The sea refuses no river

[storm] is a fabulous way to break your limbs, collarbone and heart

I spent the evening watching battery opera’s performance of [storm] at the Scotia Dance Centre. They have one performance left tonight (Mar 23, 2007) and if you have $20 it’ll be well spent buying a ticket.

Click here for a review from the Toronto Star.

Click here for battery opera’s website.

And if you’re planning on getting laid at a party at some point in the future make sure you’re competing with none of these people.

xoxo

MVL

PS: Call 604-688-8583 for tix and a membership to battery opera.

It was dark but I wasn't scared because you were there. That was you, wasn't it?

I have two words for you: Sasquatch and Festival

(VANCOUVER, BC) Well, let's see. One hairy manly beast, probably the strong silent type. Twenty to thirty bands, including Bjork, Neko Case, and Bad Brains. A weekend in May where camping is involved. And the Gorge in Washington State.

Yeah, that's right. The Sasquatch Festival in the Gorge May 26 and 27, 2007.

I called and for Canadians a valid passport is not needed unless you fly in. However a passport can be gotten for $80 and a few moments of your time by going to this website. A passport might be a good idea, especially if you happen to be named Mohammad Khaled or Carlos the Jackal. (I'm not saying it's fair, I'm just saying.)

Be prepared to camp in like tents and with like sleeping bags. Unfortunately for me, I heard that only losers use RV's. Now, I'm conflicted between being a loser and being comfortable.

xoxo,

MVL

What's Your Frequency, Kenneth?

Who would have thought that horse trading would lead to a new stereo system

Yes, it's true. I ignored the world as it stumbles towards oblivion and put aside the fact we're all gonna die (talk to the hand, I say) and went instead and did some Craigslist searching and then some horse trading with a local DJ. The results are my new freakin' awesome Technics sound system with a Stanton digital turntable that gave me a smile so wide it nearly ripped my head off.

Gregorian chants sound wonderful, Afghan style sitar music is brilliant and bright, The Buzzcocks never sounded better, John Coltrane's sax is the best it is ever been, Husker Du is edgy and punchy. I stood listening on the far side of the living room and then the near side. I sat crosslegged in the middle. It's been days now.

Yeah, baby, it sounds awesome. Even my brother's late 70s metal LPs sound great, and I hate my brother's late 70s metal LPs.

Come on over and bring some vinyl records, your ripped MP3s, your cassettes, or CDs. We'll get my neighbours all riled up and have a real good time.

xoxo

MVL

TREMORS Main Stage Presentation

Rockabilly? Headless cowboys? A GF named Cry Baby? I'm there.

(Vancouver, BC) I'm heading out of town on Friday and but thankfully it's Spring Break at BCIT and I'll be able to slip in to see this fantastic looking play. I'll even wear a polka dot dress (unless I would have to shave the beard I'm growing). Maybe I'll just stick with my Daytons and a pack of smokes.

This is from Rumbles' website:


The Headless Cowboy
Calgary's Broken Spoke Theatre
Performance Works, Granville Island
March 14 - 17 @ 8pm
Sat matinee @ 2pm, March 17
2-for-1 Opening Night, March 14!

RAUNCHY ROCKABILLY SATIRE
Rock, revenge, and an alien named Ginger With Knives!

The Headless Cowboy is a rockabilly satire merging music and performance with the visual strengths of theatre, dance and video bringing a fresh, comedic look at a heart-breaking tragedy in a multi-disciplinary performance by three of Alberta's most sought-after artists. The Headless Cowboy explores the nature of belief in a compelling tale. The titular Cowboy seeks revenge against Dead Man who shot off his head and kidnapped his girl - Cry Baby. Meanwhile, the alien Ginger with Knives is collecting sperm samples to start a human petting zoo.

Directed by Eileen Sproule (generic theatre) and performed by Brad Payne, Kristine Nutting, Kyrsten Blair, Andrew Payne and Ian Manhire.

Tickets can be rustled up by clicking here.

[storm]'s a-coming - battery opera March 21 - 23rd, 2007

limbs broken on the rack of the sea - the human spirit struggles through

(VANCOUVER, BC) The upcoming performances of battery opera's [storm] are March 21 -23, 2007 at the Scotia Dance Centre for the Vancouver International Dance Festival

From battery opera's website:

A turbulent meditation on the aching loneliness of being human, [storm] uses archetypes drawn from man’s relationship with the sea to delineate a history that is at once sacred and profane, cruel and tender. Performed by four men, the work is an evocative accumulation of raucous singing, quiet reflection and delirious dancing that provokes transformation of the ordinary into the emblematic, and the mundane into the symbolic. [storm] celebrates the power and fragility of the human body that breathes, speaks, sings, thinks, moves, dances.

Performed by Yannick Matthon, David mcIntosh, Ron Stewart, Max Murphy
choreography and direction by Lee Su-Feh
original music and text by David McIntosh
lighting design by James Proudfoot
dramaturgy by DD Kugler

Tickets are available here or by telephoning 604 662 4966.

Poncho and Lefty

Momma, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Country and Western Fans

I'm not sure how it happened. It might have been Patsy Cline. It could've been Lyle Lovett's If I had a Boat or his version of Stand By Your Man (part of the soundtrack for Niel Jordan's The Crying Game). It definitely had something to do with Lucinda Williams and certainly involved Gillian Welsh. By the time I started buying recent Johnny Cash vinyl (Lost Highway Records), including his rendition of NIN's Hurt I should have finally admitted it myself: I dig country music.

Willie Nelson has been filling up my room with his The Essential Willie Nelson that includes a freakin' awesome tune by Willie and Aerosmith.

I recently special ordered the newest Willie Nelson vinyl produced by Ryan Adams.

I'm about to head on a road trip with BadMark and I forwarned him that there'll be some C&W in our mutual future. Dude was undaunted. "It's a phase," he says, "you'll get over it."

But as I listen to Willie and Merle sing Poncho and Lefty and drink Strongbow Premium Cider, I'm not so sure. What happened to me? The punk me? The acid jazz me?

I usually sign off with a 'cheers' or 'ciao' but I think I will end with 'howdy and good day to you, sir.'

Although, it could explain the pony.

xoxo

M