I have never seen this before, although it was produced in 2004 and even won an academy award. From the vaults of the NFB, it fits into some of what I’ve been thinking about. The rest of Ryan Larkin’s story (post-film) can be found here.
Last night I had a dream about Mel and Cara – we were scavenging for junk in a Victoria neighbourhood, looking for pieces to make a medieval play out of – warm early summer evening and I standing barefoot on alley pavement surrounded by green trees as we talked. It felt so unfortunate to wake [...]
I remember the voice coming out of my kitchen radio sometime back in 2003 or 04 – before I moved to the Sunshine Coast – when I still lived above Turks, on the Drive. It caught me, that voice and the poetry it was speaking, and I sat still to listen until he was done. [...]
“art is a condition of human existence, it’s function is to build community.” mat callahan in the trouble with music
i read the trouble with music a couple of months ago, part of the new offerings that came in the mail as part of my “friend of akpress” subscription. an exploration of artistic endeavour under capitalism, [...]
What you said