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hoorah, hoorah, we're going to paint it black!
Dec. 19th, 2008
09:21 am
Patty and I made the trek with Jackson to Minneapolis on Monday - it was my first time there, it kind of reminds of Winnipeg, and there was much mutual amusement over accents. We played a show at the Medusa, aside from some hiccups with gear, I think it turned out pretty well, as far as a first international show/first real paying gig (we were able to buy breakfast and a couple of tanks of gas with our earnings!) for Kronstadt 21, I was pretty happy.
Nat and I leave for a massive holiday road trip tomorrow morning - the route is something like this:
Winnipeg, stop over in Saskatchewan to drop off Corine, Woking AB to see my family and have xmas, burns lake BC to visit Donna and celebrate new years, Black Diamond AB to spend a day with my nana and back to winnipeg to start a new job.
Sep. 14th, 2008
May. 25th, 2008
02:00 pm
Utah Phillips died in his sleep the evening of May 23rd, 2008.
I'm a little sad, I only met him a couple of times, and I know that he's not the be all and end all of the IWW, but I think he's been an important part of it for so long and now he's gone.
May. 12th, 2008
08:56 pm - Greatest day ever... well at least in a long time.
Sunday was such a good day i will sum it up with:
and these
and this
May. 8th, 2008
08:39 am - Battleship Potemkin with a live score.
this will be the last one for a while.
Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin
Featuring a live, newly composed score by Garth Hardy
Wednesday, May 14, 7PM @ The Park Theatre - 698 Osbourne St
Admission: $7.00
Eisenstein's classic film portrayal of the 1905 Potemkin Uprising shown on the big screen with a new soundtrack!
Potemkin is a film captures the revolutionary spirit, gives the already committed cause for celebration, and the unconverted a reason to take to the streets. It roars against the senseless injustices imposed on workers and peasants by Russia's decadent czarist regime.
In keeping with Eisenstein's wish that the score be constantly rewritten in order to retain its relevance to each new generation, Winnipeg sound artist Garth Hardy will provide an improvised, live musical accompaniment.
May. 1st, 2008
Apr. 28th, 2008
10:53 pm - for the longest time
livejournal i haven't forsaken you, i'm just busy.
The live score for sunrise went really well, or at least I felt pretty good about it - the first night I missed two cues, but nobody seemed to notice, the second night went off without a hitch. The film kind of tore me in two, it's super sketchy content wise, but it's also really really beautiful.
Anyway, cinematheque did pretty well on the door, and the programming is excited about me doing another one sometime next year. I'm thinking of using a prepared piano...
speaking of which:
I finally got it!
Jack's parents were up from minnie and his dad happened to have his tuner's tools on him and did a quick fix on it. I'm so excited.
And I also got a fancy ukulele with an electric pickup:
kla and i just played a whole bunch and wrote two songs, it was awesome.
And my seedlings are fast getting out of control!
and Nat is on an icebreaker in the Beaufort Sea and i miss her.
and i'm sleep deprived and am going to bed.
and May Day is right around the corner!
Apr. 15th, 2008
01:06 pm - whatever happened to the red army chorus?
courtesy of sissy:
Apr. 14th, 2008
03:46 pm - ABC Brunch!
April 27th, at the Mondragon, 10 bucks. Your purchase of waffles will help us get the books to prisoners program off the ground.
Apr. 6th, 2008
02:32 pm - Murnau's Sunrise, with a new score by me.
Fri. & Sat./ April 25 & 26 - 7:00 PM
SUNRISE A SONG OF TWO HUMANS
(1927) By F.W. Murnau
Starring Janet Gaynor, George O’Brien
SILENT WITH LIVE MUSIC PERFORMANCE BY GARTH HARDY
Tickets $ 12 gen / $10 student/senior / $8 members
(including capital surcharge)
Cultural worker and musician GARTH HARDY, who studied with Rolf Boon, Ian Crutchley and Michael Matthews last played at The Cinematheque in a remarkable performance to accompany the silent classic AELITA QUEEN OF MARS. He has also been a member of Industrial Workers of the World since 1998. He returns to play along side what the French bible of cinema, Cahiers du Cinema regards as “the single greatest masterwork in the history of cinema, the 1927 classic SUNRISE.
SUNRISE is on many critics lists as one of the 100 greatest films ever made. The film features “breathtaking camera work…Between THE BIRTH OF A NATION and CITIZEN KANE there is no better example of visual storytelling. A young farm couple (Janet Gaynor, George O’Brien) are happy until a temptress from the city ( Margaret Livingston) bedevils O’Brien. She persuades him to drown Gaynor and run away with her to the city. At the last moment O’Brien comes to her senses, but Gaynor is heartbroken about what her husband planned to do to her. She flees but he catches up with her and there is a renewal of love between the two. “ The scene in which Livingston seduces O’Brien under a full moon in the swamps featuring Murnau’s most audacious visuals – is among the most erotically intense liaisons in cinema history.” (Danny Peary)
Here's a clip with more or less what I'm planning:
Apr. 4th, 2008
11:09 am - ...and i don't know why...
11:07 am - yabadabadoo!
'Flintstones' car case thrown out of court
(from cbc.ca)
A man who was facing charges for driving a pedal car won a victory in a Toronto courtroom on Thursday.
Trevor Baldwin was pulled over on a Toronto street last October for operating an unsafe vehicle on Queen Street West.
The Buick he was driving looked more like a car from The Flintstones animated television show, in which the driver and passengers use their feet to propel the vehicle.
Artist Michel de Broin built the so-called shared propulsion vehicle to make a point about gas consumption.
The hollowed-out car has no engine or transmission and uses candles instead of headlights. It does, however, have hand brakes.
The car, which has a top speed of 15 kilometres an hour, requires all four occupants to pedal and work together — a sharp contrast to the solitary, effortless experience of a typical car.
As the Crown prosecutor tried to make his case Thursday, the court erupted in laughter, and the charges were thrown out.
Baldwin's legal representative, Terry Fox, said the arresting officer never should have pulled the car over.
"Where's the evidence it was illegal? There was no objective standard here. Just his opinion is what it was, and that's not good enough. It's speculation he based it on," Fox said outside court.
Baldwin said he was happy with the decision. And what did he want to do after leaving court?
"I'm thinking its a really nice day, so we might go for a drive," he said.
That's exactly what Baldwin did. He grabbed three friends, pulled the car out of storage and took it for a spin.
"We didn't think there was a problem with, uh, pedaling a car..."
Mar. 17th, 2008
03:52 pm - the telling takes me home.
going to grande prairie for a week.
bye bye.
Feb. 29th, 2008
03:28 pm
Grant to write.
Show to practice for.
House to vacuum.
and the day is gone and i missed going to the court house for the last day (this time around?) of the cmass trial.
sigh.
Feb. 19th, 2008
08:26 pm - canjo.
there are about seventeen different versions of peg and awl, this is the one i know, feels like a mountain minor or some sorta modal dealie. still wrestling with a fret board that has no frets. and a voice that can't be tuned.
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...and i don't like courthouses. ever. just watching the proceedings is dreadful.
Feb. 4th, 2008
01:48 pm - a sunrise away from thirty.
Best books of my twenty ninth year:
My most highly recommended read - anne mcclintock ties together race, class, gender and sexuality in a cogent and page turning way that has really impacted my thinking. thanks to kendra for suggesting it to me.
Treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity! A fantastic collection of essays and calls to anti-racist action.
Sloppily written and down right ridiculous at times, this follow up to The Taqwacores is also a fairly entertaining anecdotal history of Islam in American from the point of view of a trashy Irish American convert to it.
My dad gave me a copy of Truman Nelson's "The Surveyor" last year for my birthday. It's a fictional account of John Brown's years in Kansas, long out of print, it had been sitting on his bookshelf for years. It's a great book, Nelson, who died in 1987, was a high school drop out who, according to his biographer, William Schafer, "used the Lynn and Boston libraries as his university, reading, thinking, and writing on his few days off work." Born in Lynn, Massachusetts in 1911, Nelson worked in the local General Electric factory six days a week until he was 40, becoming chief shop steward in the union there.
It's a really good book - I need to read more fiction. sigh.
( And music that i can't stop listening to: )
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