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05 March 2012

LIST MASTER

I'm a list keeper. Here is a list of every rock show I went to between March 1995 and September 2001.

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1. march 25, 1995 @ lee's palace - gorp, sianspheric, shallow, smoother, tristan psionic, treble charger ($4)
2. april 22, 1995 @ lee's palace - hayden, killjoys, grasshopper ($9.75)
3. june 10, 1995 @ rivoli - video shoot for hayden's "bad as they seem"
4. june 30, 1995 @ el mocambo - inbreds, superfriendz, tristan psionic ($5)
5. november 4, 1995 @ lee's palace - treble charger, len, spooky ruben
6. february 24, 1996 @ lee's palace - scratching post, the new grand, smoother, hip club groove, len, radioblaster
7. may 18, 1996 @ rivoli - tristan psionic, the new grand, sydney on sundays
8. may 10, 1996 @ st. thomas aquanus high school (brampton) - novacain and others
9. august 31, 1996 @ CNE - broken girl, plumtree, the local rabbits, son, len, pure
10. october 26, 1996 @ north peel secondary school - lickitee shits, 8pdan, eye dye butterfly etc.
11. october 3, 1996 @ concert hall - sloan, danko jones, jale ($19.50)
12. december 6, 1996 @ kinsmen hall (streetsville, mississauga)- tristan psionic, 8pdan, eliot rosewater, attack of the hungarian icelander
13. december 21, 1996 @ the opera house - trigger happy, shallow north dakota, kittens, smoother, the new grand, hayden, tristan psionic ($10)
14. march 23, 1997 @ x-club (hamilton) - thrush hermit, reviatin and something that begins with a "g'"
15. march 28, 1997 @ kinsmen hall - blake, pezz, racer, jersey, attack of the hungarian icelander
16. april 5, 1997 @ erin mills united church (mississauga) - montgomery 21, eliot rosewater, attack of the hungarian icelander, bluelight blockade
17. april 26, 1997 @ meadowvale community centre (mississauga) - providence + two other bands ($6)
18. may 9, 1997 @ kinsmen hall - radioblaster, eliot rosewater, little clever, tyler, soap box racers
19. may 24, 1997 @ YMCA in oakville - blake, braid, etc.
20. may 30, 1997 @ munn's church (oakville) - eliot rosewater, karenza + others
21. may 31, 1997 @ opera house - plumtree, the brown belts, thrush hermit, super friendz ($8.75)
22. june 21, 1997 @ erin mills united church - eliot rosewater, third world planet, little rock nine, new day rising
23. july 3, 1997 @ masonic lodge (streetsville, mississuaga) - the mod squad + others
24. july 8, 1997 @ kinsmen hall - winnie, eliot rosewater, red flag five, bluelight blockade, atlas sound, providence ($4)
25. july 22, 1997 @ erin mills united church - 400 years, blake, sleepy time trio, joan of arc ($4)
26. july 23, 1997 @ ryan's (from eliot rosewater) basement - eliot rosewater, bluelight blockade etc
27. july 27, 1997 @ who's emma - bluelight blockade
28. august 29, 1997 @ moose lodge (brampton) - 8pdan, eliot rosewater, sheen, fur merchants, the soap box racers ($3)
29. august 31, 1997 @ kinsmen hall - eliot rosewater, holding pattern, two shades of pain, karenza, and a band featuring jason from winnie/bigger than yr robot zine and pam from super keen zine ($4)
30. september 13, 1997 @ oakville YMCA - eliot rosewater, karenza, confine, new day rising ($5)
31. september 26, 1997 @ kinsmen hall - fur merchant, holding pattern, little clever, eliot rosewater, noah's arcweld ($5)
32. september 27, 1997 @ masonic lodge - smother, 8pdan, eliot rosewater, soap box racers, the new grand ($4)
33. october 2, 1997 @ club shanghai, toronto - secret agent, blake, grade, the promise ring ($7)
34. october 10, 1997 @ kinsmen hall - 8pdan, holding pattern, gym class joke, two shades of pain ($5)
35. october 18, 1997 @ munn's church, oakville - nuremburg dance squad, bluelight blockade, the way outs, standing 8 ($4)
36. october 25, 1997 @ erin mills united church, mississauga - 8pdan + 4 other bands (?) ($5)
37. november 21, 1997 @ kinsmen hall - drop city, karenza, the tet offensive, two shades of pain, confine ($5)
38. november 28, 1997 @ kinsmen hall - stereo 17, oklahoma burning, 8pdan, the way outs, oh no the modulator ($5)
39. january 30, 1998 @ kinsmen hall - blake, tet offensive, standing 8, the drop city, bluelight blockade ($5)
40. march 13, 1998 @ masonic lodge - ten point one + others ($5)
41. march 28, 1998 @ YMCA, oakville - some punk bands ($5)
42. april 3, 1998 @ river oaks rec centre, oakville - idiolla, the far outs + others ($4)
43. may 30, 1998 @ kinsmen hall - the spiral hill, tet offensive, hamilton, standing 8 + 1 more ($5)
44. june 7, 1998 @ call the office, london - avarice, spread the disease, confine, sinclaire, acacia, the spiral hill ($5)
45. june 19, 1998 @ ryan kennedy's basement - the spiral hill, pecola, boy blue, ethel meserve ($3)
46. june 26, 1998 @ who's emma, toronto - engine down, three penny opera, idiolla, 400 years ($6)
47. july 5, 1998 @ rival, toronto - living water assembly, holding pattern, joan of arc ($8)
48. august 16, 1998 @ who's emma, toronto - a girl named joy, kepler, prisons come home ($4)
49. september 5, 1998 @ kinsmen hall, streetsville mississauga - jason (from bigger than your robot), perfectly normal, bluelight blockade ($5)
50. september 27, 1998 @ who's emma - weights and measures, bluelight blockade, keeper ($4)
51. october 3, 1998 @ various venues in hamilton - sonic unyon 5th anniversary show - blond redhead, mooney suzuki, the new grand, thrush hermit, bill from treble charger, julie doiron, tristan psionic, + bits of others (16.50)
52. november 7, 1998 @ ryan's basement - eliot rosewater reunion show
53. january 16, 1999 @ oakville YMCA - farewell to flesh, tet offensive, standing 8, + others ($5)
54. february 19, 1999 @ some church in port credit, mississauga - girls are short, little clever, blue pocket, smother ($4)
55. march 13, 1999 @ oakville YMCA - blake, racer, some others ($5)
56. april 10, 1999 @ oakville YMCA - holding pattern, girls are short, sinclaire, some punk band, end game ($5)
57. april 24, 1999 @ some place in milton - agent 69, bikes + others ($5)
58. may 23, 1999 @ kinsmen hall - holding pattern, rhinestone, cowboys, black cat #13, oh no the modulator, 6955, little clever ($1)
59. june 5, 1999 @ sonic unyon store, hamilton - wooden stars, north of america
60. may 28, 1999 @ masonic lodge streetsville mississauga - a whole bunch of bands ($5)
61. june 9, 1999 @ kinsmen hall - girls are short, north of america, blake, hacksaw ($5)
62. july 14, 1999 @ kinsmen hall - black cat #13, the end, spread the disease, the red scare, pankration ($5)
63. july 15, 1999 @ masonic lodge - portrait, china white, tender blindspot, tet offensive, moneen ($5)
64. august 28, 1999 @ masonic lodge - moneen, girls are short, bluelight blockade, black cat #13, + others ($5)
65. september 10, 1999 @ sonic unyon store, hamilton - julie doiron, snailhouse
66. september 11, 1999 @ rival, toronto - julie doiron, wooden stars ($6)
67. september 12, 1999 @ call the office, london - endgame, the constantines, black cat #13 ($5)
68. september 13, 1999 @ lee's palace - la bradford, godspeed you black emperor ($15)
69. september 25, 1999 @ ivy bridge, brampton - black cat #13, a bunch of hardcore bands ($7)
70. february 24, 2000 @ kinsmen hall - black cat #13, the plan, money, the tet offensive ($5)
71. march 4, 2000 @ david regan's house - bluelight blockade, girls are short
72. march 18, 2000 @ kinsmen hall - the constantines, association area, black cat #13, red shift ($5)
73. april 1, 2000 @ reverb, toronto - grade, the weakerthans ($10)
74. april 20, 2000 @ ted's wrecking yard, toronto - holding pattern, moneen, the plan, sinclaire ($6)
75. may 4, 2000 @ ryan kennedy's house - black cat #13, the tet offensive, the good goddamn ($2)
76. may 25, 2000 @ irish centre, brampton - black cat #13, the end, + other bands ($5)
77. june 11, 2000 @ ryan kennedy's basement - full blast, the tet offensive, the pettit project
78. june 29, 2000 @ kinsmen hall - black cat #13, panda riot, the pashmina, red shift, chicago manual of style, pettit project, oh no the modulator ($4)
79. july 19, 2000 @ abc no rio, NYC - black cat #13, blow up, the vida blue, song of zarathustra ($5)
80. july 25, 2000 @ the pine room, oakville - black out terror, farewell to flesh + other hardcore bands ($6/7?)
81. september 19, 2000 @ the opera house, toronto - sleater-kinney, coco, the white stripes ($?)
82. september 21, 2000 @ ted's wrecking yard - the black heart procession ($?)
83. october 5, 2000 @ bloor cinema, toronto - godspeed you black emperor ($12)
84. october 19, 2000 @ the reverb - holding pattern, snail house, + one other ($5/6)
85. october 31, 2000 @ ryerson university image arts building - newton, oh no the modulator, KHBB
86. november 15, 2000 @ ? - blonde redhead, the need
87. february 18, 2001 @ moose lodge, brampton - numerical ballroom, and some other bands ($5/6?)
88. march 26, 2001 @ planet kensington, toronto - the sick lipstick + others
89. may 24, 2001 @ el mocambo - the sick lipstick, north of america ($6/7?)
90. august 13, 2001 @ ted's wrecking yard - the sick lipstick, femme fatale, the plan ($5)
91. august 21, 2001 @ lee's palace - le tigre, tracey and the plastics ($16.50)
92. september 13, 2001 @ rivoli - the sick lipstick, rockets red glare ($5)

04 March 2012

BOOKS READ 2011


1. Selected Poems by T.S. Eliot
2. The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
3. Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women by Geraldine Brooks
4. City of Widows: An Iraqi Woman's Account of War and Resistance by Haifa Zangana
5. Three Wishes: Palestinian and Israeli Children Speak
6. Ghost Pine: All Stories True by Jeff Miller
7. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
8. Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
9. The Walking Dead Vol. 13: Too Far Gone by Robert Kirkman
10. Minna Canth: Pioneer Reformer by Ritva Heikkila (English translation by Paul Sjoblom
11. Local Motion: The Art of Civic Engagement in Toronto edited by Dave Meslin, Christina Palassio and Alana Wilcox
12. Reunion by Pascal Girard
13. Breaking the Sound Barrier by Amy Goodman
14. Berlin: City of Stones - Book One by Jason Lutes
15. Moomin Book Two by Tove Jansson
16. Berlin: City of Smoke - Book Two by Jason Lutes
17. Me Write Book: It Bigfoot Memoir by Graham Roumieu
18. The Walking Dead Vol. 14: No Way Out by Robert Kirkman
19. The Baltic Quintet: Poems from Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania and Sweden edited by Edita Page
20. Fair Play by Tove Jansson
21. Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle by Chris Hedges
22. Death of the Liberal Class by Chris Hedges
23. Moomin Book Three by Tove Jansson
24. Drawn In: A peek into the inspiring sketchbooks of 44 fine artists, illustrators, graphic designers and cartoonists - presented by Julia Rothman

17 June 2011

1996 or thereabouts.

price list from the first zine fair i went to in toronto. probably canzine.

21 February 2011

Vulgar! Inappropriate!

I took it upon myself to create a display at work for this year's Freedom to Read week (Feb. 20-26) and with the assistance of two helpful and talented co-workers, came up with this:

More images here.





And for some further reading on the subject, but in no way a complete list:

Challenged books and magazine from the Freedom to Read website.

Read the Ontario Library Association's Statement on the Intellectual Rights of the Individual here.

Judy Blume discusses censorship and challenges to her own work here and here.

A Small Sampling of Publications Seized or Detained by Canada Customs (updated in 1997)

Article from the Toronto Star: "Vampire series tops list of ‘challenged’ books in Canada"


13 February 2011

finally, books read in 2007:


1. Lucky by Gabrielle Bell
2. Mome Fall 2005 (Vol. 2)
3. Confession by Leo Tolstoy
4. 32 Stories: The Complete Optic-Nerve Mini-comics by Adrian Tomine
5. Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
6. A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
7. I Never Liked You by Chester Brown
8. Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
9. Mome Spring/Summer 2006
10. jrnls80s by Lee Ranaldo
11. Books by Gerald Donaldson
12. Strangers in Paradise, Pocket Book 1 by Terry Moore
13. Chicken with Plums by Marjane Satrapi
14. Home from the Vinyl Cafe by Stuart McLean
15. Prisoner of Tehran: A Memoir by Marina Nemat
16. Modern Artists on Art edited by Robert L. Herbert
17. My Sister, Guard Your Veil; My Brother, Guard Your Eyes edited by Lila Azam Zanganeh
18. Dadaism by Dietmar Elger
19. American Splendor: Our Movie Year by Harvey Pekar
20. Blankets by Craig Thompson
21. An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore
22. The Prodigy by Hermann Hesse
23. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
24. Blue by Kiriko Nananan
25. Mome Fall 2006 (Vol. 5)

23 January 2011

books read, 2006:





1. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
2. Ticknor by Sheila Heti
3. Best of American Splendor by Harvey Pekar
4. American Splendor by Harvey Pekar
5. Censored 2005 by Peter Phillips and Project Censored
6. Our Cancer Year by Harvey Pekar and Joyce Brabner
7. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
8. It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken by Seth
9. Wimbledon Green by Seth
10. Bannock, Beans and Black Tea by John Gallant and Seth
11. Black Hole by Charles Burns
12. A Cavalier History of Surrealism by Raoul Vaneigem
13. Ice Haven by Daniel Clowes
14. Yesterday Morning by Diana Athill
15. On Photography by Susan Sontag
16. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
17. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
18. The Struggle for Utopia: Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Mololy-Nagy 1917-1946 by Victor Margolin
19. Persepolis 2 by Marjane Satrapi
20. Wobblies! A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World edited by Paul Buhle and Nicole Schulman
21. Confessions of an English Opium Eater by Thomas De Quincey
22. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
23. Ego & Hubris: The Michael Malice Story by Harvey Pekar
24. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
25. Clyde Fans - Book 1 by Seth
26. Housekeeping Vs. the Dirt by Nick Hornby
27. Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China by Guy Delisle
28. The Summer of Love by Debbie Drechsler

04 January 2011

While we're at it... 2009 & 2008:

Books read in 2009:


1. The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007, edited by Dave Eggers
2. Things I've Been Silent About by Azar Nafisi
3. American Journals by Albert Camus
4. The Outsider by Albert Camus
5. Maus I by Art Spiegelman
6. The McSweeney's Book of Poets Picking Poets, edited by Dominic Luxford
7. The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler
8. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
9. Notebooks 1935-1942 by Albert Camus
10. American Splendor: Another Dollar by Harvey Pekar
11. The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel
12. Cecil and Jordan in New York by Gabrielle Bell
13. A Calendar of Consolation selected by Leonard Woolf
14. The Pelee Project by Jane Christmas
15. A Drifting Life by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
16. Earth Democracy by Vandana Shiva
17. 1969 by Eileen Myles
18. Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences by Lawrence Weschler

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Books read in 2008:


1. An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons & True Stories, edited by Ivan Brunetti
2. The Pure and the Impure by Colette
3. Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder by David Weinberger
4. Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
5. Writers Under Siege: Voices of Freedom From Around the World, edited by Lucy Popescu and Carole Seymour-Jones
6. Blue Pills by Frederik Peeters
7. Exit Wounds by Rutu Modan
8. Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine
9. Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin
10. Chance in Hell by Gilbert Hernandez
11. Skim by Mariko Tamaki
12. Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood by Bell Hooks
13. Art Objects by Jeanette Winterson
14. Moomin, Volume One by Tove Jansson
15. American Splendor: Another Day by Harvey Pekar
16. Artists in Times of War by Howard Zinn
17. Gut Symmetries by Jeanette Winterson

... 2007 & 2006 to come...

01 January 2011

2010: The Year of The Walking Dead (and some other books too)


Books read in 2010: In order of reading from left to right, top to bottom (see list below):


1. Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne
2. Pedro & Me by Judd Winick
3. Sylvia Plath Selected Poems chosen by Ted Hughes
4. From Wonderland With Love: Danish Comics in the Third Millennium edited by Steffen P. Maarup
5. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
6. Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis & Christos H. Papadimitriou
7. The Walking Dead Volume 1: Days Gone By by Robert Kirkman
8. The Walking Dead Volume 2: Miles Behind Us by Robert Kirkman
9. Market Day by James Sturm
10. The Walking Dead Volume 3: Safety Behind Bars by Robert Kirkman
11. The Walking Dead Volume 4: The Heart's Desire by Robert Kirkman
12. The Walking Dead Volume 5: The Best Defense by Robert Kirkman
13. The Walking Dead Volume 6: This Sorrowful Life by Robert Kirkman
14. The Walking Dead Volume 7: The Calm Before by Robert Kirkman
15. The Walking Dead Volume 8: Made to Suffer by Robert Kirkman
16. The Twentieth Century by Howard Zinn
17. The Walking Dead Volume 9: Here We Remain by Robert Kirkman
18. The Walking Dead Volume 10: What We Become by Robert Kirkman
19. Locavore by Sarah Elton
20. Kicking at Clouds: A Winter in Palestine 2003/04 by Sonya McRae (zine)
21. The Walking Dead Volume 11: Fear the Hunters by Robert Kirkman
22. The Incident Report by Martha Baillie
23. The Walking Dead Volume 12: Life Among Them by Robert Kirkman
24. The Case for Books: Past, Present & Future by Robert Darnton
25. Zeitoun by Dave Eggers