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BOOKS

Second-Person Pathos

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YOU Comma Idiot, by Doug Harris, Goose Lane Editions

by Adam Kelly
13.09.2010

The first novel of Montreal writer and video producer Doug Harris is YOU Comma Idiot. Written in the second person, it chronicles the misadventures of Lee Goodstone, a hash-dealing Montrealer who betrays his friends while hoarding the proceeds of his illicit trade. Initially, we see him begin a relationship with Honey, his best friend Johnny’s [...]

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FILM

If It Only Had A Heart

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Inception, Various Theatres

by Adam Kelly
29.07.2010

Ok, Hollywood, you have truly conquered us: you have already captured the surreal with “time-slicing” and “bullet-time” (The Matrix); you have rendered epic fantasy mercilessly to celluloid (Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Pirates of the Caribbean); you have mastered over us with computer-generated actors (Avatar.) And with Inception, your latest blockbuster success “story,” you have [...]

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FILM

Still Raging After All These Years?

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Winnebago Man

by Adam Kelly
27.07.2010

When my friends and I first saw the profanity-laden viral video about the so-called “Winnebago Man,” we did like many enthusiasts of the clip: we watched it again, and again, and again. Jack Rebney, the forlorn spokesman in these outtakes from a 1989 Winnebago industrial video, is doing his best to contain his rage in [...]

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BOOKS

Imperial Bored Rooms

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Imperial Bedrooms, by Bret Easton Ellis, Knopf Canada

by Adam Kelly
26.07.2010

When a writer unflinchingly exposes a world they know, however dark, they are doing a service to the literary arts. Bret Easton Ellis says his first novel Less Than Zero, with its harrowing portrayal of 1980s Los Angeles rich kids and their desensitization to drugs, violence and sexual depravity, is “(not) a perfect book by [...]

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MUSIC

A Music Tri-Anglophone

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Honey Martin’s, Grumpy’s, Barfly

by Adam Kelly
21.05.2010

I’m sitting in Honey Martin’s on a Monday night. It’s just after 1 a.m. and only now has the place begun to fill up. A rock trio is hammering out solid covers of Velvet Underground and Jimi Hendrix, among others. Many musicians from the local music scene are here tonight, including Graham Playford who just [...]

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THEATRE

Unmasking Ritual Tigers

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Tucked Up in the Mountains, Gallery Ethecae

by Adam Kelly
28.04.2010

Frances Mckenzie likes to work alone. Coming from the British Columbia interior, there are some clear influences of solitary living in her new performance/mask/puppetry piece Tucked Up in the Mountains. That’s not to say that she doesn’t also like working in a creative collective. For this work she has brought together some of her creative [...]

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BOOKS

Drinking Like a Grownup

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Nice Recovery, by Susan Juby, Penguin Canada

by Adam Kelly
12.04.2010

In the vast canon of addiction memoirs, only a few have made an impact through the starkness of their accounts. Among these, Go Ask Alice, John Barleycorn and Mary Karr’s The Liars’ Club are sobering examples. However, in the last decade, a number of more controversial testimonials have appeared. Mackenzie Phillips’ High on Arrival was [...]

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