John Semley

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• Posted Images 2010 Puts the "Art" Back In "Obtuse Installation and Experimental Video Art" to Torontoist
  Image from John Greyson's Covered. If you’re really into stuff like “modes,” “forms,” “gestures,” “ephemera,” or the relationship between cinematic time and the empty vastness of gallery space more generally (or just like a...
• Commented on No Genies for <em>District 9</em>
  guys let's quit chasing each other's tails and write a movie about a bioengineered mutated infectious maple syrup, with a score by RUSH, starring elias koteas and colm feore as buddy cops, and just take every goddamn juno under the...
• Posted Back in the Hall: Mark McKinney to Torontoist
  Well before Broken Social Scene, Toronto birthed its most formidable indie collective: The Kids in the Hall. A staple of Hogtown’s emerging alt-comedy scene of the '80s and CBC and Comedy Network airwaves in the...
• Commented on "Toronto Calling" Tracks Toronto's Punk Rock and New Wave Roots
  you guys remember chalk circle? "this mourning comes soon, this mourning makes me blue-ooo-ooo-ooo-oooooh!" now there's some vintage toronto new wave!...
• Commented on No Genies for <em>District 9</em>
  except that some people love My Winnipeg. i've seen it like 6 times (though I'm still partial to The Saddest Music in the World). everyone's entitled to their own taste, but it's not like they cook these films up over...