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The End of LiveJournal

2009-04-17T03:24:29Z

For me, anyway.

I'm not really interested in posting anything here anymore. I barely even check my friends list. I'm not going to delete anything, 'cause that's pointless, but if anybody is still paying any attention, don't expect any updates here.

I'm proud to say that I'm also over my addiction to Stillepost. I just got disgusted with all the misogyny and homophobia and nastiness.

Other ways to keep in touch:

FACEBOOK
http://www.new.facebook.com/profile.php?id=740690593

AGAINST LANGUAGE BLOG
http://againstlanguage.blogspot.com/
Here I post about upcoming events and other projects I'm working on.

TUMBLR PHOTO BLOG
http://nomorewords.tumblr.com/
This is my new addiction, wherein I sort through my various obsessions by posting images with little or no textual commentary. Think of it as a visual code. There is "meaning" but it won't be communicated in words.

GOOD OLD-FASHIONED EMAIL
corpsesasbedmates at gmail dot com.
I love receiving e-mail. Especially long ones.

PHONE
five one four eight zero four seven nine two one

IN PERSON
Call first, but you can come visit me if you want.

weird

2009-04-11T02:47:25Z

CNET is using one of my photos from my Flickr account without my permission. But they do credit me, at least.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13739_3-9776759-46.html

(do a text search for "lautreamax")

(yes, I googled my user name.)

lautreamax @ 2009-03-31T17:11:00

2009-03-31T21:11:21Z

lautreamax @ 2009-03-29T22:49:00

2009-03-30T02:49:36Z

#%+.*/

lautreamax @ 2009-03-11T13:16:00

2009-03-11T17:16:45Z

http://www.undermontreal.com/

also

http://www.spacingmontreal.ca/

lautreamax @ 2009-03-09T18:06:00

2009-03-09T22:06:14Z

lautreamax @ 2009-03-01T13:31:00

2009-03-01T18:32:57Z

(poster by me)

event info: http://againstlanguage.blogspot.com

lautreamax @ 2009-02-27T12:49:00

2009-02-27T17:50:14Z

I think I'm getting over LiveJournal.

Damn you Facebook

2009-02-19T07:18:40Z

63 confirmed
96 maybes
15 showed up

Oh well.

Reminder: this is tonight

2009-02-18T21:07:36Z

THIS IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT

2009-02-17T14:50:26Z

Please respond to this.

Say you saw a poster for a show. One of the band names on the poster is:

TOTAL GAZE

What would be your immediate reaction to that name? What does it invoke? What kind of band do you think would use a name like this? How does it sound when you say it out loud a few times?

Be as specific, as honest and as thorough as you can.

Thank you.

lautreamax @ 2009-02-14T16:16:00

2009-02-14T21:16:53Z

brilliant

2009-02-09T21:36:11Z

lautreamax @ 2009-02-07T02:09:00

2009-02-07T07:18:41Z

2:09 a.m. I should probably go to bed.

Tonight, instead of going to see a show, I stayed home and watched Live Free or Die Hard.
It was better than I expected it to be.

Other things I did today:
-thing
-write
-read
-walk
-eat
-play records
-re-watch episodes of Avatar
-play guitar
-etc.

I kinda wish I had said no to the DJ gig at that Eastern Bloc party. I feel a bit like a fraud. All these other DJs are going to be doing all this fancy shit and I'm just going to play records. I can't decide what records to bring. Half an hour is such a short time. Every song counts.

My phone's dead. I guess I should mention that. I never pay my bills.

Oh, I bought a real DJ mixer today. The cheapest one they had at Moog Audio.

I don't know why this post

...

lautreamax @ 2009-02-06T09:25:00

2009-02-06T14:26:22Z

Oh my god. I actually dreamed that I was eating a ladies' brunch burger.

lautreamax @ 2009-02-03T23:01:00

2009-02-04T04:02:04Z

Whoa. How did I manage to just waste my entire evening without doing anything? That happened really fast.

fragments

2009-02-04T02:55:05Z

today I...
and then...
but...
however...
but the best part was...
and then...
finally...
oh, I forgot to mention...
and that's it.

lautreamax @ 2009-02-02T18:25:00

2009-02-02T23:26:50Z

This "brunch burger" is like a regular burger, except it has an egg and bacon and is made with glazed doughnuts instead of a bun.

However, I'm a little disappointed that it's just regular bacon and not deep fried bacon. (See earlier post.)

lautreamax @ 2009-02-01T23:11:00

2009-02-02T04:12:27Z

Sometimes I just get overwhelmed by how stupid people are. Every time I read a comment on IMDb, I want to shoot myself in the head.

deep fried bacon

2009-02-01T02:27:06Z

February is a busy month

2009-01-31T22:49:27Z

In addition to the show at Bar St-Laurent 2, I will also be DJing at this party:

Other events are in the works. More info soon.

wait, what !!??

2009-01-29T06:44:56Z

I'm playing a show on February 18...

2009-01-24T05:24:55Z

And this is the most time I've ever spent on a poster! I think I like it, though. It wasn't at all what I was going for. The colours are, um, happier than I expected. Well, it's good for February, which every one claims is a depressing month. This is a very sunny poster.

I'm performing as The Great Vowel Shift and it'll be a collaboration with Gmackrr. (See, that's why our names are the same colour. Clever, huh?)

PS: I like how ugly the "8" is in the date.

lautreamax @ 2009-01-21T18:22:00

2009-01-21T23:22:34Z

Some stuff

2009-01-20T06:19:20Z

Some stuff coming up. Some of which I'm involved in, some of which I just want to attend.

PALIMPSEST

About a year ago, I made a list of project ideas I wanted to work on either by myself or with what was then the lab.synthèse collective. Many of those projects did come to fruition (recording an album, the Monday Night Screenings, etc.), but some of them I never had a chance to develop. Of those that never saw the light of day, the one I was most enthusiastic about was what I referred to as a "magazine (or sometimes gallery) in a box." It was inspired by Aspen Magazine, which I discovered on Ubu.com. The idea was to curate each edition around a theme. I wanted to make it a quarterly, alternating between online and physical editions, both of which would consist of works in different media (writing, photography, prints, sound, video, etc.). The online edition would go straight to the website and be accessible for free. The physical edition would be packaged in a box and sold.

I never really abandoned the idea, but the timing just wasn't right, so I stored it in the back of my mind and figured I would return to it one day. Then, a friend of mine told me about a project she was working on with a bunch of other people, and when she sent me the link for it, I was amazed to find out that it was almost exactly the same thing that I had imagined at year ago. They even mention Aspen as a source of inspiration in their call for submissions!

Well, someone else beat me to it, but although I won't have the kind of creative control that I would've had if I'd started the project myself, there's no reason why I shouldn't join them and use this opportunity to make the most of it. I'm just glad that someone is doing it, and to be honest, I don't have time (or the resources) to do this on my own anyway, so this is probably a better deal.

I'm meeting with the board of editors tomorrow to find out how I can get involved. They're still in the process of reviewing submissions for the first issue, which has an urban/rural theme. More info will follow.

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MONTREAL KNOWS NO WAVE, NO? NO!

Grand Trine and Dead Wife, two bands that friends and/or acquaintances of mine have recently started, are playing the MKNWN?N! series at Casa this month. I've heard really good things about both of them and I'm looking forward to catching them live.

Thursday, January 29, 10 p.m. Casa del Popolo.

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LOVE+HATE

This is the party at Eastern Bloc where I'll be DJing, mentioned earlier. Here's their description of it:

"Montreal loves to hate Toronto and Toronto hates to love Montreal
Valentines Day Music Battle between Montreal & Toronto
Friday, February 13"

That's it for now. I imagine there'll be a poster and more details eventually. I'll post them when I have them.

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AGNST LNGGE

I'm putting together a few shows over the next couple of months to help out some people from out of town.

First, Kram Ran is coming from Winnipeg in February. He'll be playing at Bar St-Laurent on February 18, with Monkey King, The Great Vowel Shift (that's me) and Gmackrr. Then, Sebastian is booking another show for him at Lab Synthèse, with Andy White and some other folks.

Then, in March, an artist from Helsinki called Marko Timlin is visiting for a few days. I've got a show booked for him at Cagibi with Ensemble Pamplemousse (from NYC) and Louis Dufort (MTL), and I'm working on a line-up for another show at Lab Synthèse, which will hopefully involve some more visual components, such as video projections, etc. I'd also like to have a bit of an interactive feel for the show at the Lab. I'm still working on that. Dates for that are March 20th (Lab) and 21st (Cagibi).

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NAMELESS BAND

Then, on April 1st, my nameless band is performing its first show at Casa del Popolo. Still need to book other people for that. And also we need to come up with a name. More importantly, we need to write some songs. Yikes.