Dominion Interview
Erin Empey, guitar hero of Canada’s best living punk band, The Rebel Spell, moonlights as a journalist. Here, in the soon-to-be prestigious Dominion magazine, she asks Chris such penetrating questions as “when are you playing Vancouver?”. Wait, there’s more (although i just noticed that my comments about Afghanistan, The Vancouver Olympics and the Stephen Lewis Foundation got left on the cutting room floor. is there no justice?! will i never be heard?!?). Watch for a potential Propagandhi/Rebel Spell onslaught in Western Canada this fall.
Perspective
Film-maker and journalist John Pilger offers some perspective here to those of us who don’t spend their entire lives under siege by one of the powerful militaries in the world.
Head East Young Skids.
We’ve finished another leg of touring for 2009. It was a good time. Thanks to everyone who came to the shows. We’re resting up our aching heads and necks and turning our eyes to the east. In a little over a week we’ll be heading from Minneapolis to Quebec City! See you there!
This Saturday, in Winnnipeg is the Run For Rights. Yesterday I did a little practice run and will be sharp and ready for action!
Watch out!!!
2nd Toronto Show Added! June 26th!!!
If you read the above headline correctly, then you now know that there has been a 2nd show added in Toronto at the Phoenix. If you read the previously sentence correctly, then you know it intimately! I think the first one on the 25th is sold out. i know that because i read it in a sentence somewhere.
Fear and Propagandhi in Las Vegas!!!! (UPDATE!!!)
Hello denizens of Las Vegas! People from your city keep emailing and asking if our show there on the 25th of this month has been cancelled. We’re not sure why this rumour is circulating, but as far as we know, we are playing a place called The Farm (5597 S. Rainbow BLVD. Las Vegas) on the 25th, and we are driving there intending to play and level that fucking place!!! Spread the word! Don’t make me spend another lonely night wandering around Circus Circus buying gag ketchup bottles.
Fire the Boss
Noami Klein gives a quick round up of recent developments in the world of worker control. As global capitalism shits the bed (as predicted), perhaps it is time to look a little more closely at ways of organizing workplaces. but what do i know, i just work here.
How Inconvenient!
Will someone in Ottawa please punch that human slug Lowell Green in the nuts for me? If i hear one more Canadian whine about their commute home being delayed by people desperate to draw even a sliver of attention to a humanitarian catastrophe that we would all otherwise totally ignore, i’m going to projectile vomit in their face. no, make that explosive diarrhea. yes, still in their face.
Canadians are amongst the last people on earth who should be crying about “foreigners bringing their problems over here with them”. Forget for a moment that the protesters blocking the Gardiner Expresway have family and friends facing death back home and that we’d all do the exact same thing if we were in their position. Forget that. Does the name Afghanistan ring any bells to Canadians? You know, that place where Canadians are foreigners and continue to make life rather inconvenient for Afghans?
Don’t believe me? Why not ask a member of the Afghan Parliament, (who incidentally has about 150 less civilian constituents (including infants) to represent these days since NATO blew them all of the face of the earth last month)?
Oh well, I guess as long as patriotic morons wasting resources driving back and forth between their useless jobs and their meaningless lives in front of their stupid T.V.‘s aren’t put out, that’s what’s really important!
MayWorks 2009: A Festival of Labour and the Arts
Attention dickweeds of Winnipeg, may i have your attention. As you may or may not know, it is now May, which of course means that the annual Mayworks Festival is in full swing. You may check out the calendar of events here, unless your name is Brad May, in which case you may be spending May dismayed on a golf-course in Southern Ontario.
Flu Season
Hi there from Rome! An eventful trip so far, much mayhem! Will tell later. Stop.
So as “Swine Flu” inches its way through your neighborhood, now is as good a time as any to have a look at this little virtual-experience the people at Farm Sanctuary have put together. Farm Sanctuary is one of the raddest things in the world.
Now, back to your regularly scheduled, human-caused global pandemic.…