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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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Kristeva + Cat GIFS
I just realized that instead of re-reading Kristeva’s Hatred and Forgiveness, I just perused around ten different cat gif related tumblrs. I am posting this to remind myself of the guilt, and of this gif:
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Prophouse
Another great evening at the Prophouse, just off of the Drive, with music by Miranda Martini, Shiela Giffen, Jillian Christmas, and Chelsea Johnson. Shiela, Matt and I had a lovely dinner prepared by Alicia beforehand, ...
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Lover’s Start
Can’t seem to get to sleep. I just saw a coyote from my second storey window, venturing out in the dead of night, and I realized that How to Dress Well never, ever gets old.
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Summer
“It’s summer in my heart.” Or rather, where Curran is. Fredericton hit twenty-five, and I’m still wearing furs as I head out for a late night smoke. Oh, Vancouver. Here’s a song from Melissa and ...
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Run Ran Run Rah
So much to do. This loud and often: Run Ran Run Rah by Norwegian Arms.
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Love & Visits
Curran just flew back to New Brunswick after a ten day stay in Vancity during his reading week. It was tough to see him go. The four month countdown to his move to Vancouver starts ...
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Grimes – Oblivion.
All day every day.
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SB Publications Presents: Dear Adolf by Daniel Scott Tysdal
I had the great pleasure of editing and producing acclaimed poet Daniel Tysdal’s first venture into fiction and photography, Dear Adolf. As this year’s first offering from Steel Bananas Publications, it will be available online ...
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Gorgeous Bully
Art is Hard Records just released a limited 50-copy run of Gorgeous Bully’s cassette, The Young Obese. It’s even packaged as a pack of smokes! I’ve been listening to it on repeat while working on ...
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“I don’t need tender mercy.”
“Sometimes it’s good to be a killer.”
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And I say
Absolutely sexy minimalist jazz. Nicolas Jaar ft. Scout Larue and Will Epstein. “And I say.”
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Pretender
Last weekend I needed some coldwave. (Black Marble, opening track from their forthcoming EP Weight Against the Door.) Pretender by Black Marble
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Saint Nothing
Tugging my heartstrings: Daniel Rossen of Grizzly Bear’s new track, “Saint Nothing.” The EP Silent Hour/ Golden Mile is forthcoming from Warp in March.
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Holidays/ New Books/ NeWork
I’m back in Vancouver after a great month-long trip across Canada to visit family, friends, and my partner Curran. It all started off in Edmonton, where I spent a week with Curran and his family, ...
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Shoot, 1971
Chris Burden, Shoot. F Space, November 19th, 1971.
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The Drive
I spent a lot of time on the Drive this week, looking at apartments with Alicia, and heading to the Prophouse for my friend Shiela’s show with the Maladies. Alicia found a really, really lovely ...
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SB Publications Catalogue
I just realized I forgot to post this! We released the Winter 2011-2012 catalogue for SB Publications at the end of September. This season’s offerings include a text & photographic work from ReLit award winning ...
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Rain + The Soft Moon
The rain in Vancouver (also known as one of its two seasons) has created the perfect environment for enjoying the darkness of The Soft Moon blaring. Here’s a taste:
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Austerity + Occupy Vancouver
The next issue of the Steel Bananas Quarterly will be organized around the theme of austerity, a word we can’t seem to shake out of our newspapers. We’ve received a large number of submissions already, ...
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Thanksgiving
I went apple picking at Cherry Lane farm with my friend Alicia for Thanksgiving. The weather was perfect for hanging out on a farm, though my outfit wasn’t. Here are a few shots: ...
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GULCH in UTQ’s survey of Letters in Canada
University of Toronto Quarterly just published its annual critical and bibliographic survey of Letters in Canada — most recently for books published during 2009 — and mentioned Steel Bananas’ 2009 assemblage Gulch: An Assemblage of ...
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The monsters in the room were all dancing
This is lovely.
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SB28
SB28 launched two days ago. Flip through below or visit steelbananas.com/sb28 to read/download the issue.
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Virago
“If you can avoid talking about / body then do so now please” — Margaret Christakos, from Sooner, 2005. – Karen Correia Da Silva, from Virago, 2011. Vancouver, BC.
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Sombre Mountains
Strength came from somewhere, from revulsion; there was a crash and a wave of light, and the dead man was crouching in his lair, facing the animal onrush of light. Yet it was hardly ...
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Fuck Irony
Text, collage, photography, and collaboration celebrating mimesis over a period of thirty days in 2011. Works include poetry, visual art, and documentation of public performance/ happenings in Vancouver by multidisciplinary artist Karen Correia Da Silva. ...
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My August 29th
I don’t start classes until September 6th. Freedom from work + the majesty of my natural surroundings have left me very inspired. I spent my day getting my wrists acquainted with my new violin, reading ...
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Latest Project
This is Woodward. I bought him today. He is from Romania. He was handmade in Vasile Gliga’s workshop by some nice people who care about good quality violins. His friend, Juliette, is a french bow ...
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First week in Vancity
I’ve been a resident of Vancouver for a week, and am finally taking a day to rest and relax after seeing as much as I could. The week flew by, with art galleries on top ...
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IQ3!
I had the pleasure of designing the latest issue of the Incongruous Quarterly, straight out of Montreal. Read the science-themed poetry and prose here, and check out their blog for more content and updates.
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Savage Night at the Opera
Though I am, perhaps, the biggest fan ever of Destroyer’s Rubies, this has easily become the new anthem for my last summer in Toronto, paradoxically, by an artist straight from Vancouver. I move in nine ...
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Master of Arts Degree: Attained
Today, I submitted bound copies of my final major research paper, with all revisions, my signed declaration page, and signatures of approval from my supervisor and second reader to the Department of English at Ryerson ...
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We’re Savage High
Sound bites from this afternoon working at the MLCRC… “…love is a deeper season than reason…” “…for the love, comes the burning young from the liver, sweating through your tongue…” “I’m growing like the quickening ...
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I Heart Vancouver
So, I’ve officially been in Vancouver for 24 hours, and I am hopelessly, madly in love. I’ll post photos when I return, but here’s one of my shots of the Rocky Mountains from 41,000 feet:
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Scream / Photos from the Mobile Street Mic
The last Scream in High Park is tonight, so make sure to head out! Here are a few few photos from SB’s Scream Literary Festival Mobile Street Mic, Variations on a Scream:
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Canada Day (2011)
Curran and I decided to do something entirely wholesome and low-key this Canada Day, so we took my Mom to Toronto Island to hike and watch the fireworks over the water. We walked for about ...
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The Scream Literary Festival
Upcoming event for the Scream Literary UnFestival: The Steel Bananas Art Collective will be meandering the streets of Toronto armed with a wagon, microphone, and camera, inviting passersby to take a moment to offer “Variations ...
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Toronto Soul
So much has happened in the last two weeks. The Strangers in Paris launch went swimmingly, my brother moved and settled in to his new job as an Associate Creative Director at Mullen, and my ...
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Congrats, Curran!
Congrats to my partner in crime and partner in life, Curran, for having his Honours BA in English Literature conferred upon him today!
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Summertime begins…
People I love in the city I love. A few shots from my summer wanderings thus far:
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Bernadette
Bernadette by Starla Bontecou. Oil paint on an antique photograph. A gift for Jeff to celebrate his recent move to Boston.
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Luminato/ iArmy
I’m going to mention Luminato in a moment, so bear with me. I must get this techno-guilt off of my chest: So, I always said I would never get a smartphone. Phone companies are evil ...
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Mr. Piano Sandwich Dog Samurai
I know this blog is for my peripheral work, but I just had to post some of Curran’s recent off-the-cuff drawings (with his permission, of course). Here’s Mr. Piano Sandwich Dog Samurai takes his strawberry ...
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Call for submissions
SB28: Translation Politics and patois. Hybrids, conversions, and mashups. Malapropisms and misspelling… We are calling for submissions of poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and visual art on the theme on translation for the twenty-eighth issue of ...
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Strangers in Paris
I had the pleasure to design the recent anthology Strangers in Paris, launching in Toronto in late June, with NYC and Paris launches following later this year. Including Booker Prize winner John Berger, Pulitzer Prize ...
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Fischer
Last night Ted, Sarah, Zack, James, Curran and I met at the TIFF Lightbox to see the recent documentary on former World Chess Champion, Bobby Fischer. It was interesting and unsettling. Directed by Liz Garbus, ...
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Some things last a long time
I’m currently reading Jennifer DeVere Brody’s Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play for my thesis, and mulling over the dash’s bizarre ability to separate, connect, and propel. The Baroness’ writing is dominated by the dash, as ...
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