Best of 2007

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G.G. Shitface (literally)

In keeping with the theme of the previous post (that is, how shock 'art' is fucking stupid and not art at all, merely an idiotic plea for attention), here is an excerpt from an article by Christopher Hume from the Toronto Star.

"When the 24-year-old Ontario College of Art and Design student[, Thorarinn Ingi Jonsson,] placed a fake explosive device – he called it a "sculpture" – inside the main entrance of the Royal Ontario Museum last week, he confirmed something that everyone outside the art world has known for awhile [sic], namely that art has lost its power to shock. [...] Jonsson's fake bomb didn't bring down the museum, but it marked the final passing of an artistic era. What author Robert Hughes called the shock of the new has become the refrain of familiarity."

i believe in limits. infinity does not exist.

Calvin Johnson song

This is the deepest I've heard. It's posted on the website of Karl Blau's Kelp Monthly thing, where you can get a subscription to a monthly package of stuff he compiles (songs of his friends and him and other amazing things).

http://www.kelpmonthly.com/musicforkelp/EmptyCotInTheBunkhouse.mp3

17 December 2007

Yesterday one Christopher N. Hubbarde Esquire was at my apartment visiting me. In the afternoon we took a walk, heading north up Spadina and past Casa Loma to the huge crazy hill south of St. Clair. It was gleaming with snow from the weirdly bright sunlight. We trudged through the snowy slush sidewalks to get there and then explored the hill. Beside a rubbish bin we spotted two toboggan devices -- one real plastic toboggan (complete with broken brakes) and one makeshift big plastic container that had obviously been used for the same purpose -- and, since they were ostensibly abandoned, we opted to adopt the former. The hill is too crazy and steep in most places but we tried sliding down one little area and it was fun, though only Christopher did it and only once. Then we continued on our walk whilst I pulled the little toboggan along behind us. Christopher later noticed a street sign that read "Maximum 40" on the ground by the side of the road which had ostensibly broken off its post. In an unusual bout of mischievousness he picked it up and brought it along back to my apartment, though we worried about authority figures spotting us the whole way. We made it. Now there's a weird toboggan and big sign on my balcony waiting to be enjoyed.

That night Lindsay told me that someone who took down a stop sign once got charged for murder because their act removed the sign's traffic regulation function. Crazy shit. All the same, it's funny how relatively ridiculously tame our acts of questionable legality are. 

xmas mp3s from wfmu

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/12/christmas-songs.html

in honour of birth, check out these babies

^Click on the baby ^

can you find me?

Bonjour feelloow Blooggers,
Nicholas Kerr here wishing you all the great of ease in your bloggings, or blogi. I have been honored as the 15th career album. Perhaps the one day village recording will be entiled simply Career. I still dont quite understand this world of blog, but yearn to. I've written a poem to capture this fleeting moment in time: Roses are red, violets are blue, blogging is something and .... well its a work in progress.
Peace bloggers.

happy b-day big C

attempting to upload photo, 1st try

DOUBLE WHAMMY CAREER RELEASE DAY!!

CAREER'S 15TH ALBUM
ENTITLED
"NO NICK BLUES BAND"
Unearthed from the CAREER Archives!!!
Chronologically, this recording
is the first CAREER album after Nick's departure.
We release it now as a tribute to HIM!
AND BACKBONES!
LOVE YA NICK!!!!!!!!!!!!

*experimental "sendspace" link*
RIGHT HERE

as promised, "Black Ramses" by CAREER

"BLACK RAMSES"

by the band
CAREER
featuring members of
CONCONQUIDORE TRUIDORE
with special guest
JIMMY



(click image above to grab rapidshare file)

Initiation

So I guess I'm part of the 'team' now, eh? This is super awesome, I haven't been on a team since I dropped gym! Does this mean Reel Cod's gonna host my solo project!?

Every book on the shelves in Genevieve & Phil's house

http://pwelverumandsun.com/collection

ATTENTION REELCODDLERS

so, the reelcod supersession recording is nearly complete but i need song titles. it's gonna roughly be 12 songs giveortake, divided in two parts to fit on CDR. so, in keeping with the collective collaborative concept of the session, (veiled as an attempt to get more of you posting on zéé "blög") i'm asking YOU to come up with the titles. come up with whatever, you were there & you heard the "songs" i'm talking about. to keep it fair, & also in keeping with the collab, i'll punch the titles into the burroughs cut-up machine (found here) & voilà... we have song titles for each song created by all of US! leave your titles in the comments section of this entry.

also, an example of the cut-up method, everything i just said cut-up for shitz & gigglez:

need song titles. it's gonna roughly be 12 songs giveortake, keeping with the collective collaborative concept of the session, (veiled zéé "blög") i'm asking YOU to come up with the heard the "songs" i'm talking about. to keep it fair, titles into the burroughs cut-up machine (found here) & voilà... of US! leave your titles in the comments section of just said cut-up for shitz & gigglez: so, the reelcod supersession recording is nearly complete but i divided in two parts to fit on CDR. so, in as an attempt to get more of you posting on titles. come up with whatever, you were there & you & also in keeping with the collab, i'll punch the we have song titles for each song created by all this entry.

also, an example of the cut-up method, everything i

untalkative bunny

beach house

beach house - gila.mp3

seen these guys twice. second time opening for clientele. sounds like white magic with a drum machine. really great stuff. & it ain't on rapidshare, so what excuse do you have not to grab it?

Toronto Railway Company Transfers (1892)

look how beautiful toronto transit transfers were in 1892. i wonder when and why this attention to detail and elegance expired? despite how reproduction and design and everything is easier with today's technology, everything looks so aesthetically lazy and vapid. it's insulting, in fact, the way our sight is corroded with flashy graphics in advertisements and shit at all times, and now there seems to be no use for simple elegant lettering like this because everything is photographs and colour and bullshit but no subtle dignity and beauty in what i look at. if transfers looked like this i'd feel like i was riding a subway of gold.


this is from the website of Steve Munro, the famed public transit activist, http://stevemunro.ca/

mere moments ago...

Hermann Nitsch