Drawing I made for Horror Hangover opening Friday November 23, 2012 7-11pm. “A Horror Hangover” looks
at what happens after a horrific event. Do things get better or is it
all going horribly wrong. Curated by Robin McConnell from Inkstuds, the
radio show about comics.
Featured artists include: Josh Bayer, Jordyn Bochon, Max Clotfelter, Al
Columbia, Rebecca Dart, Robert Dayton, Michael Deforge, Sean Esty, Aidan
Fitzgerald, Sean Ford, Brian Fukushima, Ben Horak, K Thor Jensen, Keith
Jones, Aidan Koch, Sloane Leong, Jason T Miles, Roman Muradov, Marc
Palm, Joel Rich, Jim Rugg, James Stranton Kaz Strzepek, Tom Van Deusen,
Jen Vaughn, Charmaine Verhagen, Malachi Ward, Lale Westvind, White
Swallows, Tracey Widdess and much more...
Check it out! I'll be attending and selling a few wares at the "shameless self-promotion" table for art, zines and other handmade items (browse, sell, swap!) at the Speak Easy Ball this Thursday, November 22nd at Cinecycle (Coachhouse of 401 Richmond, Toronto) which looks like it'll be a super fun event! The night has a 20's speak easy theme and features performances by: Catalina Fellay, flamenco dancer, Meredith J. Thompson, dancer, Erin Stone, soprano. Plus loads of jazz and music from the era to get you petting and swinging! $25 gets you a glass of their headiest libations and a spread of treats
and illicit delectables. There will be a photographer on site, so please
dress to impress. Plus they'll be giving away a potent prize. Buy advance tickets here: http://dcdspeakeasy.eventbrite.com/
Tickets will also be available at the door. ...
RSVP to dcdspeakeasy@gmail.com. This event is presented by Dance Collection Danse, who will be
launching their brand-new website for young professionals and podcast at
this event. Founded in 1986, Dance Collection Danse is Canada's
national dance archives and publisher dedicated to the preservation and
dissemination of Canadian theatrical dance history. To learn more about
this exciting nonprofit organization, please visit www.dcd.ca.
“I’m sorry about your loss…” “Yeah, it’s been…hard.” “I actually had a cousin pass away around the same time.” “Oh, were you close?”
“Not really, no.”
“Oh.”
“I was close to his wife who’s actually my cousin.”
“Ah, must be hard on her. My grief has manifested itself physically which is why I’ve been sick.”
“Sorry, but I have something pressing to take care of and need to get back to it.”
“Okay.”
I have an artwork in the REALITY BITES art show happening in Vancouver. It's the final show at Little Mountain (195 East 26th ave) and has a lotta artists (Karin Bubas, Ann Grant, I Braineater, etcetera) commenting on reality shows, I will post an image of my Trump work for the show here soon.
"Host Robert Dayton speaks with Emily Schultz, author most recently of The Blondes—a novel about a plague in New York city that turns blonde women rabid." Pagelicker 2.0: Emily Schultz from Hazlitt on Vimeo.
Or go to:
http://www.randomhouse.ca/hazlitt/podcast/pagelicker-02-emily-schultz
I am hosting karaoke at The Beaver (1192 Queen West, Toronto) this Sunday, 11-2...it'll be wiiiilllld and glittery!
oh, and here's something from issue 8 of Dirty Plotte, that's a teeny bopper me singing karaoke in the lower right corner. Comic by my old pal and collaborator Julian Lawrence.
Hey guys! Back in 1999 I
co-created, co-edited with Julian and Lester, wrote stuff, drew stuff, for a paper called The
Drippy Gazette full of ent’ainment and comics and music! The Canadian
Comics Archive has just posted issue 2 online, c-c-check it out! (issue 1 is up, too!) This
ish has stuff on song-poems with a Phil Milstein interview, TV movie
reviews by my Mom, comics by Owen Plummer, Shayne Ehman, and Robin
Bougie, and loads more!
Link here: http://www.canadiancomicsarchive.ca/drippy-gazette-2-1999/
Montreal, check it out! With Malcolm Fraser and Steve Balogh I will revive
the improvised song-poem tradition of Vancouver band July Fourth Toilet,
creating songs on the spot from lyrics brought in by the audience! This is following a terrific doc on song-poems!
OFF THE CHARTS: THE SONG POEM STORY + Live Song-Poems!
Jamie Meltzer | É.-U. 2003 | 54 min.
23 SEPT, 18h00, FILM BOX
(Quartiers POP – 3450 St-Urbain, 3rd Flr) with live song poems from Robert Dayton and Friends!
Like a warped fun-house mirror, the song-poem industry has run
parallel to the mainstream music business for close to a century; it’s
estimated that over 200,000 song-poems have been recorded since 1900.
The genre’s durability can be traced to three of our deepest American
desires – to be in show business, to get rich quick, and to share and
express our deepest feelings. We meet several of the “songwriters” –
from an elderly woman to a young African-American man to a small-town
Iowan with big-time dreams – each of whom has been in the “business” for
awhile, churning out odd compositions that cover the waterfront of
American obsessions, from Jesus to genitalia, from politics to Elvis. We
also meet the producers (often known as song-sharks) who hold out the
tantalizing promise of fame to their eager customers, and the has-been
musicians who sit in studios, day after day and year after year,
interpreting some of the weirdest lyrics ever written. Through fellow
musicians and his son, Ellery Eskelin, one of the most eloquent fans of
song-poem records, we learn about the life and tragic death of the man
aficionados consider the greatest song-poem interpreter of all time,
Rodney Keith Eskelin. Using a variety of stage names, this would-be
classical composer brought an eerie beauty to many of the song-poems he
recorded before ending his career and life by jumping onto a Hollywood
freeway. Off the Charts is a fascinating look at one
of the strangest subcultures in our American landscape.
Hey guys! Back in 1999 I co-created, co-edited, wrote
stuff, drew stuff, for a paper called The Drippy Gazette full of
ent’ainment and comics and music! The Canadian Comics Archive has posted
issue 1 online, c-c-check it out! This ish has stuff
on recordio discs, TV movie reviews by my Mom, and loads more! CLICK HERE: Drippy Gazette 1 – 1999 | Canadian Comics Archive
Toronto! The Canadian Romantic is opening for Neil Hamburger and JP, Inc
at the Comedy Bar (945 Bloor west) on Friday, Sept 14th and Saturday, Sept 15th! 10:30 PM. Tix available in advance.
There will be dolls, winking wallet sized pics, and books available for sale.
