It was another uncommonly beautiful day to be headed down to the Vancouver Folk Music Festival, though, to be honest, it could have been hailing baseballs and everyone would have had a good time anyway. As I sauntered over the now-familiar grounds of Jericho park, I couldn’t help but notice how much busier everything was. […]
On DVDs of David Lynch movies, there are no chapter stops. Lynch refuses them. He sees his films as dreams, their impact emotional rather than argumentative. They should be experienced whole, reacted to as a whole. It is probably easiest to talk about his second studio album, The Big Dream, in a similar fashion. There’s […]
It’s been said that heroes are only as good as their villains. Batman had the Joker, Austin Powers had Dr. Evil, and Luke Sykwalker had Darth Vader. These villains shape the ethos of their moral counterparts, and without these villains, archetypal heroes would simply have no true definition of character. Without the Joker, Batman would […]