The Modern Twist are a local Toronto rock band. Last night was one of their tightest shows yet. Currently they are working on an EP. Good job guys.
Happy Birthday to Matt Rulli! We’ve found ourselves in the weirdest situations… An example is the quote below.
By Ashish Seth
“Just four guys sitting at a coffee shop next to a family of four, talking loudly about the Kamasutra.”
The real winner chooses when he loses.
By Ashish Seth
By Ashish Seth
“If Milton went HAM, it’d be Hamilton.”
A turtle out of its shell… what the hell does that look like?
By Ashish Seth
The Wuf: A Soundtrack to an Unmade Movie
Directed by Ashish Seth
Tell a story with ten songs.
Genre: Spaghetti Western
Plot: In the midst of American Western Expansion, a young Algonquin man sees his people cheated, robbed and killed. In response, he becomes a masked vigilante and hunts down any who encroach his people’s lands. Using brutal methods passed down by the ancestors, he becomes a legend known to all as the Wuf, a symbol of hope and fear. As his legend and notoriety grows, a former sheriff gets together four cowboys and a playwright in order to write and perform a play about the Wuf in the new establishment of Elsmire, Illinois, his goal, to lure the Wuf into town and bring him to justice for the murder of his wife and children.
Soundtrack Playlist <– Click here to listen.
1. A Tribe Called Red – electric pow wow drum
2. Blur – Caravan
3. Portishead – Cowboys
4. Gonjasufi – Ancestors
5. Jose Gonzalez – Far Away
6. Flying Lotus – Zodiac Shit
7. Tricky – Keep Your Mouth Shut
8. Eskmo – Cloudlight
9. Burial – Forgive
10. Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse – Revenge (feat. The Flaming Lips)
By Ashish Seth
A detail of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Ivan Albright, found at the Art Institute of Chicago. A Moral Event Horizon is a line that a person or character crosses that makes them irredeemably evil.
If all good things come in threes, then why is there only a DUALITY of man?
By Ashish Seth
The clouds don’t discriminate on which side of the border they rain on.
By Ashish Seth
We flock to McDonalds and Starbucks locations to siphon wifi. I look at the Chicago street outside. Back in the twenties, the gangsters were probably doing drivebys. Now we sit in Starbucks, listening to Indie rock and sipping chai.
Gangster stories are first and foremost archetypal stories of power that cut deep to the inner trenches of human nature. That’s what makes them so compelling, that’s what makes them fables.
Power, legacy, corruption, decay… all monuments to future generations…
Anyways…
Spotted Michael Shannon of Boardwalk Empire at the Art Institute of Chicago.
By Ashish Seth
Drove to Chicago. Stopped in the ghetto. Tried to piss beside a crack house. Pussy cat by the side walk. Pulled in to a Walmart. Took this piss and looked at iPods. Got to South Chicago. Again drove thru ghetto. Saw a man sell weed in the middle of the road, blocking traffic for blocks. No one honked. Made it downtown, yuppies all around, took the freeway out of town, made it to the hotel, small bed, a busted toilet leaking piss on the ground.
By Ashish Seth
On the road. Chicago bound. Good music. Evening drive. Contemplate to elevate the mind, awake. Alive.
“A million ways to judge a person, only one person to be.”
By Ashish Seth
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