new forms festival

various venues

The New Forms Festival took place on August 3rd to 5th and
featured over 50 artists in 10 different venues.

Musical styles included from drum & bass, funk, hiphop, house
and breaks with performers like; Team Lounge, DJ Precise, Coda,
Those Lazy Bastards, Jay Phoenix, Ink Ops, Lost Tribes of the
Sun, Ndidi Cascade and Mauricio to name a few. With spoken
word, body art and a fashion show it's nice to see that some
people in Vancouver are trying to do things, rather than complain
that nothing is ever done.

Band>Canned Hamm
Album>Karazma
Label>ProAm

Apparently they were spawned from the karaoke scene. Urban
myth? How the hell should | know, | don’t pay attention to
karaoke.

To really understand these guys, you need to see them live. If
you've been one of the privileged few to witness this brilliance
then disregard this review because | couldn't add anything to
the genius that is canned hamm. They wrote a song dedicated
to fucking hairpieces! Not only do you get 12 ingenius songs,
you get a number of secret answering machine messages. Now
who doesn't need more of those? As a basis for comparison
think of dipping french fries into ice cream. Really bad, but only
in theory. In reality everyone's done it, french fries and ice cream
together. So quit the wondering about how they taste together
and go buy the album. In all seriousness, if you ever see a
poster for one of their shows skip your mom's wedding and go.

Ghost World
by Nana and Dekes

One of the benefits of working in a magazine is that you
occasionally get free stuff. Like watching movies. So my friend
Dan and | went to go see Ghost World. | was not too familiar
with the comic book that this movie was based on but Dan had
read it so it was nice to have someone who could actually base
the review on something. So here is the edited version of our
review of Ghost World. The finer plot points will be encoded as
not to spoil the movies ending (which was, sadly, lame). If you
wish to decode the code then just take the letters of apparent
gibberish and move the letters to the one previous in the
alphabet (B becomes A. got it?)

Nana: (Having just left the theatre) Wow. That was a fucking
great movie.

Dekes: | feel like shit. It was kinda depressing.
N: Yeh, it was depressing. Funny though.

D: The ending was horrible. | don't understand why they did
that. It was really different than the book. The thing is that the
CVT in the comic is just a small part. It takes you out of
SFBMJUZ and into a weird NBHJCBK place.

N: Yeh, the ending was bad. The characters were great.
Especially the background ones. There's a lot of R.Crumb in this
movie. Steve Buscemi's character is basically R.Crumb, single
and without a mustache or glasses.

D: The relationship between the characters was different.
N: Huh??

D: What?

N: So what do you want to do tonight?

D: | dunno, want to go eat?

N: Sure. | liked that movie a lot. Seems like a really good
approximation of people the way they are. The guy in the
conveience store with the nunchuks was fuckin amazing. | think
the art class was the best. Reminds me of my classes...

D: Wow look at that mullet...

N: Everybody's picking on mullets nowadays. Which leads us to
the important question of the movie: which of the two girls was
hotter?

D: Definitely Thora Birch.
N: Yes... | likes her.

In conclusion, | liked this movie. Therefore, you will like this
movie. And if anyone knows Thora Birch tell her to call me.