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Michelle Allard - Pink Peak(s) @ Convenience Gallery, 58 Lansdowne Avenue, Toronto.
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Mnobody A stream of consciousness sampling of things i liked this year Slayer, or i should say in the proper vernacular, Fuckin' Slayer! Saw them perform this past year, awesome, they just rock. The sound, lighting and stage set up was amazing, you just can't beat a giant wall of marshall amps!  Slayer, Canadian Carnage Tour, Toronto, Ontario July 29, 2010, photo by tanya read John Carpenter's The Thing. Paranoia in the arctic, aliens, music by Ennio Morricone, Kurt Russell, what more do you want? the seven minute version! the sweded version! the fart version! *Other favorite Kurt Russell/John Carpenter movies, Big Trouble in Little China, Escape from New York.  Andy Shernoff Member of the seminal New York hard rock/punk band the Dictators and the writer of most of their songs. He performed at my local bar, Mitzi's Sister doing an acoustic set interspersed with humorous and touching stories of his time in New York during the dawn of punk. A very good writer of rock/pop songs and an entertaining raconteur. I've also been digging Handsome Dick Manitoba (of the Dictators) on Little Steven's Underground Garage. 
The opening of the Dufferin Underpass, an exercise in civic pride and the most exciting mundane thing i have ever attended. complete with an old-timey car to lead the precession. Adam Giambrone, Joe Pantalone, David Miller were on hand for the ceremony. All the lefty Pinkos together in a last hurrah, before gettin' kicked out by the haters.  On a brighter note, looking forward to the addition of work by Louis Jacob to the Dufferin tunnel.   Luis Jacob proposes lining both sides of the Dufferin Jog with mosaic-tile versions of this artwork, from the series "They Sleep With One Eye Open." Image courtesy of Birch Libralato Gallery. Pants off dance of with Larry. just because he tries so hard. go Larry! My all time favorite movie discovery of 2010, House (Hausu)! 
Been wanting to watch this one for a while after seeing a clip on the Lost and Found video collection. Finally got to see it this new years eve and woa nellie what a trip! I mean isn't new years a kind of hallucinatory time anyhow, stuck in the limbo world between the past and the future? The Director, Nobuhiko Obayashi, just basically took the conventions of narrative and movie making and threw them out the window. ...and the special effects, wow! forget CGI crap, this is how i want my movies to look. This film uses the height of 1970's tacky video effects, inspirational! Also a treat is the bizarre musical score featuring Japanese takes on blues, rock and pop. Somehow it perfectly summed up 2010 for me while setting the mood for the year to come. Obayashi started out directing commercials like this one. Mandom! God, i love Chuck Bronson. Bronson's performance in another of my favorite films Mr. Majestyk (written by Elmore Leonard) is classic. 
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