I know this is old hat to anyone with any depth of punk knowledge, and I'm not evenr eally all that interested in hanging bands up for things they sang nearly 20 years ago. What this brought to mind for me, however, is that the sudden appearance of punk into the mainstream of late has meant that these bands are being covered by people with no ( Read more... )

Syndicalist's User Infotagged me with this ( Read more... )

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So, here I am back in Vancouver. Strange that after less than six months here, I can return to the city I lived in for the preceding 28 years and want to go "home" to my new city within days ( Read more... )

The new Jar Jar Binks movie!

Got back late Thursday night, but went straight to my parents' place in Ajax; they sold their house and moved to a basement apartment outside the city a week ago. This is a drag, because there's no way to get into the city from there, meaning I'm doing a lot of crashing with friends for the next week ( Read more... )

Thanks to Jim (sssocialservice) for forwarding this ( Read more... )

This was one of the craziest weeks in memory. I've just woken up after sleeping a solid eight hours, the first time I've slept more than four hours in a night in way too long. I worked 75 hours this week, much of that tough, back-breaking labour with lighting/sound rigs, furniture and cabinets. The good side was finding out yesterday that the ( Read more... )

Did this go down? Did Born/Dead make it into Canada? I'm curious as to whether the EPs we couriered to CCSS last week actually made it to them in time but they're on the road, so I'd greatly appreciate it if anyone could confirm them selling records...