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Speed Freaks: An Interview with CHICKS ON SPEED
05/11/2002: INTERVIEW
“I've searched the world over, for a Euro-Trash Girl.” “Love her breasts and forget the rest.” They sound like lines spoken in drunken mumbles at some frat party, but they are actually a part of a giant fluorescent headband empire known as CHICKS ON SPEED.
by NATH G. MOORE

Wonderbaby or The World Is A Carousel Of Deformity
04/29/2002: INSPIRATION
It's all God's fault, really. He gave me the naïve curiosity as well as the fear instinct. He made the babies. So you can't blame anyone but Him for my unhealthy obsession-cum-disgust with all the phænomena of deformity.
by WALTER MOCZYGEMBA

Interview With REUBENS ACCOMPLICE
04/07/2002: INTERVIEW
They capture the paradox of the desert in their songs --the sense of echoing loneliness and at the same time the overwhelming beauty of it. Reubens Accomplice are Phoenix's best kept secret: A band with enough potential to blow right through the paper-thin layer right above them.
by RYAN McKEE

It's No Gimmick: An Interview With BOWLING FOR SOUP
08/17/2001: INTERVIEW
Part two of ROBERT TOWELL's bowling series, "It Wouldn't Kill You To Stop."

Lexically Dumb, Damn Word Smart 03/11/2001: INTERVIEW
An interview with VINCENT TINGUELY, co-author of Impure, Reinventing the Word, a massive book about the theory, practice and history of spoken word.
by NATH G. MOORE

I Want My PipiTV, Part Two: Be Like Pipi!
05/29/2000: MANIFESTO
In part 2 of 2, MARTIN SPELLERBERG uses Pipilotti Rist as a jumping off point for a discussion of the promise of art-video, defining an audience, and where the medium should head.

I Want My PipiTV, Part One: Hi Pippilotti Rist!
05/29/2000: BIOGRAPHY
In part 1 of 2, MARTIN SPELLERBERG takes a look at the single channel and installation work of Pipilotti Rist, internationally acclaimed Video Art Super Star.

Richard Brautigan: A Poetics of Alienation
02/02/2000: REVIEW
Brautigan's writing, so identified with the excess of the '60s, is not currently enjoying critical praise. But, TAVIS EACHAN TRIANCE argues, there's much more to his fiction than hippies and rebellion.

Marty's Japanese Film Notes
02/02/2000: REVIEW
These notes were compiled in the winter of 1999 as part of Marty's studies at the Ontario College of Art & Design. There's a wide range of films represented, stretching for the "golden age" (Life Of Oharu, Tokyo Story) to contemporary wierdness (Tetsuo: The Iron Man). Read these if you're into Japanese cinema, read these if you need notes for your class, or read these if you're interested in something a little different.
by MARTIN SPELLERBERG

Stan Rogal: The Imaginary Muse
01/16/2k : INTERVIEW
The work of Canadian writer and poet Stan Rogal has made a mark for himself at home and abroad. NATHANIEL GEORGE MOORE chats with him and discusses "The Long RIde Home" and "Lines Of Embarkation."

Fight Club: Philosophical Fillibuster
03/30/99 : INTERPRETATION
Real life is a society ruled by unquestioning faith in the ideals of consumerism. It doesn’t have a Dust Brothers soundtrack and a sixty-million-dollar budget, yet we seem to have found ourselves in the same piteous and deplorable society depicted in Fincher’s nihilistic thriller.
by JARED LEVINE

Michael Schreier: Desert’s Muse, In Search of a Garden
03/30/99 : REVIEW
Quebec photographer Michael Schreier makes images of comfortable and personal spaces, capturing complex feelings while denying the viewer complete entrance into them. The work stands as a reminder that the creation of a beautiful thing is among the highest of human achievements.
by MARTIN SPELLERBERG

Attila Richard Lukacs: Paintings
12/13/98 : REVIEW
With combinations of different artistic periodic styles, Lukacs shares his obsessions by portraying them in a realistic, yet fantastical manner.
by DAGMAR ALEXANDER

Lorna Simpson, Call Waiting & Guillaume Bijl, Documenta Wax Museum
11/29/98 : REVIEW
In the current climate of technological innovation and global economies, it is increasingly easy to take our cultural status-quo as an unstoppable force. But two artists are challenging that, asking questions about how we perceive the environments in which we live and how we are shaped by the objects of contemporary life.
by MARTIN SPELLERBERG

Landscapes: Monica Tap at Wynick/Tuck Gallery
11/15/98 : REVIEW
A lucid and illuminating look at the wonderful world of Canadian landscape painting, From Monica Tap at Wynick/Tuck Gallery to the Bob Ross influence on popular esthetics.
by DAGMAR ALEXANDER

Sampling As Muical Magic
06/22/98: OPINION
Has music come to a point where sampling is an up-and-coming art form? Read on for an exploration of this newer method of music-making.
by CHAD J. SUTTON

Eliza Grifith’s Protégés: These Bad Girls Are Not Bad Girls
05/11/98: REVIEW
The artist examines an in-depth truth about the teenager's conflict with self-image and societal pressures.
by DAGMAR ALEXANDER

Robert Rauschenberg: Coolest Man Alive
04/27/98: BIOGRAPHY
Art imitates life, or life imitates art.... either way, Robert Rauschenberg leaves his expressionist mark in the modern art world.
by MARTIN SPELLERBERG