The Canadian Romantic in Toronto and waterloo/Roctober Review
Check it, review I wrote for Roctober of that great act Zacht Automaat:
http://roctoberreviews.blogspot.ca/2013/10/zacht-automaat-st.html
(GUEST REVIEW BY ROBERT DAYTON) (Calico Corp) Paint if you will a picture of a band that’s recorded 11 albums of material that you need to hear. They heard a new world as well and they heard it prolificallaexpiallidociously. Here’s some magick mmmoments from those albums made accessible as a double LP, limited edition 333 copies (plus a CDR of other stuff, plus download code). Distill it, shake it up, and double up. The front sleeve initializes the name of Zacht Automaat. ZA it says, but it ain’t the PIZ or the PITS, it’s a PARTY, an ever shifting moody party with a ring that fits just right! Mostly organ/synth and drums with other instruments careening in and out. Sounds of science coming to fluid fruition, all organic like, processionals, cartoon free jazz liberation marches, feather s falling, seaside strolls under a Chroma key mountain, song titles like "Reprise Surprise/Brief Resolution." Gawwwd, this ain’t a big pot of soup stretching out to simmer, it’s a grab bag, a bursting box of chocolates, and they’re all winners, there is that Soft Machine influence, but just before they turned to wank fusion, and c’mon guyyyyys, it’s just one of many leaping off points, and they don’t just look, they touch, it ain’t no doppelgang, but I must say, at times they sound like actual soft machines, not the band, but actual soft machines! It’s really alive! You know something, I once went to New York City in search of the last automat, I really wanted a fully vended meal in an establishment of stainless steel, and couldn’t find it, it was gone, I was empty handed with an empty stomach but, here all along was Zacht Automaat -in Canada no less! Hooray!
The Canadian Romantic is playing Friday night at double Double Land opening for Marty Topps album release tribute to Tap out clothing. WOW! @10 pmListen to him for free here!
http://martytopps.bandcamp.com/
Then saturday Nov 16th opening for B.A. Johnston at the Jane Bond in waterloo. 10 pm!
Saw the cronenberg exhibit, check it:
http://roctoberreviews.blogspot.ca/2013/10/zacht-automaat-st.html
(GUEST REVIEW BY ROBERT DAYTON) (Calico Corp) Paint if you will a picture of a band that’s recorded 11 albums of material that you need to hear. They heard a new world as well and they heard it prolificallaexpiallidociously. Here’s some magick mmmoments from those albums made accessible as a double LP, limited edition 333 copies (plus a CDR of other stuff, plus download code). Distill it, shake it up, and double up. The front sleeve initializes the name of Zacht Automaat. ZA it says, but it ain’t the PIZ or the PITS, it’s a PARTY, an ever shifting moody party with a ring that fits just right! Mostly organ/synth and drums with other instruments careening in and out. Sounds of science coming to fluid fruition, all organic like, processionals, cartoon free jazz liberation marches, feather s falling, seaside strolls under a Chroma key mountain, song titles like "Reprise Surprise/Brief Resolution." Gawwwd, this ain’t a big pot of soup stretching out to simmer, it’s a grab bag, a bursting box of chocolates, and they’re all winners, there is that Soft Machine influence, but just before they turned to wank fusion, and c’mon guyyyyys, it’s just one of many leaping off points, and they don’t just look, they touch, it ain’t no doppelgang, but I must say, at times they sound like actual soft machines, not the band, but actual soft machines! It’s really alive! You know something, I once went to New York City in search of the last automat, I really wanted a fully vended meal in an establishment of stainless steel, and couldn’t find it, it was gone, I was empty handed with an empty stomach but, here all along was Zacht Automaat -in Canada no less! Hooray!
The Canadian Romantic is playing Friday night at double Double Land opening for Marty Topps album release tribute to Tap out clothing. WOW! @10 pmListen to him for free here!
http://martytopps.bandcamp.com/
Then saturday Nov 16th opening for B.A. Johnston at the Jane Bond in waterloo. 10 pm!
Saw the cronenberg exhibit, check it:
Points Gray updates....
The Points Gray album is now up on Bandcamp, check it:
http://pointsgray.bandcamp.com/album/offshore
If you get the actual vinyl it has a lovely cover that I painted, teriffic liner notes by Kevin "Sipreano" Howsthere's also a download code and an art & lyric booklet by me and Julian Lawrence printed with blue ink on grey paper at Colour Code. 500 copies!!!
I am doing this totally D.I.Y. (not by choice) so because I have no muscle or backing or payola getting any reviews has been tough, and I want people to hear it, so spread the word!
In Vancouver it is also available at Neptoon, Red Cat, AudioPile, Dandilion, and more!
In Toronto it is at June, Soundscapes, LP's LPs, Kops, LIkely General, and more (It is NOT at Rotate This of course)!
You can order it and Balls Boogie through Tedium House/Revolver distribution who are the best:
http://www.tediumhouse.com/artists/points-gray
http://www.tediumhouse.com/artists/july-fourth-toilet
Recommended for people who enjoy music.
The Canadian Romantic winking photos are still available on Etsy, at Magic Pony, Likely General and Eyesore, Luckys in Vancouver and White Tiger in Kitchener!
http://pointsgray.bandcamp.com/album/offshore
If you get the actual vinyl it has a lovely cover that I painted, teriffic liner notes by Kevin "Sipreano" Howsthere's also a download code and an art & lyric booklet by me and Julian Lawrence printed with blue ink on grey paper at Colour Code. 500 copies!!!
I am doing this totally D.I.Y. (not by choice) so because I have no muscle or backing or payola getting any reviews has been tough, and I want people to hear it, so spread the word!
In Vancouver it is also available at Neptoon, Red Cat, AudioPile, Dandilion, and more!
In Toronto it is at June, Soundscapes, LP's LPs, Kops, LIkely General, and more (It is NOT at Rotate This of course)!
You can order it and Balls Boogie through Tedium House/Revolver distribution who are the best:
http://www.tediumhouse.com/artists/points-gray
http://www.tediumhouse.com/artists/july-fourth-toilet
Recommended for people who enjoy music.
The Canadian Romantic winking photos are still available on Etsy, at Magic Pony, Likely General and Eyesore, Luckys in Vancouver and White Tiger in Kitchener!
Toronto Friday/ Kitchener:PING PONG HALF TIME SHOW Sunday
NEW HORIZZZONS is playing Fri nite show at The Silver Dollar in Toronto! All proceeds go to the production of MINOR, a rock n' roll road movie and a love letter to the teenage dream. Saffron sect, Ostrich tuning, Tess Parks, and ELISSA MIELKE and DJs CHRISTIAN HAMILTON and AJ FRICK
Tickets are $8.50 in advance at SOUNDSCAPES and ROTATE THIS. 9 pm?
Then on Sunday at The Eby Street Car Park, Kitchener Farmers Market. Come join us for the event of the fall season!
Half-time show by New Horizzzons! (app. 3 pm) Music by DJ X-Disc-C! Yeti BBQ! And hours of top-notch ping pong!
How to register
If you would like to play, registration will open at 12:30pm on the day of the tournament, in the car park, on a first-come, first-served basis.
Further details at theyeticafe.com/pingpong
Paddles and balls will be provided but feel free to bring your own paddle if you so desire.
Good luck! Have fun!
http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=JQDL3_WrV4o
http://www.therecord.com/ news-story/ 2611160-market-neighbours-g et-ball-bouncing-with-ping -pong-tournament/
Tickets are $8.50 in advance at SOUNDSCAPES and ROTATE THIS. 9 pm?
Then on Sunday at The Eby Street Car Park, Kitchener Farmers Market. Come join us for the event of the fall season!
Half-time show by New Horizzzons! (app. 3 pm) Music by DJ X-Disc-C! Yeti BBQ! And hours of top-notch ping pong!
How to register
If you would like to play, registration will open at 12:30pm on the day of the tournament, in the car park, on a first-come, first-served basis.
Further details at theyeticafe.com/pingpong
Paddles and balls will be provided but feel free to bring your own paddle if you so desire.
Good luck! Have fun!
http://www.youtube.com/
http://www.therecord.com/
NEW HORIZZZONS perform for Chaka the cat's 18th birthday.
THE MAN WHO WROTE THE SONGS FOR THE NEW INDUSTRIAL STATE
Sipreano just informed me of the passing of Doug Randle. He was a very inspiring man. Here is a link to an interview that I did with him from Sipreano's blog:
http://voluntaryinnature.blogspot.ca/2013/09/the-man-who-wrote-songs-for-new.html
http://voluntaryinnature.blogspot.ca/2013/09/the-man-who-wrote-songs-for-new.html
Roctober #51...plus UK Points Gray review....
I have a huge Sweet daddy Siki (wrestler/country artist) interview in the new Roctober and you can even see him hanging out on the cover with Neil Hamburger, Tiny Tim and the Chipmunks (I also wrote some Chipmunks updates). As well July Fourth Toilet/Points Gray bandmate Julian Lawrence has a comic about getting turned on to K-Tel's Nutty Numbers. From the description: "A massive issue from Roctober this time around – filled with a wealth of
information on unusual novelty and comedy records – plus lots of other
odd vinyl too! There's a huge amount of interviews here – with Jimmy
Lynch The Funky Tram, Mr Lee, Neil Hamburger, Dave Alvin, Dr Demento,
The 1985 Chicago Beras, Rappin Duke, and others – plus bits on Richard
Pyror, Pedro Bell, Brother Dave Gardner, Andy Kaufman, and Jack White's
Third Man Records – plus a massive stand up records discography, and
loads lots more! Massive reviews and other bits too – and easily the
best musical bang for your magazine buck."
Order here:
https://www.dustygroove.com/item/671689
UK site Terrascope ran an interesting review of The Points Gray LP (available here: http://www.tediumhouse.com/artists/points-gray or at good stores in Vancouver, Toronto and more). Here's the review:
originally recorded in 1999 but not released until now “off Shore” by Vancouver based Points Gray, although they played live as AIDS, has an undeniable power in its lo-fi Folk Noire ramblings. A voice all its own that will either enthral you or grate with you, I can't imagine much in between. Personally, it has a taken a couple of plays before my ear tuned in, but I am glad it did, as songs such “Echo Power” and “People Hate You In This Town” contain the same sardonic lyricism as The Velvets whilst being oddly constructed in a Syd Barrett, Skip Spence kinda way. Featuring future members of Wet Dirt, July 4th Toilet, and The New pornographers, the music is acoustic, reasonably free-form and is more uneasy than easy listening, although there are hidden depths to be discovered, pockets of beauty and a strange sense of stillness at its core. Limited to 300 copies, with a hand-drawn lyric booklet plenty of information on the cover, this is an excellent package that preserves a little slice of musical history.
Order here:
https://www.dustygroove.com/item/671689
UK site Terrascope ran an interesting review of The Points Gray LP (available here: http://www.tediumhouse.com/artists/points-gray or at good stores in Vancouver, Toronto and more). Here's the review:
originally recorded in 1999 but not released until now “off Shore” by Vancouver based Points Gray, although they played live as AIDS, has an undeniable power in its lo-fi Folk Noire ramblings. A voice all its own that will either enthral you or grate with you, I can't imagine much in between. Personally, it has a taken a couple of plays before my ear tuned in, but I am glad it did, as songs such “Echo Power” and “People Hate You In This Town” contain the same sardonic lyricism as The Velvets whilst being oddly constructed in a Syd Barrett, Skip Spence kinda way. Featuring future members of Wet Dirt, July 4th Toilet, and The New pornographers, the music is acoustic, reasonably free-form and is more uneasy than easy listening, although there are hidden depths to be discovered, pockets of beauty and a strange sense of stillness at its core. Limited to 300 copies, with a hand-drawn lyric booklet plenty of information on the cover, this is an excellent package that preserves a little slice of musical history.
The Innocence of Childhood And The Vulnerability Of Mortality
New The Canadian Romantic video:
Food Blog
I have a recipe that details some memories of my Mother in this delightful Food Blog book put together by Anna May Henry. Info on the book and how to order here:
http://foodblog.bigcartel.com/product/food-blog
http://foodblog.bigcartel.com/product/food-blog
The New Pornographers
CINEMA SEWER BOOK 4
Hey folks, I have a tiddly bit of writing and some drawings in this book on the movies GET EVEN and SATAN KILLER! I get pretty writerly and freewheeling about those flicks, crotchpot full o' jokes. This book is jam packed! Robin Bougie does it again!
Order:
http://cinemasewer.ecrater.com/p/18249315/cinema-sewer-book-4-free-custom
WET DIRT bandcamp, art and lyric booklet
I finally put the entire WET DIRT album up on Bandcamp, so now it's even easier to listen to it/download....this was my first Toronto band...
Coming across like an early seventies, slightly-fried, band of freaks, the rather excellent Wet Dirt sound suitably messed up on their album “Self Sabotage, The Early Years” with the stoned groove of “Bad Choices” setting out their stall with the chorus “Bad choices, made some bad choices, gonna make some more”. Add to this fine guitar playing, a solid rhythm section,and an ear for melody, and you have a perfect opening song and statement. Moving on, “The Chill Out Man” is weird and creepy, nonsensical word play, and a crawling guitar line creating a strange atmosphere, the song sounding like something Zappa could have created. As the album progresses the band get weirder, louder, more interesting by turns with “Hot Pink” managing all three at once. Elsewhere, “Invalids” is post-punk noise, angular guitar and an individual vocal delivery adding to the tension of the lyrics reminding me of Pere Ubu, whilst “Of Felt” is a song about the tactile pleasures of felt, as it should be. If you are searching for something different, energetic, angry and weird then this should hit the spot, a minor classic. (www.inyrdisk.com)
-Terrascope
Here's the link:
http://wetdirt.bandcamp.com/
Here's the link to the art and lyric booklet that I made, too:
http://robertdayton.tumblr.com/post/57023214644/wetdirttheband-wet-dirt-cd-art-and-lyric
Coming across like an early seventies, slightly-fried, band of freaks, the rather excellent Wet Dirt sound suitably messed up on their album “Self Sabotage, The Early Years” with the stoned groove of “Bad Choices” setting out their stall with the chorus “Bad choices, made some bad choices, gonna make some more”. Add to this fine guitar playing, a solid rhythm section,and an ear for melody, and you have a perfect opening song and statement. Moving on, “The Chill Out Man” is weird and creepy, nonsensical word play, and a crawling guitar line creating a strange atmosphere, the song sounding like something Zappa could have created. As the album progresses the band get weirder, louder, more interesting by turns with “Hot Pink” managing all three at once. Elsewhere, “Invalids” is post-punk noise, angular guitar and an individual vocal delivery adding to the tension of the lyrics reminding me of Pere Ubu, whilst “Of Felt” is a song about the tactile pleasures of felt, as it should be. If you are searching for something different, energetic, angry and weird then this should hit the spot, a minor classic. (www.inyrdisk.com)
-Terrascope
Here's the link:
http://wetdirt.bandcamp.com/
Here's the link to the art and lyric booklet that I made, too:
http://robertdayton.tumblr.com/post/57023214644/wetdirttheband-wet-dirt-cd-art-and-lyric
ZINE DREAM 6/ KARAOKE / et al
Hey folks, I will be selling the newly released Points Gray LP (which has been getting some great airplay on the legendary WFMU: the track "Growing Beards" sparks up the comment board with people weighing-in on male grooming more than anything really), The Canadian Romantic winking pic, doll (now for sale at Likely General, 389 Roncesvalles as well), book, maybe some weird old zines and issues of Drippy, some personal items that I'll be purging from my home as I prepare to my move to Kitchener-Waterloo. Everything I can fit in a half table.
It's happening between 12 - 5 pm on Sunday Aug. 4th. at The Tranzac in Toronto !
292 Brunswick Ave. Pop by and try or buy or say hi.....
ZINE DREAM has stuff happening all weekend, check out their site:
http://zinedream.com/
Speaking of 'weird old zines' Broken Pencil has been running some of their early old zine reviews. They just ran an old review of my old zine Bunyon from the 90's. Check it:
http://www.brokenpencil.com/news/todays-zine-review-bunyon-zine
Nice mentions of my Mom, it's been eight months since she died, she was a really good writer.
After ZINE DREAM 6 in the evening at 11 pm I will be hosting karaoke again at The Beaver (1192 Queen Street West), unusre what my outfit will be but karaoke always gets more than a tad wild there....
This is an excellent chronicle of the BC hipster scene, as well as the travelogue of Rob’s journey through the ugly landscape of his soul. This zine speaks to the despair of being a thinking creating person with such fervour that it is almost like the kind of prayer people make in their heads as they are walking home from work after a desperate, shitty day. That said, there are a lot of comics in this zine including the unforgettable Ackerman Dick story and Shawn Bristow’s Just When I Thought I Had A Grip On Life Love Rams It’s Fist Up My Ass. Oh Yeah! Anyway, Rob’s family obviously has a knack for self confession, because the prose that pushes this zine into the limelight where you can see the zits and loneliness are by Rob and his Mom.
Mom – who is, in fact, identified only as Rob’s Mom – gets to start
the zine off with a letter about adjusting to her recent move to
small-town Saskatchewan. This is a great piece of inflected prose,
every sentence is an ([un?]intended) punchline. She should write a
book of this stuff, it would definitely win the Leacock award for
humour. Particularly notable was the portrayal of the “elderly
gentleman” who keeps driving by her new home in’ order to present up
to date reports at the town coffee shop on what the new folk are
doing. Hilarious. Now don’t skip the rest of the zine, but Rob’s own
gut wrenching admissions from a diary (fact or fiction, it don’t
matter) come at the very end. Eight pages of diary entries see Rob
move from love-sick puppy to irrational dick-head while his health
steadily deteriorates under the office flourescents and his band-mates
rebel against his authority. As if that wasn’t enough, constant cameo
appearances by indie bands and zine kids alike give this diary a
lifestyles of the poor and fucked up feel that both undermines and
speaks to the repetition of being alive. A bunion is the inflamed
swelling of the first joint of the big toe, but Bunyon is the
shrinking swell that never stops chafing.
- See more at: http://www.brokenpencil.com/news/todays-zine-review-bunyon-zine#sthash.6wuPAbCK.dpu
- See more at: http://www.brokenpencil.com/news/todays-zine-review-bunyon-zine#sthash.6wuPAbCK
This is an excellent chronicle of the BC hipster scene, as well as the travelogue of Rob’s journey through the ugly landscape of his soul. This zine speaks to the despair of being a thinking creating person with such fervour that it is almost like the kind of prayer people make in their heads as they are walking home from work after a desperate, shitty day. That said, there are a lot of comics in this zine including the unforgettable Ackerman Dick story and Shawn Bristow’s Just When I Thought I Had A Grip On Life Love Rams It’s Fist Up My Ass. Oh Yeah! Anyway, Rob’s family obviously has a knack for self confession, because the prose that pushes this zine into the limelight where you can see the zits and loneliness are by Rob and his Mom.
Mom – who is, in fact, identified only as Rob’s Mom – gets to start
the zine off with a letter about adjusting to her recent move to
small-town Saskatchewan. This is a great piece of inflected prose,
every sentence is an ([un?]intended) punchline. She should write a
book of this stuff, it would definitely win the Leacock award for
humour. Particularly notable was the portrayal of the “elderly
gentleman” who keeps driving by her new home in’ order to present up
to date reports at the town coffee shop on what the new folk are
doing. Hilarious. Now don’t skip the rest of the zine, but Rob’s own
gut wrenching admissions from a diary (fact or fiction, it don’t
matter) come at the very end. Eight pages of diary entries see Rob
move from love-sick puppy to irrational dick-head while his health
steadily deteriorates under the office flourescents and his band-mates
rebel against his authority. As if that wasn’t enough, constant cameo
appearances by indie bands and zine kids alike give this diary a
lifestyles of the poor and fucked up feel that both undermines and
speaks to the repetition of being alive. A bunion is the inflamed
swelling of the first joint of the big toe, but Bunyon is the
shrinking swell that never stops chafing.
- See more at: http://www.brokenpencil.com/news/todays-zine-review-bunyon-zine#sthash.6wuPAbCK.dpuf
This is an excellent chronicle of the BC hipster scene, as well as the travelogue of Rob’s journey through the ugly landscape of his soul. This zine speaks to the despair of being a thinking creating person with such fervour that it is almost like the kind of prayer people make in their heads as they are walking home from work after a desperate, shitty day. That said, there are a lot of comics in this zine including the unforgettable Ackerman Dick story and Shawn Bristow’s Just When I Thought I Had A Grip On Life Love Rams It’s Fist Up My Ass. Oh Yeah! Anyway, Rob’s family obviously has a knack for self confession, because the prose that pushes this zine into the limelight where you can see the zits and loneliness are by Rob and his Mom.
Mom – who is, in fact, identified only as Rob’s Mom – gets to start
the zine off with a letter about adjusting to her recent move to
small-town Saskatchewan. This is a great piece of inflected prose,
every sentence is an ([un?]intended) punchline. She should write a
book of this stuff, it would definitely win the Leacock award for
humour. Particularly notable was the portrayal of the “elderly
gentleman” who keeps driving by her new home in’ order to present up
to date reports at the town coffee shop on what the new folk are
doing. Hilarious. Now don’t skip the rest of the zine, but Rob’s own
gut wrenching admissions from a diary (fact or fiction, it don’t
matter) come at the very end. Eight pages of diary entries see Rob
move from love-sick puppy to irrational dick-head while his health
steadily deteriorates under the office flourescents and his band-mates
rebel against his authority. As if that wasn’t enough, constant cameo
appearances by indie bands and zine kids alike give this diary a
lifestyles of the poor and fucked up feel that both undermines and
speaks to the repetition of being alive. A bunion is the inflamed
swelling of the first joint of the big toe, but Bunyon is the
shrinking swell that never stops chafing.
- See more at: http://www.brokenpencil.com/news/todays-zine-review-bunyon-zine#sthash.6wuPAbCK.dpuf
It's happening between 12 - 5 pm on Sunday Aug. 4th. at The Tranzac in Toronto !
292 Brunswick Ave. Pop by and try or buy or say hi.....
ZINE DREAM has stuff happening all weekend, check out their site:
http://zinedream.com/
Speaking of 'weird old zines' Broken Pencil has been running some of their early old zine reviews. They just ran an old review of my old zine Bunyon from the 90's. Check it:
http://www.brokenpencil.com/news/todays-zine-review-bunyon-zine
Nice mentions of my Mom, it's been eight months since she died, she was a really good writer.
After ZINE DREAM 6 in the evening at 11 pm I will be hosting karaoke again at The Beaver (1192 Queen Street West), unusre what my outfit will be but karaoke always gets more than a tad wild there....
As part of International Zine Month, we’ll be posting a zine review a day on our blog in July. Today’s review is from Issue 3.
20 pages, Act #7 main creator: Robert Dayton $2 plus $1 postage 317A Cambie St., Vancouver, BC V6B 2N4This is an excellent chronicle of the BC hipster scene, as well as the travelogue of Rob’s journey through the ugly landscape of his soul. This zine speaks to the despair of being a thinking creating person with such fervour that it is almost like the kind of prayer people make in their heads as they are walking home from work after a desperate, shitty day. That said, there are a lot of comics in this zine including the unforgettable Ackerman Dick story and Shawn Bristow’s Just When I Thought I Had A Grip On Life Love Rams It’s Fist Up My Ass. Oh Yeah! Anyway, Rob’s family obviously has a knack for self confession, because the prose that pushes this zine into the limelight where you can see the zits and loneliness are by Rob and his Mom.
- See more at: http://www.brokenpencil.com/news/todays-zine-review-bunyon-zine#sthash.6wuPAbCK.dpu
20 pages, Act #7 main creator: Robert Dayton $2 plus $1 postage 317A Cambie St., Vancouver, BC V6B 2N4
This is an excellent chronicle of the BC hipster scene, as well as the travelogue of Rob’s journey through the ugly landscape of his soul. This zine speaks to the despair of being a thinking creating person with such fervour that it is almost like the kind of prayer people make in their heads as they are walking home from work after a desperate, shitty day. That said, there are a lot of comics in this zine including the unforgettable Ackerman Dick story and Shawn Bristow’s Just When I Thought I Had A Grip On Life Love Rams It’s Fist Up My Ass. Oh Yeah! Anyway, Rob’s family obviously has a knack for self confession, because the prose that pushes this zine into the limelight where you can see the zits and loneliness are by Rob and his Mom.
Mom – who is, in fact, identified only as Rob’s Mom – gets to start
the zine off with a letter about adjusting to her recent move to
small-town Saskatchewan. This is a great piece of inflected prose,
every sentence is an ([un?]intended) punchline. She should write a
book of this stuff, it would definitely win the Leacock award for
humour. Particularly notable was the portrayal of the “elderly
gentleman” who keeps driving by her new home in’ order to present up
to date reports at the town coffee shop on what the new folk are
doing. Hilarious. Now don’t skip the rest of the zine, but Rob’s own
gut wrenching admissions from a diary (fact or fiction, it don’t
matter) come at the very end. Eight pages of diary entries see Rob
move from love-sick puppy to irrational dick-head while his health
steadily deteriorates under the office flourescents and his band-mates
rebel against his authority. As if that wasn’t enough, constant cameo
appearances by indie bands and zine kids alike give this diary a
lifestyles of the poor and fucked up feel that both undermines and
speaks to the repetition of being alive. A bunion is the inflamed
swelling of the first joint of the big toe, but Bunyon is the
shrinking swell that never stops chafing.This is an excellent chronicle of the BC hipster scene, as well as the travelogue of Rob’s journey through the ugly landscape of his soul. This zine speaks to the despair of being a thinking creating person with such fervour that it is almost like the kind of prayer people make in their heads as they are walking home from work after a desperate, shitty day. That said, there are a lot of comics in this zine including the unforgettable Ackerman Dick story and Shawn Bristow’s Just When I Thought I Had A Grip On Life Love Rams It’s Fist Up My Ass. Oh Yeah! Anyway, Rob’s family obviously has a knack for self confession, because the prose that pushes this zine into the limelight where you can see the zits and loneliness are by Rob and his Mom.
- See more at: http://www.brokenpencil.com/news/todays-zine-review-bunyon-zine#sthash.6wuPAbCK
As part of International Zine Month, we’ll be posting a zine review a day on our blog in July. Today’s review is from Issue 3.
20 pages, Act #7 main creator: Robert Dayton $2 plus $1 postage 317A Cambie St., Vancouver, BC V6B 2N4This is an excellent chronicle of the BC hipster scene, as well as the travelogue of Rob’s journey through the ugly landscape of his soul. This zine speaks to the despair of being a thinking creating person with such fervour that it is almost like the kind of prayer people make in their heads as they are walking home from work after a desperate, shitty day. That said, there are a lot of comics in this zine including the unforgettable Ackerman Dick story and Shawn Bristow’s Just When I Thought I Had A Grip On Life Love Rams It’s Fist Up My Ass. Oh Yeah! Anyway, Rob’s family obviously has a knack for self confession, because the prose that pushes this zine into the limelight where you can see the zits and loneliness are by Rob and his Mom.
- See more at: http://www.brokenpencil.com/news/todays-zine-review-bunyon-zine#sthash.6wuPAbCK.dpuf
As part of International Zine Month, we’ll be posting a zine review a day on our blog in July. Today’s review is from Issue 3.
20 pages, Act #7 main creator: Robert Dayton $2 plus $1 postage 317A Cambie St., Vancouver, BC V6B 2N4This is an excellent chronicle of the BC hipster scene, as well as the travelogue of Rob’s journey through the ugly landscape of his soul. This zine speaks to the despair of being a thinking creating person with such fervour that it is almost like the kind of prayer people make in their heads as they are walking home from work after a desperate, shitty day. That said, there are a lot of comics in this zine including the unforgettable Ackerman Dick story and Shawn Bristow’s Just When I Thought I Had A Grip On Life Love Rams It’s Fist Up My Ass. Oh Yeah! Anyway, Rob’s family obviously has a knack for self confession, because the prose that pushes this zine into the limelight where you can see the zits and loneliness are by Rob and his Mom.
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Art Spiegelman
In the following link is an excerpt from an interview I did with Art Spiegelman:
http://www.randomhouse.ca/hazlitt/podcast/arcade-episode-4-live-free-or-daikon
http://www.randomhouse.ca/hazlitt/podcast/arcade-episode-4-live-free-or-daikon
Pretty photos...
updated stuff
See that pic? That's me and Sipreano delivering the freshly pressed Points Gray LP to Zulu Records in Vancouver. He wrote the liner notes and there's also a download code and an art & lyric booklet by me and Julian Lawrence printed with blue ink on grey paper at Colour Code. 500 copies!!!
In Vancouver it is also available at Neptoon, Red Cat, AudioPile, Dandilion, and more!
In Toronto it is at June, Soundscapes, LP's LPs, Kops, and more!
You can order it and Balls Boogie through Tedium House/Revolver distribution who are the best:
http://www.tediumhouse.com/artists/points-gray
http://www.tediumhouse.com/artists/july-fourth-toilet
Recommended for people who enjoy music.
The Canadian Romantic winking photos are still available on Etsy, at Magic Pony (target market: young women) and Eyesore!
Ohhh and WFMU played Points Gray the other night! Love that station, so good!
Let me even things up with some bad news: I'm a narcissist in the wilderness.
worn out
I am worn out from last night's performance. That is good. Here's some video from our first show:
New Horizzzons - Zine Dream 6 Fundraiser
The members of New Horizzzons ready themselves in earnest for their next show,
The Zine Dream 6 Fundraiser at Izakaya (294 College Street, Toronto) on Thursday July 18!
Music is rawww demmmo of "Put It Out There" by New Horizzzons.
The Zine Dream 6 Fundraiser at Izakaya (294 College Street, Toronto) on Thursday July 18!
Music is rawww demmmo of "Put It Out There" by New Horizzzons.
Playing with: FASSBENDER, BOING VOYAGE (formerly New Fries, Roseanne), and CREEP HIGHWAY!
$5-10 donation
$5-10 donation
cancel
NEW HORIZZZONS had to cancel our set tonight due to medical reasons. New Positions is playing instead.
I host karaoke at the Beaver Sunday night (1192 Queen west)
I host karaoke at the Beaver Sunday night (1192 Queen west)