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Calum

The Problem With Ottawa's Music Scene Since 2006

About Me

What The Press Has To Say About CALUM MARSH: "If the blogging collective at mockingmusic.blogspot.com has anything to say on the matter, underdog capital city Ottawa will be Canada's next major buzz-generator." - The Washington Times "With Mocking Music on the rise, guitarist Lou Reed may have wanted Calum Marsh promoting his shows, too." - The Charlatan

My Interests

ICE CREAM SUNDAYS! Every Sunday at Zaphod's, Mocking Music, DJ Booth, and Lady Ms Myrhh bring you the best indie/electro/whatever bands and DJs this side of Pitchfork. Every day's (a) Sundae!

I'd like to meet:

Most of all, I love Ottawa. The crumbling warehouses, the railway arches, the cheap abundant drugs. That's what did it in the end. Not the money, not the music, not even the guns. That is my heroic flaw: my excess of civic pride.It was like being on a fantastic fairground ride, centrifugal forces throwing us wider and wider. But it's all right, because there's this brilliant machine at the center that's going to bring us back down to earth. That was Ottawa. That was Mocking Music. Now imagine the machine breaks. For a while, it's even better, because you're really flying. But eventually you fall, because nobody beats gravity.

Movies:

Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut, John Cassavettes, Errol Morris, Lars Von Trier, David Lynch, Ingmar Bergman, Mike Leigh, Jim Jarmusch, Woody Allen, Federico Fellini, Stanley Kubrick, Vincent Gallo, Andrei Tarkovskey, Wong Kar-Wai, Yasujiro Ozu, Werner Herzog, Terry Gilliam, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Sergei Eisenstein, Michelangelo Antonioni, Jean Cocteau, Jean Renoir, Vittorio De Sica, Seijun Suzuki, Orson Welles, Richard Linklater, Carol Reed, Roman Polanski, Dario Argento, Paul Verhoeven

Television:

Deadwood, The Office, Arrested Development, Twin Peaks

Books:

Pretentious literature by pretentious authors: Voltaire, Tolstoy, Kafka, Chekhov, Sartre, etc. Yes, they changed my life. Yes, I'm just like everyone else.

Heroes:

Tony Wilson Albert Grossman Tom Parker Brian Eno Damo Suzuki John Lydon my dad

My Blog

calum's picks o' the day pt.7

Album: Brian Jonestown Massacre - Thank God For Mental IllnessSong: Junior Boys - In The MorningMovie: Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis)Video Game: Streets of Rage (Genesis)Youtube: David Lynch PSA (ht...
Posted by Calum on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 07:38:00 PST

calum's picks o' the day pt.6

album: jesu - silver EP boredoms - super roots 2song: the undertones - teenage kicksmovie: trontelevision show: beyond belief - fact or fictionyoutube: Peter Weller on drugs (http://www.youtu...
Posted by Calum on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 06:09:00 PST

calum's picks o' the day pt.5

movie: Zelig (Woody Allen)TV Show: Twitch City - seasons 1 & 2 (Don McKellar)album: Boredoms - Super Aesong: Blonde Redhead - 23youtube: Paul Masson Wine - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5LkDNu8bVU ...
Posted by Calum on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 02:06:00 PST

ice cream sundaysssssss

The newly revamped No Format night serves it up hard, delivering an interactive night between live acts and DJs focused on the newest and biggest local, national and international talent. Toronto elec...
Posted by Calum on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 01:53:00 PST

calum's picks o' the day pt.4

Movie: The Tingler (1957)Album: Scott Walker - ScottSong: LCD Soundsystem - North American ScumWikipedia: Diachronic Linguistics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diachronic)Youtube: "It's The Mind" (http...
Posted by Calum on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:59:00 PST

calum's picks o' the day pt.3

Song: Prince - Another Lonely ChristmasAlbum: Sun Ra - Nothing IsMovie: Kamikaze GirlsBook: Foucault - History Of Sexuality Pt.1: An IntroductionWikipedia: Aspartame (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspa...
Posted by Calum on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 02:44:00 PST

calum's picks o' the day pt.2

Song: Orchestral Maneuvers In The Dark - Enola GayAlbum: The Monks - Bad HabitsBook: Voltaire - The Age Of ReasonMovie: The Man Who Fell To EarthWikipedia: Club Sandwich (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Posted by Calum on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 08:55:00 PST

calum's picks o' the day pt.1

Calum's Picks O' The Day Pt.1:ALBUM: Philip Glass - GlassworksMOVIE: Spirit Of The Beehive (1973)BOOK: The Age Of Reason - SartreYOUTUBE: Dickson Sound Experiment (1895) (http://www.youtube.com/result...
Posted by Calum on Sat, 25 Nov 2006 11:18:00 PST

Concert - July 19th

Good times had by all. BE THERE.
Posted by Calum on Sun, 02 Jul 2006 10:26:00 PST

Come on! Let's boogey to the elf dance!

And now the tentative (far from finalized) Top Ten Albums 2005 list! 1. Sufjan Stevens - Come On! Feel The Illioise! 2. Wolf Parade - Apologies To The Queen Mary 3. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - s/t ...
Posted by Calum on Thu, 08 Dec 2005 03:48:00 PST