• The Future of Music Has Arrived

    And it looks like MGMT. Ironically, I am already late with this band because I first heard about them on a Rolling Stone magazine of top ten bands you haven’t heard of. They just played the Echoplex in Los Angeles, and are touring small venues across the country but in seconds they will be opening…

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  • The Culturepin’s Top Ten Trends To Watch

    Ok, enough journaling and pontificating, let’s get down to the root of what The Culturepin is really about – putting the pin on the ever accelerating limn. Coolest new things I have seen this fall: 1. A Japanese company is developing exercise equipment that transforms human exertion into electric power – now the gym can…

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  • Rock Soup!

    As the story goes, a young boy, hungry and road-weary wanders into a small village with nothing but a small rock in his hand. He enters the village tavern and walks straight into the kitchen where he greets the cook and proclaims that he will teach him the secret to the greatest soup in the…

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  • The unexpected arrival

    Josh and I realized that before we release the full-blown supersonic miasma that is my “solo debut” we had to record some of the acoustic stuff that is floating around, and if not released now, may never find a home, short of some awful “b sides and collectibles” nonsense that I would have to go…

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  • TIFF ’07 – Fest Updates -Sept 8th

    My friend Emanuel Pereira came into Toronto from Vancouver to see two films on which he was post-supervisor working with Brightlight Pictures who, consequently, have their first two films ever in the Toronto Film Festival. Tonight we saw “American Venus” starring Rebecca de Mornay as a freakishly control-crazy mother and Jane McGregor who plays her…

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