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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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Sally's animation for a project we are working on. ...due soon.
Mail from Julie Voyce:
Sunday - Courtesy of Chris Ashley: Only Eleven of the Many Songs I Can't Get Out of My Head in 2010 and Now You Can't In 2011
The Archies - Sugar, Sugar
Hot Chocolate - You Sexy Thing
Beastie Boys - Sabotage
Monkees - Daydream Believer
Neil Young - Hitchhiker
Beatles - Paperback Writer
Foundations - Build me up Buttercup
Otis Redding: That's How Strong My Love Is
Hank Williams - Move it on Over
Paul Revere and The Raiders - Kicks
The Delfonics - Didn't I Blow Your Mind This Time
A brief list from Lorna Mills
1. AA Bronson for fighting the good fight and repeatedly requesting the removal of his magnificent and heartbreaking piece, "Felix, June 5, 1994", from the "Hide/Seek" exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, until such time as the David Wojnarowicz video is reinstated in its full unedited version. He has also requested that Marc Mayer, head of the National Gallery of Canada honour his moral rights by formally requesting the removal of his piece. (the piece is on loan from the National Gallery's permanent collection)
From an article in the Globe & Mail:
In an interview with The Globe and Mail Friday, Mr. Mayer said he hoped, “informally, unofficially ... they do actually withdraw the work” of their own volition.” “I do understand AA Bronson’s position. I share his discouragement. I don’t necessarily share his strategy.” From an official professional and institutional standpoint, though, these are not “the circumstances that would make me wish to enact the kill clause we always have in these agreements. ... I don’t want the free exchange of art between public institutions be politicized in this way.”
(It's a strategy that wouldn't pay off for any Gallery Director's future career ambitions.)
For a Q podcast of an interview with AA (scroll down to the Dec 23rd edtion of Q)
2. Bravo's Work of Art
Just kidding, it sucked giant donkey dicks, and I'll watch the next season, but it did inspire a brilliant collection of animated GIFs by Wesley Miller
3. Katie Bethune-Leamen's Dazzle Shizzle at MKG 127
Gouzenko Hoods #2, #8 and #3 (It’s A Thing Covered By A Thing That Thereby Becomes Another Thing)
4. Some art websites I started looking at regularly this year:
http://pietmondriaan.com/, http://arielrebelshauntedgrafenbergspot.tumblr.com/ and http://yrmomma.tumblr.com/
5. I want this painting by Joseph Hughes showing right now at Chris Ashley's project space, Some Walls
Joseph Hughes: 2004-D I (JENKINS GREEN) 2004 Acrylic on paper, 12 x 11 in 30.5 x 28 cm
6. OXYCODONE!!!!!! and British Nerd TV
I got a bit sick at the end of October, but who cares because: OXYCODONE!!!!!!OXYCODONE!!!!!!OXYCODONE!!!!!!. I was so very very happy for a while and devoted my days to watching history documentaries like Nazi Collaborators, a six part series called Apocalypse.The Second World War, At Home with the Georgians, Edwardian Farm and Wartime Secrets with Harry Harris .
OXYCODONE!!!!!!
| Sandra Rechico's TOP EIGHT (she got distracted) In no particular order  Atsuko Tanaka Mind and Matter: Alternative Abstractions, 1940s to Now MOMA A great show in the gallery near the bathroom and café. When I asked about a catalogue they said no, but they would be releasing the book below soon (because of course making a catalogue from a show with only women in it isn’t worth it But making a catalogue where you include ALL of them means you needn’t do it again for some time) sheesh Modern Women: Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art Edited by Cornelia Butler and Alexandra Schwartz  Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present MOMA makes up for how cranky I was with the abovementioned no catloguer 
Shary Boyle AGO beautiful  Arnaud Maggs Susan Hobbs these are funny, smart and beautiful  David Hoffos MOCCA and the NGC I liked the NGC install better, but either way, it was fantastic  Moshe Safdie NGC the models are worth the price of admission [some images of models here]   Natalie Purschwitz’s Makeshift Project Vancouver she made all of her own clothes for one year and documented it. The year ended in 2010  Art School (dismissed) The decommissioned Shaw Street School, Toronto All right, self-serving, I was in it, but so were scads of others and there wasn’t one bad piece in it. Hats off to Heather Nichol for organizing it. |