Fringe Day Four and assorted notes
My last day at the Fringe was a short one. One play only; Criteria. Competent in all respects but somehow it didn’t hit my WOW button. Perhaps it was because the button is still somewhat stuck after the amazing Men in Pajamas. For me, it was the highlight of this overall festival.
A plug for CBC3. I’ve started listening to it at work. 100% Canadian music and I have discovered a few great new to me musicians.
- Jim Bryson (folk/alt-country: usually plays with Kathleen Edwards, another one of my favourites) For a listen.
- Jason Collett (of Broken Social Scene but I prefer his solo cd to any of theirs: sounds very much like the latest Calexico)
- Selina Martin (the most engaging anti-relationship record I’ve ever heard; “I’d rather eat bees than hold your hand”) For a listen.
- Regina Spektor (sort of if Joni Mitchell and Rilo Kiley had a lovechild). Actually, this one is not Canadian so I don’t know how it ended up on their playlist but glad it did.
Excellent video.
CBC3 also reminds you about people who you might have not heard for a while like Hawksley Workman; his latest is romantically apocalyptic, about the possibilities of a good life in the coming Ice Age.
On another note, the best use of the word fuck in ages. Well, since I read Theft by Peter Carey anyway. The novel has the most muscular prose in ages as well as the most creative use of vulgar language festooning brilliantly constructed sentences that make you want to retire your pen (or keyboard) forever. This comes from the film Looking for Leonard, an indie Canadian film which is worth renting). One guy says to the other who is getting grief from his girlfriend on a regular basis “is the fucking you are getting worth the fucking you are getting (long pause) because you are getting fucked”. One other little interchange I liked was where a woman who has done something pretty extreme says
“Am I a bad person?” The man replies “No. You are a good person.” “How can you tell?” He thinks for a minute and then says “Good people wonder if they are bad.” “And bad people?” “Bad people know they are good.”
I discovered ‘Fidelity’ by Regina Spektor just a month or so before you did, later saw the vid. Though I downloaded ‘On the Radio’, never saw that video. I lovel listening to her.
Comment by amuirin — August 23, 2007 @ 11:48 am