeeping. Yeah, that’s right. I was in the check out line at the grocery store and the first thing that caught my eye was the pumpkin followed closely by the ‘Sleepless?’ headline and then the ‘slow cooker suppers’…which has become increasingly relevant to me, once again, now that I’m arriving home too tired to cook some nights.
5. Mini-Wheats. Never been a cereal kinda girl but I’ve been going hard on these guys. Like, craving them even.
6. Having half-cleaned my studio. Not so bad!
7. Autumn everything: cooler weather, cooler fashions, warmer foods, darker beer…mmm. Movies watched under blankets, kitties on laps. Visits to the river in sweaters. Pressuring The Goode Neighbours into letting us give out Halloween candy from their porch! None of these listed items have come to pass yet, but I def’ Like Them Today.
8. Playing shows with the band again, the new tunes are growing up on stage out of the studio and feeling great.
9. Painting my nails all different colours.
Lola tried to help with the correcting.
10. Coming home to home cooked meals PLUS baking (banana strawberry bread!). Yum.
AG
Cobra & Vulture + Sick Friend + The Dead Letters
September 22nd, 2011 § Leave a Comment
We’re playing in Montreal this coming Monday September 26th at O Patro Vys (356 Mont Royal near St. Denis) with The Dead Letters and Sick Friend. Facebook event right here.
Do download the free four-song Seer EP or visit our Tumblr page when ya have a chance!
xo
