Monthly Archives: March 2005
Radio / Food
Column
Atlantic News Perspective #136 (Mar 28, 2005)
Investing in eco-tourism, awarding artistic merit and bank card skimming.
By: Iain K. MacLeod
Event
Æ’uck art, let’s dance!
April 2 at the Khyber Club
$5-10 (sliding scale)
1st floor: Special Noise, Windom Earle, Radarfame
2nd floor: INDIE DANCIN’ with Da Deco Gangsta, Shiver Me Tatters,
Readdan Whyte, Johnston Max
3rd floor: HIP HOP with Alphaflight and friends
Post (Halifax Locals)
12 Reasons to Attend the Weakerthans/Constantines Show
In no particular order.
12 A coveted Coast Feature on the Weakerthans.
11 The cover art for Reconstruction Site was done by Marcel Dzama of Winnipeg’s Royal Art Lodge (who is also responsible for Beck’s upcoming Guero release)
10 The Music: The Reasons, Psalm For The Elks Lodge Last Call, Plea From A Cat Named Virtue, Aside, The Last One, Our Retired Explorer (Dines With Michel Foucault In Paris, 1961) LIVE, On A Beautiful Day, Watermark, Confessions Of A Futon-Revolutionist
09 Two words: Weakerthans Karaoke!
08 E-card and videos: The Reasons, Psalm For The Elks Lodge Last Call, Our Retired Explorer (Dines With Michel Foucault In Paris, 1961), Watermark, Diagnosis
07 You don’t have to go to Winnipeg!
06 Fancy pants label affiliations: Subpop and Epitaph in US (Three Gut and G7 in Canada)
05 The Music Part Deux: Long Distance Four, Young Offenders, Arizona, On To You, Nighttime Anytime Its Alright, Blind Luck.
04 Check out one of their videos.
03 The Constantines are “big on crowd participation” and are “pretty fucking close” to writing anthems, according to Pitchfork
02 You don’t have to go to Guelph!
01 Friday is a holiday…WWJD?
Work
1) AFF Signature Series Presents The Dark Crystal
Wednesday, March 30, at Empire 8, Park Lane, 7:00 pm. $7.25 at the door.
2) The 4th annual ViewFinders guide is online. Here are trailors for Millions and Turtles Can Fly.
Music
For those that don’t own the 7 Belle & Sebastian EPs issued by Jeepster records (my personal fav being “Jonathan David”), you will be able to get them all in a 2CD set called “Push Barman To Open Old Wounds” on May 24th through Matator Records. Here is a track listing:
CD1
Dog On Wheels
The State I Am In
String Bean Jean
Belle and Sebastian
Lazy Line Painter Jane
You Made Me Forget My Dreams
A Century Of Elvis
Photo Jenny
A Century Of Fakers
Le Pastie De La Bourgeoisie
Beautiful
Put The Book Back On The Shelf
CD2
This Is Just A Modern Rock Song
I Know Where The Summer Goes
The Gate
Slow Graffiti
Legal Man
Judy Is A Dickslap
Winter Wooskie
Jonathan David
Take Your Carriage Clock And Shove It
The Loneliness Of The Middle Distance Runner
I’m Waking Up To Us
I Love My Car
Marx & Engels
Film
The Austin Willis Moving Images Centre at St. Mary’s University in Halifax wants to restore Bay Boy and get approval for a non-profit tour of it, including a showing later this year at the 25th-anniversary celebration of the Atlantic Film Festival, which featured Bay Boy as its inaugural presentation. However, the centre can’t find a 35-mm print of the film — former distributors such as Orion and Spectra have folded and their inventory scattered — or any of its constituent parts (the negative original, master positive, soundtrack), or the person or company who owns its rights. (Saving Canadian Celluloid | Globe & Mail)
Column
Atlantic News Perspective #135 (Mar 21, 2005)
Online identity theft, “National Skip Day,” and Hell Angels open for business.
By: Iain K. MacLeod
Trailer
It’s back. My pathetic voice over work (I am a storm tropper that says “Halt” in a lego version of a Star Wars 3 trailer) is still haunting the internet. Originally posted on Tuesday, July 30, 2002.
Music
‘It’s perfect madness’ | The Observer
Tom Waits writes about his 20 most cherished albums of all time.
Music
Growing up with and apart from R.E.M.’s recently reissued Warner Brothers albums.
By: Stephen M. Deusner (Pitchfork)
Music
P.E.I. Band brings Rocktronica to Halifax
By Jessica Whyte (Dal Gazette)
Update
For the record, i wasn’t me that was mugged or did the mugging on the corner of Brunswick and Duke.
Event
North By North End
Halifax, NS
Gus’s Pub, 2605 Agricola ($4/10pm)
Windom Earle
Pop Secret
SS Cardiacs
Camaromance
Note: rumoured to feature a Windom Earle video set. Also, leperchauns must be accompanied by a guardian at all times and don’t do the shamrock shake without proper safety precautions.
Column
Atlantic News Perspective #134 (Mar 14, 2005)
Atlantic Canada’s largest license plate factory goes multinational, two stolen bobcats in Halifax and Mardi Gras in Fredericton.
By: Iain K. MacLeod
