CD: Steppin? In It, Simple Tunes for Troubled Times Release date: 2008 Label: Fox on a Hill All right, Steamboat Queen, Sing me a simple tune for these troubled times. Hold tight, Steamboat Queen. You must have been something in your prime. from ?The Steamboat Queen,? Steppin? In It, Simple Tunes for Troubled Times On… Read more »
Japan is one of those places where anything goes, like public parks inside skyscrapers, used-underwear vending machines, second careers for failed North American bands, and ganguro troupes haunting the streets. The unabashed open-mindedness of the music scene in Japan breeds jealousy in the minds of small-town dwellers and city folk alike on this side of… Read more »
Meet Your New Council The AUSU Council and staff have added and updated their bio pages. If You’re curious about who these nine people are, you can go to our council page to find out more, or meet our Councillors in the AUSU chat room at the times announced on the front page of the… Read more »
Have you caught the de-cluttering bug? The message of urging (and urgency) on television and in books and magazines is relentless. That message is at cross-purposes with the pressure to buy, buy, buy. we’re bombarded with the benefits of purging: breathing space; a calming, zen-like setting; simplicity. we’re shamed into it by the hectoring advice… Read more »
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DVD: Shut Up and Sing Release date: 2007 Directed by Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck It’s a sad sad story when a mother will teach her Daughter that she ought to hate a perfect stranger. And how in the world can the words that I said Send somebody so over the edge That they’d write… Read more »
Meet Your New Council The AUSU Council and staff have added and updated their bio pages. If You’re curious about who these nine people are, you can go to our council page to find out more, or meet our Councillors in the AUSU chat room at the times announced on the front page of the… Read more »
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Dear reader, I have a confession to make. I’ve been keeping something from you. I was hoping to have a good news, happy ending, victory-over-defeat story to share this week. Alas, it was not to be. Last year Roy bought a Honda Gold Wing motorcycle, thereby living out a dream. He took the Alberta Safety… Read more »
DVD: INLAND EMPIRE Release date: 2007 Written and directed by David Lynch. Starring Laura Dern, Jeremy Irons, and Justin Theroux. “. . . as a rule the images of the unconscious are not produced by consciousness, but have a reality and spontaneity of their own. Nevertheless, we regard them as mere marginal phenomena.” Carl Jung… Read more »