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Liz

I Never Fall Apart Because I Never Fall Together

About Me

Walking around at night on the streets I know so well. Coffee and notebooks and ideas flying around too fast to hold on to. Spin the bottle parties and streetcar rides and making things happen...Well, at least that's part of what I do, or try to. I work as a freelance writer, which means that I pretty much work every day of the week. It has me splitting a lot of my time between hiding in my house writing and researching, and then going out and talking to strangers about who they are, what they do, and why they do it.

My Interests

Toronto and Montreal and London and New York and Seattle and Berlin. Talk way too loud and too much all the time. Chinese food. Psychogeography. Trying to learn something about everything. Andy Warhol and Pop. Being able to admit when I'm being an asshole. DIY. Revolutions. Coffee shop philosophies.

I'd like to meet:

I'd rather talk about who I don't want to meet but there isn't enough space here to even get started on that.

Music:

The Start, X-Ray Spex, Elastica, Viletones, The Raincoats, The Clash, Wire, Gang of Four, Diodes, the Fall, the Smiths, Red Card, Guns 'N Roses, Nirvana, X, Delta 5, Billy Bragg, Forgotten Rebels, the Pandoras, Nina Hagen, Sonic Youth, the Ugly, the Runaways, the Curse, Joan Jett, Geisha Girls, the Damned, the Cure, Femme Generation, Soft Cell, Kilbourne, the Bayonettes, Joy Division, Maximum Joy, Velvet Underground, Scanners, New Order, Cities in Dust, Epsilons, Patti Smith, the Demics, Fifth Column, Buzzcocks, Dead Boys, Teenage Head

Movies:

I don't see enough of them.

Television:

Roseanne, My So-Called Life

Books:

Glamorama, Chuck Palahniuk, Lost Souls, Human Punk, Daniel Jones, Cherry, Fast Food Nation, the uTOpia anthology, Cat's Eye, She's Come Undone, POPism, The Warhol Diaries, 1978, a, Girl, Nausea, Lipstick Traces, White Oleander

Heroes:

Morrissey, Roseanne, Dave Vanian, Aimee Echo, Andy Warhol

My Blog

So Bad It’s Good...

For the September issue of Exclaim! I had the chance to put a few questions to Halifax's must-hear band, Be Bad: http://www.exclaim.ca/musicreviews/generalreview.aspx?csid2= 851&fid1=27088&am...
Posted by Liz on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:30:00 PST

Heroes of Hamilton: Book Excerpt

Hamilton's H Magazine has published an excerpt from my forthcoming book, Treat Me Like Dirt: An Oral History of Punk Behind the Pine Curtain, for its August/September issue. Check out the thoughts on ...
Posted by Liz on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:22:00 PST

Not Just a Dead Boy

A little while back I had the pleasure of meeting and interviewing Cheetah Chrome of the Dead Boys and Rocket From the Tombs, who was hanging around southern Ontario making some really great nois...
Posted by Liz on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 06:51:00 PST

Have I told you lately...

How much I like the Diodes? http://www.exclaim.ca/musicreviews/generalreview.aspx?csid1= 112&csid2=944&fid1=26308...
Posted by Liz on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 12:36:00 PST

Bad to the Brain

The new issue of Exclaim! hit the streets this week and in it is a good long look at the history of Bad Brains: http://www.exclaim.ca/articles/timelline.aspx    ...
Posted by Liz on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:50:00 PST

Revival

First, there's a piece on how the old is new again: http://www.exclaim.ca/articles/research.aspx?csid1=111 And then there's something about how the new seeks out the old: http://www.exclaim.ca/a...
Posted by Liz on Sun, 03 Jun 2007 11:21:00 PST

Cool!

The second anniversary of Indie Politik's Strong Words series is tomorrow night, and to mark the occasion they're publishing an anthology that includes the works of the past year's readers. I was one ...
Posted by Liz on Sun, 03 Jun 2007 11:16:00 PST

Chipping at icebergs

Last week I spent way too much time with guitarist Richard Lloyd. Here's a very, very condensed version of how Day One went: http://www.eyeweekly.com/eye/issue/issue_05.17.07/music/stre etspirit.php I'...
Posted by Liz on Thu, 17 May 2007 11:17:00 PST

Shadowy Lens on a Shadowy Planet

Check out Don Pyle's sure-to-be-awesome photo exhibit. http://www.eyeweekly.com/eye/issue/issue_04.26.07/arts/artsw eek_2.php Also, I've been so crazy busy with setting up interviews, working on The B...
Posted by Liz on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:23:00 PST

Sex and Drugs and Rock n' Roll?? Not for me!

I just read this for the first time since it was surrendered to the Star's I.D. editor and it made me wish I had more exciting stories - at least that are fit to print, anyway. http://www.thestar.com...
Posted by Liz on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 06:22:00 PST