Walking through Old Montreal with my Mother, popping into galleries filled with 5000$ paintings (and people buying them!), we came across the strangest store. Called “Hyper-Stylish Books and Objects”, it was superficially a book store. But, unlike any book store I’d ever seen before – all of the books were wrapped in plastic. So, you [...]
Archive for October, 2009
“Hyperstylish Objects” and Things
Posted in Being, Ethics, Philosophy, Things on October 21, 2009 | 3 Comments »
On Time and Engagement in the Present
Posted in Capitalism, Ethics, Philosophy, Pragmatics on October 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Today, two events occurred that together brought me to a clarifying thought about the ways we are in-time today. The first was a conversation with a retired professor, and the second was an entry on Milan’s excellent blog.
John was making the not too controversial point that the institution of texting, tweeting, being on the computer [...]
Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal
Posted in Art, Capitalism, Philosophy, Picturesque, beginning on October 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Museum of Fine Arts in Montreal is free. This means you don’t have to pay, (except for some temporary exhibitions). That and the collection is quite astonishing – including the likes of Monet, Picasso, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, etc… There is also a serious ancient Greece exhibit which, unlike the ROM’s, doesn’t pretend that Roman [...]
Obscure Band Showcares: Part 2 of 3 – the Consumer Goods
Posted in Capitalism, Ethics, Music on October 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Consumer Goods are a Winnipeg band that are not afraid to voice their opinions on political issues. Their Myspace page is littered with songs about the department of national defense, police violence, the Canadian occupation of Afghanistan, and the erosion of abortion rights in the U.S.
Their frontman, Tyler Shipley (one of my only friends [...]
Obscure Band Showcase: Part 1 of 3
Posted in Music on October 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been thinking about blogging about some of my favorite bands for a while now, and I think the most appropriate way to do it is in a series of posts, like the previous set concerned with the future. The bands I will feature here are all similar only in the fact that I think [...]
