by Sean Orr | Pamela Martin joins Christy Clark team. Oh dear god, she’s going to fucking win.
Local restaurants on the ropes. I know Andrew already posted about Corner Suite, but this echoes what I’ve been screaming about for nearly a decade. We can barely support local, independent media; our artists have to get recognized in Berlin or New York to be taken seriously; our musicians are all over Pitchfork but nobody knows about them at home; and artist-run galleries are on the run. The HST and new drunk driving rules are just extra nails in case our already sufficiently buried culture coffin requires more…
Why? Because we’ve been invaded by condo-dwelling, Generation X, lotus eating urban neophytes who would “rather watch TV” and dine in chain restaurants than experience their own city.
But wait! Verily and forsooth there is a beacon of hope! East Van sheds its bad rep and emerges as Vancouver’s cultural heart. Finally! I mean, I’m so sick of going to all these awesome art shows in the West End. I’m so sick of having to trudge all the way over to Point Grey to catch my favourite bands. And what’s with Shaughnessy hogging all the studio space? Or, as Ken Lum puts it, “East Van was always the cultural heart of the city”.
Tweet of the day: “TSN has a camera at 24 Sussex to show reactions in the gold medal game. There MUST be an election imminent”.
Oh, and about that game, Stay humble, Canada. Stay humble.
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Making the “new drunk driving rules/coffin” connection is classy, verrrrrry classy.
Knowing Sean, that was wholly unintended. You made the connection. 😉
Good read Sean. Thanks.
From the cultural heart of the city,
Jen
go things you keep your record of little or know success clean, and you can continue your record with this one. your carbon paper reading is stationary remains the posts of a generation again lost in paste. you write clean but you laugh wordy. mirror mirror on ken lums wall what rails hast your host inhaled
what the fuck? are you a spam bot on your days off?
“For the young, the Lotos in Vancouver is represented, on the one hand, by the proverbial “sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll”, and on the other hand, by Tennyson’s description of watching “the crisping ripples on the beach”. There is also, in common with youth elsewhere, something of a worship of “pagan” body art. ”
BARF. The extended metaphor runs pretty thin. It’s like the author built a box, overstuffed it, and is now sitting on the lid, trying to get it to shut.
Convenient thoughts dull the jagged truth.
the very thin and the worm that preys, your words are not even that, electric ? hardly …. a good solar flare would clean your slate.
Yo Matt ” SkippY”Chambers;
“Convenient thoughts dull the jagged truth.” truth be that your name returns me to that summer of 86 at the Austin Pub on Granville, Marilyn Chambers in the house and on the stage truth is just like peanut butter, spreading easy. Thanks for the reminiscing.
Jagged truth. what dost thou know of truth? bus pass and an Iphone make one a jury?
Was just thinking the other day I’d like to increase my patronage at locally owned smaller restaurants so I cracked out the Van Magazine Eating & Drinking Guide 2011 I received for Christmas. Settled in to check out their ‘Dining for Dummies’ flowchart and got to Pleasure > Family > Kids and read “Stay Home. Please.” Very helpful.
It would seem at least some people think the local restaurant business can do just fine without having families as paying customers – perhaps that attitude is part of the decline in patronage, along with “condo-dwelling, Generation X, lotus eating urban neophytes” of course!
no guts and pure hatred of individuality are the scribes qualities, looking to the abyss and the abyss also looks into you. we have your # and it is ZERO.
Good news night,
Godzilla 2012 Has A Director
And it’s Monsters director Gareth Edwards. ! Sleep well in East Van HELL Scotty buoy,
One Year Till The Beast of all Beast’s will crush, your green manalishi like a grape under his massive scaled pes!
Shaun, restaurants are boring places for children, don’t take your children to a restaurant. Kids don’t want to sit in one place having quiet conversation for two hours.
Unless you want to subject your kids to painfully strict upbringing like myself (I am very well behaved) then hire a babysitter or stay home, please.
No seriously how does that guy talk like that? Godzilla? He sounds like he’s going to kill me.
sounds like a trip to portland is due for U.
The best place for a sheep (or as the spanish say “gregario”) to hide is deep within a flock, birds of a feather ain’t made of leather
http://www.ifc.com/videos/portlandia-portland-dream-of-the-90s.php
that video could be commercialdrive-ia
so funny
as a recovered addict I am so through with the east van junkier than thou attitudes,
small town small mind small dick
Sean’s work definitely looks like the work of an auteur, but not just a rebel kind, but a mature mind, someone well on his way to become a real master of the medium: already he affords to be audacious, or flexible, every which way to fulfill demands posed by his art. This audacious flexibility in turn provides the auteur opportunity to comment, in his fashion, if not alter the rules of the genre that he is seen, here as well, rebelling against and compromising within.
trabour, on a tight rope? more likely a skytrain from king george…… the rail is the medium and the medium is funneling “manada de sustantivo” onto the drive.
Stop talking like that. You’re freaking me out a little bit.
talking?…. now who is getting their flickr in a bunch, its called righting…..