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THIS IS BILLY 'THE KID' BREAKSPEARE

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Adventures in seeing 100 bands...

Some thoughts on the “anything goes” model of band instrumentation and the death of technique in the musician.

Hollywood hates me...

Rod thinks that Hollywood hates him. We say their hate is reserved only for those they know exist. Ooohhh! Burn!

Boiled Wieners...

One of my favorite sketches involved a piss drunk party girl in a bar played to a creepy tee by Derek Forgiein a wig.

Carte Blanch at Contact...

Every year, for the whole month of May, ‘Contact' (the photography festival) is on - and every year, for the whole month of May, I say to myself that I really should get out to see some shows - and then, sadly, it's June..

Sunday, May 21 see who is the best poet! Step into the lyrical coliseum and duke it out with the lions of verse at the Toronto Poetry Slam <www.torontopoetryslam.com>. It's a three-round spoken word battle, the first of three qualifying slams for the Toronto slam team to compete sin the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word, plus special guest feature Brendan McLeod from Vancouver. At El Mocambo, 464 Spadina Ave. poet sign-up 8:30pm, show 9pm, $5

Tuesday, May 23 The Art Bar <www.artbar.org> Poetry Series presents Irving Layton Tribute Night: a group reading by six of Irving Layton's former colleagues and students, who will pay tribute to the late poet and read some of his work. Victory Café, 581 Markham St., 8pm , free.

Derek Forgie slams down the stand-up at the Oasis in a “Night of Passion with Jillian Thomas.” Wednesday, May 24, 5 bucks. Good times. 294 College Street.

The full title of the painting which inspired our magazine title is Homo sapiens, Lepidium sativum and Calliphora vomitoria - a wise man, some cress, and a bluebottle. It is the work of British artist Stuart Pearson Wright.

"At the end of the first sitJating, the Prince inspected the work and exclaimed 'godzooks' or 'godzounds', the artist was too alarmed to remember which."

www.guardian.co.uk
Friday, July 25
2003