Comments on: July Fourth Toilet Show at Vancouver Art Gallery Ends Early Due to June Twenty Seventh Heroin Use in Toilet http://thesixohfour.com/2008/07/04/uly-fourth-toilet-show-at-vancouver-art-gallery-ends-early-due-to-june-twenty-seventh-heroin-use-in-the-toilet/ The 604 is a cityblog for Vancouver Sun, 20 May 2012 10:32:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: michael http://thesixohfour.com/2008/07/04/uly-fourth-toilet-show-at-vancouver-art-gallery-ends-early-due-to-june-twenty-seventh-heroin-use-in-the-toilet/#comment-5 michael Sun, 06 Jul 2008 04:02:56 +0000 http://thesixohfour.com/?p=277#comment-5 cheers robert. couldn't think of a more perfect guy to be the subject of our first feature article. it's all downhill from here on out. cheers robert.
couldn’t think of a more perfect guy to be the subject of our first feature article. it’s all downhill from here on out.

]]> By: Robert Dayton http://thesixohfour.com/2008/07/04/uly-fourth-toilet-show-at-vancouver-art-gallery-ends-early-due-to-june-twenty-seventh-heroin-use-in-the-toilet/#comment-4 Robert Dayton Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:33:45 +0000 http://thesixohfour.com/?p=277#comment-4 MM- or may I call you MMMMM?, May I yammer more to possibly encourage a discourse on yer brand new "Let's Save The Couve" site? I may? Thank you. I do so at the risk of those negative blog commenters that will post out of date exaggerated personal info about me (ooh let's heighten the myth) yet seem to be so chicken shit that they can't even give their real name (there's meds for that). Oh, I'll admit to coming off a tad douchey in print, hell, I'm a bit of a 'douche' (nice quotes dickweed) in person, persona non grata, yeah, it's the Real Me, I'm easy to find. There's a point coming. But first... My sweet GF who I'm following to the Big A hole luvs to play a game, whenever she sees a pic of a guy- any guy- with moustache and glasses, she points to it and teasingly says, "look, it's you!" in response to the idjits who compare me to the like (Sorry MMMM, you ain't really an idjit, yer a sweety, but this may just be a lil life lesson for you), note that i never said any moustachioed folk by name when interviewed by MMMM but fuuuuck 2001-2002 was tuff, it's easy now. ...okay that's an aside, besides does a moustache make a man? to quote Fosters beer ads "It's what's inside that counts" tho it has certain iconic appeal (the moustache not the crappy beer that Australians don't even drink, they drink VB). Some of my fave peeps look completely generic but have minds of pure roaming free thought. FREEDOM: that's the point and what i was getting to. Okay, so, i was talking to a bandmate who was on a Canadaian major label (the worst kind) who was forced to not only make a record he didn't want to make (ie. something completely bland that got buried in the marketplace) he also made far less moolah than he would've being DIY. so, yeah, i'm DIY and I whine but I got to be grateful for having a) complete freedom to express nuanced visions and b) being such a professional entertainer that even if I am completely DIY I have the knowledge that it still better be damned good! Am I full of myself? Well, it's a result of being very hard on myself and taking alot of risks! I'm moving to toronto...will I last? Will I come back with my tail between my legs? I do need a change buuuut.... this is the city that brought us fucking Tea Party, Mike Bullard, alot of MOR ensemble group acts that critics love, uhh, lesse, Sean Cullen: stuff no one likes but still gets exported here and slammed down our throats cuz they are a city with lots of cultural infrastructure in place. Who knows, maybe there's better stuff there....If Toronto thinks of us at all they think of Doug Coupland and boring indie pop music. There are people doing shit here that they had to make happen themselves!! And guess what? Most of it's on a strip that has 'preservation through neglect' where some of Vancouver's oldest buildings are: Hastings. romanticize it, man, cuz it won't be around forever. This city hates history. And support the ER, Fake jazz, all that stuff. Even if they don't always hit the mark they are trying something, taking risks! Oh, and buy some coffee and books from Solder and sons while yer at it. Aw fuck, and go up to main and 24th and buy a cool comic art book from Lucky's and look at the gallery in the back. I don't have alot of time and cash myself but if you do use yer purchasing power towards awesomeness, they are purveyors of mind/spirit/soul expansion. Let's discourse....no douches please. I support you, the six Oh four, and want you to rise to internet glory! In exalcious seltzer! MM- or may I call you MMMMM?,
May I yammer more to possibly encourage a discourse on yer brand new “Let’s Save The Couve” site? I may? Thank you. I do so at the risk of those negative blog commenters that will post out of date exaggerated personal info about me (ooh let’s heighten the myth) yet seem to be so chicken shit that they can’t even give their real name (there’s meds for that). Oh, I’ll admit to coming off a tad douchey in print, hell, I’m a bit of a ‘douche’ (nice quotes dickweed) in person, persona non grata, yeah, it’s the Real Me, I’m easy to find.
There’s a point coming.
But first…
My sweet GF who I’m following to the Big A hole luvs to play a game, whenever she sees a pic of a guy- any guy- with moustache and glasses, she points to it and teasingly says, “look, it’s you!” in response to the idjits who compare me to the like (Sorry MMMM, you ain’t really an idjit, yer a sweety, but this may just be a lil life lesson for you), note that i never said any moustachioed folk by name when interviewed by MMMM but fuuuuck 2001-2002 was tuff, it’s easy now.
…okay that’s an aside, besides does a moustache make a man? to quote Fosters beer ads “It’s what’s inside that counts” tho it has certain iconic appeal (the moustache not the crappy beer that Australians don’t even drink, they drink VB). Some of my fave peeps look completely generic but have minds of pure roaming free thought.

FREEDOM: that’s the point and what i was getting to. Okay, so, i was talking to a bandmate who was on a Canadaian major label (the worst kind) who was forced to not only make a record he didn’t want to make (ie. something completely bland that got buried in the marketplace) he also made far less moolah than he would’ve being DIY. so, yeah, i’m DIY and I whine but I got to be grateful for having a) complete freedom to express nuanced visions
and b) being such a professional entertainer that even if I am completely DIY I have the knowledge that it still better be damned good! Am I full of myself? Well, it’s a result of being very hard on myself and taking alot of risks! I’m moving to toronto…will I last? Will I come back with my tail between my legs? I do need a change buuuut…. this is the city that brought us fucking Tea Party, Mike Bullard, alot of MOR ensemble group acts that critics love, uhh, lesse, Sean Cullen: stuff no one likes but still gets exported here and slammed down our throats cuz they are a city with lots of cultural infrastructure in place. Who knows, maybe there’s better stuff there….If Toronto thinks of us at all they think of Doug Coupland and boring indie pop music. There are people doing shit here that they had to make happen themselves!! And guess what? Most of it’s on a strip that has ‘preservation through neglect’ where some of Vancouver’s oldest buildings are: Hastings. romanticize it, man, cuz it won’t be around forever. This city hates history. And support the ER, Fake jazz, all that stuff. Even if they don’t always hit the mark they are trying something, taking risks! Oh, and buy some coffee and books from Solder and sons while yer at it. Aw fuck, and go up to main and 24th and buy a cool comic art book from Lucky’s and look at the gallery in the back. I don’t have alot of time and cash myself but if you do use yer purchasing power towards awesomeness, they are purveyors of mind/spirit/soul expansion.
Let’s discourse….no douches please.

I support you, the six Oh four, and want you to rise to internet glory! In exalcious seltzer!

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