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Election time: VB is starting to get a bee in his bonnet reading about all this Sam Bulte STuff on the BoingBoing and AccordianGuy blogs.
remember: "Home taping is killing the music Industry... and its about time".
(posted by Von Bark)
Some alert participants have noticed that I did not put out a call for Top Ten this year. That's cause I'm a no-good lazy-arse with a head cold. But if anyone is motivated like Tino, please send 'em in and I'll post 'em for sure!
Tino's Top 10 Arty Things to go down in Toronto 2005
Owen Pallett turns his violin into the best performance art on record since Laurie Anderson. No small feat.
http://www.finalfantasyeternal.com/
Best Live Performance
The New Kings, 09.06.05 Music Industry FXFOff Showcase - Construction Site Bathurst & Queen
http://www.thenewkings.ca/
Best Outdoor Art Installation
Luis Jacob
http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_05.05.05/arts/flashlight.html
Best Art Exhibit
Bureau of Productive Arts, XSpace
http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2005-07-21/art_reviews.php
Best Graphic Novel Artist
Ryan Carriere
http://www.usscatastrophe.com/store/illustrated.html
Best Art Exhibit
Maura Doyle & Anne Dinning
Mail Order Catalogue
http://www.paulpetro.com/forestfantasy/2005.shtml
Best Indoor Art Installation
Hans Engel, ‘still life with painter and spilled wine’, Zsa Zsa Gallery, Toronto
(no link)
Most Soulful Art Exhibition
Modigliani, AGO
http://www.ago.net/info/ago_exhibitions/exhibition_specific.cfm?ID=1177
Best Public Performance Art
Car Free Day Parade, Organized by PS Kensington
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mje/sets/1012207/
Most Fun Art Project
Jessica Thompson Sound Bike
http://www.glowlab.com/lab2/issue.php?project_id=112&issue_name=5
Oooooooooo, Harper baby. Say my name! Say my name!
Débat des chefs!
Dernier affrontement de la campagne!
Les chefs des quatre grands partis fédéraux croiseront le fer en français, ce soir, pour la dernière fois avant le scrutin du 23 janvier.
Debate Night.
Prepare yourself to writhe and squirm with embarrassment, because we need to be reminded about why we have nothing but contempt for the whole lot. (that's the healthy attitude)
I'll add my prediction that Martin will campaign against George Bush. If he can inspire some more pissy little lectures from U.S. Ambassador David Wilkins, things will look up for him. (we know we're being manipulated, but still, we love that sort of thing)
A slightly twee, but none the less amusing, article, about two geriatric Italians arguing whether Jesus existed or not (a current lawsuit in the Italian courts.)
And my other spiritual query today: Why can't the Dalai Lama make a choice?
Whenever election time pollsters call me I swear at them before I hang up (also do that to friends and clients, it's a general policy of mine), but according to recent polls, it's starting to look like Harper's natural down-home charm is working on more voters. (and no, this isn't a call for strategic voting)
The fact that no one is hearing a peep out of any other conservatives or their support organizations seems to help. (no gay bashing, no stomping on Quebec flags, no chaining themselves to abortion clinics, it's like they've all been tied up and locked in some basement, with promises that they'll be released once there is a conservative government)
Back in mid December, this wee bit of obsequious ankle licking, from a 1997 speech to the Council for National Policy, an American think tank, rose up to bite him in the butt, but Harper's pals assured us that he was really just doing a parody himself, like a performance art thingy ...really.