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Robert Walser Roundup 19 October 2009

2009-10-19T13:06:00.014-04:00

Following on from April's roundup of recent publishing events surrounding the œuvre of Robert Walser, six months later there's even more to report!Firstly, the English translation of the The Tanners finally did come out, although a few months late (reaching the Canadian market on 25 August). After reading Jean Launay's 1985 French translation, reissued in 1992, I very much look forward to reading

Jacques Tati at the Cinémathèque française

2009-04-13T19:19:00.004-04:00

The Cinémathèque française just opened an amazing Jacques Tati exhibition (8 April - 2 August 2009) that really makes me wish I were in Paris and not here. I've noticed that in conjunction with this event, several books on Tati are to be published in April and May, but the definitive one seems to be the exhibition catalogue published by Naïve:Before they were an independent publisher, Naïve were

Robert Walser: The Tanners and other new releases

2009-04-12T11:37:00.021-04:00

In honour of the imminent publication of Susan Bernofsky's translation of Robert Walser's Geschwister Tanner (The Tanners), which until now had been inédit in the English-speaking world (although it has been available in French here in Canada since 1985), I've put together a roundup of some recent events in the world of Walser.Firstly, Robert Walser's 1907 novel The Tanners is finally coming out

Spaziergang in Montreal

2009-03-21T01:52:00.012-04:00

As someone who is (relatively) new to Montreal and enjoys a good walk, I'm expecting great things from this one:Marcher à Montréal et ses environsSÉGUIN, YvesUlysse22 April 2009$22.99192 pages (with 20 maps)Voici un guide indispensable pour quiconque cherche à s'évader, ne serait-ce que quelques heures. Il met de l'avant près de 95 lieux de randonnée situés à Montréal et ses environs. Tous des

My Winnipeg, The Book

2009-02-13T00:46:00.008-05:00

Based on the film My Winnipeg — which I was fortunate enough to see at the 2007 Festival Nouveau Cinéma, just a few days after it premiered at TIFF and, paradoxically, long before the actual Winnipeg premiere — Coach House Books have announced the forthcoming publication of a book of the same title by Guy Maddin.From the publisher:At the heart of the film is Maddin’s voiceover, told in his

Stereo Total Returning to Montréal!

2009-02-12T23:05:00.009-05:00

After a year-and-a-half's absence, the Berlin-based, Franco-German duo Stereo Total, a.k.a. The Best Pop Group in the World, will be returning to Montreal. The details are as follows:Zoo-Prod présenteSTEREO TOTALwith Leslie & The Ly’s + DonzelleLE NATIONAL - 1220 Ste-Catherine EstVendredi le 20 mars 09,21h*Portes20h*Infos 514.845.2014Admission généraleFrom Françoise and Bretzel :Put the Martini

Translating from the French, or How might a human being put the same idea?

2009-02-08T16:39:00.006-05:00

On the first page of the first chapter of his 2001 book The Flâneur, Edmund White describes La Défense as having gone ‘directly from being futuristic to being passé without ever seeming like a normal feature of the present’. He then goes on to say:Honestly, instead of ‘like a normal feature of the present’ I almost wrote 'without ever being inscribed within the interior of the present'. That's

Les vacances de Monsieur Pitt

2009-01-22T01:44:00.013-05:00

Before seeing Burn After Reading a few months ago, I don't think I had ever seen Brad Pitt in a film. I made no distinction between him and any number of other unintersting 'stars' in the banal Hollywood system. This Japanese advert is the second thing I've seen him in and, lo and behold, it doesn't suck either. It's an hommage to Jacques Tati's Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot (with Pitt as an

Toronto Book Fair

2009-01-20T23:33:00.005-05:00

Well, they've done it again. It wasn't enough for them to rip off the Nuit Blanche from Montreal (via Paris), now Toronto is going to have a go at a salon du livre. As an alternative to the nearly defunct Book Expo Canada, a Toronto Book Fair has been proposed for 2-4 October 2009. This is, of course, nothing more than a salon du livre, the likes of which have existed in the francophone world for

The Rain Before It Falls by Jonathan Coe

2009-01-11T21:34:00.010-05:00

The Rain Before It Falls, the latest novel by Jonathan Coe, will FINALLY be coming out in paperback in North America in a few weeks. It really does suck being under the thumb of the Americans to such an extent that we have to wait several months before being able to read the latest offering by one of our best contemporary novelists.The hardback came out on 6 September 2007 in Britain, but not

Swedish Invasion!

2009-01-11T17:23:00.009-05:00

Happy New Year to one and all!I've been away from the blog for a few weeks, and obviously everyone knows this already, but in the interests of complétude, I feel I should finish what I started back on 29 November.To begin, for anyone who managed to miss it, a revue de presse from mid-December:IKEA store coming to WinnipegIKEA eyes Winnipeg locationThe road to IKEAStore expected to draw shoppers

IKEA in Winnipeg?

2008-11-29T18:14:00.012-05:00

Having heard rumours of IKEA opening a store in Winnipeg for as long as I can remember, I'm always skeptical when this story pops up in the media every few months. That being said, after listening to this report on CBC Radio, and reading these two items in the Free Press, it would seem that it might actually happen this time. Although not for a few years. The company has apparently even

L'Histoire criminelle des anglo-saxons

2008-11-11T22:50:00.006-05:00

New from the wonderfully zany world of Québécois publishing, we have L'histoire criminelle des anglo-saxons (literally, The Criminal History of the Anglo-Saxons) by a chap called Normand Rousseau.Although best known as the publisher of dodgy new age books (as seen on her website), Louise Courteau has varied her output here with a violent, anti-English polemic. The description on the back cover

Making Friends in English

2008-09-07T23:00:00.002-04:00

Perhaps one day I'll get the hang of it...

Tout cela pour en arriver là

2008-07-31T23:59:00.008-04:00

After reading this last week I got all excited because I thought something good was finally going to happen in Winnipeg, but in the end it seems that rapid transit for Winnipeg is going to come in the form of a busway. *yawn* By the way, isn't this the same plan that Glen Murray came up with several years ago (except that it was cheaper back then) and that Sam Katz cancelled because he wanted to

Following Euro 2008 from Canada

2008-06-08T22:37:00.011-04:00

Well, Euro 2008 is in full swing now and, as ever, it's not that easy to keep on top of everything when you're stuck in the backwater footballistique that is Canada. Obviously, things get easier with every major tournament as the amount of coverage available on the Internet increases, but none of the British Home Nations have qualified this time round, and the amount of English-language coverage

I'm back with scars to show

2008-04-28T20:35:00.012-04:00

I haven't posted here in almost a month, but I have lots of good excuses:I'm never sick, but was sick three times during the month of April. Feeling better now, fortunately.Tax returns. Yes, tax returns plural. In Quebec you have to file a completely separate provincial return too. Killer.I really enjoy listening to podcasts (MP3 over RSS), especially French and British ones, but my MiniDisc

La manipulation de l'information par Radio-Canada

2008-04-02T01:11:00.008-04:00

On 25 and 27 March, Radio-Canada (the French-language division of the CBC) reported, in outraged tones, that "more and more" [they never actually quantify this notion] students from France are coming over here to study at Quebec's English-language universities, thanks to a 1978 agreement between the governments of France and Quebec that allows French and Québécois students to attend university on

Damn You, Cineplex Entertainment (An ONEX Corporation)

2008-04-01T00:25:00.008-04:00

So, according to Le Devoir, Cineplex Entertainment is blackmailing art house film distributors into helping kill off the network of independent salles parallèles cinemas in rural Quebec. Basically, because K-Films Amérique, a local distributor of foreign and domestic art house fare, has decided to show the forthcoming French film Un baiser s'il vous plaît (which, by the way, is supposed to be

Melody Day by Caribou

2008-03-24T13:34:00.012-04:00

I've been so out of touch with the scene lately that I didn't even realise that the sublime intro music to Louise Bourgoin's weather report on Canal+ is actually a Canadian indie song. La preuve en images:This impossibly lush song is in fact Melody Day by Vancouver's Caribou. Before this Dick threatened him with legal action, Caribou used to be called Manitoba, which is where I come from, and

Long Blondes Promo Videos For 'Couples'

2008-03-23T20:41:00.010-04:00

Couples, the new LP from The Long Blondes, is coming out over here on 8 April, as announced by these somewhat cryptic promo videos:Video n° 1 Video n° 2A perfect representation of what I like to call une certaine idée de l'Angleterre, that is to say, that appealing quality of Englishness.And then there's this one, which just rocks my socks:You can hear the first single from the aforementioned new

Common People

2008-03-23T19:24:00.007-04:00

If you're like me and grew up with Archie comics, and thought that the answer to Blur v Oasis was Pulp, then this is for you.This synchronisation to music is based on the original work of comic strip détournement published by Chris at his Invincible Super-Blog.

Ach bleib bei uns, Herr Jesu Christ

2008-03-23T13:03:00.005-04:00

Happy Easter to one and all!Chocolate bunnies are all well and good, but in my old age I've reached the point where I would rather sit back and have a listen to Bach's Easter Cantatas. Below, I've compiled pour vous an mp3 sample of Easter cantatas from Deutsche Grammophon catalogue no. 463 580-2. This recording was part of the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage, during which Sir John Eliot Gardiner,

The Best Indie Record Store in Canada

2008-03-22T15:42:00.004-04:00

CBC Radio 3 has initiated a contest to indentify Canada's Best Indie Record Store. My submission to the nomination committee went as follows:Located at River & Osborne, the hipster equivalent of Portage & Main, Music Trader has got to be the best record store in Winnipeg. They have EVERYTHING (new & used, tons of indie), they host live, in-store performances of local and touring bands all the

Germans and the French language

2008-03-22T14:18:00.007-04:00

A hundred years after it was written, Robert Walser's »Der Gehülfe« (The Assistant) is finally available in English. Susan Bernofsky's translation was first published by New Directions in July 2007, but I held off because I already had a copy of Bernard Lortholary's masterly French translation first published in 1985. But then this month Penguin UK had to go and release a gorgeous edition of

... and we're back

2008-03-22T13:35:00.002-04:00

After a brief hiatus of nine months — brought about by the new version of Blogger that not only linked my Blogger account to the wrong Google account and then wouldn't allow me to de-link it, but also completely messed up my template and sidebar — I'm finally back. Let's see if I can keep it up for more than a couple of months this time, shall we?

A Book Design Blog

2007-06-09T19:07:00.000-04:00

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, I've started a blog about book design.After reading a piece in Publishers Weekly about book design bloggers, featuring Christopher Papasadero and Joseph Sullivan, and then reading a post about French book design written by the latter, I decided to launch my own book design blog, putting my own knowledge of French books to particular use.Première de couverture, or the

Dictionnaire du monde germanique

2007-06-08T01:17:00.000-04:00

Here it is, folks. The book that's had germanists and germanophiles all over the world salivating with anticipation for the past several years finally has a confirmed release date. After years of delays and one cancellation, I am pleased to report that the momumental Dictionnaire du monde germanique -- a 1000 page encyclopaedia covering historical, cultural, artistic, economic, political,

I think my g/f is cheating on me.

2007-05-27T23:24:00.000-04:00

"I think my g/f is cheating on me". Thus begins this strangely compelling tale of raw human drama that turns out to be nothing more than the backdrop to a most benign of technical inquiries at the MiniDisc Community Forums.I'm not sure if this is real or not, but I couldn't control my laughter after reading the technical question that is posed in the final sentence of the narrative, with no

Varsity Blues

2007-05-24T22:50:00.000-04:00

France's universities could be first test for Sarkozy. From Marco Chown Oved of the Associated Press, via the International Herald Tribune:The Sorbonne, France's most renowned university, has no cafeteria, no student newspaper [and] no varsity sports. [....] It also costs next-to-nothing to attend, and admission is open to everyone who has finished high school. [....] The Sorbonne also has no

Trois minutes, douche comprise

2007-05-20T13:59:00.000-04:00

Le Tout Chirac: A life at the top: From John Lichfield in yesterday's Independent, a brilliantly succinct A-to-Z summary of Chirac's political career. Truly an essential read.Choice excerpts:In the 1980s, M. Laumond says, the procession of women into M. Chirac's office was so constant that women staffers would joke: "Chirac? Three minutes. Shower included."[....]In 1979 he campaigned as a

Old People and Old Dutch

2007-05-20T13:35:00.000-04:00

Winnipeg mayor launches seniors council: "Winnipeg Mayor Sam Katz announced plans Friday to appoint seniors to an advisory council to offer recommendations about how the city can better serve its aging population."*yawn* How about a plan to keep educated young people (who continue to flee in record numbers) in Winnipeg? Just a thought... While the NDP builds Waverly West, the mayor cancels

Early Twentieth Century German Culture

2006-12-15T21:37:00.001-05:00

As a young up-and-coming amateur germanist, I was thrilled this week to stumble upon Christian Brandstätter Verlag's publishing programme, and more specifically Wien um 1900 | Kunst und Kultur – Fokus der europäischen Moderne (October 2005) and Berlin | Die 20er Jahre (September 2006). Lavishly illustrated and featuring authoratative essays, these two books brilliantly capture the spirit of these

Things They Don't Got Here

2006-11-30T22:41:00.000-05:00

Over the past few years, as I've extolled the virtues of Montreal while languishing in Winnipeg, exasperated interlocutors have often exlaimed 'what don't they have in Montreal?!'. Now that I've been here for a few months, I can start to answer that question. Rapid transit, film festivals, bike lanes and a general European feel are all well and good, but there are a few things missing:Old Dutch

From Winnipeg to Montreal in Three Months Flat

2006-11-28T23:40:00.000-05:00

Well, here we are once again. After an absence of almost four months, I've decided to come back and do some blogging again. While I wasn't blogging I was moving my life 2000km east, and am now comfortably installed in Montreal, the land of film festivals, bike lanes, bookshops and rapid transit. Having been born and raised in Winnipeg, it was not an easy decision to leave, but after nearly 25

Les citations du jour 2006-08-05

2006-08-05T12:00:00.000-04:00

Parmi les commentaires suscités par ce billet de blog au sujet de la qualité du français au Québec, retenons les phrases suivantes :Au Québec, parler un français hexagonal, digne d'une page éditoriale du Monde Diplomatique, c'est s'exposer dangereusement à de lourdes représailles qui peuvent aller jusqu'aux coups.[Permalien] Je me demande bien sur quoi, nous les québécois francophones, appuyons

Aidez l'Espagne

2006-07-18T18:49:00.000-04:00

This morning I was greeted with the following bit of wonderful news in the Nouvel observateur:29,8% des Espagnols juge que le soulèvement militaire du général Franco, point de départ de la guerre civile espagnole, était 'justifié'Yes indeed. Nearly a third of Spaniards still believe that Franco's uprising was justified. Good on them. When I wrote earlier this month that I thought that there

Le ciel d'été remplit nos coeurs de sa lucidité

2006-07-16T20:06:00.000-04:00

With temperatures surpassing 35°C this week, it is safe to say that summer has definitely arrived on plains of central Canada. From -35°C in the winter to 35°C in the summer, the continental climate continues to do its thing.It's times like this that you wish Canada were just a bit smaller, to facilitate travel, and that it had a Côte d'Azur, so you would have somewhere to go. I suppose I've

Site News 2006-07-16

2006-07-16T15:00:00.000-04:00

It's been a full week since the end of the Fußball-WM, so I've purged all of the frivilous sporting content from the right-hand sidebar. In its place, I've added a new feature that I'm calling The Literary Supplement. It will always have links to the ten most recent (the rest can be found here) literature-related bits of content published by the sources I most regularly consult. This is also

La citation du jour 2006-07-16

2006-07-16T12:48:00.000-04:00

Le grand public pense que les livres, comme les oeufs, gagnent à être consommés frais. C'est pour cette raison qu'il choisit toujours la nouveauté. -Goethe (via Heileen)Goethe is saying that the general public thinks that books, like eggs, should be consumed fresh. For this reason, the average punter tends to choose new releases. Of course the average punter these days isn't likely to choose a

La citation du jour 2006-07-14

2006-07-14T11:25:00.000-04:00

Interroggée sur l'antenne de France 2 dans le cadre du 14 juillet, Michèle Alliot-Marie, la ministre française de la défense, a dit:L'armée a réagi avec beaucoup de réactivitéCan you say langue de bois?

La citation du jour 2006-07-13

2006-07-13T20:29:00.000-04:00

The newest feature of this blog is the tried and tested Quote of the Day. This, the inaugural entry, comes courtesy of Lucas Armati writing in Télérama's Blog Télévision:Marre de ces [....] documentaires dont le seul suspense consiste à savoir s'il s'agit d'une coproduction franco-allemande ou germano-française ?Lamenting the state of summertime telly in France, he asks: 'Aren't you sick of

Les ponts de Paris

2006-07-13T01:21:00.000-04:00

There's a wonderful article by John Lichfield in today's Independent about the new Passerelle Simone de Beauvoir, and more generally about the history of bridges in Paris.Choice extracts:The bridge is both chaotically modern, and graceful, preserving a long tradition of epoch-defining but beautiful Parisian bridges going back for 400 years.[....]Paris has more river bridges than any other

L'été à Lutèce

2006-07-12T21:06:00.000-04:00

It could be my small-town naïveté, but I have never heard of anything like this. Paris has just inaugurated (slideshow) its 35th municipal public baths. Nothing too extraordinary in that, except that this swimming pool floats on the Seine. It's called the Piscine Joséphine Baker and is moored on the Left Bank, just opposite the Bibliothèque Françcois-Mitterrand. On board this floating marvel, in

Oh là là là là !

2006-07-09T16:57:00.000-04:00

Amy Lawrence had it spot on exactly one week ago today: Genius always comes with a dark side. Neverterless, Zidane remains the greatest footballer that I will have seen in my lifetime. Merci Zizou!In the end, it came down to a single, narrowly missed penalty by Trezeguet. He'd hardly been given a kick at the ball the whole tournament, and to go from virtual inactivity to then be thown into

On est en finale, on est en finale, on est, on est, on est en finale

2006-07-06T12:05:00.000-04:00

Well, here we are. At the beginning of this whole affair, nobody thought France would be anywhere near the final. The 2004-2005 qualifying campaign was turning into a nightmare; although they hadn't lost a single match, France drew with Israel and Switzerland twice, and Ireland once, and were in danger of not qualifying. In the end the old guard came back and France ended up winning the group,

Dodgy Balls

2006-07-04T16:32:00.000-04:00

If you were to read the following, would you think that terrorism had struck again?The police are still not certain if all the balls are out of circulation, and have asked Berliners to report any suspicious looking footballs immediately.Rest assured, it hasn't. I couldn't help finding this somewhat amusing, malgré moi.*Update: It turns out that 'twas but a harmless Austrian art project.The

Fußball Weltmeisterschaft Sidebar Content

2006-06-27T01:25:00.000-04:00

I should have set this up earlier, but have been too lazy and/or busy to do so. In any case, for the rest of the World Cup, you'll find all the latest from Germany in the sidebar via my hand-crafted World Cup podcast channel and reading list. You too can drown in the sea of content that has already swallowed me whole...Subscription options:RSS Feed for the World Cup Podcast ChannelAtom Feed for

L'affiche publicitaire française (1)

2006-06-20T22:46:00.000-04:00

Hooray! I've finally found someone in Winnipeg that sells Orangina in a nice, big 1750mL bottle. Much better than paying $2 for a tiny little bottle on Osborne, Corydon or Provencher. You know Orangina, right? That wonderful little French drink that's not much more than carbonated water and orange juice, the Orangensaft mit Sodawasser that I so enjoyed during my boyhood trip to Europe. But it's

Ghana Is The Name We Wish To Proclaim

2006-06-17T20:45:00.000-04:00

Ghana is the nameWe wish to proclaimWe will be jolly, merry and gayThe sixth of March Independence DayBeing the essentially ignorant occidental person that I am, I don't really know too much about Ghana. Aside from having had my coiffure handled by a Ghanaian chap back when I used to have hair, the only thing evoked by the former Gold Coast was Lord Kitchener's seminal 1956 Calypso Birth of Ghana

Divided in Dortmund

2006-06-11T00:13:00.000-04:00

So I'm watching the footie live from Dortmund today: Trinidad & Tobago vs. Sweden. But who to support? My father is from Trinidad & Tobago, but my maternal grandfather's family come from Sweden. Result: one confused Canadian. My well-known europhilia ended up giving way to my natural propensity to root for the underdog, however in the end it didn't matter, so the equilibrium of my competing

Avec Jean-Marie, je n'ai plus de peine

2006-06-01T00:59:00.000-04:00

Those of us who are baffled and dismayed by the continued popularity of the far-right in France (can 31% of the population really be wrong?), less than one year away from the presidential election, can at least take comfort in the extremely good taste employed by the extrême droite when choosing campaign music. Have a listen to this ditty from 1997, composed in the zouk style of Caribbean music

Vélo-Cité

2006-05-27T11:59:00.000-04:00

Do you see what happens when you try to ride your bicycle in this city? What a disgrace. I ride and walk everywhere in this city and have also been harassed by cops and nearly killed by motorists on a regular basis. Have you noticed how this doesn't happen in real cities like Montreal, or even in cities that have essentially the same population as Winnipeg like Quebec City (check out their

Great Aunt Ida

2006-05-26T17:14:00.000-04:00

One of my favourite websites is the CBC's New Music Canada, a showcase of the best English-Canadian independent music. Makes you proud to be a taxpayer, really. From time to time I'm going to post my old favourites and recent coups de coeur.Today it's Vancouver's Ida Nilsen, a.k.a. Great Aunt Ida (also of Radiogram and The Gay). Tout simplement alt-folk at its best, and what a sweet voice! Have a

My New Favourite Blog

2006-05-25T19:37:00.000-04:00

I love French culture. I love French music. I especially love French sixties music. Vidéo Nostalgie serves up classic music videos from this era that I am too young to have seen at the time and too far away from France to be able to see today on Télé Mélody.Take this clip, Poupée de cire, poupée de son, for example:Written by Serge Gainsbourg, one of the greatest pop geniuses ever, and perfromed

Un grand moment de télévision

2006-05-25T19:07:00.000-04:00

Dailymotion blogged videoVidéo envoyée par brunette45Il s'agit d'un des moments de télé les plus rigolos que j'ai jamais vu. Je crois que ça date de Cannes 2003, lorsque le plateau de On a tout essayé s'est déplacé pour une semaine sur la Croisette. Nous, les malheureux qui habitent les lointaines

Stéphane Pocrain candidat aux présidentielles 2007

2006-05-25T16:37:00.000-04:00

C'est officiel ! Stéphane Pocrain, chroniqeur télé chez Laurent Ruquier et ancien porte-parole des Verts, sera candidat à l'Elysée en 2007. C'est lui-même qui vient de le déclarer sur le Bondy Blog. En tant que jeune, écolo, fan de l'émission de Ruquier et admirateur de la France, avec en plus des origines antillaises, je ne peux qu'être pour sa candidature.Il déclare dans Le Monde :l'élection

Media Concentration in Publishing Marches On

2006-02-07T17:31:00.000-05:00

Hachette, already the largest publisher in France and New Zealand, and the second largest in the United Kingdom, Australia and Spain, is now the third-largest publisher in the world with today's aquistion of Anglo-American publisher Time Warner Books. The two largest book publishing groups in the world remain the UK's Pearson (Penguin, etc.) and Germany's Bertelsmann (Random House, etc.). Man, if

What's the 411, yo?

2006-02-07T13:00:00.000-05:00

I've been listening to On va s'gêner (heard weekdays on Europe 1) quite a bit these days, especially now that it's available as a podcast. When you listen to this daily ninety minute programme, you always seem to hear two or three amusing adverts for the telephone number 118 218, which is a Directory Assistance service in France; an equivalent of our North American 411 if you will. Hearing that

Canadian Provincial Cabinet Sworn In

2006-02-06T14:54:00.000-05:00

Without making a qualitative judgement one way or the other, the new Harper cabinet seems rather provincial, doesn't it? Provincial in two ways.Provincial (adj.): of or concerning the regions outside major urban centres. There are only three such centres in Canada, and there is no minister in the new cabinet who was elected in either Toronto, Montreal or Vancouver under the Conservative

Winnipeg Wants In

2006-02-06T14:23:00.000-05:00

Forget about The West Wants In. Winnipeg Wants In. For as long as I've been old enough to follow politics, the Liberals were never stingy on cabinet seats for Winnipeg. You get accustomed to a certain level of representation, y'know? Well here we are. Sure, only 35% of us voted Conservative, but they still got the plurality of seats in Winnipeg (tied with the NDP). I've never seen that happen

Business as Usual in Ottawa

2006-02-06T13:53:00.000-05:00

New Conservative government sworn in today:Liberal David Emerson crosses the floor to join the Conservatives as a minister, before the first meeting of parliament. In other words, he won't even sit once in the house for the party for which he was elected in this parilament.Unelected Michael Fortier who, admittedly, seems like quite a good sort, is appointed to the senate and joins the cabinet.I'm

Brisa Roché

2006-02-05T01:27:00.000-05:00

On Wednesday's On a tout essayé (seen weekdays in France on France 2 and in Canada on TV5), we were introduced to The Chase, Brisa Roché's wonderful début record. She's originally from California, but now lives in Paris. The record is out on Blue Note, but only in France. In his review on the show, Jean-Bernard Hebey put forward that she can't sing, composes insipid melodies, and will therefore

What's it all about?

2006-02-04T23:26:00.000-05:00

A blog, yeah? Everyone's had one for like ever, right? So what's the point of this one? I just feel like I should be doing something. So I'm doing this. For now. I'm probably just going to write about the books I read, the music I listen to and the films I see. Also, there'll be stuff about technology, Canada, its politics, life in Winnipeg (where as you can see even people who aren't Jesus walk