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Tea With Chris: The Ratification of Imbecility

Tea With Chris is a roundup of recommended links, posted every Thursday. Here are a few of our favourite things from the Internet this week: Carl: Abstruse Germanic theory as light aperitif? Yes, please. So I’m grateful that someone on … Continue reading

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Tuesday Musics: Kevin Coyne & Dagmar Krause, “Come Down Here” (Babble, 1979)

by Carl Wilson Babble: Songs for Lonely Lovers is a concept album (based on or the basis of a musical) by the late British rock songwriter Kevin Coyne and German singer Dagmar Krause (perhaps best known as a member of … Continue reading

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Tea With Chris: Poncho of Maybe

Tea With Chris is a roundup of recommended links, posted every Thursday. Here are a few of our favourite things from the Internet this week: Chris: The well-named literary site Joyland just posted “The Poncho,” a story from David Balzer’s … Continue reading

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Tea With Chris: Unstudied Strangeness

Tea With Chris is a roundup of recommended links, posted every Thursday. Here are a few of our favourite things from the Internet this week: Carl: Cynthia Dall died this week, apparently unexpectedly, in her mid-40s. Dall was a side-character … Continue reading

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Bully: A Film By Lee Hirsch (2011)

by Carl Wilson I didn’t want to see Bully at first. Immediately when I read about it in the paper, I felt that I could see the whole documentary unspooling in my head, with scenes of micro-brutality and indifferent response … Continue reading

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Tea With Chris: The Poet is a Drag

Tea With Chris is a roundup of recommended links, posted every Thursday. Here are a few of our favourite things from the Internet this week: Carl: I should have mentioned here that I was speaking at this play about Celine … Continue reading

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Tuesday Musics: Les Mouches, “Carload of Whatever”

Les Mouches was Owen Pallett‘s band before Final Fantasy, and is (sometimes and in a very different sense) his band now after Final Fantasy.  The other flies in this ointment are Matt Smith (guitar, stuff) and Rob Gordon (drums, stuff). … Continue reading

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Tea With Chris: Due Diligence

Tea With Chris is a roundup of recommended links, posted every Thursday. Here are a few of our favourite things from the Internet this week: Chris: Carl and I are at the EMP Pop Conference this weekend, which means we … Continue reading

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Tuesday Musics: “Ode to Self-Publishing” (aka “Fear of Zine Failure”), The Hidden Cameras, 2001

by Carl Wilson In preparation for my talk this weekend at the EMP Pop Conference, I’ve been sifting through a lot of archival imagery, music and documents from the vicinity of the moment formerly known as “Torontopia.” Here is a … Continue reading

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Tea With Chris: Thank You For Your Woo

Carl: Next week, Chris and I will again be at the EMP Pop Conference, this time in New York City. If you will also be in New York City, register free by Monday and you can get a badge and … Continue reading

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