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We got there armed with a six pack and video cameras. The girls were about to start playing Their songs are short and powerful, punk rrrriot grrrls style. Two guitars a bass and drums plus the singer conforms this quintet of girls.
Listen to the podcast of Thunderbird Radio Hell with Joyce Collingwood here
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It is noon and I am drinking beer in a market in Manchester. I am also eating chilli con carne at Enrique´s Burrito stand, which is a bad idea because I will probably be farting all the journey. My bus leaves in a couple of hours, 21 hours to Amsterdam. I have a joint and my luggage and I am ready to rock and roll.
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Eyjafjallajokull!
Can you say Eyjafjallajokull? You better because now it has become part of history. The Icelandic volcano grounded thousands of airplanes and shut down airports across Europe. But I survived the volcanic eruption, eventhough I was in Manchester. One of the world´s capital of music, better known as Madchester, the cradle of sounds like Joy Division, Happy Mondays, Inspiral Carpets, Stone Roses, Oasis, among others. The volcano spat ash and glass harmful for the planes, it can get inside and kill the engine plummeting the passangers to a certain death. …
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Fate of the mascots.
What happened to the mascots of an important sporting event that took place in Vancouver during the month of February?
Sumi, the orca, went to New Foundland for a holiday to spend some of its well deserved, hard earned money only to be blunderoged by a hunter that took him for a seal. Shame!
Quatchi, the sasquatch ended up in the Downtown Eastside shooting heroin after a date gone bad. He now lives in the streets and sleeps under a bridge close to Crab park. Pity!
The bear with wings …
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Other “attractions” of the night included: Get to know your neighbor by sending postcards to a stranger, free gifts by Natalie Puschwitz, performances by Hello, Blue Roses, and Kick Everything. Although these bands were not my cup of tea,Carol Sawyer and Ion Zoo definitely were. Kick Everything were a little too kitch and tried hard to be a no wave New York band, then there was the duo of Daniel Bejar from new Pornographers and Destroyer and his girlfriend Sydney Vermont and although I consider him a good songwriter we were parched and missed their performance. I didn´t think he needs our support but the bar downstairs neither, the DJ was lousy and the ambient a little dislocated so we went to the Gallery cafe where another jazzy band was playing. Much better.
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I got the information on this festival and I thought I could share it with you as it looks really cool. By the way don´t miss the next show on March 16 because Bradley is going to be presenting his new CD. If you like metal check out March 9th podcast as it features a heavy metal show with Magnus Rising as guests. Walz Draling is confirmed to play at the Railway on April 7th for a Van Music party, they will be at The Morning After Show on April 6th. Stay tune for more special guests and I will leave you with more info on this festival geared toward the youth. It is very important to have well educated kids to replace the clowns upstairs.
Vancouver actors and filmmakers are in the spotlight at the 11th Annual Reel 2 Real International Film Festival for Youth, on April 9 – 16, 2010.
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The vehicle was returned in perfect condition except for a 1 centimetre chip on the windshield caused by a stone or rock. I had an estimate done by a professional windshield repairman called Too Nice Autoglass who saw the vehicle and said the regular charge for that repair was 50 dollars, Speedy and other companies charged between 50 and 80 dollars including labour
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In Russian, cinema is called KINO and the venues kinoteatr. This country has a great history of directors and epic movies. I am no expert and I don´t want to research and write about all the Russian masters of cinema but your should consider exploring Russian cinema, from the Soviet times to the modern ones. For example, Serguei Einseistein, Andrey Tarkovski, Sergey Bondarchuk, Serguei Paradzhanov )who was Gerogian but super trippy, Jodorowski must have seen his films) and the new ones like Aleksandr Sokurov.
I haven´t explored much of films here …
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Moscow´s underground and artistic movement is thriving. I did not expect less from a metropolis this size and with the amount of culture at their disposal.
However… It seems that people were shocked when they suddenly realized they could have all the comodities of the west (for a rice of course) and the majority of them (as always and everywhere in the world) went on to consume junk. I don´t know what is wrong with people? maybe it is because we are under the influence of some powerful drug or a …
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Museums in Moscow are one of the best things that happened to humanity. The variety is great so you can spend entire days looking at artwork. From early Egiptians to contemporary art, from the traditional and orthodox forms of art to the most bizarre and experimental. This is a city of a vast culture where you can breathe history. The choices are ample and to discover Russian art is a revelation, especially to enjoy the Futurists (Mikhail Larionov, Natalia Goncharova, and Kazimir Malevich inspired by poets like Mayakovski), and the …
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The mayor of Moscow is a guy that goes by the name of Yury Luzhkov. He was first elected in 1996, reelected in 1999 and again in 2003. His name was heard before Vladimir Putin to become president but Boris Yeltsin crashed his presidential dreams.
A couple of days ago there was a gay demonstration that was banned by the mayor who has called this marches Satanic and degenerate. The OMON (Anti riot police) were there to beat up and arrest the defiant gays (All 30 of them). A couple of …
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Cops are visible everywhere. It seems like one third of the population is a police officer or a security guard. Militzia, as they are called here, go in old cars looking for the next victim. They can stop you and ask for your papers for no reason. It is their right, I guess it was inherited from the soviet era. So Russians must carry ID at all times, they have an internal passport that serves as their identification and must produce it when they are asked to. My brush with …
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Moscow reminds me of Mexico City, but in the bizarre world. Maybe you remember the cartoon of the Super friends where the archienemy of Superman Bizarro takes them to the bizarro world where everything is backwards from our world. It is pretty much how it is in Moscow. But there are a lot of similarities to the other side of the world.
Like in my hometown, you can find everything open 24 hours a day, look for the sign 24 Yaca. Like in everywhere in the world, Russians love their beer, …
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So here I am in Moscow, I have written several entries but I am still not happy with them so I will polish them more before I post them for the world to read. Moscow is very crazy and a very impressive city. Monumental is a good word to describe it. The cultural shock has been… well shocking. Starting with the language. The alphabet is based on the Cyrillic characters so you have to re wire your brain to read because some of our letter are pronounced different in this …
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Aeropuertos internacionales.
Here I am waiting for my plane to fly towards the other side of the world. The time machine has tricked us. This happened many years ago, I am only reliving it through the new travel device, like a film of your previous lives. Chapters of weridness. Memories of future.
Passports. Every human must posses one. Governments seem to rely heavily in this process of identification. We all must carry one like if we were cattle. Our freedom of transit is severely limited, our governments have established physical borders to …
