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Best of luck, Merek. Here's tion of contributors and ^^ Hasta luego, Vancou- it you need to know: volunteers, that cat-herding K..J ver; vaya con queso, analogy is horrifyingly apt. DiSCORDER. I've gone the dis­ 1) It's true what every editor 12) If you get serious with tance, done my time, finished says: once you take on the the columnists about dead­ my metaphorical community job, there's really no time for lines, they will either call you service, put in a year as edi­ you to do your own writing names (like "Der Fiihrer") or tor, and in that stretch I've due to your brain being con­ openly mock you (which, I run the heights and depths of sumed with the task of pro­ allow, would probably happen human emotion, had some of cessing other people's words anyway). the best times of my life, and There is practically a surplus 13) If you don't get serious collided headlong with some of the most stressful. Friends? I've made a few—but then again, too few to mention... after I drove them off with a production deadline-induced psychosis, anyway. But I met some char­ acters along the way. I mean, how many times in your life can you count a man with the last name "Meat" among your friends? Not bloody many. You need to cherish these moments when you can, folks; this is the gold rush. Right, so where was I? Oh, yeah, I'd like to thank my manager, my wife Willow The Editor has left the building. Peace and I'm (without you I'm nothing; I'm under your spell), God out. —Chris almighty (la, Shub-Niggurath, of time for your empty brain with the columnists, they will Black Goat of the Woods with 1,000 Young!), and Egg to absorb America's Most- never turn in anything. Ever. McMuffins, without which I Emaciated Model Search, 14) If anything goes wrong might never be tardy. I'd also though. with the magazine, it's your like to thank the wonderful 2) Free CDs will only get you fault. Unless it's a printing HOLY CRAP, irS ALMOST THAT TIME AGAIN staff at CiTR for allowing a so far. error, in which case it's par­ 3) Ditto books. tially your fault. Once you take on the job, there's 15) Every absent comma or extra space will stand out in really no time for you to do your own your eyes like a clearcut patch on a virgin mountain. No one writing. There is practically a sur­ else will notice. plus of time for your empty brain to 16) If people like what you've printed, they won't write. ©Wfldi$ absorb America's Most-Emaciated Conversely, if they don't like what you've printed... well, Model Search, though. Are you in a band that doesn't suck? Or are you a solo they probably won't get up the gumption to write in then, geek to get needlessly eso­ 4) Ditto sex. (Okay, okay, musician with mad skills? either. teric on a monthly basis (if 1 never got laid because of 17) There is no separation We are now accepting entries for SHiNDiG! 2003. Send you caught the three cultural DiSCORDER, but it was still in your minimum 3 song demo of original material (all references in the previous a pleasant pipedream, thanks of personal and private any­ sentence, you get, well, noth­ very much.) more. You are now a Doctor Moreau-esque human/ styles welcome) for an opportunity to play CiTR's annual ing, but I'll respect you in the 5) Sometimes publicists will magazine hybrid shambling morning). call and call and all you can music deathmatch! Toss your demo, contact information, around for others to gawk at Over the course of the do is stare at the phone in and anything else that you would want us to have to: last year, I've also managed horror every time it rings, like a degenerate circus freak. to archive a mental ency­ periodically swatting it with And after a few months of no clopaedia on publishing and a large stick. sleep and a bad diet, you'll the way the industry works. swear that everyone that SHiNDiG! 2003 6) The Organ rules. Things they don't tell you in glances even vaguely in your 7) Local band The Fuck Up c/o CiTR Radio books or classes. You know, direction is doing exactly Kids apparently like to go by the useful stuff. So, as the that. the name "Fucked Up Kid." #233-6138 SUB Blvd. reins of command are being Who knew? 18) It's all lies and bullshit. All Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1 passed to our beloved resi­ of it. If you believe any of it, dent Brit, Mr. Merek Cooper, I 8) Sleep is a privilege, not a right. youn iunk. feel it is my duty as an editor 19) And, above all else: and a friend to pass on the 9) Caffeine is a necessity, not Questions? Interested in becoming a "You've got to know when to corpus of advice and wisdom a luxury. hold them, when to fold them, sponsor? For more information please visit that I've accumulated along 10) Friends/significant others/ http://www.citr.ca You can also call us at the way. Sure, 1 could just companions are superfluous, when to walk away, and when tell him, but there would be not other human beings who to run. You never count your (604)822-1242 or email Ben Lai at something inherently ironic would probably like to hang money when you're sitting [email protected] about establishing an oral out with you from time to at the table—there'll be time history for a print magazine, time. enough for counting when the don't you think? 11) Regarding the coordina- dealing's done." • 4 July 2003 TMckinn bullWlvit bullshit by Christa Min

CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISMS EXTRA (#5) 1 realize that, I'm not saying that you turned out to be the most Dear Airhead, in relation to comment #1, that • a problem We can't ignore should work out and get all fun. Like trampolines and I am writing to give you some words are harder than pictures shapely and shit. I'm say­ gelatin. FUN! constructive feedback on your to do well. Ultimately writing is : any longer! We w I guess the real root of the music magazine. Generally it is better but so are pictures. must put a stop to anorexia ing you've got to get fat very good. A-OK! However I have in rock and roll! and squishy. I'm saying you anorexia epidemic is drugs. two complaints. Please take this Just quickly addressing a few I'm not talking about should eat until your face No, actually, it's vegetarian­ as suggestions for improvement points: you can keep up to date women. There are anorexic looks like pork. I'm saying you ism. Vegetables are cool. Just and not are you going to be on The Kiliaz by getting on their women everywhere, and peo­ should drink until your belly deep-fry them. Or dip them in offended by this please. mailing list at www.thekillaz.net. ple like it. It's too late to turn comes out like a fag. Well, ice cream or something. Trust First (#1) There is not enough (And this is a good idea because pornographic and erotic material a lot of stuff has been happen­ that shit around. I'm talking Mick Jagger's cool or whatever, but involving bicycles. ing lately—they KILLED Cobra about the increasing num- Second (#2) The G.I. Joe Commander. Yeah. See what you ith legs thin- he's gross. Steve Albini's pretty neat, Kiliaz was very good. Please give miss if you don't stay informed?) their more updates on a more regular 1 know the horoscope section necks s I guess, but he's a perv. He looks like a basis on the situtation—vis a is a little hard to figure out, but it's • guitars, dicks s vis—cobra command. probably going to stay that way, mer than their fucking bass walking penis. #3 (Thirdly) the horoscopes because we blew our entire annual strings. WHAT is going on? not so much that it weighs me, man. You'll need a good section is very poor. I can't cal­ budget a couple of years ago on a Look, I don't know who culate what sign I am. I think I machine that would chart all of down your erection. That's coat of fat to survive on tour. am not an unusual case when that for us and we need to get our decided that being thin was no good. It's going to get cold driving in I say that 1—and most prob­ money's worth on it. It's a little a good idea, but it's not. Thin In the early '90s, the two the middle of the night. Some ably—cannot even remember arcane, to be sure, but it's pretty i, Jordan ond Donny, re­ is out, man. It s not jus ut, guys that got laid the most nights you might not get paid the day of the week and time of accurate. Especially when you nt in New York Oty ot Z-100': it's sick. Mick Jagger's cc were Tad Doyle and Van enough to eat properly, so day they were born. Also how do get into the minute hairsplitting 'atzer. Images or whatever, but he's gro Conner. Sure, Chris Cornell you're going to have to rely you figure out the alternate week of those who fall under the House thing? 1 think you should stick to ofjazz. Steve Albini's pretty ne and Eddie Vedder were the on your fat reserve. But most good old fashioned month and Thankyoufor all of the stick­ I guess, but he's a perv. ones who walked around importantly, a tour isn't a tour year born horoscopes! "On the ers, religious pamphlets, and New looks like a walking penis. 1 shirtless all the time. They unless you hook up with some dial" is also too esoteric a name Kids on the Block clippings that l.Tho: ;guys rget were the ones that got on broads. The hottest ones are for the section. you accompanied this letter with. laid, man. The whole point the cover of Spun or what­ only going to go for the big Last (#4) You should definite­ Usually the mail we get up here being a rock star is so you can ever, but the chicks didn't go Pictures of the New Kids in dudes. Next tour, you don't ly do more comics. You should has no adhesive properties what­ get laid, right? Well, as a hot for them. They figured they need to pack anything but soever, and that makes us sad. get Marc Bell! He's the best. the maiL creepy or cool or broad, I can tell you that no were taken, so they went for some weight. Extra pounds • Thank you for your efforts! And Marc Bell is the best. He hot broad wants to lie around the poor, old fat dudes who extra POO-SAY! Trust me. • Mr. Onstructivecay itisism-cray should do bike porn for us. both at once? with a cold floor board. —Chris

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"There's a time for war, the London press from taking reconstruct a divisionary global and a time for reloading." the cause to its limits by front­ field of polarized politics. Take —Doonesbury's Trudeau paging a full, official inquiry some footage of the rallies in into Blair's claims that Iraq had Spain—or, hell, Germany—age The European Summer Edition those infamous, nasty—and it in Final Cut, and I'd be willing Fuck indeed. Seven days in apparently invisible—Weapons to bet that nothing much has Spain convinces just about of Mass Destruction. At least changed—at least in outward anyone that Bush isn't the the UK public is relatively appearances—since some of only one reloading his weap­ informed that r.o WMD were the more popular gatherings ons in a mad frenzy... The ever found—in the US, accord­ of the Second World War. As anti-Americanism in the air ing to a recent PIPA/Knowledge those inept motorcyclists so is palpable, and it was all but Networks poll, 41% believed aptly displayed, they could be necessary to tattoo a Canadian the US had found WMD, and rallying about anything. As flag to my forehead in a last- 22% believed Iraq had used long as there is something to ditch effort to convince the chemical or biological weap­ hate, there is, at its converse, cabbies to avoid side-impact­ ons in the war. Perhaps this something to love and thus, ing my frail, northern body also accounts for the Spanish defend—even if it's an idea. into the ancient, Roman walls popularity of Michael Moore's This is the core of the whole of Barcelona... The graffiti on Bowling For Columbine, which problem. "Love" embraces the the walls spoke it all—and is still playing to packed the­ same dynamic; this was the not only from the anarchist atres. Everyone I spoke to whole trip with the '60s: with Catalunias, as some very had a question to ask from Hippie Love came Militant respectable looking clothing stores in the windy streets of the Old District i ' Canada is a violent, underlyingly racist RlfORO^RlUASrPARfY,. those "No Entry" signs country—one only has to look at our his­ crossed-out bombs... ;;N la Guerral! Back when tory of Japanese internment camps, First lions were hitting the i worldwide, the energy peaked Nations issues, corporate asslicking and in Spain with an astounding "multicultural" policies. 91% of the population against the war, shutting down the the film, wondering if it was Hate. major cities by banging on true that Canadians kept their Not that we're able to sim­ pots & pans... I can imagine doors unlocked, and if Windsor ply jump out and escape the the clamour and the utter is as peacefully different from whole mess. In early June, a seriousness of such a symbolic Detroit as it appeared to be. debate erupted on Nettime.org gesture, rising against the US, "Sort of." What else could I say? as to how to define our cur­ the UK, and the pro-war Canada is a violent, underly­ rent state of affairs: has the Spanish Government—not ingly racist country, too—one time come to call the US "fas­ only against imperialism and only has to look at our history cist" at the level of political wanton, needless destruc­ of Japanese internment camps, analysis? What do we mean tion, but neatly conjoining luicebox First Nations issues, corporate and understand by "fascism" the politics of autonomy that asslicking and "multicultural" today? If we define "fascism" underlie Catalunya. Life here policies—but somehow we as: a basic State structure that is loud, and protest is even seem to avoid the nastier man­ necessitates surveillance and louder; while I was staying in ifestations of ultimate Fear militarized police control of its my fourth-floor apartment & Paranoia which govern US own population (what Virilio on Balmes an infestation of politics. Decriminalization was calls "endocolonization"), a pri­ 3,000 hot, greased motorbikes a big plus for Canada—anyone oritized global military agenda, terrorised the city with high- in Spain who knows we are actions taken to silence seri­ volume psych-warfare: honk­ within an inch to freeing the ous dissent both internally ing at levels far exceeding 100 weed was ecstatic. And let that and externally, an economic decibels, revving engines in the be a note to our government: agenda protected by the use 36-degree heat, and calling out decriminalization improves our of military force, secret State the Policia—and this was just international image. operations conducted beyond to show a little muscle against the reach of law (of the State rising insurance rates for Back to the Brits: Blair's and international), and the motorcyclists (which, given the spittle-laden speeches were ignorance and dismissal of number of tanned Spaniards maybe a little too eerily remi­ international law & agreements on crutches in the downtown niscent of events 70 years (World Court, Kyoto, Geneva core alone, might be a damn ago across the Channel... Will Convention), then we already good idea). Blair get it, too? (And he's Labour!) Meanwhile, Bush looks have identified the basic com­ Is this truly evidence of untouched. Not surprising, but ponents of "fascism." Fascism the power of protest in the why? For reasons that might proper, insofar as we have his­ Julia and Maura Old World? And can one really necessitate rewinding the clock torically named it, and as Brian take it seriously? Up until only thirty years ago to Nixon. A Massumi has pointed out, relies invite you to listen in on jukebox, a few short decades ago Spain year or two after Watergate— upon a shift of perspective to a a brand new radio talk show about sex! was still under a dictatorship, after he was booted from Leader—the "black hole" of and the high-powered senti­ the White House—Nixon's the leader's face, the intense Wednesday nights at 8 pm on CiTR 101.9 fm ments against the Americans approval rating swung right faciality of a cult-following, from France and Russia have back into babykissing territory, i.e., a massive manifestation listen online at www.citr.ca more to do with the exact way and he was receiving standing of what we can call "pinpoint in which Middle Eastern oil is ovations once again. There is patriotism." So, here's some current events • interviews • sexual health to be distributed. The question something very, very wrong news: the US is withdrawing pleasure tips • commentaries • local resources of ethics, the absolute lying with the majority of human troops in the Korean DMZ. & subterfuge that "embed­ brains. Guess why? So they can utilise jukebox, your ears have never felt so naughty!" ded" Gulf War II as 'absolutely tactical nukes. The war, folks, What's wrong is the same is far from over. necessary' is somewhat of a fucked-up sense one feels in front—most of Europe had oil European anti-Americanism. It visit www.juiceDOxradio.com contracts with Iraq. But if this can name the enemy, but only Erase the Face! • is the case, it has not stopped the obvious one, and only to 6 July 2003 over mv book reviews by Doretta : JUU 3rd to 6th! Mights! 6 Venues! Over 30 Bands! : t's summer, and many at night: I need my fix of Harry summer: go see Chen Kaige's people earmark certain Potter. My dealer, Raincoast latest film, Together. The little A I books for this season's fun- Books, has put my copy in the violin-playing nerds in that in-the-sun reading. There's no mailbox, but I'm like a kid on film make me sad. Or catch the shortage of titles to amuse Christmas Eve—I don't know documentary that will make you if you're sitting poolside how much longer I can wait. you laugh and cry, Spellbound. \ R ArcjftEsr and aspiring to skin cancer. While anticipating the Those little spelling bee nerds • VANCOUVER'S FOURTH ANNUAL ROOTS PARTY! '. Detective novels, tell-all mem­ release of Rowling's latest, I make me really happy. There's LIVE at ...THE ROYAL oirs, and celebrity biographies read British journalist Toby also the Vancouver Folk THE RAILWAY rate high on most July/August Young's How to Lose Friends Festival—its summer date and THE SUGAR REFINERY reading lists. As well, most and Alienate People. I'd been Jericho Beach location make newspapers give major col­ curious, mostly because of the it the most beautiful musical THE MAIN umn inches to chicklit books. title's play on the ultimate self- happening of the year—as THE CAMBRIAN HALL Though Over My Shoulder has help book, How To Win Friends well as the New Forms Festival ..ore info: www.ranch.ipfox.com featured a guilty pleasure or and Influence People. Talk and Powell Street Festival. three, there's no room for about a tell-all book: Young You might also want to stop •RAY CONDO and his Rlcochets-BOTTLENEC leaves nothing to the imagina­ lPETUNIABILLY's-RICH HOPE and the Now Racel Harlequin here (because they by some galleries: Antisocial, •BUGHOUSE 5-PARLOUR STEPS-KEITH ROSEI tion when dissecting his time Xeno, and Onepointsix. And, • JOHN GULIAK and Lougan Brothers>COAL| *- JOHNSTON-RODNEY DECROO and the Killers I of course, there's always the • ROGER DEAN YOUNG-LEAH ABRAMSC Everything Is Illuminated has every­ option of falling asleep from BIG JOHN BATES-CHRIS HOUSTON'S EVIL TWANGl heat exhaustion at the Sugar • GOLDEN WEDDING BAND-ACCORDION MADNESS • thing I want in a boyfriend: smart, Refinery. Remember to dress ILINDA MCRAE-DAVID P- SMITH-ANA BON BONl •cONRAD-THE BUTTLESS CHAOS ENSEMBLEl funny, and obsessed with postmodern cool and drink lots of water. IE AMY HONEVs-ANDHEW VINCEr • JACK HARLAN-ASHLEY PARK-BELINDA BRUCEl 1ERALD NIX-EL DORADO-GEOFF BERNER! concerns. DAVY ROTHBART VIAC PONTIAC- KENT McALISTERl The Lone Surfer of Montana, don't send review copies and at Vanity Fair. The upside of Kansas because my money's spent the book is that he's trying to (21 Balloons) on shoes—rather than books examine New York's unspoken Davy Rothbart, cre­ about someone else buying class system. The downside is ator of Found magazine shoes).Instead, I'll reiterate that he's as self-obsessed as (www.foundmagazine.com), all the talk about a certain Leah McLaren, or me. (That's a children's book that has made lot of self-obsession, enough to is a funny guy. His December a certain author, according fill several city blocks.) This can Found show at the Sugar to news reports, "richer than make for fun reading, depend­ Refinery had Vancouverites JULY 8 TUESDAY NIGHTS at Queen Elizabeth." Every liter­ ing on how you feel about laughing so hard, it's surpris­ PCTG MILLS ate child in the city is probably books that are all me, me, ing that no one wet their plus a pickin' party with pants. Sure, the found items trying to get his or her hands me! After finishing the book AMVtfON€V THE RAILWAY CLUB on a copy of Harry Potter and in two days, I concluded that (documents, notes, random the Order of the Phoenix. One memoirs are a little like reality pieces of paper rescued from DA\J£ GOWANS Vancouver bookstore sold a television: the person involved the street and dumpsters) are ANCW&CIAJ JlNCCNT thousand copies in the first 24 knows that they are subject to hilarious and sometimes chill­ from Ottawa hours. My 13-year-old cousin an audience's gaze, and "real­ ing, but it's really the force rang her purchase in just 48 ity" is edited from hours and of Rothbart's personality qOG€C£ DEAN VO JNG hours after the release. She hours of life/footage. If you that makes the examination stopped by my house clutch­ are a media-watcher/media- of these cultural artifacts a JULY 15 ing her very own spider-killing whore/media-lackey, you'll compelling exercise. In person, LCCBOV copy of the fifth book in J.K. enjoy How To Lose Friends and it's hard to tell whether or not from Florida Rowling's series and told a long Alienate People. But this wasn't his hip hop persona is ironic GMN story about how she couldn't enough to prevent me from or if he's totally serious, dogg. buy it for $23 at a discount going crazy from my antici­ Either way, something in his IMMACULATC MACtllNC mega grocery store (the book pation of the Harry Potter work says, "Support me! Buy retails for $43). "That's what book. I had to spend my lunch me!" so I listened to that voice happens when the book hasn't hours devouring Jonathan and bought the magazine and fallen off the back of a broom," Safran Foer's Everything Is the book. I said. It took a lot of effort not Illuminated in order to keep my to rip the giant book out of her sanity. Boy, was it tasty—and In the five stories in The hands and shout, "It's mine! so much healthier than a diet Lone Surfer of Montana, It's mine!" My wee cousin of tabloids and glossy maga­ Kansas, Rothbart writes in a gave me a withering look, as zines. The book combines heartbreakingly naive tone. teenaged girls are wont to do the epistolary tradition with His protagonists are all male in the presence of a not-cool the modern take of protago- and the stories are told from older cousin. (Apparently, she nist-as-omniscient-narrator. a first-person perspective. hasn't forgiven me for bash­ Everything Is Illuminated The title story is especially ing her latest idol, Ms. Avril has everything I want in a good. I had to stop reading it Lavigne, who, incidentally, boyfriend: smart, funny, and partway through because my appears as a celebrity charac­ obsessed with postmodern lunchbreak was over, and the ter in the addictive game Sims concerns. Needless to say, Foer whole afternoon I couldn't Superstar.) After this quick is my latest crush (1 love his stop wondering what was exchange, we decided to read book and have seen pictures going to happen. At times, the first two chapters out loud, of him in a duffel coat and the stories felt like they ended which took nearly an hour. The glasses), and only good sense abruptly and 1 was left wanting novel's dramatic tension is on is preventing me from staking more. I can imagine reading par with the radio plays of yes­ out his Williamsburg home The Lone Surfer while camping, teryear. When my wee cousin's (he lives near Paul Auster) and with the sun on everything and brother (who I guess is also my asking him to be my New York the smell of evergreens in the cousin, if we want to be techni­ best friend. Finally, if you're air, because the book is a little cal here) picked her up, I was tired of being housebound, slice of what an idyllic summer sad to see the book go. Now here are some other good should contain. That and a I'm twitching and can't sleep ways to spend your time this little Belle and Sebastian. •

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TINSEL & CREAM #6 ods of philosophical analysis and hold it hostage for a very Friday, May 23 could be employed. Hegelian long time. The break had given Western Front epithets flew and Foucault was him ample time to visit the bar Good production values invoked as members accused and he came on stage bearing have never hurt any show's each other of being "hopelessly a glass of scotch like a lethal underground cred, and the Schopenhauerian." Meanwhile, prop. It's not the first time I've latest installment of Tinsel & a porn film unspooled on a wall seen a performer get progres­ Cream could have benefited beside them in all its grunt­ sively hammered on the job, from some proactive atten­ ing glory. While the meeting's but, unlike most, who more tion to the technical glitches terminal verbosity began or less stick to the business at and yawning gaps that gave to feel obscene, the graphic hand, Dayton was spoiling for a a gimpy feel to an otherwise labours in the porn flick took fight. He pouted and flounced, impressive cabaret. The art­ on a scientific air. Apparently, heckled the audience and kept ists on the bill were so widely SFU is planning to offer a Porn aborting attempts to screen disparate that the programme Studies course this autumn, of needed some serious cura- pomology should be required video footage of himself. This tion, so I'd have tweaked the viewing—it's outrageous, man needed a handler and, unfortunately, Mistress Ward running order as well. That well-crafted, and stupefyingly said, the night did have a wasn't up to it. Opting for the conciliatory approach, she choppy charm. Even Mistress Folk noir troubadour offered up her spandex-clad of Ceremonies Suzanne Ward Kevin House picked up after a rattle in the dash with ission with a beautiful tush for him to whale on with the microphone. This would pacify him for short periods because he liked the sound that it made. An invitation to rumble was accepted and, in the resulting fracas, the floor was littered with broken glass. The couple in front of me fled in consternation as Dayton lunged at the audience looking for fresh contenders. What a consummate pro. The episode would have been pure Dada if the show had just ended in this dissolute fashion but, sadly, Chappelle's haunting and wonderfully named Natalie Without a Cause had to close the pro­ gramme after focus had been of pomology: It's a really boring picture until you shredded and the audience had thinned. Consisting entirely of look at what's going on in the background. collaged sound and footage her low-brow yokel demeanor. set drawn from his CD, Gutter from Rebel Without a Cause, Things got underway Pastoral. The live addition of the video featured Natalie with a screening of Shawn Ida Nilsen on piano and J.P. Wood in bleeding, amplified Chappelle's California, Mexico. Carter on trumpet offset his colour. Deprived of both nar­ The video artist still burns acoustic guitar and processed rative continuity and (save his way into your eyes with voice with texture and emo- for one brief clip) James Dean, intense colour, but in his the Hollywood icon wandered recent work, themes are dealt The show had already been among the truncated scenes, with more subtly. Here, in a eclectic in the extreme, but pia­ bumping into edits and drag­ gesture of symbolic repatria­ nist Paul Plimley truly seemed ging ghostly, out-of-synch tion, the candy-coated hues to have landed from another dialogue behind her. Watching in scenes of California were galaxy where virtuosity is a was like a dream that I wanted burned away by the hot-earth given and the only important to have again. reds and golds from south of things are art and the moment As we knocked around the border. The raucous audi­ in which it's being made. The outside afterwards, House ence seemed baffled. man is a fucking athlete on his began hucking copies of Cutter instrument. He played three By contrast, multi-task­ Pastoral out the window of the selections from Stockhausenis ing scenester Robert Andrew upstairs loo like party favours Tierkreis and then treated us Dayton needed no explanation. and I gleefully scored one, He appeared in storytelling to one of his own compositions busted CD case and all. Funny mode and read us a letter to a against a video backdrop from how this gave the show the friend who'd inherited a castle Chappelle. The music was like a closure it needed. in Europe. In it, he fantasized symphony for a building site— what their life together would full of metallic crashes and THE PLUGHOLE be like if she let him come to tumbling, broken melodies. All stay with her. It was delight­ the while, he kept his eyes on After five years, Vancouver's fully written and elegantly the screen so as to stay con­ only microcinema will be his­ unhinged. nected with his collaborator. tory when The Blinding Light!! The evening's biggest wal­ What humility. shuts down its projectors for lop came with Dylan Cree's And then for something the last time on Friday, July of pomology. It hit the screen completely different. A little 18. That night's closing bash with such hysterical brilliance Dayton was a dangerous thing should be right out of order— that the crowd was just beg­ because it meant the rest was so be there. Also try to catch ging for mercy. The film con­ yet to come. He had expected some of the remaining screen­ cerned a society of academics to do one long set and was ings in the next two and a half whose mission was to legiti­ miffed at having to split it into weeks. That way, although mize pornography as a field of two parts. In retaliation, he you'll still be sad, you'll be able study in which rigorous meth- returned to hijack the show to say, "Je ne regret rien." • (Love me? Hate me?... eat me. [email protected]) 8 July 2003 PUNK READS O.K. THREE LOCAL AUTHORS REVEAL THE INHERENT TRUTH ABOUT THINGS. py

ou can read as many non-fiction books as you want, hidden away from the world in your musty, dusty chambers, but none of your book- Ylearning will have as accurately and incisively taken apart the world as fiction's delicately beautiful precision. And you can go to as many classes on Sub-Culture and Subversion as an Anthropological and Socio-Political Movement in the Post-Modern Landscape, but you won't know anything about punk or what it's like to grow up outside the walls of society. Luckily, Vancouver has a variety of voices dedicated to letting people into the cloistered world of punks, queers and the auslanders at the fringes. This month, DiSCORDER is proud to present three of them: Teresa McWhirter, Trish Kelly, and Juls Generic. Remember: just because they make it up doesn't mean it's not real. Mask by Trish Kelly

was nine when Mask, the movie starring Cher as a biker mom with a hideously deformed son, made it on to CBS Sunday Night at the Movies. There were things 1 didn't understand about it, but I I liked it because all the bikers were tough but really nice to the hideous boy. My dad was a biker. Not a big shot, a small time dope dealer with a couple Hondas strewn across the basement floor, and membership at a clubhouse just outside the city limits. His friends owned Firebirds and Dobermans. Their small-time bravado made me feel invisible. Even so, I was fascinated by them. I was also fascinated by my classmate, Karen Barbeau. Karen had a birthmark on her chin the color of cherry bubblegum, and long brown hair her mother made her wear down. My mother called Karen my best friend, but 1 felt more like her protector. At recess, I guarded her, taking on any challengers, acting as a decoy or facing the boys head-on. After school, we played in her basement, dancing to her mom's Loverboy and Air Supply records. We sang the duets, trading off the high and low parts and made dance routines until her mother came down and said it was time for me to go. Karen's mother always eyed me with mild disapproval. 1 figured it was because she had a car and we didn't, so every evening Mrs. Barbeau had to drive me home. Sometimes Mrs. Barbeau's boyfriend drove me home. He had a white Corvette and liked to rev the engine to impress me. I imagined he was a biker too, like my Dad, but nicer, like Cher's boyfriend in Mask. One day, while playing Barbies in Karen's bedroom, I thought up a game that combined my two fascinations—Karen and bikers. I explained the game to Karen, and she lay down on her bed and I lay down beside her. I can't remember who got to be Cher. It didn't seem very important, and we switched off several times. We wrapped our arms around each other, our bodies making one big log, tossing back and forth on her Smurf comforter. I knew what kissing was. It was the thing the boys threatened Karen with at recess, the thing the girls squealed and ran away from; so 1 didn't try to kiss Karen. It was enough to be close to her, to feel her breath, bubblegum sweet, on my neck. We didn't say anything at all, just tumbled in each other's arms until we were tired of it, and then Karen's mom came to say it was time to drive me home. We stood up quickly, our faces flushed, and I scrambled over the discarded Barbies for my shoes. I slipped them on, and Mrs. Barbeau bent down beside me. She smoothed my ruffled hair, "I think you girls should find a different game to play." She made us look her in the eye and we promised we would.

November—December. A Year of Sorts. by Juls Generic er first semester of college ended. Although preoccupied with the mouth-breathers in her class, Elliot earns a B+ in her Politics of Western Europe class. The first thing she does is a H double of acid, which was given to her for her 18th birthday, a few weeks before. She could see the red tones in her carpet. The world shimmered. The textured walls vibrated. She cleaned the kitchen and opened the doors and windows wide and took deep breaths. She walked in the alleys and felt the rain seep through her pores. When she got back, no one had noticed she had gone. She sewed and dyed her hair a frizzy platinum blonde. She wondered why she only accomplished things when the ground wobbled and the patterns on the tile rose and fell in rhythmic patterns. The next day, she ate oranges. At this time, she spent a lot of time talking on the phone to someone she had never met. He phoned her out of the blue one day. An old roommate had given him Elliot's number, but she wasn't setting them up. He was twenty-eight and the old roommate was trying to set him up with her mother. The ex-roommate's mother was in a younger guy phase. She thought they'd get along. Elliot didn't mind. It was like talking to a new person on the bus, except this time it lasted more than the brief between-stop moments. She didn't tell him she did acid. She told him she bleached her hair. He told her he prefered brunettes. 9 DiSCORDER "Well," Elliot said, "good thing we're not fucking." when he walked away to the skytrain station. stayed and they all got really loaded. He was a cook, and he told her how he hated how everyone at "I wish you had come with me," Jackson said, when he called "I'm going," Blue said and gathered her bag. Blue was still work flirted with each other just because it was the only thing that her that night. hungry but she knew Jake was probably broke so she didn't try made work more interesting, but he would flirt with Elliot, and she "I wish you had come with me," she told him back. nagging him for money. It bothered her, thinking about what figured it was just because it made his life more interesting. She didn't tell him she was going to Quebec, but it didn't Bernice and he would do when she left. Christ, with all the "I might have a-crush on you," he told her one day. "Mostly matter, because by Valentine's Day, they weren't talking anyways. windows open. because you play guitar." She didn't know if she cared or not. "Sorry about Bernice," Jake said as he walked her to the door. But he didn't ever ask her to play. She could tell he meant it. His name was Jackson. Blue opened the door and looked back at Bernice. Then she One day, in December, Elliot went to an uninteresting bar laughed. It was an ugly sound. For a minute she felt great. with some interesting people. Despite their being interesting, she Down the hall she heard Jake yell, "Bernice you stupid cunt!" was still distracted when he walked into the bar. Maybe they just "I'm sorry...I'm sorry," Bernice sobbed. weren't interesting at all. Bernice Bares All Blue slammed the exit door. Jake was turning into a real creep. She knew it was him because he'd told anecdotes about his by Teresa McWhirter She wondered if he'd always been one and she'd never noticed. jacket with the Pixies patch, because she knew that his hair grew lue went to go see her old boyfriend, Jake. There was On the stairs I stopped to count my change. I had the feeling in natural dread-clumps in the front of his hair, because she knew nothing else to do and she was hungry. Blue did this every it was going to be a shitty day, and that Bernice would bother me he was half-black. Also he'd told anecdotes about coming to this once in a while; she figured he owed her for those goddamn for a long, long time. bar on Tuesdays for buckabeer night, and it was Tuesday, and B apple Brown Bettys she'd made during their flailing relationship. there she was, and there he was. Blue had really been into Jake. He was a decent guy but couldn't "You should give me a cigarette," she said to him, as she get off the sauce and the booze was starting to get him. He wrote walked up to his table. She wanted to set a false precedent of stories about being a drunk and Blue thought they were good. She Pie Stories confidence. just couldn't take the hangovers. She still loved him a bit, and it He looked a bit worried. He looked down at his empty pack. He was a pretty horrible feeling. by Trish Kelly glanced over to the guy he was sitting with, who Elliot figured was "Hey, Blue!" Jake screeched, opening the door. He called her he spent the summer baking pies and delivering them to the his roommate, Sam, and she was right. Sam gave her a cigarette. Blue because he said she was always morose. He also used to say little health food store where he worked. He'd come out of "So are you... ?" Jackson asked. she had a long face like a horse. "How ya doin'? Ya never come and Sthe stockroom, his apron blushing from paprika or pale with Elliot didn't say anything and sat down. She missed her bus on see me anymore!" Jake wore a white t-shirt covered in dried chili pastry flour, and he'd apologize for being so dirty. purpose that night. They took a cab back to his apartment. He first sauce. His hairy chicken legs stuck out of his boxers. He looked It happened so often that it felt normal, and he could stare kissed her while they were watching Apocalypse Now on mute. He really skinny. "Come on in. We're drinking!" down anyone who suggested otherwise. Like his roommates who was reciting all the lines, especially the Charlie Sheen ones. She She flopped on the couch, on top of some books and papers. watched with envy as he carried down a horde of small plates and laughed, suddenly, as she saw rage and jungle and death on the She had learned never to move things. A dark-haired girl in braids forks from his room every weekend. sat across the room looking at the floor. She did it because she loved him. She always had. "What?" "Drink!" Jake handed Blue a Tupperware glass. "We're starting The first time she saw him, he was leaning against his bike "This is a weird movie to be making out to." early." He hadn't shaved for at least a week. He motioned at the in the parking lot, and she felt the entire world go slightly out of focus, like channel two with rabbit ears, but he was cable. He had clean features and wore a scruffy duffel coat in late May. He had a In the fall, after Montreal had come and gone and left her breathless little boy's name, and even through the bulky jacket, she could tell that he was on the skinny side. and confused, when she spent evenings on the couch and drank long And then one time, he played songs down at the cafe. They were all covers, and most of them she didn't know well, but cups of tea and hated, hated, hated the cold, she wrote poems on the she started crying during his set because his raspy optimism overwhelmed her. She began to imagine her entire life without fridge with magnets while the coffee was brewing. The poems were kissing him. Afterwards, she whispered, "You have the voice of an angel," and he packed up his guitar and walked her home. limited, because all the words were unchangably erotic. On the way, she started planning their next pie. It was late June and she had a freezer full of local strawberries. And he looked at her like he didn't understand. girl. "This is Bernice." There were some silent moments, and stupid jokes, mostly And that night, they slipped off each other's clothes in total Bernice Deigado. Blue knew who she was. "Hello, Bernice." his. She laughed, the staccato of her voice bouncing off the brick darkness and stayed in their underwear all night and showed each Bernice looked at Blue for a long time then finally said hello. row houses and metal staircases that lined her block. other their tattoos. The next day, Jackson flew to the Toronto Jake walked by and she clutched him. He toppled over and fell They stood outside her building for a moment, and she couldn't suburbs for three weeks. beside her. think what to say. So she reached for the keys in her pocket and He kept calling, more often now. Long conversations about "Got anything to eat?" Blue asked. Jake's place was two rooms opened the door, hoping he was following. The door closed quickly nothing she could remember. He was visiting his parents and in covered in beer cans and wine bottles filled with butts. She walked behind her and she reeled to watch him sprinting across the street his old bedroom were boxes of Beatrix Potter books and he'd read into the kitchen and opened the fridge: a jar of mustard and and then out of sight by the depanneur. them to her. On Christmas Eve, they talked for six hours. mouldy pork fried rice in a styrofoam container. The sink was filled He left because he wanted to go upstairs, because he wanted He called her beautiful. Often. with grey, slimy water. She went back to the living room. to ask her if he could use her bathroom. But he'd felt longing and When he came back, nothing was how they talked about. Why "There's nothing to goddamn eat here!" disappointment so many times, they felt like a cause and effect did he call every day when he was four provinces away but almost "Yep," Jake agreed. relationship. It seemed too fatalistic. never when he lived one bus exchange away? It plagued her. Bernice picked up her wine and drained it. "Atta girl!" Jake said. He started walking home, his hands in his pockets. He thought Plus, he smoked Ultra-Light Viscounts, and he corrected her Bernice had a large, pointed nose and small, blue eyes. Bernice about the girl and how stupid she probably thought he was. He when she pronounced the "s," even though he didn't care about also had enormous tits. She could've been eighteen or twenty- pulled his hands into the sleeves of the duffel coat. For a moment, French, didn't speak it. eight; she had the ageless look of a person unaffected by the he felt like a little boy again. Blameless. "Why do you even smoke these?" She didn't get it. world. Blue poured herself more wine. She climbed the stairs to her flat and then lay in bed until the If anything, he was usually sharing his cigarettes, even though "Whattya been doing?" she asked Jake. sun came up, trying to pathologize what had happened, thinking she hated them, having to choke back a hot inhalation to get "Drinking." it would be better to be sick than at the mercy of such mystical anything through the thick filters. "Yeah?" forces as love. "Because I'm quitting. I'm not really a smoker." "Bernice is in nursing school." It made her laugh, if not intentionally. He meant it. She gave Bernice began to rub the inside of Jake's thigh. He continued back the cigarette to his yellow-hued, tobacco-stained fingers on. "I beat up a guy last night," he said. "I got kicked out of the which pressed twenty-plus cigarettes into his mouth each day, like bar." Untitled that Quebec separatist politician who was always smoking, even "Why?" by Juls Generic in the picture of him getting sworn into Parliament. "The bouncer's a dick!" Once he came over and she made him dinner and they watched "Why'd you beat him up?" lliot wrote poems on fridges, sometimes. In the fall, after bad television until around one. "He was hitting on Bernice. He said he wanted to see her Montreal had come and gone and left her breathless and "Let's go to bed," she said, "I have a class at 9:30." Which really goodies!" E confused, when she spent evenings on the couch and drank meant, hey, let's go fool around. Bernice smiled vaguely. Suddenly she began to unbutton her long cups of tea and hated, hated, hated the cold, she wrote "I'm not tired," so he played Nintendo until he came to bed shirt. She wore a stretched black bra and ripped that off, too. She poems on the fridge with magnets while the coffee was brewing. around 3:30. Then they fooled around. The next day, she realized got up and started to dance. Blue grabbed the wine bottle. She The poems were limited, because all the words were unchangably she should've been mad, but she was too giddily-tired to be. It was really had something on Jake now. erotic. a Friday, the day when professors, like high school teachers, like "Jesus Christ, Bernice!" Bernice tweaked her nipples. to show movies. She watched Just Watch Me: The Trudeau Years "What the hell?" Blue said. Bernice kept dancing. The room SheRespectsHerOrgasms; which was about bilingualism, and not about the October Crisis. It was very quiet. Bernice began to hum through her huge nose. She NightimeSweepingFast was about the Summer Language Bursary Program, and making smiled and Blue stared at her bottom teeth. HipsTightlyTogether love with strangers, regardless of the language barrier. She sat in "Bernice, Jesus Christ!" Jake hollered. DrippedLove. the back of the lecture hall, cross-legged, hoodie on, and she knew "Holy shit!" said Blue. she'd go. Quebec. Angry separatists. French fucking. A summer "Sorry about that." Jake went to the kitchen and got another HoldPleasurelnPosition away. bottle. Bernice stopped dancing and sat down on the bed. "She AslfltHadMotelFear When Elliot got home, Jackson was still there, playing Nintendo likes girls, too," Jake called from the other room. KissMorning.FeelVirgin with her roommate Olivia. Elliot slept. "You've got a real wild one, buddy," Blue said. It was weird She wanted to go out that night, to a bar close to his house. to talk about Bernice like she wasn't there. "Real wild fucking They all had to be about sex. Once she wrote a real clever one He didn't, because he didn't go to any bars he thought his ex- guacamole." about masturbation, which Olivia liked. girlfriends went to. She wanted to see the band that was playing, Jake and Blue settled into a fairly normal conversation so she did. He came with her as far as the bar. It started snowing about people they knew and the long-lost cat. Bernice was still "How was Montreal?" they asked her. Everyone did. that night. It was February. The city was fluffy. He left footsteps motionless on the bed. Blue wondered what would happen if she "Good times, bad times. I met a girl on PCP at the Forgotten 10 July 2003 Rebels show. She had a kitten and her boyfriend looked like Morrissey. We met poor musician types with class consciousness. You know, I was a pretty small, sickly little kid, right, so I think I I didn't speak French to one real French person the whole time, just read a lot of books, and then I guess I used my imagination except the cab drivers. They smoke really long cigarettes and EXCELLENT AT REVENGE when 1 was really young and realized I could put myself in all the throw them out half-way." stories that 1 was reading, you know what 1 mean? And when Nuances. It was all nuances. NINETY MINUTES WITH TERESA MCWHIRTER that clicks in your head, then you can amuse yourself anywhere. She didn't make love on the proverbial bridge that brought Then I just really started to write them down. And I took writing together the anglophones and francophones in perfect Canadian by Chris Eng at UVic because I didn't know what else to do—I just like to read harmony until she was back in Vancouver. He read her poems as books. I'm like, "Yeah, I could do that! Fuckin' A!" he drank the coffee she made him. talked to Teresa McWhirter for an hour and a half, and it was "What's this? G-spot?" So you just sort of felt that you should go to university? Language barrier. Fucking swoon. all interesting. All of her digressions into politics, the media, and the politics of the media were gripping. But ninety Well, 1 went to Europe, and that was good, 1 bummed around 1 there, and then I didn't know what else to do, and I had a bit of minutes doen't fit neatly into a nice, little box, so here's about ten minutes of that conversation. If you want to hear the rest, a scholarship so I'm like, "Fuck, why not?" School's a good place Blue's Tragic Tales you should introduce yourself and chat. She's nice, and likes for people that don't really want to work, don't wanna be out good music. Buy her a beer while you're at it. She deserves it. in the real world—you know what I mean? There's lifers there. by Theresa McWhirter UVic's bad for that—you've got people that have been there for ten years getting involved in student politics. I guess you get to ack in the city, Blue slept on Carrotgirl's couch, until the cat Can you actually make a living off of your writing? fuck around—I like school, but when I was done, I was done. began to lose its fur Then for a week she slept in the jam Hardly. Nah, 1 wouldn't say that. I think I can get by all right. Really, it's pretty hard to make a living off any art, though, even Bspace of the old wooden band house. After a few lucrative You weren't gonna spend any more time than you had to? if it's good. drug deals and stolen appliances easily pawned, she and Hannah Hell, no. Well, the writing department is good there, but it's moved into the top of a red-shingled house occupied by two punk more the people that go there, not the profs. I can't even tell you bands and a graffiti artist who painted a mural all the way up the Yeah, that's true. As far as writing about punks goes, there's front walk. The house was owned by a whore who had become too a genuine dearth... that stems from the stigma that if you're how many profs failed me there. When my next book comes out old to be a hooker and decided to run a flophouse instead. getting published anywhere outside, like, a zine venue, you're and it's really good, I'm gonna send them all a copy. Blue had grown up wild and barefoot. At fifteen she had got selling out. Has that affected you? Where do you stand on her diploma on welfare and worked under the table in a restaurant that? So, there's a certain revenge aspect there? death pit. Her dad was long gone and her mom didn't much care. I don't know, I've never been anything but broke, so I guess All writers are excellent at revenge, [laughs evilly] It's true, we all One day Blue had got on a bus and just kept traveling. She'd stop 1 don't have an opinion. I know what you're saying, though. have long memories. back in town with stories over the years: squatting in Montreal, I know Kinnie Starr, from Victoria, and they wrote her up in the tour in Texas with an anarchist band, Mexico with an angel boy the Georgia Straight—which, for the record, I think is a really For me it was: [in evil growl] "I can't wait to go back to my high who left her with a bag of tattered cloth. She'd hitchhiked across shitty paper—but they asked her the same questions and she school reunion." whole countries and learned how to sleep outdoors well hidden, basically said we need more tools to reach people out of our No doubt. I went to mine—it was the greatest thing I ever did. struggled alone in hard cities like a bit of colored glass. Sometimes peer group, which is true, [because] the whole idea that if you're It was fun. People change a lot in ten years. Like the people you she'd call her friends late at night and swear this time she was getting paid for what you do you've sold out is what kind of always suspected would be cool kinda turned out that way. And gone for good. keeps things underground. But now I think times are changing, the people that peaked at 17—they're still wearing their grad "Home is where you end up," Blue told Carrotgirl, to explain because there's just so much crap everywhere. It's just gotta jackets... why she never stayed away for long. Over the years, her change, really. possessions had slowly diminished. All she owned now was a The "coolest kids in class"? wooden chessboard and a shelf of shot glasses. What Blue really Yeah. Not the case any more. collected were the stories of strangers. Have you been stigmatized at all by the fact that you've had a book published? They shared a bottle of Blue Nun and talked about Gritboy In your writing, you jump back and forth between prose poetry No, I don't think so, because I haven't made any money. I still doing card tricks in the bar for pitchers of beer, about the and really staccato, straight prose. Is there a style that you girls Jake dated. Carrotgirl asked why Blue and Jake hadn't stayed don't think I've really changed, like, "Yeah, I got a pair of new shoes..." prefer more? together. Blue thought for a moment. "I kept losing the plot," she Well, that book took a long time to write, because actually, I finally answered. The money you've made doesn't have anything to do with wrote it as a novel, rewrote it as short stories, then rewrote it again as a linked short story/novel. I started it in UVic, in the Later, she met Jake in a coffee shop. They talked of surfing, it—it's the perception. Yeah... yeah. I don't think it's changed at all because, I mean, writing program, and I was pretty sick of straight narratives, lost love, suicide. The middle-aged waitress had a rose tattoo on because it's all you study in English. I just felt that these her ankle under her pantyhose. She wearily poured their third writing's pretty solitary and I don't think you're doing it so you can get up on a stage and have people recognize you. If that characters hadn't ever really been described before, and I cups of coffee. "The more you want, the more you suffer," Jake couldn't do it in a straight, traditional way, so it was almost said. Blue watched his fingers play with his necklace of charms. started to happen, that would change me more than anything, I think. I don't know. 1 think the only really meaningful art comes like the content dictated the form. That's how it came to be "Are you coming to the party or not?" he asked. written that way. And this one right now is just a straight, linear "Yeah," Blue said. "It's time to get high." from people with no money. So, in that way, I'm happy to be poor, if I get to keep writing good stories. narrative, and it's brutal! It's really hard to write like that. What At the party, Blue watched Jake try to pick up a girl with unruly we're doing as writers now is kind of documenting the times, eyebrows. He resented it when Blue interrupted his conversation and so, as this is a unique time, I think the stories have to be to ask for a beer. She sat with her spitefulness in the corner, It just contributes to that wealth of experience you can use... told in a different way. I think that's why I played around with drained drink after drink then went home with two cokehead Yeah, it does. But it would be nice to pay your bills—you know, the form a lot. Marxists who talked politics all night and ran out of drugs too that kind of thing. early. It's true, though, you know, there are things in the world today The next morning Blue tripped on her baggy pants walking Yeah, what's that old saying? "If you're not rebelling by 20, that can't be described in a straight-ahead "He did this, he into the restaurant. "Cutie," the waiter said, swinging past. you've got no soul, and if you're not corporate by 30, you've went there, he did this, he met her" way. Carrotgirl read the horoscopes solemnly and said her boyfriend got no brain." But there's a fine line somewhere between the Yeah, well, there's no denying that we've been corrupted by TV had written a song about her falling down the stairs drunk in a club two... and a fast food mentality in our culture. I think people read less and breaking her nose. He was chicken breast blonde and wore a Yeah, it's a lot more romantic to be dirt poor at 25 than at 35, now—I don't know if that's true, but if you ask any poet that, horseshoe pinkie ring on his left hand. you know? And you don't really see that many old punks here—1 they'll say it is. Carrotgirl had begun to speak to the moon. Blue fiddled with guess not as much as in other places. Larry from the Real her eyebrow ring and looked around the restaurant. "What kind McKenzies is one of my roommates, and they always travel in of a fucking life is this," she said. Carrotgirl looked quietly out Europe. And I've been there, but I guess I was too young to really People read less poetry, for sure. When I introduced the lead the window. A few more hours until they started drinking for the know what was going on. Still, it seems that there's a lot more feature in DiSCORDER a few months ago, one of my friends night. They licked their dry lips. old punks there—like Berlin, have you been there? asked me "Do people actually read?" And I can't ask myself "Break out the omelet in me," Blue'warbled later in the bar. that question, because I have to believe that people do, otherwise what am I doing it for? No one, not even Jake, could capture how she burned, the shabby No. [reassuringly] They do, they do. glamour of a drunken diva. How she commanded whole tables That's what I hear, 'cause the punk scene there has been going with her stories and charming cackles. Hours later she staggered on for so much longer. I'd like to see that. home with a group of boys. They bought drugs in the alley for a This is my chosen profession and I love words, and maybe less mishmash party. Blue forgot she'd ever felt tired. people are reading, but there are still some people that are It seems like in North America, punk is a transitional thing- The next day she woke up in the fading afternoon, spiky- reading. it's something you do when you're young, and then you grow haired and not quite sober. Outside she saw the old hooker sitting Yeah, and that's who you're writing for. And you've got an even out of it, get over it, whatever. on a lawn chair. Her feet rested on the cooler in sparkling red harder job now, because people trust the media less and less, Yeah, that's true. I can see that. shoes like a middle-aged Dorothy with aching ankles. and for good reason. It's pretty disturbing in this city when Blue put on her bikini top and stepped onto the balcony. She you've got the Province and the Sun all owned by CanWest There's not as much emphasis on the politics, or politics as a arranged herself under the umbrella like an absinthe drinker in Global—you can't believe what you read—and you've got the lifestyle, so much as an edgy attitude. repose. "How are you, Mrs. Jones?" she called. college papers, which traditionally are not corporate-sponsored That's so true. My friend was telling me she lived in Amsterdam Mrs. Jones lifted her fat arm and waved. • so they have a little bit more room to tell the truth. I used to for a while and they have organized squats there, you know, write for the Nerve—1 used to write more political newspieces where you've got a bunch of punks that take over an abandoned Trish Kelly self-publishes the zine Makeout Club. Issue #13 is out for them, but they don't want that. They say that their readers building. We don't have that kind of unity here. I keep hoping as you read this, and available at Magpie and better news stands don't want it; I think they're wrong. Still, what can you do? everywhere. that maybe things will change... Juls Generic is one half of the local group The Juls and Kahla Well, there's a really good question—how do you actually get to Was there anything that made you want to be a writer? Collective. Go see them. the truth any more? Wow, that's a good one. I don't know, I guess 1 just like words. Teresa McWhirter's first book, Some Girls Do is published by 1 guess that's where punk comes in, right? • Polestar Books. She is hard at work on her next one. 11 DiSCORDER JUSTASCHMOE HE MAY BE WORKING TOWARD A PhD. BUT MANITOBA'S DAN SNAITH DENIES THE CHARGES OF GENIUS Interview by saelan

PP I did a laptop show for a year and a half that was more dancey—the undas, Ontario's Dan Snaith (aka Manitoba) first grabbed the kind of thing on that 12-inch, and I wanted to release something as a international spotlight in 2001 when his debut full-length, document of that. I really think of it as totally separate to the stuff on Start Breaking My Heart, turned Boards of Canada's weapons the albums. Maybe I should have put it out under a different name—1 D Has working on a PhD in pure mathematics concurrently with your against them, creating something completely fresh and invigorating just couldn't be bothered to think one up! London's full of fashionable out of the familiar elements of millennial IDM. He won Electronic music career been difficult to coordinate, in terms of time and hipster assholes. There are lots of nice people here too, though. Album of the Year at the 2002 Canadian Independent Music Awards intellectual investment? Is it something you're still working on? and went on to play at CMJ in New York and headline the sickeningly Yeah, I've got a year and a half left to go in my PhD. It's completely A lot of electronic musicians like to release material under cool SONAR Festival in Barcelona. He's since toured five continents hectic trying to do both of these things. I don't get to sleep or talk to different names. You're kind of conspicuous for not doing that, and relocated to London, England, releasing an EP with new tracks people any more but it's all worth it when the lights come up and you even though your material varies pretty widely, stylistically. Any and remixes from Start Breaking My Heart, a limited 12" of UK get to yell "Hello, Cleveland." particular reason for keeping things under one moniker? Any plans garage-inspired dance tracks, and finally a new full-length LP entitled for side projects? Up In Flames—ali of this while (almost unbelievably) managing to There's a lot of talk about your shift from straight electronic music I keep answering the questions before 1 get to them! I don't really work on a PhD in pure mathematics. to a more organic rock/pop-influenced mode. How much of the have a plan at all. At the moment I've got so much to do that I instrumentation on Up In Homes is synthesized and how much is probably won't be doing any side projects for a while. I really want The new album shows Manitoba making what appears to be a real? striking shift in style. He's deepened his trademark layers of rich, to get my shit together and make a bunch of killer albums while I'm It's about the same as the last album. Half of it is samples off records still young and haven't started embarrassing myself with shitty world innovative percussion while trading his Boards of Canada and Aphex (all the drums, horns, etc.) and half of it's me playing instruments Twin influences for an aesthetic borrowed from the spaced-out music collaborations and shit like that that old musicians always do. (keyboards, guitars, percussion, other shit). A lot of people assume I've gotta get some shit out before that starts happening. psychedelic pop of My Bloody Valentine, Mercury Rev, The Flaming that the reason this album sounds so different is because it's played Lips, and the Elephant 6 collective. This comes as less of a surprise 'more live' or with a band or something. That's not true—it's made in for those fans familiar with his roots, however—Dan Snaith is fond of It seems like a lot of electronic musicians have really embraced exactly the same way as the first one. It's more the choices of samples melody and pop elements in the last few years. Aside from yourself, talking about his hometown, the small Ontario burg of Dundas, where and sounds that I used that made it a different sounding album. he was trained as a classical pianist and jazz drummer. Manitoba's I'm thinking of people like Four Tet, Mum, Dntel and the Postal allegiances have never really been to the chin-stroking masses of the Service, Styrofoam, Lali Puna, The Notwist, the whole Morr music techno underground, either—this is a man who once told the press Do you have any idea how many different instruments you actually roster, just about. Do you feel any particular community with these that he doesn't "give a fuck about the electronic music scene." Always played on Up In Flames? a man to blaze his own trail, he has also abandoned the tired practice There are about 100-400 samples in each track and about half of No. Apart from Four Tet and the first Mum album I don't really like of performing with a laptop, and is currently touring as a three-piece those are recorded by me. There's basically an enormous amount of any of that music. band with two drummers, glockenspiel, guitar, theremin, vocals, and shit bunged in there that you can't even really hear because there's so a mind-bending visual display that annihilates the stereotype of the much stuff going on. More stuff than I can keep track of, anyway! What can you tell me about Koushik [who contributes vocals to boring laptop performer. several songs on Up In Flames], aside from the fact that he's also So if you're a musical prodigy and a math whiz, some people might from Dundas? call you a genius... He's got the best ears for music on anyone I've ever met. He's going to You named a song after the town you grew up in—in what ways does Hell, no. You've got to do something really special to deserve that kind blow people's minds with his music if people pay attention. He knows your music reflect your life in Dundas? of praise. I'm just a schmoe. more shit about music than anyone I've ever met, and I've met a lot Dundas was full of weirdos and acid casualties. I guess I just met a of music nerds! He works in a mental hospital in the forest. I've heard lot of really interesting, open-minded people there. We were all really Do you see your music as something you do for yourself, or as he's going by the name Musto Snugs at the moment. into freaked-out music and that's probably what I have to thank for being such a music-obsessed lunatic now. Plus, I'd never have spent 5 I definitely do it completely for myself, first and foremost. For as long I've heard this tour's been going really well for you—your tour hours watching a Zeppelin DVD if I'd grown up in Toronto. as I can remember, playing and listening to and recording music has manager has fifties stuffed in every pocket of his cargo pants and made me really excited and happy and that's why I do it all the time. David Bowie wants to be on the guest list in New York. Is success Are you still in contact with Miss J [high school music teacher]? I I don't really care whether it even gets released or not—I'd be doing changing the way you see your music and career? Has it affected understand she spends her time listening to music so experimental exactly the same thing one way or the other. That being said, it's your plans for the future? and academic it makes John Zorn look like SO Cent— but she likes really fucking nice when people like it. Wow! You really have the inside track from someone, just to set the your stuff. record straight: David Bowie didn't show (although David Byrne did) She came to our concert in Toronto, which was wicked. I have a lot All your music, diverse as it is from album to album, has this and the fifties in the pockets all went towards paying for four airfares to thank her for. I was going to drop music class in Grade Ten and character of wonder and wide-eyed bliss. Are you a really happy from London. I'd love to make a living out of music and it definitely she literally wouldn't let me. I've been really lucky in that I've had a person, or is there some other motive? is possible, but it's really, really hard and really unpredictable. At the lot of amazing music teachers throughout my life who got me into I think it has to do with my last answer. Even if I come home super end of the day it's really nice to make music but not have to rely on it practicing for hours and hours each day and shit. I don't ever play pissed off, making music is the way of becoming happy again. This to pay the bills. anything on a piano with more than one finger these days, but I'm album was a real escapist sort of thing—London's a grimy, grimy sure it's all in there somewhere! 1 think John Zorn does look like 50 city and it was a way of escaping all that and making some really What's in the future for Manitoba? Cent—minus some of the tattoos. euphoric shit. I'm already itching to start recording the next album. I've already got so many ideas on the go that it's driving me nuts. There's more touring I'm told you played in a nine-piece funk band called the Cro-nasal How do you look at If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An this summer (mostly festivals and then out to the west coast) and Sapiens in high school. True? Airport? Was it just a one-off? A transition? An experiment? What remixes and stuff but my first priority is to get making music again. I'm Fact. We were the honkiest bunch cf crackers you've ever fucking is "this place" that has so many assholes in it? just getting started—the next album's gonna be the killer. • 12 July 2003 HUMAN JUKEBOX TALKING TO YO LA TENGO'S JAMES MCNEW Interview by Merek Cooper. Photo and illustration by Andrea Nunes

Oh, in my opinion, that's completely different to selling a hit song. You did that for Coca Cola, too, didn't you? We did one commercial, yeah, I think that may have been shown for, like, a week. Yeah, I mean there was definitely conflict over the Starbucks thing that we did. I know that it's a giant global heartless evil corporation, but, you know, it was for a drink that really wasn't that good. It was for their little Frappuccino drinks,.I can't say that 1 was a fan, but it was a really fun art project to actually be scoring these really fun animated ads, and we were basically allowed to do anything we wanted. The music was ail instrumental and largely electronic—it was really fun to do. Scoring is something that we always wanted to try and it was really fun.

I wanted to ask you about the human jukebox event you do for WFMU in East Orange, New Jersey? Yeah, we do it every year. We've done it six times now, I think. And that's a college radio station? It's not really even a college radio station anymore. It used to be a college radio station but the college itself went out of business, and the only thing that was left was the radio station.

So you decided to do some fundraising for them? Well, they have a fundraiser every year, like a marathon listener fter all this time, do Yo La Tengo really need an drive where people call in and pledge money. Erm, because, you introduction? Probably not, but for all those slow learners friends in Nashville. They are our hosts when we're there; we stay know, it's a completely non-commercial station. And it's such a Aout there, I'll give you one anyway so you can all catch up. at their houses and they're our guides to the city. They have a lot great cause so wego on the air live for, like, two hours and make Formed in 1984 by Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley, Yo La Tengo to be proud of. If I ever had the chance to take a vacation, I would idiots of ourselves. People call in and pledge money and make a quickly established that all-important indie credibility by etching probably go back there and check it out when I wasn't working. request. out an endearing collection of albums, each one better than the last. Influences include Velvet Underground, Big Star, cliche, Getting back to the album—to me it seems that you've taken a Can it be any song or do they have to choose from a list? cliche, blah, blah blah... more jazzy, almost fusion direction this time. Anything. Oh fuck it, I'll just say that 1 spoke to bass player/odd job I don't know. Fusion to me just seems so noodly and wanky and man James McNew shortly before their Vogue show last month, technical. I know what you mean, but as far as terminology goes, And you just run with it, playing it off the top of your head? where some of the highlights included a spontaneous cover of ugh, it makes my skin crawl. Yes. "Dreaming" by Blondie, a collaboration with members of Flying Nun groundbreakers The Clean, and Ira's flailing feedback I had actually absentmindedly written down in my notes that What was the weirdest request? heroics. the album sounded "mellower." Then I read The Georgia Straight Err, they're all pretty weird, really, when it comes down to it. Some interview where you said you absolutely hate that term. of them we know, but mostly we don't know any of them so we DiSCORDER: So, why did you call the record Summer Sun? When [Laughs] Yeah, I do. Playing quietly and playing loud are two things just have to play away at it, see what happens and approximate the did you record it? that we always have done. Even during our most intense records song as much as we can. Even if it's only for 30 seconds, we'll give it our best shot. James McNew: We recorded it in October and November of last or gigs there are still always quiet songs in there somewhere. It's year. I think the title came after everything else was done; it always been a part of our personality. We don't question it, really. probably came from hearing the words to the songs that we had If it feels natural to us then we follow it. I mean, we recorded 16 or Have any songs worked out really well and you ended up keeping just written. There were a lot of consciously unrelated references 18 songs for this record; there were three or four that were really them? to seasons and summer and things like that. I don't know, I guess We kept a few. There were a few that people called in that we raging and just really loud. We thought they were good but we actually kept and started doing at shows. We were doing "You Sexy we came up with that and the image on the cover pretty much at didn't think they fit in with the bigger picture of the album. the same time. And I think we liked the juxtaposition of the image Thing" for a while. That was pretty exciting. [Laughs] And, err... and the title, it was appealing to us. "Don't You Want Me." We played that at someone's wedding after I need to ask you about the Nuclear War EP; the children you got playing it at WFMU. There were lots of them; I think we've come to sing on that, how did you find them? close to playing every song that's ever been written. Well, we've And you recorded it in Nashville? [Laughs] They're all either related to us or they're the kids of our probably come closer than most other bands. [Laughs] We did, that's right. We've made our last several records in friends. So it was an in-house production, more or less, as far as Nashville. the kids are concerned. So you're obviously a big supporter of college radio? Oh yeah, I think stations like WFMU and other college stations are Is there a particular reason for that? Is it the studio or just the So you didn't have to ask strangers to let you have their children really all that's left of radio, period. I was a DJ at school and that was producer you're working with? sing words like "motherfucker'' and "ass." an amazing experience for me. It blew my mind wide open to every It's the producer, he lives there. We made the record Painful with [Laughs] It'd be pretty hard to have to do that with strangers. kind of music there is. him in 1993 and at that time he lived in Hoboken, New Jersey. It was hard enough to do that with our relatives. It was a pretty But after that he and his family moved down to Nashville and amazing afternoon. We actually played a concert in New York City Another thing I really wanted to tell you was that when my we really wanted to work with him again, and we just realized it about a month or so ago and had most of them join us. We had girlfriend and I first met, we basically fell in love listening to your would be so much more feasible for us to go to him rather than to fifteen kids or so on the stage. music. fly him up to New York. It was so much easier to go to Nashville, Aww, that's sweet. because the whole city is made of recording studios. Was there anything that particularly inspired you to use children singers? The Langley Schools Music Project, maybe? How does that make you feel? Is it a weird vibe down there? It makes me feel great. It pretty great, actually. It's a vastly mis-described city, I think. Oh yeah, that's an amazing record. It definitely crossed my mind. I don't know, I just liked the concept, the idea of it, you know? It's an amazing place. There is glitzy, crappy, country stuff Do people tell you these things often? everywhere, well not everywhere, but... It's also got an incredible There's something that's, like, sweet about it—yet there's also something that's utterly terrifying about it, too. They have no idea Sometimes, yeah. No, I mean that makes me feel great. You know, array of restaurants and cultures and markets and things. And a there's definitely music that's that evocative for me, too. And that's what they're saying, whether it's just an improper word or the really heavy musical history as well—it's not just country, some really special. amazing rock records and soul records have come from there. annihilation of the planet. They're, like, "whatever, we're singing And, obviously, Lambchop is from there. a song." Yeah, I mean, that's what you set out to do when you form a band. Well, hopefully anyway. •n't you? The other day, one of my friends told me that you sold a song to Yeah, that's totally something to aspire to, without a doubt. I'd Yeah, we've known them a pretty long time now, which is great Starbucks. He maintains that you sold out. Is this true? rather do that than, you know, sell SUVs or whatever. That means because there's like 20 of them so we immediately have 20 We composed music for Starbucks. infinitely more to me. • 13 DiSCORDER

INTIMIDATED BY POETRY FOLK ARTIST CHRISTINE FELLOWS EXPLAINS WHY SHE'S NOT ALLOWED TO DO YOGA Interview by Kat Siddle, Photo by Chris Boyce

PP poetry. Who knew that poetry's so big there? The Germans Jove to me. I guess if you're a reviewer and you do that for a living, you hristine Fellows has been part of Winnipeg's independent it. It's fun—I like doing stuff like that. 1 ended up using a lot of the have kind of a recipe that you follow. It's unavoidable. music scene since 1993. In 2000, Canada was quietly graced musical ideas from that project in my own work. Cby the release of her first solo album, the beautiful and What's with all the bird imagery in your lyrics and cover art? unsettling Two Little Birds, which was followed by The Last One The projects you're involved in—like spoken word or scores for What does the bird mean? Standing in 2002. If you were lucky enough to find standing room dance—often use mixed media. I don't know. I like them. There's more songs on the way that have at the Railway Club in May, you would have seen her sing songs Poetry intimidates me. Spoken word as well, sort of. But I've birds in them. Maybe in my forties I'll be a bird watcher. I have bird about cats accompanied by Veda Hille and John K. Sampson. She experimented with it—my first record had a spoken word piece moments. It's hard to explain. I walk the dog in the woods a lot and likes cats. She likes birds. She hates joggers. on it that I didn't write. Dance is something that I can't even listen to them. Redwing blackbirds make the most beautiful song. understand at all. It's really interesting to go and collaborate I hear them and think, "I'm totally ripping that off!" I guess I like DiSCORDER: Are you working on any projects right now? there. It's so abstract. them 'cause they're musical animals. And they can fly! And their Christine Fellows: 1 just finished a dance score that I was recording little, freaky eyes. for the last six months of my life, and now I'm going to try to write music for my own record. A pop record. I always think that dancers are just a totally different species of human beings. So why Winnipeg? Do you think the city's exploding the way So you will release a third album sometime? They are! And they're hard-drinking, hard-living people! And everyone says it is? 1 think people's perception of it is changing. None of the musicians Yeah, if 1 don't crack up before the end of the process ... sometime they all smoke, they all chain smoke. They're worse than most next year. musicians that I know. I know live there anymore. It's a good place for me to be—I can just write there and not feel like I have to be performing all the time. If On your most recent song, "Face Down Feet First", you seem to be That's weird, cause it's such a physical profession. It's like you're ever feeling really antisocial, that's the place to be. It's also heading in a new direction, heading for a new sound. catching your yoga instructor smoking. a good, well-balanced community. Great stuff in a lot of different I'm embarrassed that you heard that! But I guess I did put it up There's this yoga school in Winnipeg where they won't let you go mediums. I love Winnipeg winters, too. I know that sounds foolish, on the website ... I hope it's a new sound. That recording was if you're a smoker. So i can't go. I wanted to do yoga, I wanted to but just grabbing a pair of skates and skating on the river . . . you kind of a fluke. I'd just written this goofy little song, and then I better myself, but alas. feel really hardcore when it's -40 and you still go out. And you went to Toronto, where Tim Vesely of the Rheostatics said "let's walk down the street and there's eight old ladies waiting for the record that weird little song." So I recorded it, and then he put all Do you see yourself writing music for film anytime soon? bus. Nothing stops, no matter how cold it gets. It's a land of kooks the other extra stuff on it and mailed it to me. And when I got it I Well, I've been commissioned to do a film score, but they're still though. But so is Vancouver. Vancouver is the land of sporto. I feel cried, it was so nice. working on the script. I did one for television this year, for CBC— guilty when I don't go do the Grouse Grind or walk the seawall. But this reality series about immigration called Landed. joggers, ew! We don't have them in Winnipeg. We're not allowed. I understand that you were involved with something called As a dog walker, I hate those scourges. I'm into the dog culture. You "Trains of Winnipeg''. What exactly was that? I noticed that when people review your albums, they often can go see people at the dog park and you won't know the person's It's a spoken word CD project. The poet, Clive Holden—he actually assume that all your songs are about lost love. Do you think name, but you'll know their dog's name. You talk about your dogs hails from Victoria—he approached myself, John Sampson, and people interpret your songs correctly? and it's so civilized. It's not even small talk. It's really deep. Jason Tait—you know, from the Weakerthans—wanting us to I don't know. You know, the funniest, most interesting experience make the music for this project. It was really fun. I didn't know I had with that was in the Yukon, when I toured and played at the Deeper than when people talk about their children? what to expect. I was super-busy at the time we were making Frostbite Festival in February. I was touring these communities Oh yeah. that, so I wasn't really present for a lot of it. When I heard the and there'd be kids there that don't get a lot of exposure to music. end result, I was pretty impressed. He's a hard-working poet, that And the kinds of questions they would ask me—really intelligent Thanks for coming out. guy. He was just in Germany at some crazy festival reading his questions about specific lyrics or song ideas. It was really surprising Thank you. You are sweet and kind. • 16 July 2003 ANTI-ELECTROCLASH HARDCORE WAVE MONEEN HIT THE ROAD AND PLOT THEIR DEATHS BY JELL-0 Interview and photo by Kimberley Day

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rom opening shows for Another Joe in London, Ontario to Kenny: I almost don't think it is. There obviously have to be some Pete: And we sing it like Jello Biafra. headlining a cross-Canada tour upon signing to Vagrant, people, but for the most part 1 think that people are genuinely Kenny. We should get backlashed because of the bad jokes. FToronto's Moneen has exploded onto the music scene, happy for us. It's not like we sold our souls to get there. We without anyone really knowing what was happening. 1 spent a toured for a long time, and it kind of naturally just came out of Did you enjoy recording the new album in LA? couple of hours with an extremely chatty Kenny (guitar, vocals), nowhere. We kept it on the down low—we didn't make a big Pete and Kenny: [singing] We're going to California, gonna live the later joined by Pete (drums), to discuss the band's growing deal out of it. It was just like, "Moneen's touring here, here, here, life, sippin' on tequila night after night... popularity, rigorous touring schedule, and their latest album, signed to Vagrant, touring here, here, here." People were just like, Kenny. California was amazing. It was the coolest thing we could have Are We Really Happy With Who We Are Right Now? released on "Whoa, what was that?" We didn't shove it in anyone's face, and done, to go record there. We recorded in the mountains north of LA, Smallman records in Canada and Vagrant records in the US. we didn't go around saying, "Yeah, we're on Vagrant now, man. and it was so amazing out there. Totally secluded from everything. Yeah." I'm totally surprised that there hasn't been some kind of a We were able to really focus. DiSCORDER: How has your western Canadian tour been going? backlash. When I found out it had been released on the internet, Pete: Serene, no crime. Kenny: It's been very very very very very very very good. We didn't I was thinking, "Okay, here it comes," but then we got all of these know what to expect at all, we had no idea. We've always had fun emails saying, "Congratulations, that's wicked." To me, it seems No plans to run off to LA to live, though, right? touring across Canada, but we always go at different times, so, like people who have known us for a long time, and have been Kenny: I almost kind of want to hang there, but as long as we get to you know, you go at the end of the year when school's out, who coming to shows have been thinking, "We did it! We did it!" visit lots, that would be cool. But, if we don't get to visit, I may buy a knows how it's going to be. You go in the summer: people are rather than, "Oh, they're going to leave us behind now." It's more box somewhere north of Santa Monica. usually away. You go in the winter: it's pretty safe to say that most like an accomplishment that we've all gone through from the Pete: They don't have the health care, man! people are going to be around. You never know, there are always start. We haven't really changed since the first time we played Kenny That's true. It's a great place to visit, but I don't want to live factors involved so it's always a gamble. But this tour has been so the Brickyard, or played anywhere on our first tour. I still do the there. I'm happy where 1 am, but it was great. consistent, every show has been awesome. It's been really fun; it's same stupid things, and make the same bad jokes. We're generally past the point now of most of the audience being a new audience. the same people. I think the thing is that we put out the right Well, no w that you're busy recording in remote locations, headlining Most people now know our music pretty well, so it makes it so album—we didn't stray too far from what we sounded like. I've shows, and being part of the Vagrant family, is there going to be an much more fun. People are singing along, and they know a little been thinking it's a good mix in between the EP and Theory. It's got end to your Choke/Moneen combination band, Choneen? bit of what to expect, so if I start attacking people, people are like, some of the artsy, weird delay, spacey parts from Theory, and then No, it always gets postponed though. Whenever we want to do it, "Oh, that's cool, that's cool." It's funny, because we had no idea it's got the more straight ahead rock from the EP. It's probably the there's never time. The last time we were going to get together and what to expect for this tour or this album, or anything. We didn't record that people thought we were going to release right after do some Choneen was on the Face to Face tour, but our transmission really put much thought into it because there's been so much going the EP, but then we kind of threw some people through a loop with exploded and we had to leave our van and all of our gear behind. on. Everything that we worked to put together for Canada—now Theory, because some of it was different. But it's cool, because 1 Everything was against us on that tour. We finished it, but we had to we have to do double that for the States. Everything we do is now think we stuck out from a lot of the other Canadian bands. I think postpone Choneen again. We'll do it, but we'll have to find the right expanded, which is really, really cool. The shows have been crazy. now that we have this record, people don't have to change with it. Last night was really good—there were a lot of people there. I It's kind of like, "All right, it's rockin'. I can groove to this. I can bop couldn't believe how many people were there. I had a lot of fun. to this. It's pretty cool," which I think is good because we didn't I read on your website that in a quest to come up with a terrible I'm looking forward to tonight, because 1 was kind of broken down try to change the world with this record. I think if we had tried, description for Moneen, you have decided to label yourselves yesterday. We'd just done too many long drives right after each we would have received a backlash of people saying, "They're on as "aggressive melodic pop." I think that you can come up with other; we had no sleep. I'm caught on the verge of sickness, which Vagrant; they're totally changing; they've turned their backs on something better than that. I usually always am on tour. I'm fighting it. Last night I had fun, but Smallman and the rest of Canada." That's the thing: we made sure Kenny: Okay, we'll go word for word. Happy. I felt, personally, I could have given more. to stay with Smallman. There wasn't going to be any other way: we Pete: Melodic. were going to be with Smallman for this record, or we were going Kenny Angry. to kill ourselves. With a SPOON. And JELL-O. Pete: Harmonic. With your new album, "Are We Really Happy With Who We Are Pete:Jell-0 can be fatal. Kenny Loud. Right Now," how has the fan response been? Have you felt any Pete: Plutonic. negative vibes or backlash from anyone now that you've signed Kenny: Get it injected into every pore, so your body just fills up Kenny Quiet. to Vagrant? with Jell-O, and your guts get pushed out your toes and things Pete: I ran out of "-onic" words... Sonic. Kenny: You know what's crazy? There hasn't been any of that yet. because the Jell-O is pushing it all out. Death by Jell-O! That's going Kenny: Anti-Electroclash Hardcore Wave!!! We're everything to dirt I know there will be. to be our cover band. We do Death By Stereo songs called "Death that other people are to rocks. • Pete: It's probably out there right now—we just don't see it. by Jell-O" except we don't play any Death By Stereo songs. 17 DiSCORDER completely indistinct. If you rific trauma—both mental and listen carefully to Great Lake physical—scurries through a Swimmers' self-titled debut blasted industrial landscape, 6 offering, you can make out the providing an exceptionally sur­ sounds of my youth—and per­ realistic retro experience. And haps the sound of your own. that's all good. But this is only half of Because sometimes you Milder review what I heard that made me want to dance and get scared recorded media feel so unusually serene when at the same time—which is, in the auditory company of this apparently, what happens at ANBERUN soundtrack, I cannot comment friends on "Lesson Learned". album. It was not the music in their live shows, where men in Blueprints For The Black on how well this particular As always, Beth's trademark particular, but some pervasive dresses spray the crowd with Market soundtrack works in conjunc­ blues wail is the real attraction, element of the sound—not large, penis-shaped water- (Tooth & Nail Records) tion with the images. As a col­ and it's obvious from the first so easily pin-pointed as to be guns. This isn't documented In the liner notes, Anberlin lection of music standing on track, "Nite," that her control voice or instrumentation (or on the CD, but they include a gives thanks to "Jesus Christ, its own, though, I can say that over her intensely soulful holler nature). Largely the result of video where a gore-covered J. ^loJkUWf^j* for without you nothing is pos­ it will not disappoint fans of has only increased with time. one man's creativity, T. Dekker naked girl shambles through sible." Yes, let us praise the CO's previous efforts. In fact, Likewise, Nathan wrenches recorded this album in an aban­ empty corridors while the band MkWk ^ Lord for allowing this collection some of the themes will sound stack after stack of monster doned grain silo. While it is not lurks around the next corner, of "alternative rock" songs, rather familiar: they appeared riffs from his guitar, exploit­ quite an echo that has been and, really, that's the next best which sport production slicker in slightly different arrange­ ing the bass-less potentialities captured, there is an obvious, thing. than a teenage boy's fore­ ments on last year's Everyday of the band's dynamic to the intangible warmth as a result. Dance. Be scared. It's good head and hooks weaker than album and as part of their live maximum with his masterful As an accident of sound (with­ for you. a Jimmy Eat World or Third repertoire for some time now. ear for tonality; no one else out the negative connotations), Chris En^f Eye Blind record, to come into However, one can hear in the can render such simple riffs Dekker has crafted something being. Bart Simpson is right: new arrangements how the with the same awesome sav­ beautiful indeed. Relatively METALLICA band has evolved from being a all the best bands are affiliated agery as he can. Admittedly, sparse instrumentation and St. Anger sampled-based studio creation with Satan. The Gossip's sonic palette is vocals as subtle as daydreams (Elektra) Neil Braun into a real, flesh and blood live limited, but they do plenty are layered beneath uninten­ Shit sandwich. unit breathing renewed life to stretch its limits; Nathan tional, all-permeating, almost Chris Eng and vigor into their signature BONOBO continues the same feedback "found" sounds. (Reminds me sound (track). Ironically, for Dial "M" For Monkey experiments he introduced on of a film I saw once, where a SIMIAN a soundtrack to a film that is (Ninja Tune) Arkansas Heat's closing track, woman imagined music in the We Are Your Friends hailed as a classic example of Following up on Bonobo's "Take Back (Revolution," a clinks and clanks of her every­ (Source Records UK) montage in cinema, the music day existence.) much-hailed debut, Animal song that was unfortunately You know things are going heard here is CO's least sam­ Magic, Dial "M" For Monkey hampered by weak lyrics. On ple-based to date. Having said I have this picture in my your way when you're not continues in much the same that, though, I still find myself Movement, however, the same head of what the recording only a new band starting up in vein with its clever, sample- reaching back to their debut, kind of ragged guitar noise process of this album must a new market touring with a based grooves and textures Motion, for its haunting sense leads into some of the album's have been; Dekker is seated on better-known, name-printed- that suggest a composer with of atmosphere and drama. best tracks, most notably the a chair in the center of the silo; in-bigger-font-on-tickets act, a healthy musical appetite, For example, the Nina Simone awe-inspiring closer, "Light the light that breaks in does so but you also turn out to be the a varied record collection, sample as heard on "Dorian" is Light Sleep," which starts out only onto the guitar partially better band of the night. When 7.%VT«*Y^,t)lSkx^ assorted musical instruments, now more poignant then ever with Beth moaning "I got trou­ hidden by his crunched-over Ladytron put out a dismal per­ and a well-used sampler. How given the great artist's recent bles, down deep/ I got troubles, body; or maybe, when you look formance at the Commodore does this stand apart from the ' passing. I suppose time will tell losing sleep," and ends with up to the roof, all you can see back in March, their openers, plethora of other productions how well CO's soundtrack to her shouting "we don't break is stars through holes worn of Simian, knew that the atten­ V 1*3* */<*?«< **** which use a similar modus Man With the Movie Camera will easy!" with enough sincerity to age; and all of this takes place tion will probably soon be on operandi? I'm not sure, but it stand up to all the others. stiffen the hairs on your neck. in a field of ripe canola blos­ does—and for that it deserves DJ Satyricon Accordingly, Nathan has said soms. My point being that I can­ In their sophomore album, your listening attention. All hail that this album is intended to not describe this sound—this We Are Your Friends, the the monkey. 11*12 7* L**,fc»W* give all boys boners and make effect created as a result of the London/Manchester quartet DJ Satyricon THE GOSSIP all girls moist in the knickers. recording process. Sometimes plays catchy, electronic-infused l2.So«towt I**** Movement If you're not turned-on by words are weak. Sometimes pop-rock. The opening track, CINEMATIC ORCHESTRA (Kill Rock Stars) the breakdown on "Fire/Sign" "La Breeze", has the Oriental- Man With the Movie Camera The market for bluesy garage when Nathan drops his guitar Listening again in retro­ style psychedelic flavor that (Ninja Tune) rock is heavily saturated these an octave and churns out a blis- spect—and I do not deny my permeated Simian's 2001 It was inevitable. When you days, but The Gossip's tried- teringly distorted Bo Diddley rUrrllfUW */ romanticism here—it is for debut, Chemistry Is What We have a name like Cinematic and-true formula still stands boogie, or at the end of "All these reasons that Great Lake Are, while the rest of the album Orchestra, it is only a matter of as far above the rest on this, My Days," when the song dis­ Swimmers has such personal is a collage of cute, delightful tf-P^WUirfs^ys time before someone asks you their third album, as it did solves into a punk rock spiritual familiarity reflecting from it. It computer rhythms ("Helpless", IklwKvrm^SUJy to provide a musical soundtrack on their debut—which, it's composed of just Beth's earnest feels like the earliest memories "The Way I Live"), thumping, to a film. In this case, The Porto worth noting, dropped around croon and handclaps, then The of my youth; like the first time guitar-oriented choruses (as on fltv*«t«t Film Festival in Portugal com­ the same time as The White Gossip probably isn't for you. If I thought I fell in love; feels like missioned a musical soundtrack Stripes De Stiji, making it one this kind of hip-shaking rock the single, "Never Be Alone"), to Dziga Vertov's seminal 1929 of the albums that brought and roll is up your alley, how­ the space between an utter and hybrids of keyboard pro­ montage silent film classic Man punked-up garage blues back ever, you'll be pleased to know adoration of one's parents and gramming and Britpop-esque With the Movie Camera. This to the indie scene's attention in that The Gossip are also polite the desire to flee them. This melodies ("The Swarm"). They particular piece of cinema has the first place. Movement finds houseguests and don't over­ is music to be consumed by may not have perfected the 1bkl\ CLO€£t> been augmented with numer­ Beth, Nathan, and Kathy's stay their welcome. At barely candlelight, with nostalgia as mastery of producing a techni­ your only friend. cally mature concept album d la •rive c***'*^ ous musical soundtracks in the- riot-grrl style maturing, if not over half an hour, this album past; perhaps most memorable highly evolved. They're leaner, ends exactly when it should: sweetcheyanne OK Computer yet, but Simian's was the Alloy Orchestra's live meaner, and tighter, but as the before the band's limitations willingness to explore musical performance a few years ago liner notes indicate (this album start to weigh them down, and HUMAN AFTERTASTE possibilities and be original at the Vancouver International was ostensibly recorded on a just soon enough to leave you s/t is infinitely encouraging. The 26.B**¥M$(jN£ Film Festival. Even Vancouver's "tape player"), they haven't wanting more. (Independent) result sounds like a big music own Eye of Newt Collective lost an ounce of the rawness saelan Previously, it was only in the party with four friends (no pun was recently seen providing so essential to the genre. fevered recesses of my brain intended) playing around with their semi-improvised score They've managed to maintain GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS that Rob Zombie had any deal­ their keyboards and guitars, 27. CL**tD to the same said film at this a gritty realness and genuine s/t ings at all with Adam Ant. And being reasonably good at them, year's Jazz Festival. The idea of enthusiasm that's generally (weewerk) certainly, even in those shadowy and enjoying themselves tre­ HnlliWiWtW providing a musical soundtrack lacking among their contem­ I grew up on a farm. Northern corners of my mind, they didn't mendously. 2I.TW rtWf* .{ cwn to a classic silent film is thus poraries—one that derives Alberta, surrounded by fields collaborate on music; it was "We! Are! Your Friends! nothing new, and Man With from their firm connection and of grain in their own wide open just Rob Zombie pointing at the You'll, never be alone again!" the Movie Camera is a com­ dedication to their fanbase. As spaces. The summer nights sky, saying, "Hey Adam, look! A barks singer Simon Ford on If. fcfvwU mon choice for such endeav­ a theme, taking care of your lent my soundtrack the voice dead bird!" and punching him in the single, "Never Be Alone." ours—given how much it has friends arises often; on "Jason's of crickets. In the city, the the stomach when he deigned Enthusiastic, fun, and talented; 5«*o0 indirectly influenced today's Basement," Beth moans "we get equivalent might be the sound to look. who doesn't want friends like music videos. by with the people we know," of traffic, though not so sea­ This is the musical col­ that? Having not yet seen the and she derides a hipster girl sonally specific. Sounds both laboration I never envisioned. Priscilla Chen DVD of the film with CO's who values her image over her immediately recognizable yet Adam Ant, scarred by hor­ 18 July 2003 over. Nobody likes a moaner ing into a ghost radio station, and the Super Furry Animals broadcast on a spectral wave­ (XL/Beggars) are certainly no moaners— length from some mythical The Super Fur they're the Gandhi of pop. version of swampy geographi­ weren't born; they simply When they steal Deep cal middle America. It reminds descended from the Welsh Purple's drag racer on "Out me of the film Paris, Texas: it, mountains, clutching handfuls Of Control" and head off into too, is a paean to the mythic of psychedelic fungi, sporting the night in a hail of screech­ America in all its forms—but huge grins. They then pro­ ing vocals, it's CNN and the at the same time, it's far more ceeded to show us mere mor­ media of doom that gets it. inclusive and wide-ranging. tals how trailblazing pop music Impossibly ludicrous buzz­ M.Ward is obviously in love should be made. Accordingly, words are thrown out with with the dry desert highway of listening to the new album, shocking verisimilitude: "Fast the American Southwest—the Phantom Power, is like a million and cheap! Ninja jihad! Suck my heat and the obliteration—but suns exploding in your face. But oil! Out of control!" It's all too he is equally at home on the don't worry—it comes dripping frighteningly familiar for any­ temporal rainforest coast of with gallons of saccharine har­ one not living in a cave these the Pacific Northwest, where monies that cool and soothe past couple of months (isn't we find him conversing with before the glare of their white- that right, Osama? You cheeky the far older Native American hot brilliance. little scallywag...). myths and spirits. On the During my time in Canada, But, never fear, times can ghostly rumble of "Sad, Sad I have noticed that the Super improve and underdogs can Song", he goes to the Killer Furries are not really very well triumph, a lesson we learn in Whale for advice on how to win known here. Honestly, people: "The Undefeated"—a calypso back a long lost love. "Sing a this has to change. Hopefully, swinger inspired by the ability song/sing a sad sad song/sing this review will get you started. of the Welsh soccer team to it over and over again/till she Firstly, The Super Furries always find glory in defeat. As come backs to you" is the time- are not Brit-pop: they're Gruff quite rightly points out, won response. Welsh, and while they have, who wants to never know what "A sad sad song" would be over the course of their career, it's like to lose?—"they're so an all-too-simple description consistently made some of shallow, the undefeated." of everything available here. the best music ever to come In all honesty, he needn't But it's a good sad—you know from the British Isles, they're worry: after six albums proper, what 1 mean—you'll want to a completely different beast the Super Furries have gone kiss someone rather than kill altogether. The sort of music six and 0, and remain, quite yourself. You will be given a the Super Furry Animals play literally, the undefeated, the newfound appreciation of the is as pop as a fuzzy broadcast undisputed. proximity of your loved ones. transmission from deep space. Merek Cooper For example, "Dead Man" The lead off single, "Golden speaks of the hope of freedom Retriever", is a glam rock bul­ TURBONEGRO in the final rest; the effect let that heads straight for the Scandinavian Leather is uplifting. Meanwhile, "Get target with ruthless efficiency. (Burning Heart/Epitaph) To the Table on Time" heads It's a buzzing king snake of a This album makes me wish 1 across the continent to the song, it charms with lines about were way more pervy than 1 Appalachians for an acoustic devils, roundabouts, puppies, am. Hopefully the Turbojugend country sound that calls to and zebra crossings. On "Valet St. Pauli is accepting new mind the Dylan-fronted Band Parking", we head off with lead recruits in the fall! in its best moments. We find singer Gruff for an automobile Julie C. "Poor Boy, Minor Key" hanging adventure in the "Euro Zone"; out in a bar in New Orleans he's eager to show off the fact M.WARD trading jazz licks with all the that he's just passed his driving The Transfiguration of old cats in the suits and hats. test, apparently. And "Venus Vincent "Out of My Head" perhaps and Serena" must surely be the (Merge) deserves special mention: it's best song ever to be written From the most innocuous of the most immediate track about a small girl and her two starts, The Transfiguration of here. M. Ward coaxes a pleas­ pet turtles. Vincent gracefully and gradu­ ing, distorted guitar over an Despite the digital experi­ ally builds into what I can safely out-of-tune organ, all the while mentation, their stuff is so say is one of the best albums of singing blissfully catchy lyrics catchy and downright friendly the year. You press play and you that seem cold-plucked from a that they make Vancouver's are greeted by crickets chirp­ twisted fairytale of old. It'll be own New Pornographers sound ing happily just as a ragtime the one that will hook you in, like Einsturzende Neubauten. country instrumental begins but after that you'll find your­ And though they have fun with to play—and straightaway, self falling through the whole the pop music medium—mak­ you're there—sitting on the album with ease. And then ing it more interesting than porch in the warm darkness you'll swear that it's a classic, your little brain can handle— of 3 AM. After his two previous too, just like me. Throughout its there are darker forces at attempts, Duet for Guitars #2 entire running time—though it work on this album—"phantom and End of Amnesia, M. Ward makes many attempts to emu­ power," if you will. The Super has finally distilled the formula, late historical styles—it Furries preach non-violent and it's a subtly heady brew. sounds anything less than sin­ cere. He even makes crap songs direct action and passive, Appalachian bluegrass sound amazing. Just listen to cheery resistance—the mind brushes shoulders with his version of David Bowie's state of the placid casual (the Midwestern blues as they eighties white funk bloodsuck­ name of their label), because, as weave together with an CONFESSIONS er, "Let's Dance", and tell me I'm a previous song suggests, it's all almost accidental ease. It's as wrong. He unearths the quality MOGIC OSS OF A ROCKER "no problem, if you play it cool." if M. Ward has taken the great of the original lyrics and retools The album reflects the contem­ American song book, turned the song as if recorded in the porary resistance against the it into papier mache, thrown thirties, leaving you convinced tremendous, uncontrollable it against the wall, and some­ Bowie's version was the cover MAGIC ASS forces at work in the Zeitgeist. how come up with the most and not vice versa. A vicious, anti-American senti­ beautiful collage, right there, ment seethes through "Liberty already hung. He's an obses­ At this point, I'm just Belle", with Gruff telling of a lib­ sive four-tracker, apparently, gonna have to throw out a list erty bell ringing out across the and yet somehow, the bedroom of names: this album sounds sea, and that "everyone sings recording has never sounded like both all and none of them: along, though she's singing way so genuine before—so god­ Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, The out of key." He doesn't pull his - CD HUME PUTT " damn classic. You'll probably Band, Neil Young, Nick Drake, punches on Americanization, be listening to it on a CD, but Willie Nelson, Will Oldham and SATURDAY, JULY 12TH Q THE MARINE CLUB telling us that we're all "digging W PETEY WHEAT JEANS you'd swear that it was a 78—it every one of those dead Delta straight to hell" and "drowning m Bush Party Records: AIRHORN PROTOCOL - Catastrophic Error sounds that warm and worn. Blues men you read about in in our own well," but it's his GHOSTRAIN - 7tft and Carolina Tapes Listening to it late at night is books. Yes, it's that good. sunny disposition that wins Ghostnin CO Rdiu Party - Fri. August 22 @ THE MAIN fatal—like unknowingly tun­ MereJc Cooper • ML FOR MOM INFCVMP3» CHECK OUT: WWWBUSHBMtrYCOM 19 DiSCORDER sounds for free on a walkway near the dome. Once ex-New Pornographer Dan Bejar's ensemble Destroyer warmed up and became comfortable with the space, they rocked, too. His poetic lyrics came through and evoked mystery and confusion real live acti for the masses. Too many sausages among live music reviewr too few veggie dogs, Liz Phair was one of only two females to ••Mil perform in the male-dominated THE POLYPHONIC SPREE not only unheard of nowadays, we should feel special because line up. Her quiet and seem­ FROG EYES it's also utterly contagious: the we saw The Polyphonic Spree ingly uninspired cougar anthems PATRICK PARK entire crowd was won over by and everyone else in town didn't. might have rung true in the '90's, Thursday, April 17 the end of the first song, "It's For me, that experience was but they seem to run thin in the Richard's on Richards the Sun". double naughts. I was hoping My review of The Polyphonic The band's enthusiasm and Neil Braun that she would blow the crowd Spree's April show appears here energy never wavered . over away, but in the end debate rages rather than in DiSCORDER's the two-hour set; the audience THE FLAMING UPS on only as to whether or not she May issue because of contribu­ was never given the chance to MODEST MOUSE was wearing any underwear tion deadlines, final exams, and become uninterested. UZPHAIR beneath her jean mini-skirt. a good deal of lethargy from, After bandleader Tim DESTROYER What can I say about Modest ahem, yours truly. For these DeLaughter told the crowd he STARLIGHT MINTS Mouse? When they're on, they're reasons (I'll let you guess which loved Jagermeister, at least two Sunday, May 25 on; and when they're not, they're contributed most to the delin­ audience members bought shots Plaza of Nations not. The potential to triumph quency of this review), anything for him. With the price of alcohol Was the gig a monumental was there—they have the raw I say about this show likely being what it is at Richard's, only event that should not have been fuel on stage to explode—but won't affect the "legendary" and true adoration could inspire that missed? An experience that they chose to fade away instead "concert of the year" status that kind of behaviour. people will talk about for years of ending in a crescendo. Vancouver's music intelligentsia When someone decided to to come? No. However, for Since the concert, CBC has already conferred upon it. shout out to DeLaughter, he said, brief moments, the spectacle of Radio 3 and The Flaming Lips That being the case, rather than "Thank you so much!" and not bouncing balloons mixed with have both won Webby Awards spend 300 words describing "Play'1 Got A Girl'!" fuzzy stuffed dancing animals for their interactive websites, the band and details from the I saw no one refusing to join in a haze of confetti with dizzy www.cbcradio3.com and show you've probably heard or the tremendous ovation the video clips and loud music in a www.flaminglips.com. If you read elsewhere, I'll instead list crowd gave the band at the end crowd of thousands, caused me missed the show or are desper­ reasons why this show deserves of their set. It's as if all the jaded to drift out of my body and splat­ ate to relive the magic, most such reverential worship: hipsters Vancouver is known ter across the atmosphere in the of the gig will be available at Having 22 robed people for departed early, leaving only form of misty water drops inside www.justconcerts.com. file onstage one-by-one cre­ a group of people who felt truly a puffy cumulus cloud on a sunny The Flaming Lips were definite­ ates anticipation few bands can blessed to have seen such a great afternoon; this brought much joy ly the highlight of the evening— match. to my morose demeanor. playing in front of a psychedelic The band members looked These reasons and more The crowd seemed stoned video montage feedback that like they were having the time of explain why this concert will and well behaved; we cheered swallowed a blue screen of shad­ their lives (especially the bearded go down as one for the ages in and clapped when we were ow puppets and prominently member of the choir who looked Vancouver's live music scene. supposed to, we sang when placed Wayne Coyne's head wacked out on some halluci­ The only downside is that the prompted, and we left when the stretching off into the rainbow nogen); they beamed, bounced band's album now sounds stilted curfew hit. distance of perspective. The around, and pumped their fists and lifeless, as it doesn't capture Oklahomans the Starlight absurdity of rock shows... Fake almost continuously during the the celebratory nature of the Mints gave the opening act blood, Calvin Klein suits, the show. Such jubilation (contain­ live performance. However, and got rave reviews from the Peach Pit, and a bombardment ing not one shred of irony) is DeLaughter told the audience crowd outside catching the of the senses during "Lightning J. Mascis ofMascis, Stills, Nash and Young in a rare, only semi-inebriated perfor­ mance at Richard's. Photo by Kimberley Day

20 July 2003 Strikes The Post Man"; what of a better word) might have with approval. Instead we used years. However, her intimate log sound with the precision of looking around, I seemed to be does it add up to? Ambivalence? already been created—might our hands to issue a primal call and confrontational perfor­ digital technology, giving a fresh the only one that noticed these Regardless, I enjoyed the trip. be impenetrable for someone of return. Nothing was random mance style did not translate feel to many familiar songs. things. Everyone else continued ArC entering in without context. But in the end; every beat was with well to the stadium setting, with The experience of both on with the telltale indie rock I was, blissfully, dead wrong. It purpose. This did not go unan­ the language barrier proving dif­ nights left the impression of an sway and applauded and whis­ DO MAKE SAY THINK took about 30 seconds before swered in the end, despite the ficult to bridge. English-language artist at the peak of formidable tled after every solo. I've come SINOIA CAVES I was in it completely: swaying fact that no encore was played. phrases that stirred us deeply creative powers, and three new to the conclusion that if one is to Saturday, June 14 hips, clutching fingers, unabat- Instead, DMST filtered out of ("Only double A/Thinking triple songs gave a tantalizing glimpse enjoy J Mascis, one must listen Sonar ing, clandestine grin upon my their confined space onstage, X," etc.) were lost on the crowd. of her forthcoming album. Life to his music over and over again I cannot begin this without a face—thinking to myself that down hallways, behind tables, However, the raison d'etre PB truly is good. until the genius of it is exposed. disclaimer—I was late for this this type of music—melodic—is on top of chairs. Taken aback of the night was Bjork, who Susy and Sasha Webb Unfortunately, I don't think I will show. so often without concrete was I, but not without wonderful most definitely "delivered the be giving him a second chance. Excuses: It was an early images. At the most basic level, surprise. goods," as she sang in the first BUILT TO SPILL Nevertheless, nothing could show. Apparently, this informa­ this music tends to deny the pop- As for Sinoia Caves, I missed night's opening song, "Hunter". J.MASCIS keep me unhappy for long: this tion was on the ticket. Only I star exaltation of appearance for them completely. But for what Barefoot, wearing a crown of Wednesday, June 4 was Built to Spill night! When didn't have a ticket. I was sup­ the people who present it. There it's worth I hear very good things turquoise feathers and a glim­ Richard's on Richards the trio from Boise, idaho took posed to be on the "list". Only are no linear narratives in the about those kids—have not mering black tutu, the Icelandic 1 entered Richard's on Richards the stage and began to play, any I wasn't on the list (but that is vein of textbook music videos, heard a bad word connected diva performed with character­ with giddy excitement—I have doubts that had been created by a departure from the task at so much of what this music is, with their name. And I am not istic vigor and passion. Her his­ loved Built to Spill for two J Mascis were swept away. hand). I cannot claim total igno­ is what you bring to it. Anyway, just saying these things. tory of well-chosen collaborators years and have never seen them Comparable to Modest rance, however: I had an idea there is a dichotomous notion of sweetcheyanne (Graham Massey, Nellee Hooper, play. The other reason for my Mouse, Death Cab for Cutie, that I should be arriving early. strangeness when the faceless Guy Sigsworth, etc.) was well enthusiasm was that J Mascis: or the Shins, Built to Spill's Maybe the ticket had a start BJORK in evidence this evening. For Guitar God, was the opening sound—a mix of rock, punk and time stamped on it, but early There was, however, one PEACHES tonight's concert, she was joined act. Although 1 had never heard grunge—has amassed a loyal show—to my mind—means face that I did not recognize. June 16 & 17 by harpist Zeena Parkins and him before, I had been told that following—which was clearly something like 21:00 hours. Not He was piaying horns—more Palais Omnisports de Bercy Matmos. A seven-piece string he was "amazing." Needless to visible in the nearly sold out 18:00. I think my jaw literally jazzy than a DMST album ever (Paris) ensemble rounded out the say, I expected a lot from this venue. They jumped right into fell open, my eyes opening wide sounded. He was later revealed Our intercontinental journey to assembled talent. show. We got in about 15 min­ the music, with very little chat­ with amazed horror as I walked to me, by a friend, to be the witness what has been hyped A precise and moving stage utes into Mascis' set; the former ting throughout the show except into Sonar to the soundtrack of father of one of the other band as Bjork s "return to electronic- show illustrated Bjork's com­ frontman for Dinosaur Jr. was a "thank you" here and there. the band I had come there to see. members onstage. DMST had based performance" climaxed mitment to fully-realized per­ seated, strumming an acoustic The band played music from Those were sad moments for become a jazz band gone ber­ in an arduous lineup outside the formance art. As-yet unseen guitar. The club was already both Keep it Like a Secret and me. Do Make Say Think is part serk. They brought the music stadium. Her signature fusion videos accompanied several quite full—another positive Perfect from Now On, but most of a collection of bands that very out into the audience, stopped of modern technology with live songs. Most notable was the film reinforcement that this would of the songs were from their accurately characterized my halfway through for the calling instrumentation, incredible for the Soft Pink Truth remix of be a great night. After the first newest album, the 2001 release musical tastes as of a year or two of the loons, and I never once vocals, and stylistic tendencies "In Our Hands". Line drawings song, I was pleasantly surprised. Ancient Melodies of the Future. ago. To them I profess sentimen­ wanted to close my eyes (as that range from pop to classical, reminiscent of Keith Haring His gentle way with the guitar The crowd seemed hypnotized tal attachment. Which brings me sometimes happens) to block out had drawn many to the post­ overlay still photos of Inuit life, and his soft, somewhat nasal by Doug Martsch's lyrics and to my second disclaimer—I am the world and exist only with the modern (think Expo 86) environs accentuating themes of violence voice were a sweet combination. guitar mastery. And yes, they biased. music. This time I wanted every of Paris' Bercy Village. Despite and sexuality. I was told about his penchant for did end with the much talked I have seen DMST once detail. A beckon to raise a fist in the discomfort, we felt a sense The sound produced by the guitar solos and did enjoy the about super-long song (I clocked before. Seeing them again, glory seems oddly appropriate of inner peace, knowing that our assembled players was alter­ first few; however, they seemed it at about 30 minutes), which familiar faces on the stage as I when you cannot tear your eyes lives post-Bjbrk (PB) would tran­ nately lush and spare. Parkins repetitive, and by the end of his caused the kids to awaken from finally walked in, was the cata­ away. Speak of charismatic lead­ scend such trivialities. moved from harp to clavichord set 1 was asking myself: how their daze, whoop and holler, lyst to a very emotional reaction ers and a horn section with the Peaches had been invited to to accordion, playing both the many is too many guitar solos? and then fall back into the trance in response to the entirety of same breath. open. Her overtly sexual stage accordion and harp during His voice that at first sounded that Built to Spill causes every what was happening. I thought And when it was all over, show has delighted Vancouver "joga". Matmos' accompani­ I melodic seemed to fall into. that the atmosphere (for lack the audience did not simply clap audiences over the past two ment fused the warmth of ana­ crack a little too much—but, on Gabby De Lucca •

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