Category Archives: TV/video

by b2tw | May 15, 2012

Tuesday Musics: “Winter Solstice” by Cold Specks

by Carl Wilson From the fantastically titled upcoming album, I Predict A Graceful Expulsion. I appreciate that a song with this title has such a springtimey video. Also that like a lot of current hits this song is so sparse … Continue reading →

Mad Men, Girls and Englishmen

by Carl Wilson Out of proportion to all sanity, my personal version of the Internet (overpopulated with pop-culture overanalyzers) has been preoccupied the past several days with the (reportedly $250,ooo) appearance of the actual Beatles recording of “Tomorrow Never Knows” … Continue reading →

Friday Pictures – Adam Yauch, Fight For Your Right (Revisited) video, full length / Beastie Boys

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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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Tagged as hidden cameras, Toronto, vazaleen, what happened, will munro

by b2tw | March 13, 2012

Tuesday Musics: “Dull Lights (White or Grey)” by Eric Chenaux

I’ve often written about Eric Chenaux, a guitarist, singer, improviser and composer whose presence graced Toronto – and I mean that almost in the theological sense – for many years until his recent move to Paris. There’s bittersweetness in the … Continue reading →

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Tagged as acts of grace, constellation records, Eric Cazdyn, Eric Chenaux, fluttering, format updates, guitar and voice, non-moralizing critique of capitalism, we miss you

by b2tw | March 1, 2012

March 10, 3 pm-midnight: Reality Art TV Marathon. Back to the World @ the AGO

It’s been almost a year since our last live event, our 100,000th Word Party in March, 2011. So let’s do it again: As part of Margaux’s stint as Artist in Residence at the Art Gallery of Ontario, we’re holding a … Continue reading →

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Tagged as art gallery of ontario, being quiet about art, friendship, judgment, pizza, reality TV, talking about art, taste

by b2tw | January 27, 2012

Friday Pictures – Hennessy Youngman

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ART THOUGHTZ: Post-Structuralism (THE CLEAN VERSION)

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ART THOUGHTZ: Relational Aesthetics

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ART THOUGHTZ: The Sublime

HENNESSY YOUNGMAN’S ART THOUGHTZ - Artist talk and screening with Jayson Musson at the Drake Hotel January 31 2012

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Tagged as hats, Hennessy Youngman, persona, Post-Structuralism, Relational Aesthetics, The Sublime

by b2tw | January 25, 2012

Ten-plus Cultural Experiences I’m Still Thinking About Now that 2011’s Done with Us

by Carl Wilson [With trademark untimeliness, Back to the World is presenting a series of belated, cross-genre, year-end lists, as we did last year, and again loosely on the model of Greil Marcus’s long-running Real Life Rock Top Ten. Margaux … Continue reading →

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Tagged as aaron paul, adults in autumn, Alexander McQueen, breaking bad, bryan cranston, Christian Marclay, Citizens' Filibuster, community, copying, D.A. Powell, DJs debate club, Doug Benson, Downton Abbey, feist, guy pearce, have not been the same, henhouse, human microphone, humans, Jack Layton, Jeff Mangum, Jenny Smyth, jesse pinkman, Jim Carroll, john hawkes, Jon McCurley, Kate Winslet, Kathleen Phillips, katie ritchie, Kristen Dunst, Lars von Trier, Lee Smolin, louie, Louis C.K., Louis CK, marc maron, marcus boon, Melancholia, michael barclay, michael mcmanus, Michael Robbins, Mildred Pierce, misha glouberman, negotiation, Occupy Wall Street, parks and recreation, party down, QI, Quite Interesting, richard buckner, Ron Mann, Ryan Trecartin, Saint Mark's Bookshop, Sandro Perri, Seth Rogen, sherlock, slate culture gabfest, SOPA, Stand-In, the chairs are where the people go, The Clock, the hour, tim heckler, todd haynes, tomboyfriend, Vanessa Dunn, walter white, weakerthans, what the fuck

by b2tw | January 19, 2012

List of mostly good things, big and small, that I can remember from the world in 2011 – in order of rememberance

by Margaux Williamson 1. Remembering what a brilliant idea feels like – Occupy Wall Street It was a simple and brilliant idea – that people could “occupy” a space in addition to protesting it, that the power and action could … Continue reading →

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Tagged as 12 year old boys, Adam Yauch, Afghanistan, Alan Ball, aliens, America, animal rights, Beastie Boys, Beyoncé, Charlaine Harris, Christian Marclay, christians, Efrim Menuck, Enjoy Poverty, Fight For Your Right (Revisited) Full Length, fight to the death on live television, Helen DeWitt, humans, Into the Abyss, Jerry Saltz, John Waters, Justina M. Barnicke, Lars von Trier, Lee Smolin, LIghtning Rods, Louis, Louis C.K., Maruyama Ōkyo, Melancholia, motha, Moussa Touré’, Neko Case, Occupy Wall Street, Picasso, Plays "High Gospel", Poussieres de ville, Renzo Martens, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Run the World (Girls), Ryan Trecartin, Sarah Manguso, Sempre Susan, Seth Rogen, Shock Value, Sigrid Nunez, Snoop Dogg, Susan Sontag, Suzanne Collins, the chairs are where the people go, The Clock, The Hunger Games, The Trouble with Physics, The Two Kinds of Decay, True Blood, vampires, Werner Herzog, Whale Wars, Wish I was the Moon, Zadie Smith

by b2tw | May 13, 2011

Oldboy (2003) – directed by Chan-wook Park, based on the Japanese manga of the same name written by Nobuaki Minegishi and Garon Tsuchiya

By Margaux Williamson (My friend Sean Dixon asked me if I was interested in reviewing Chan-wood Park’s celebrated movie Oldboy for his “Revenge Night” – an event involving songs, tales and plays on the theme of revenge to launch his new book … Continue reading →

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Category Archives: TV/video

Tuesday Musics: “Winter Solstice” by Cold Specks

Mad Men, Girls and Englishmen

Friday Pictures – Adam Yauch, Fight For Your Right (Revisited) video, full length / Beastie Boys

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

Tuesday Musics: “Dull Lights (White or Grey)” by Eric Chenaux

March 10, 3 pm-midnight: Reality Art TV Marathon. Back to the World @ the AGO

Friday Pictures – Hennessy Youngman

Ten-plus Cultural Experiences I’m Still Thinking About Now that 2011’s Done with Us

List of mostly good things, big and small, that I can remember from the world in 2011 – in order of rememberance

Oldboy (2003) – directed by Chan-wook Park, based on the Japanese manga of the same name written by Nobuaki Minegishi and Garon Tsuchiya

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