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James

It's safer to be with your own...

About Me

Back to normal.

My Interests

My blog: http://sjbrot.blogspot.com/

I'd like to meet:

Norman Mailer and Rip Torn squaring off.

Music:

Paul Westerberg - Stereo, The Replacements - Pleased to Meet Me, David Bowie - The Rise And Fall of Ziggy Stardust, The Long Winters - When I Pretend to Fall, Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose, Lucinda Williams - Essence, Prefuse 73 - Security Screenings, The Postal Service - Give Up, The Weakerthans - Left and Leaving, The Kinks - The Village Green Preservation Society, Frank Black and the Catholics - Black Letter Days, P.J. Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea, The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema, Beck - Sea Change, Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister, William Shatner - Has Been, Roy Orbison - Greatest Hits, Pulp - Different Class, Bright Eyes - Lifted, The Hidden Cameras - Smell of Our Own, X - Los Angeles, Sunset Rubdown - S/T EP, Ladyhawk - S/T, Rah Rah - Songs for Pasquala EP, Wax Mannequin - Orchard EP, The B-52's - S/T, The Sunday Sinners - Sweet Jam EP, The Sadies - Stories Often Told, Ben Folds - Songs for Silverman, The Smiths - Louder Than Bombs, Malajube - Trompe l'oeil, ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Source Tags and Codes, Kid Koala - Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Tom Waits - Real Gone, Beirut - Gulag Orkestar, Robyn Hitchcock - Globe of Frogs, Wilco - Summerteeth

Movies:

Alfred Hitchcock (Frenzy, Rear Window, Lifeboat, Psycho, Strangers on a Train), Akira Kurosawa (Yojimbo, The Seven Samurai), Twelve Angry Men, Ed Wood, Kevin Smith (Clerks, Dogma, Chasing Amy), Wes Anderson (Rushmore, The Royal Tennenbaums), John Cusack (Grosse Pointe Blank, Say Anything), Charlie Kauffman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Being John Malkovich), Dig!, Clint Eastwood (For a Few Dollars More, Pale Rider), Steve McQueen (The Getaway, The Thomas Crown Affair)

Television:

Mr. Show, The Office (British), Arrested Development, The Wedge, The New Music, The Henry Rollins Show, Dateline: To Catch a Predator, Going Coastal

Books:

Jonathan Franzen - The Corrections, Albert Camus - L'etranger, Jonathan Lethem - Fortress of Solitude, Denis Johnson - Jesus' Son, Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar, Dave Eggers - You Shall Know Our Velocity! , Larry Sloman - On the Road with Bob Dylan, Legs McNeil - Please Kill Me, Mordecai Richler - Barney's Version

My Blog

SoCalled!

I got an advance copy of the new SoCalled album, Ghettoblaster, and he is on this better than ever before. I loved, loved the last one, but this is a well sequenced, poignant, and most of all grooving...
Posted by James on Sun, 03 Jun 2007 01:54:00 PST

Best Music of '06

Well, here we go. I figure I had this list ready, and my top five were already printed in the Carillon and my top ten over at the X-Ray Records site (http://www.xrayrecords.ca/) that I may as well pos...
Posted by James on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 11:25:00 PST

Why There Will Be No More Visits To The Cornwall.

Because I am slightly bitter.Bitter might not be the right word for this. I simply have a bad taste in my mouth about the whole thing. And having to pay for parking? Forget it.I went in today in the h...
Posted by James on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 08:14:00 PST

Shows to be missed

While I'm fighting for even an hour off so I can slip off to Saskatoon next Saturday to see Ladyhawk, I just found out that apparently next week is monumental in Toon town. None other than Del Tha Fun...
Posted by James on Fri, 30 Jun 2006 12:41:00 PST

More July concerts

In addition to the Wax Mannequin and Ladyhawk shows posted around here before. Now, in addition to that, we have: Rah Rah, playing July 22nd at th Exchange. Fight the Monster, playing July 14th with D...
Posted by James on Tue, 27 Jun 2006 03:50:00 PST

Regina concerts

Wax Mannequin will be coming to an undisclosed location (probably Gaslight if I had to guess, but we'll see) July 26th. AND The amazing Ladyhawk (who just dropped their grade A self-titled album last ...
Posted by James on Thu, 15 Jun 2006 04:40:00 PST

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Posted by James on Thu, 08 Jun 2006 02:00:00 PST