It’s Canada Day today…hence the late post as I just woke up fifteen minutes ago. It’s also a gloriously beautiful day here in Toronto, so I think I’ll be spending it down at the lakeshore. Co-incidentlly, that very spot hosts a free movies series every summer, and if I may say so might be my…
Township Rebellion
“I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have…
The Hero’s Return (Free Movies at The Carlton Cinema)
Hey Toronto – Wanna see a free movie? Well this this week is your lucky week. For starters, this week starts The Safecracker Series at Dundas Square, with their free screening of GRAND SLAM. Along with that, this week celebrates the return of a Toronto movie-going landmark with the return of The Carlton Cinema. To…
Thug Life
This is a movie blog…but every now and then, movies have to take a back seat to real life. Today, in the shadow of a G20 summit, a few hundred cowardly anarchists decided that they needed to rip the shit out of my city to make a point against capitalism. The area they tore up,…
Lover’s Spit: THIS MOVIE IS BROKEN Plays NXNE
At the risk of being ex-communicated from my hometown, I have a confession: I’ve never been a fan of Broken Social Scene. It’s hard to explain precisely why, except to say that I just didn’t get them. Their sound is sprawling, spiralling, and non-linear. They couldn’t care less about hooks or singles. Quite honestly, they…
If I Was Your Vampire: SUCK Plays NXNE
Rock & roll is both vicious and ridiculous. It’s vicious in its dark undertones that permeate through the chord changes and vile words that have long been called The Devil’s Music. This darkness doesn’t just get prophesied to thousands of worshipping fans, it becomes ingrained into the very musicians chiming it out from their instruments.…
Testify: SOUNDS LIKE A REVOLUTION Plays NXNE
“You can bomb the world to pieces; You can’t bomb the world to peace.” Let’s wind the clock back ten years. The world was enjoying a small measure of peace. Iraq was that place we’d been ten years ago, and Afghanistan was just a country on a map most North Americans couldn’t find. The musical…