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Other places I live: flickr :::::: facebook :::::: twitter :::::: jesus monkey pants in space :::::: sinister bedfellows: an anthology | |
November 2009
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Reposted from Sean: The definition of love. Tags: local, love, news |
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Vancouver: Friday Saturday Monday Seattle: Friday Saturday Tags: events, seattle, vancouver Current Music: beige - one for you |
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His smile crackles, a semi permanent halo. I watch him from the window as he jauntily walks to work, fizzing with the knowledge that I am lucky, so lucky, to have him in my life. As he turns to wave, vanishing behind a building, I smile back, and mock groom the fluffy ears of our shared white monster hat. I love him so much in this moment, as I am sure he loves me, and with that thought, he turns, pouncing from behind the corner with his hands up like paws, trying to surprise me, as if his backpack hadn't been poking past the bricks as he hid, the feet of a child who hasn't quite grasped the intricacies of being unseen. Hundreds of free animated films now available through National Film Board's new iPhone app. -::- We're going to Montreal soon, for Michel's wedding to a very clever woman I'm not sure I've met and to visit with Lung and Christine and Dee. I've hit that place in my travel plans where the imminent departure date has begun to make me nervous. Do we know where we're staying? Where we're going? Does everyone know when we get there? Daft concerns, the sort of fretting that helps no one. If I don't know yet, I soon shall, so put a lid on it, will you brain? It's not a panic so much as a very low grade adrenaline hum, as my subcutaneous tissue tenses in anticipation, as if I'm about to run in a race, pounding the pavement to music playing slightly too loud but just under the edge of my hearing. Tags: montreal, tony, travel |
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The Tiger Lillies are playing at the Moore this Friday. Tony and I are going. It's their twentieth anniversary tour, it's going to be amazing. Current Music: tiger lillies - you're going to hell |
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 It was our six month anniversary this past weekend, so we went to Teatro ZinZanni, the dinner theater circus we went to on our very first date, as part of our glorious Halloween. Teatro ZinZanni celebrated with us, in turn, by signing us up for their costume contest, where we won third place! I'd never been in a costume contest before, so I was nervous, but it was ridiculously fun, and we won silly Teatro ZinZombie t-shirts. Plus, as a bonus, we were informed after that we were the number one staff pick! We're still thrilled. What better way to start an evening? What was your costume(s)? Post pictures! Tags: anniversary, awesome, costumes, hallowe'en Current Music: pandora.com: show patrol - chocolate |
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 Song of Birth: The 3 Magi, Oil on wood, 30″ x 28″, by San Fransisco painter Isabel Samaras. Tags: art, hallowe'en |
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I found out second hand, when you cheated on the girl you were fucking behind my back. She came to me, crying, and asked what she had done wrong. She didn't know that we lived together, that you and I spelled a mutual m-i-n-e. All she knew was that I was her friend. I considered the satisfaction of throwing your things out the window then, the meticulous movie moment of exploding chaos, socks spiraling to the street, books flapping their pages like miraculous paper birds attempting futile flight. I had your childhood pictures and birthday cards from your sister. Your special keepsakes in a box you had brought with you all the way from Australia, all the way from when you were born. Perhaps it would be raining, when I did this Hollywood thing, this burst of scripted anger. Even in August, it rains here a lot. Your letters would get wet and the ink run in the gutters. Your jeans would soak through and become too heavy to carry. Enough water and you would have nothing left with to remember your mother. I thought about these things, and the mess, and the shouting, wondering if it would be satisfying, if I would feel absolved from your crime, and I whispered a statement to the empty room, claiming it, before saying it to her, and somehow, to you, rich with disappointment, I am sorry. And now, once more, a drawer. What's inside? This time I do not know. Clothes, a toothbrush perhaps. It is a mystery contained, hard-edged. A simple pull on the handle and the secret is out, but I do not want to look. The idea makes me flinch. It is terrible how small I am in your absence. I do not wish to be reminded, nor read again the topography of your things. Tags: michael, relationships, the hanged moon Current Music: kings of leon - closer |
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-::- Juan's been working overtime putting together a luscious Hallowe'en countdown series for The Secret Knots entitled The Brides of Dracula, that each showcasing a tiny short story about one of the mysterious women in question. Part I: Elena the Seer and Part II: Stana the Beautiful are now up, with Part III to come soon. Working on them has been really special, as hammering the language dents out of the scripts has been one of the creative highlights of my week, and I hope people like them enough to leave some positive reviews and tell their friends. They're really quite pretty, and as a bonus, Juan's posted a haunting little four panel he created several years ago, simply titled Vampire. Go see! Tags: hallowe'en, the secret knots |
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Ray and I are going to Ravishing Beasts this evening, the taxidermy exhibit curated by Rachel Poliquin at the Vancouver Museum, tucked away under the Planetarium. (Ravishing Beasts runs until February 28th, 2010.) I was meant to go to the opening night with Fitz, but missed it. My own mistake, and one that's still bothering me. Perhaps tonight I will excise my feelings of failure in the glassy eyed embrace of a room sweetly full of stuffed meat. Tags: events, taxidermy, vancouver |
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YouTube comment or e.e. cummings? -::- Spent the evening dying my hair and hanging about in Eliza's SWEATSHOP again as she worked to fundraise for her friend Lorraine, who recently fractured her back. Eight hours painting, by the end. Some bloody nice work. Nice, too, to spend time with people while stuck at home, (one of which was her father, Rick), chatting about late sixties sci-fi and introducing people to odd cultural treasures, like sexually charged religious sculpture, the Brick Testament, (now up to Revelation!), and tentacle rape soda. Today I'm working from home, signed in to the help-desk, sewing the last sequins onto my hallowe'en bustier, and systematically going through my camera cards with PhotoRec, an open source data recovery program, rescuing photographs that have been locked away for far, far too long. Eye-strain and headaches aside, I'm eager to go through them, as I expect to find all sorts of treasure. Already I've found a forgotten batch from California, and the silly pictures from when Beth bleached my hair. Hopefully, soon, I'll come across the photos I took a few weekends ago at the Seattle butterfly house, which captivated me utterly, so amazing it was to be so close to such delicate beings. FOR SCIENCE! High-Speed 'Other' Internet Goes Global, Space Sex! Astronauts rule out the Missionary Position. Tags: friends, internet, science |
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Contrast When he lays down with me, it is as if my flesh lightens, I become milk spilled against the shaded tan of his nutshell skin, we are so distinct. I feel drawn to our differences, how his muscles are shaped dissimilar from mine. The softness of my body, the taut, fragile corners of his. Sometimes I will wake when he sleeps and simply admire him, this curious and perpetually buoyant creature with the temerity to fall in love. We are so full of possibility, I can see it like maps on the inside of my eyes. Disparity He is slow to reply when we are sad, our bodies curled heavily together, depressed letters thrown to the bed in a mess. I do not react well to silence, not while asleep at night, not when we speak. His pause, the length of fifteen breaths, disrupts my communication, sends me casting nets, discarding what I started with, trawling the ocean of our alphabet for a topic, any topic, that will be worthy of response, anything to delay my please talk to me. Somewhere in the gaps when he's not speaking, there must be something to say. Tags: love, relationships, tony |
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The on-site demo is free, the whole game is $14. Previously, previously. Tags: games |
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 Oh My Deer, by Arizona-based illustrator Chiara Bautista aka Milk. (More images here.) Tags: art, hallowe'en |
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I'm driving down with Matthew and Sarah tonight to Seattle and plan to sew raw red sequins onto my white hallowe'en bustier all the way. We're going to The Chapel tonight, a church converted into a night club, to dance under fire-spinners. Good times. For those sticking around in Vancouver, there's also fun things to do: Friday, October 23rd: 7 - 10pm Saturday, October 24th: 7 - 10pm Sunday, October 25th: 2 - 5 pm At the Russian Hall (600 Campbell Avenue), sliding scale. Cash only at the door please. The Haunted Hall can be entered at any time during the above slots. During a tour of the Haunted Russian Hall, subjects will be subjected to a variety of frightening ordeals to awaken their deepest phobias. Studies will be conducted and trepidations will be calculated on a demographic map of the city. A panel of Child Psychologists (aged 8 through 14) will counsel you through a debriefing session at the end of your journey through fear. All ages welcome. Costumes are a plus. Friday, October 23rd: Harm's Road and The Creaking Planks compete for the title of Most Delightfully Ridiculous! Don't relax your standards of ridiculousness for a moment! DEMAND that they deliver, and they SHALL!! Bonus points for COSTUMES! Come early for the Costume Contest! There will be kooky prizes and adoration for the winners! Tickets $10 at the door at The Rickshaw Theatre: 254 E Hastings at Main. Friday, October 23rd: midnight! The Rio Theatre (1660 East Broadway at Commercial Drive Broadway Skytrain) & Black Dog Video present a Friday Midnight Musical Double Bill of HEDWIG & THE ANGRY INCH and VELVET GOLDMINE. Dress in costume and win fabulous prizes! Hosted by Burgundy Brixx! Admission is $10 ($8 in costume). Friday, October 23rd & Saturday, October 24th: Doors 8pm - Show 9pm. If you’re a fan of Burlesque, horror, sexploitation, b-movies or just plain fun you'll love this feature production from Screaming Chicken Theatrical Society. The eighteen member, all star cast will make you squirm in your seats. At the WISE Hall - 1882 Adanac St. - just off Commercial Drive. Tix $25, on-line, from select retailers and at the door. Friday, October 23rd: Doors at 7:30, show at 8pm. Saturday, October 24th: Doors at 2:30 pm and Show at 3:00 pm. Doors at 7:30, show at 8pm. (Saturday's showings will present all six plays in the festival. All other showings will present four.) Spectral Theatre Society and the UBC Players are excited to announce their co-production of “Sex and Death: Six Short Plays by Don Nigro”. Creepy, thrilling and sexy shorts by one of America’s premier playwrights, co-presented by Vancouver's premier creepy, thrilling and sexy theatre society! Subject matter may not be suitable for all ages. Seating is limited so be sure to purchase your tickets ahead of time. Friday, October 23rd - November 14th: 8 pm Blood, guts, gore, and laughter! Evil Dead: The Musical, the smash hit show from Toronto, New York and Calgary has all the makings to be this decade’s Rocky Horror Show. Based on the wildly popular cult movie series (Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn, Army of Darkness) five vacationing college students looking for fun break into a secluded cabin in the woods. There they discover instead The Necronomicon, an ancient flesh-bound book containing blood-inked spells with the power to summon the demons of Candar. It’s up to Ash, the meek S-mart Housewares employee, to fight off the demons any way he can. Or…he’ll be dead by dawn. (All to song and dance!) But dear audiences, BEWARE! If you sit too close to the stage, in the area we like to call: “The SPLATTER ZONE,” you are bound to leave the theatre covered in blood. Ask for the Splatter Zone by name when you book your tickets! Tickets, (including Splatter Zone Tickets), start at $25, available at all Ticketmaster outlets, online at www.ticketmaster.ca or call 604.280.4444. SHOOTING: Friday October 23 - 7:00pm - Sunday October 25 - 7:00pm SCREENING: Wednesday October 28 - 8:00pm at the Anza Club (3 W. 8th, Vancouver) The people who brought you Vancouver's CINEMUERTE FILM FESTIVAL (1999-2005) are getting set to bring you the 6th annual BloodShots 48-Hour Horror Filmmaking Contest - 25 Teams of filmmakers all fighting against the clock to make the best horror film they possibly can. There will be celebrity judges, fabulous prizes and several tons of fake blood! At 7:00pm on Friday October 23, registered participants are given envelopes containing a horror subgenre (in past years this has included haunted house, giallo, backwoods horror, necrophilia film and more!), a weapon, a prop and a line of dialogue. They then have 48 hours to return their finished 2-7 minute film on DVD! Prize for Best Hallowe'en Costume at Screening. Saturday, October 24th: 9 pm Due to overwhelming demand, Sin City presents the kinkiest PRE-HALLOWEEN party in the city, warming up for the main event : SIN CITY FETISH HALLOWEEN on Nov 1 at Celebrities! We'll be presenting a special Halloween-themed photo booth at this party, so make sure and get some saucy photos to mark the occasion! Absolutely no streetwear or regular daywear! As always, we're always on the lookout for people to showcase their awesome outfits and ideas, and any fetish outfit as per the dress code outlined in the main group listing will do - and will be absolutely appreciated! Special pass for 3 off cover. Otherwise, it's $12. Saturday, October 24th: 7:00 - 10:30 pm The Public Dreams Society, that has historically put on The Parade of Lost Souls annually, on the Saturday prior to Halloween, is not hosting it this year. instead, it's up the community as a group of free citizens to make it happen! Dress in costume! Make music! There will be fire performances at the tennis court. Grandview Park, Commercial Drive. Tags: events, hallowe'en, vancouver Current Music: the american astronaut - the girl that makes you smile |
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Names Of the Dead: Every year, more than 44,000 Americans die simply because have no health insurance. A simple yet spooky and powerful little website, Names Of the Dead is collecting precisely what it says, the names, ages, and hometowns of everyone who's died from being unable to afford healthcare. They scroll in a list on the left of the screen, white on black and gray, and it seems the names are almost endless, as every time you refresh, new names have been added. I just signed Congressman Alan Grayson's petition to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid demanding he move the Senate forward and pass health care reform now. I hope you'll sign too. Tags: activism, politics, reaction, usa |
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Re-posted from Karen, who I cannot thank enough for reminding me of these kids: The PS22 Chorus has turned in many amazing performances, but my favorite may be this one, from their very first rehearsal of a song I love, Björk's "Jóga." Tags: music, youtube |
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 Friend-family Cole, who I love very much, has been having a damned hard time surfing the warm industry this year. In spite of desperately trying to find income, job hunting like mad, and generally being as responsible as a human can, she's reached the point where she has no more unemployment benefits, no job, and very little in the kitchen, an untenable situation, one she's helped me rise from in the past.  I will print photos from my flickr account at your discretion, do headshots and portraits, write poems for you, make mixed tapes for you, scrub your kitchen floor, or make you a delicious vegan dinner, if you can help me pay my rent and student loans off. Here is her Etsy, where my favourite is her Sponsor a Roll of Film program. If you're feeling more direct, her Paypal address is inktea at gmail.com. Please help if you can! Tags: family, fragility, friends |
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This video features Machine With Wishbone, a kinetic sculpture created by American artist Arthur Ganson. (His TED Talk). Tags: art, hallowe'en, video |
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 Elena the Seer, the first update in Brides Of Dracula, a Secret Knots countdown to Halloween series. --::-- I was pulled into a conversation recently regarding first impressions, social interaction and all manner of related sundry, and it came out that I was being asked for basic rules of conduct. Oddly, I had some. Here's what spilled: Don't lie. Don't cheat. Don't steal. Never agree to be in a relationship kept secret. Never stay for love alone or if the other is in it purely for sport. It might not feel like it, but there are six billion people on this planet and you are compatible with a fair chunk of them, so don't lose hope if it doesn't work out. Fib if you must, on the level of secret surprise birthday parties or spending the morning in bed with your lover but telling your boss you're sick, but nothing more important should ever be anything but truth. In games, in relationships, any time you are responsible for someone else, you had better damned well be responsible for them, and make sure you take care of them as well or better as you care for yourself. Campground rules, ever and always, making sure everyone is better when you leave them then when you found them, always and ever, amen. There was some other blather, (if you're showing yourself as other than you are to make a good first impression, then don't expect people to stick around later when you reveal yourself to be other than you presented, not to worry so much about comparing yourself to other people, because that's precisely what those other people are doing too), all basics, but new to my friend, which got me thinking again about what other people take for granted that I don't know yet. It was years before I discovered the best way to brush my hair is in the shower with conditioner, but as soon as I had the revelation, and explained it, it seemed it was an accidental secret, everyone else just assumed I knew. So, in the interest of education, amusement, and conversation, what're yours? |
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via Ellen Datlow: A court case brought against Jackson Memorial Hospital in Florida for denying a dying woman's same sex partner and their children access to her in the hospital has found for the hospital. Tags: activism, politics, sexuality |
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--::-- I was finding over the weekend that my reflexology socks have begun falling down. Not to the point of continual adjustment, but enough that I decided it's time to invest in another quaint pair of sock garters, (my last ones having gone to the great fuzzy sock drawer in the sky several years ago). Foolishly, I decided my best course of action would be to hit up SockDreams, the most thorough stockings site on the planet. Did I get in and get out, immediately leaving with what I went in for? No, frankly, I did not. High caliber words like angora, silk, lace, chenille, and shimmer, small fantasies, such words, every one, dismantled my conviction and made me stay. Charcoal, dirty olive, raspberry and trembling dark plum... I barely escaped alive. Every category silently tore at me, promising comfort, confidence, femininity, warmth, cleverness, flirtatiousness or sex, laying out possibilities like tarot cards, a future with the top of my naked thigh slyly being touched under a table, a moment of enjoying someone watch me as I slowly roll them on, or perhaps only random conversation at some unknown bus-stop, "I've always liked teal.", meeting, then, my future best friend. Tabs were being opened, spreading across the screen like bleeding, unrestricted stanzas of flashy curiosity equaling, I'm certain, a similarly outrageous price-tag. I had to take action. Judiciously picking my way through the impossible, I first discarded the duplicates and most banal, anything that could be bought later, that never goes out of stock, then shaving at the edges more carefully, manipulating facts, rationalizing bits and pieces away until I was left with only the most unique, red in tooth and talon, and fun. In the end, however, I couldn't manage to cut it down past a final batch of twelve. Some colourful tights for the upcoming winter, a pair of expensive, breathy thigh highs, some knee highs, a set of microfiber arm warmers, a pair of slate gray socks printed with birds on a wire, and a pair of criss-cross button fingerless gloves. I think, though I'm not precisely sure, they should arrive at my home in Seattle tomorrow. So, as it's about to be a bit more imperative: Anywhere know an equally good place to get skirts? Tags: hallowe'en, shopping, stockings |
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Bethalynne, lucky partner to my clever internet cousin Myke, has updated her website, "All freshened up pretty for Halloween" with a new collection of artwork. Go check it out! Not only is she brave and beautiful, she's wicked talented too:    www.bethalynnebajema.com Bonus! Her chock-a-block full of wonder Etsy shop where you can admire her art then take it home. Unbelievable, right? Right. Go get some here: Etta Diem Tags: art, family, friends, hallowe'en Current Music: imogyn heap - goodnight and go
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