Shawn Micallef's Latest Updates



  • shawnmicallef about 7 hours ago



    That was Utah Saints sampling Cloudbursting @geekigirl - 1994ish, peak of British Stadium Electronica http://bit.ly/fngDf

     

  • shawnmicallef about 7 hours ago



    Videos with long shots and narrative structures.

     

  • shawnmicallef about 8 hours ago



    Midnite Interstitial: Kate Bush, "Cloudbursting." Donald Sutherland too. http://bit.ly/ppCZw

     

  • shawnmicallef about 1 days ago



    Midnite Interstitial: Matthew Barney Cremaster, climbing around the Guggenheim http://bit.ly/VZKTZ

     

  • shawnmicallef about 1 days ago



    Actually #VoteTO on whole didn't deserve that, many intelligent debaters on all sides - just a troll problem. How to keep it smart?

     

  • shawnmicallef about 1 days ago



    Sigh. #VoteTO rhetoric is so over the top I'm accused of "demonizing" Rossi (nope!) when I just reported on events & pointed to better way.

     

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  • shawnmicallef about 1 days ago



    Yep. RT @balkissoon: Been forced to drive at Star, realized just how necessary bike lights are. Everyone should switch for a day.

     

  • shawnmicallef about 1 days ago



    Hi. My Eye Weekly psychogeography column this week is on how to duck #VoteTO wedge issues like the Jarvis Bike Lane http://ow.ly/1gEk4

     

  • shawnmicallef about 1 days ago



    Here's some breaking news announced by Waterfront TO today on Yonge St - a park under a freeway overpass! http://bit.ly/az96sw

     

  • shawnmicallef about 2 days ago



    1:45 interstitial: Sisters of Mercy, "Dominion." Goths w sizable production budget. http://bit.ly/3damN4 Music from the cold war twilight

     

  • shawnmicallef about 2 days ago



    @spotlightcity just being preemptive

     

  • shawnmicallef about 2 days ago



    @spotlightcity I vow to try to meet foodies half way. But never at "brunch." Source of much modern unhappiness and ruined days.

     

  • shawnmicallef about 2 days ago



    @spotlightcity This is my passive aggressive way to be invited to dinner parties

     

  • shawnmicallef about 2 days ago



    Accidentally tweeting about food is worse, IHMO, than a pornographic slip. Sorry.

     

  • shawnmicallef about 2 days ago



    Earlier, in the course of being Social Media Expert (give it away for free, people) I accidentally retweeted a tweet about food.

     

  • shawnmicallef about 2 days ago



    Person I'm helping says "when you do a BM"...

     

  • shawnmicallef about 2 days ago



    Am giving a social media 1+1 tutorial, waiving usual $175/hr fee & not using words "community" "transparency" or "value"

     

  • shawnmicallef about 2 days ago



    Most difficult OCAD class of yr - 28 elevator pitches narrowed to 1 idea - then turn entire class into design firm w dep'ts - in 3 hrs. go!

     

  • shawnmicallef about 3 days ago



    Oops one more Detroit. "The Scene" dance show from 1982. This is the parallel punk rock but clean & so well dressed: http://bit.ly/CyvMB

     

  • shawnmicallef about 3 days ago



    Finally Dan Bell aka DBX's "Electric Shock" on "The New Dance Show" - broadcast over air to us in Windsor from Detroit http://bit.ly/mcNJu

     

  • shawnmicallef about 3 days ago



    Later in the decade, 1997, more Detroit rooms, (this time licensed), Jeff Mills "The Bells" http://bit.ly/EC2qH

     

  • shawnmicallef about 3 days ago



    Sheet One sounds like Detroit rooms to me. Can hear it echoing off of brick walls. Sweaty Americans. Marlborough cigarettes. Bad bathrooms.

     

  • shawnmicallef about 3 days ago



    Midnite Interstitial 2: Much earlier, 1993, so old, #303, Plastikman "Sheet One" - the album that got a Texan arrested http://bit.ly/derGE1

     

  • shawnmicallef about 3 days ago



    Midnite Interstitial: Richie Hawtin "The Tunnel" 2005. Of the Windsor diaspora. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCIAJRCxNGU

     

  • shawnmicallef about 3 days ago



    Empty giant Queen Quay Loblaws at closing/always the same woman shoving Shreddies in backpack/she exits Jarvis

     

  • shawnmicallef about 3 days ago



    Saw a bare midriff on Bloor. The horror.

     

  • shawnmicallef about 4 days ago



    Nope RT @reeraw: @shawnmicallef did u ever read that salon piece when she was hangin w/owen & wes? http://bit.ly/c4bqnV

     

  • shawnmicallef about 4 days ago



    ...coughed up a screen from the pipe she freebased cocaine with. Now she is dead (cancer) but she was an awesome, tragic woman.

     

  • shawnmicallef about 4 days ago



    ...vallium, coke, weed, qualludes -- all that baby boomer stuff -- later, after she was fired from Close Encounters, she went too deep....

     

  • shawnmicallef about 4 days ago



    ...1st woman to win best picture (producer on The Sting) outlined the drugs she she did in the limo from Malibu to the ceremony that night..

     

  • shawnmicallef about 4 days ago



    I didnt' watch the Oscars tonight but one of my favorite books "You'll never eat lunch in this town again" by Julia Phillips...

     

  • shawnmicallef about 4 days ago



    Turning on twitter/TV after 5 hours of silence. Nice to see The Cove won. Walked dog for 2 hours today, thinking of The Cove. & animals. sad

     

  • shawnmicallef about 4 days ago



    Many scraps on the sidewalks of Little India by Lahore Tikka House - pouting because he isn't allowed to snack http://twitpic.com/178qt5

     

  • shawnmicallef about 4 days ago



    Walking along Queen East like stumbling onto set of Hugh Grantish romantic comedy (tho with better extra casting)

     

  • shawnmicallef about 4 days ago



    The computer is a poor substitute for the sunshine.

     

  • shawnmicallef about 5 days ago



    Watched The Cove - Japanese Dolphin slaughter - documentary activism at best

     

  • shawnmicallef about 5 days ago



    Spring sun/hits Yorkville botoxed & stretched skin just so/now taxdeductable/human work lit as intended by G-d/eyes hid by wraparound rayban

     

  • shawnmicallef about 5 days ago



    Girl tags me at Yonge + Rosedale stn - runs to $20 bill that fell out of my pocket - gives it to me - smiles, runs off

     

  • shawnmicallef about 5 days ago



    Nice RT @davin: @shawnmicallef The @spacing hut is enjoying the sun & looks like it has had some winter residents. http://yfrog.com/jbtiacj

     

  • shawnmicallef about 5 days ago



    Press release arrives from US PR firm for "Canada's best restroom award" but baby we don't call them "restrooms" up here.

     

  • shawnmicallef about 5 days ago



    Today @davin is visiting the Leslie St Spit Quonset Hut - we at @spacing bought the naming rights to it in 2008: http://bit.ly/3wXiur

     

  • shawnmicallef about 6 days ago



    OK a live version, then that's it, not more tweets about great American artists or anything else: http://bit.ly/18KIjb

     

  • shawnmicallef about 6 days ago



    That Nightswimming song grows new everytime. Best of America. Also, Michael Stipe FTW.

     

  • shawnmicallef about 6 days ago



    2/2 RT @MKultra: ..../every streetlight reveals a picture in reverse

     

  • shawnmicallef about 6 days ago



    1/2 Michael Stipe FTW RT @MKultra: The photograph on the dashboard/taken years ago/turn around backwards so the windshield shows/......

     

  • shawnmicallef about 6 days ago



    This is dear dead mushed Michael Snow, one week ago: http://twitpic.com/15l7c7

     

  • shawnmicallef about 6 days ago



    Spring kills all that we built over winter.

     

  • shawnmicallef about 6 days ago



    A week after the snowy night we built him we find "Michael Snow" dead and mushed on U of T by University College http://twitpic.com/16w2is

     

  • shawnmicallef about 6 days ago



    Finally Donna Summer Love to Love You Baby http://bit.ly/169H8d