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Not Another Fucking Landscape.
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Not Another Fucking Landscape.
I have been working nights in a gas station, namely Petro-Canada, which used to be public, but is now owned 72 per cent privately. They push the Canadian identity thing pretty far, with a red and white colour scheme; s[…]

The Thing about working nights is deciding which music to play
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The Thing about working nights is deciding which music to play, its all about keeping awake and keeping your customers interested…Some people do this by trying to play into their desire for cock rock and chart country. I do so by shocking them […]

Takashi Murakami- Mr. Cloud.
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Takashi Murakami- Mr. Cloud.
He used to meditate between the orientalism of the west and the fetishizing of western progress found in Japan. With the mushroom cloud deaths head bunny (1) he asked Japan if they could make anything cute, with My Lones[…]

In the Ghetto-Elvis
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In the Ghetto-Elvis
Fat Elvis high on Secanol and fried chicken emotes for the african american children.
The sheer sincere chutzpah of the tune, the belief that he is doing good is so camp that its easy to laugh at it.
Country still does this th[…]

Go Ape Crazy! – 24 Notes On Apes
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The ape is our era’s creature, we know this now – from Freud who led our animal selves into metaphor and Darwin who led our metaphorical selves into the animal. This history I have written is a re-orienting of the origin ape of Freud (who[…]

Yoko Ono-Cut Piece
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Yoko Ono-Cut Piece
Yoko Ono doing the cut piece (she sat on stage, people cut her robes off) in 1961 was scary shit, this was before the second wave really begun, and the fears of violence against women were not discussed very loudly.
That’s […]

can i tell you how much i love britney
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can i tell you how much i love britney, first the deeply odd, voyueristic, slime green coloured images in W, that looked v. 60s, but the factory porno, marriane faithful on smack, riots and destruction rather then the lesile gore act she used to pull[…]

I am A Boy Band-Benny Ramsay Menerofsky
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I am A Boy Band-Benny Ramsay Menerofsky
Single Channel DVD
The concept here is insanely simple, a man dressed as a boy band sings a 16th century English Madigral. A love song then is a love song, the melodramtic heart break, the “i sigh, i di[…]

Listening to the first volume of Momus’s creation years comp
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Listening to the first volume (The Youthful Hero Turned to Fall Like Blossom) of Momus’s creation years comp “Forbidden Time Machine” while driving to Ikea in a 1979 Firebird with my new room mate Bryan:
Bryan(B): Is Momus Queer ?[…]

Chris Gergley, Apartment Series, 1997-1998 C Prints
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link Between Davies and Beach Sts in Vancouver there are a series of apartment blocks built between 1950 and 1970, their lobbies gleaming with money and modernist hope, the fonts suggest hope for a future that seemed to gleam from Vancouver until the[…]

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