Co-operatives and Liberation, not necessarily in that order
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 […]
Read More “Hyperstylish Objects” and ThingsToday, 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 […]
Read More On Time and Engagement in the PresentThe 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 […]
Read More Musée des beaux-arts de MontréalThe 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 […]
Read More Obscure Band Showcares: Part 2 of 3 – the Consumer GoodsI’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 […]
Read More Obscure Band Showcase: Part 1 of 3
Only a Northern Song 