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Trapped In My T-Shirt Published Aug 01, 2001It started innocently enough, as these types of things most often do, with a Nirvana T-shirt. You know the one, it has that big, blissful, s...
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The Late, Late Show Published Jul 01, 2001I turn 30 years old in October. I have trouble staying awake for more than the first 30 minutes of CBC Radio's "Brave New Waves." My previou...
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Wim Wenders Should Quit His Day Job Published Mar 01, 2001I hate to be one to try limit cross-disciplinary artistic pursuits, but with a precious few exceptions, very few musicians make good actors....
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More Gore: An Immodest Proposal Published Dec 01, 2000There simply is not enough extreme violence in video games. I implore the public, the Canadian government, and the video game industry to wo...
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Radiohead's Big Yawn Published Nov 01, 2000Of course, the very act of using a public forum to express doubts about Kid A, Radiohead's hotly anticipated, exhaustively scrutinised fourt...
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MPFree and the Greed for Green Published Sep 01, 2000Throughout the course of the debate over MP3s (smaller and easier to trade versions of near-CD quality digital audio tracks) and Napster's r...
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Pet Sounds Sucks The Story vs. The Songs Published Jul 01, 2000It promises to rally the biggest chorus of music geeks since High Fidelity opened. Brian Wilson, leader of the Beach Boys, is touring this s...
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American Psycho Delivers the punches that others pull Published Jun 01, 2000It's pretty clear that the victim du jour of recent days has become the poor, dispossessed middle class male. Within the past year, at least...
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The Flaming Lips Dancing in the Dark: The Flaming Lips vs. Indifference Published May 01, 2000We music critics thrive upon our sense of indignation. Despite individually contributing little more to popular culture than an isolated opi...
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ZZ Top Are the Ultimate Texas Treat Published Apr 01, 2000The Lone Star State o with its guns, mass executions, poisonous snakes, and straight guys wearing chaps and bandannas o couldn¡¦t be more...
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Real Life is Stranger Than Fiction "Get a life!" Published Mar 01, 2000Every music-obsessed geek has been susceptible to this belittling phrase, meant to imply that to be lost in song is to be a lost soul, remov...