To him to whom the wind has sung orders mean little. Honour I accorded his lord shagginess, peering from beneath his hornbrow eminence, serene in the loneliness of the unpeopled barren, awe and respect as for no man. Excerpt from the long poem Homage, Henry Kelsey by Jon Whyte from A/Long Prairie Lines: An Anthology [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Mike Rollo’
Pile of Bones
Posted in All the other stuff we write about!, tagged A/Long Prairie Lines: An Anthology of Long Prairie Poems, Ancestors rising: Aboriginal art as historical testimonials, bison, bones, buffalo, henry kelsey, jon whyte, Mary Longman, Mike Rollo, muskox, pile of bones, poetry, prairies, regina, saskatchewan, skulls, songwriting, walls on August 13, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Tour diary: running low on fuel, words…
Posted in Tour Diary, tagged Mike Rollo, tour video on June 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
All photos by Mike Rollo. We are renewable energy: just photos for now, we are a bit under the weather / exhausted! Tour videos and links to photos on other people’s blogs from the shows, real soon, OK? PS: We’re recording a new song this weekend. What? Yes!
How to look like an ocean, et plus.
Posted in All the other stuff we write about!, carta marina, tagged alexander mcqueen, carta marina, Jessica Grosman, Mike Rollo, myspace, nautical, oceanic, record, sugar on my tongue, trend whore, vinyl on April 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Suggestions over on Sugar on My Tongue (thanks to Jess!)…cuz we have a nautically themed rekkid, of course. Do the Sunken Mountain: thanks to TrendWhore for updating our myspace page!
Dirty Window Daydream
Posted in All the other stuff we write about!, tagged Bruce Davidson, clark hall pub, Dirty Beaches, kingston, Mike Rollo, music video, tessa smith on February 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Tomorrow we will drive off into the cold towards Kingston where we will play a show at the Queens University Clark Hall Pub. Doors open at 9pm! Today will be about traveling daydreams and thinking about music. Thanks to Tessa!
Dressed in Black: Mike Rollo!
Posted in Style & Fashion, tagged Concordia, dressed in black, John Ford, Ligeti, Mike Rollo, Varese on December 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dressed in Black: We’ve named this blog column in honour of the tune by The Shangri-Las cuz it’s a little moody sounding…like us! Check out other entries in this series by clicking on the Style & Fashion category. Now without any further ado, our thirteenth interviewee, Mike Rollo! In 5 words [...]
Pop the Nightwood
Posted in carta marina, Style & Fashion, tagged i heart norwegian wood, lara kaluza, Midnight Poutine, Mike Rollo, norwegian wood, photos, pop montreal, safe solvent, worn fahsion journal on September 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Folks! The nutty times of Pop Montreal are upon us! Our record launch is tomorrow and our tour is next week (Ontario! Secret shows! Etc!). Here is some festival stuff you might wanna check out…. Tonight: Two of us are gonna go check out Fashion Pop at 8:30pm! Check out the info on Worn Fashion [...]
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Posted in All the other stuff we write about!, tagged 52 pick up videos, bruce mcclure, cinema, double negative collective, Dziga vertov, Man with a movie camera, Mike Rollo, nxne, pablo ferro, road trip, walker evans, weekend in the pines on July 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
CINEMA! Yeah! So many of our buds are filmmakers and some Nightwood-ers are a part of the Double Negative Collective (a film collective). So it’s perhaps appropriate to bring film to zis blog from time-to-time. The photo at the top was found on filmmaker Mike Rollo‘s blog in this lovely entry. He has other excellent [...]
Psychedelic pix of last night’s show!!!
Posted in All the other stuff we write about!, tagged Expo 67, Freelove Fenner, L'Esco, Mike Rollo, photos, psychedelia, show review on June 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last night’s show at L’Esco was awesome! Great company ( Expo 67 and Freelove Fenner ) and good times! All these fabulous photos are by Mike Rollo. Look carefully so that you don’t miss out on the awesome superimposition-like effects. Check out the rest of them in our Flickr account!
Pretty in Black + some time lapse video of today!
Posted in All the other stuff we write about!, tagged digital bird studios, dressed in black, martin horn, Mike Rollo, pretty in black, recording, safesolvent, The Bikeriders, time lapse, turcotte interchange on May 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Time lapse video! Of day 7! Of the recording! Also! Submitted for week 8 of 52 Pick Up! *** The nice lady behind the endlessly lovely style blog Pretty in Black gave us a wink yesterday! She likes the 16mm-shot video for The Bikeriders, by Mike Rollo. The photo below is by one *safesolvent. Talking [...]
Time Lapse-y Daisy
Posted in All the other stuff we write about!, tagged 52 pick-up, Mike Rollo, Nightwood, patsy cline, safe solvent, sewing, time lapse on April 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is a sneak prev’ of our ‘Week 5′ submission for 52 Pick- Up! Last week isn’t up on our youtube account due to music copyright issues (we used a Patsy Cline track), so check it out here. Thanks to *safesolvent for the time lapse tips! Thanks to Mike Rollo for helping us with the [...]


