Congress 2013

I’m currently in Victoria for Congress 2013 (@ the Edge). I presented the first of two papers for the conference (this one co-written with Dr. Laura Moss) at an ACQL digital pedagogy session–organized by Emily ...

PeopleSometimes.com

I’m starting a new short film series and archive this summer. Since I’m currently filming and collecting, the site PeopleSometimes.com won’t launch until the fall. Nevertheless, it’s getting my mind off of candidacy stress. I’m ...

Sea of Love

Bijou’s track of the day (chosen by sitting right beside the speaker, purring).

Sheen

Mabel is going crazy (and chasing her tail) for this track right now. Sun’s filtering in through the back door and it smells like someone is having a barbecue.

Curran asked me to marry him

…and I said yes!  

Lines and Margins

I’ve organized one more installment of the Work in Progress Salon before I leave for Victoria for Congress. This one will be fun, with my cohort member and PhD student Alicia Fahey presenting work in ...

Aphorisms on Futurism (1914)

I am nearing completion of my candidacy papers. Today, after a pre-candidacy meeting with my cohort, I came home and wrote another five pages, pruned several pages back, and organized material for my prospectus meeting ...

Pixie

Haley at Barbarella on Main gave me a pixie cut today. After two years between long waves and a short triangle in green, blue, purple, and blonde, I feel great just having less hair to ...

The Theatre and its Double

“If our life lacks a constant magic it is because we choose to observe our acts and lose ourselves in consideration of their imagined form and meaning, instead of being impelled by their force.” (Antonin ...

Innocence is Kinky

“This spring holds a killer in her claws…”

Mabel / Merleau-Ponty / Monomania

Mabel and I beat the summer heat today by the water on English Bay, and came home to read Merleau-Ponty and listen to Deerhunter’s new Monomania. She’s 4.5 months, looking more mature everyday, and seemingly ...

Stand in the Sand

I woke up today, had a shower, realized how tanned I am, and that my commute to work is now just upstairs in my loft to my office, where Bijou was sleeping on my chair ...

Travel + SSHRC

I just returned from a whirlwind trip for my sister’s wedding through the States and the Caribbean — specifically the USVI, St. Maarten, and the Bahamas — and an exorbitantly expensive satellite internet signal beaming ...

Seattle

I’ve been in Seattle quite a bit lately. Makes me want to listen to Nirvana.  

The Work in Progress Salon Presents: Spaced Out

I’m the new Work in Progress Series Coordinator with grad caucus in my department, and I’ve transformed it into the Work in Progress Salon, featuring two readers/critics a month in conversation with one another. I ...

Blood Sister / “Why would you?”

Love this track by Blood Sister. Video samples from Der Fan.  

Play Cthonics Presents: Jan Zwicky and Robert Bringhurst

I can’t believe this season of Play Cthonics is almost over! Our upcoming evening with Jan Zwicky and Robert Bringhurst will be the final event for the term. We’re coordinating the schedule for the upcoming ...

Mabel at Three Months

Curran took this fuzzy video of Mabel and I going over sit, lay, and shake a paw:

Rameau’s Nephew by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen by Michael Snow

Gender and Performativity: Texts and Contexts

I can’t believe I forgot to post this! I’ve been working as a Curricula Writer/Developer at Canadian Literature since last year, and I published my first comprehensive guide for undergraduate students last month. Check out “Gender ...

Play Cthonics Presents: Ken Babstock and Jen Currin

Join Play Cthonics tomorrow for an evening of fireside readings by Ken Babstock and Jen Currin, followed by an open Q&A with the authors. I will be hosting the event, which is free and open ...

Mabel Da Silva-Folkers

Meet Mabel Da Silva-Folkers, the new addition to our home. She’s a Keeshond crossed with a Pyrenean Mountain Dog. She’s nine weeks old, extremely well behaved and very intelligent. She’s also very adept at the ...

“Surely volume, surely victim.”

A snapshot of the soundtrack to my afternoon on my balcony, reading in the spring Vancouver sun:

“Dying young and I’m playing hard…”

Madeleine Collective Releases Nuit Blanche 2012 Mini-Doc

Check out the mini-doc from Madeleine Collective‘s “12 HR Zine Machine” installation for Nuit Blanche 2012, in collaboration with the Steel Bananas Art Collective and nine other featured Toronto art organizations and artists.

Office life, violet hair.

A string of fortuitous professional events during the last few months have given me a greater affinity for the incredible atmosphere of a personal office. Especially when one’s handsome partner treks up for a short ...

NEW WORK. NEW DESK.

There’s nothing quite like how the combination of a new haircut and a new desk can manage to make candidacy bibliographies seem so, so sexy.

Book Marriage

Oh my. This is just a fraction of the books we’ve married. So many left in storage; Steins and Roths waiting to snuggle up together.

Play Cthonics Presents: W. H. New and Jaime Reid

Play Cthonics proudly presents its first reading of 2013, featuring W. H. New and Jamie Reid. W. H. NEW’s illustrious writing career has received international recognition, including the Lorne Pierce Medal and the Governor General’s ...

“I don’t know you.” / Fête D’Adieu

Blah blah blah. “Get over yourself.” I suppose there’s no real harm now. Just the yawn that inevitably follows a lack of oxygen to the brain. The older I get, the more my life is ...

Bijou and I in 2013

This was Bijou’s favourite track of 2012:     Also, this is us in 2013:  

Angel Olsen, “Sweet Dreams.”

Beautiful.

Such is my man

“The home should be the treasure chest of living.” / Le Corbusier.    

Happy 2013!

In 2012 I travelled across Canada from Vancouver to Edmonton, Toronto, Montreal, and Fredericton; edited, produced, and released the first book from SB Publications (Dear Adolf by Daniel Scott Tysdal); read/performed poetry at a funeral march ...

Holidays in Toronto

I’m now back in Vancouver after a couple of weeks spent catching up with friends and family in Toronto. Soon I’ll be back at work on my candidacy papers and CanLit Guides at Canadian Literature, ...

Unending field exams and Germaine Dulac

I’m currently in the qualifying stage of my PhD, buried beneath my field exams (at UBC they are qualifying papers). It’s a strange genre, being general and concise while demonstrating wide field coverage. I should ...

Play Cthonics Presents: Garry Thomas Morse + Brad Cran

Tomorrow evening, I’ll be hosting Garry Thomas Morse and Brad Cran as part of Play Cthonics at Green College, UBC. This will be the last event for this academic term, so head on out! Facebook ...

Mind Over Mirrors

Mind Over Mirrors / Memorander   MIND OVER MIRRORS – Memorander from PɨK on Vimeo.

San Francisco, CA

Curran and I have big plans for San Francisco in 2013. This is the only clue I can give you.

Tehching Hsieh, One Year Performance (1980-1981)

All day every day. Tehching Hsieh – One Year Performance 1980 – 1981 (Time Clock Piece) from FACT on Vimeo. Tehching Hsieh is an artist who has been mythologized since retiring from making art in ...

KSW and Play Cthonics present a reading by JAM ISMAIL

This Saturday at 1pm, KSW and Play Cthonics present JAM ISMAIL reading at the Kootenay School of Writing. Be there. Facebook event here.

SB 29&30 Double Issue

Out for printing. Online soon.

Having a Coke with you

Frank O’Hara reading his poem in New York in 1966, shortly before his accidental death. Taken from USA: Poetry: Frank O’Hara produced and directed by Richard Moore, for KQED and WNET. Originally aired on September 1, ...

Venusia

Venusia, 2007. Animation and Direction by Aline Bouvy & John Gillis. Original score by Johnston Sheard / Sandi Sirocco.

Transcript of metal/meth head two balconies over

Pretty sure they’re channelling the dead in my building. Or the guys two balconies over are hooked on glass.  

Home

It took me two months to unpack. Here are a few shots of the place now that we’ve shelved the books and settled in:

meme zen:

meme zen:

Hot day for Ex-Spectator

It’s hot today in Vancouver. Blasting old favourites like Fugazi’s The Argument, drinking iced tea and smoking on my balcony. Oh, and reading Information, Machanism, and Meaning. I start my new job at Canadian Literature ...

Drift Dive

Track for the night: “Drift Dive” off of the Antlers latest EP, Undersea, to be released July 24th on antirecords.  

Moving Books

Curran and I just moved into our first place together: a loft in Vancouver’s Mount Pleasant neighbourhood. I’ve been working to get this 1100sqft, two bedroom, two level space into shape for a week now, ...

Overjoyed

I’ve probably listened to this album hundreds of times since its release earlier this year. Still, it hasn’t yet lost its grit and sparkle. I have love and change on the brain. I packed up ...

VERBS (2012)

Today Matt and I filmed the first part of VERBS, a series of performances and readings in Vancouver, BC. The films interpret text from my forthcoming book Fuck Irony (SB Publications, 2012) while exploring the nature ...

Old rolls of film

I found a few old rolls of film in a box of junk from Toronto. It turns out they were from 2008/2009, with oodles of photos taken with the fisheye camera my brother Jeff bought ...

Call for short fiction, poetry, artwork, and photography: The Manson Girls (The Highwire, 2014)

  While Hollywood prepares for The Manson Girls this year, a film that stars Canada’s own (Peterborough no less) Estella Warren (Planet of the Apes 2001) and the porn industry’s Ron Jeremy, the dearth of ...

Toronto visit, Daniel’s Launch, and Updates

I’m back in Vancouver after a busy two weeks in Toronto, full of meetings, events, and nights out with friends. I intended to keep a better record of my travels, but I didn’t have stable ...

Free Poems at the Rio Theatre’s HELLRAISER II Fundraiser

Last night at HELLRAISER II (a cabaret/live show/film screening/circus at the Rio Theatre in East Van), I walked around with a placard offering free poems and flowers to people on the street. It was an incredible ...

Bear Witness

Bear Witness, DJ NDN, DJ Shubb, and by extension, A Tribe Called Red, are beyond hype. BEYOND IT. I’m writing about Beat Nation and have spend countless hours watching and re-watching their videos. Here’s one ...

L’usine quatre couleurs

J’aime Jacquemus. L’usine quatre couleurs:  

Returning to Toronto to Launch Daniel Tysdal’s Dear Adolf!

I’m flying back to Toronto for two weeks at the end of April/beginning of May to visit family, friends, and launch the latest offering from SB Publications: Daniel Scott Tysdal’s Dear Adolf! Event info is ...

Irène e/r/o/t/i/c/ f/a/n/z/i/n/e

Researching. Reading about forgiveness, healing. Kristeva, Derrida, Levinas, especially Levinas. Jean-Luc Nancy, peripherally. Came back to this: Irène e/r/o/t/i/c/f/a/n/z/i/n/e.