i don't think that

i don't think anything
i already know that i
don't trust, so there is no eye
that will always be a chore

all there is, is a lifting
simultaneous in rags do we drink it
removing from anything which is pure
and only itself joy
entombed in all that is seen
this tragedy, seemingly a betrayal
and a hope absurd, is all that is
and all that lifts itself into absolution

into ourselves we bring it
where all is memory
a ritual of prolonged extinction
where the only apostle is time
a wine which consumes,
intoxicates all senses

Exclaim 12th anniversary party

beans - exclaim party 2004

this is one of the few pictures that turned out.

it seems that my camera lens was obscured for most of the night thanks to a public celebration of Toronto's adoption of the smoking by-law (come this summer, you will not be able to smoke inside any commercial or public building in the city).

the several hundred people in attendence celebrated by smoking a half a forest of pot, filling the Phoenix to the rafters with a stinky haze and causing my images of both Four Tet and Tortoise useless for anything except abstraction. not that i'm complaining, as I myself added fairly substantively to the mix.

Beans was interestingly solo, beatboxing and MDing the place to a decent amount of gyration. not quite as strong as his Antipop days, but still pretty decent.

as for Four Tet, i'm not sure that KH has convinced me with his live show. CD yes, live no. Tortoise were their usual self, bang the fuck on the money. their songs might be diluting somewhat with time, but for sheer technical brilliance, it's tough to find a better live set in indie rock these days.

i love efficient use of space

me, an actor? that's a larf

thankfully, this is the only picture of my "performance" in waterdown theatre's production of arthur schnitzler's Flirtations

http://www.villagetheatrewaterdown.ca/flirtations/flirtationscastandcrew.htm