Once More For FEELINGS

Last one...sighhh...press release below...

FINAL SUNDAY AUGUST 2nd
THE OSSINGTON (61 OSSINGTON STREET)
NO COVER! 9 PM-Late
With D.J. Body Beautiful and a midnight candlelight night recitation by Robert Dayton, Junior

We have been given a mild reprieve of one week before the Ossington shuts its’ doors on Sundays entirely for the rest of the month of August. Yes, this is the last Sunday. Will we be back? It’s not up to us. Allow us to put it thusly, we believe in The Multiverse so, even if we don’t come back in this universe, we will return in other universes. In another universe we are a multi-coloured Princess indulging in bon bons while whistling- no mean feat.
Speaking of segues, for this final Sunday we are going to get rather self-indulgent by playing a plethora of whistle music! That’s right, platters of music with whistling. We don’t know how to whistle ourselves so we have records that do it for us. Those who can’t, deejay. We implore you to come!
We will also be selling the latest edition of our self-help booklet Y2K Compatible for just 2 dollars. It is the bleakest edition yet: to suit the times.
Many people who have not previously attended have wondered what a Recitation is? It is a classic form that we have torn asunder with a fervor most Biblical, and all the subtlety of a cascading butterfly, to render spontaneous, going against its’ very name. It is a unique mix of eleven herbs and spices that remain a pathetic secret through unlabeled flavour packets. It is your Mother’s beckoning teat. Powerful.

Bask in them....
FEELINGS is a special night where we spin music that you probably won’t normally hear. A boutique mix of :
ELUSIVE DREAMINGS/PRIVATE PRESSINGS/BALD HEADED BALLADEERS/FREE FORMS/CAN CON CONCRETE/B SIDE EXCURSIONS/ELECTRONIC PRIMITIVA/EMOTIONS/EURO HORRORS/INTENSELY PERSONAL VISIONS/DEEP PSYCH/UN-EASY LISTENINGS AND BALLADS/PRISON SOUNDTRACKS/FANTASTIC JOURNEYS OF WONDER/ACTOR AS SINGER/
ORGAN-ISMS/NEO-BAROQUE
With a midnight candlelight night recitation by Robert Dayton, Junior
This will be ...special.

Male and female artists with studio spaces needed as research for project.

Needed: male and female artists with relatively conventional studio spaces in the GTA to volunteer for photo documentation to be used as source material for 6 large pen and ink works on paper entitled "STUDIO VISITS." Yes, this is art about art.
These drawings will depict the artist naked but the artist will not need to pose naked for the photo source material if they don't want to. Yes, clothing can be worn so long as it's not in the ultra-baggy skater/hippy/pigeonholing etc style. I prefer to depict 3 males and 3 females. Whether the artists themselves will be exactly represented is, as yet, to be determined. Their works will NOT be depicted. In fact, any materials will be rendered completely blank as this series will be more about the give-and-take relationship between artist and dealer/gallery owner/curator/intruder/patron.
Note: by conventional, I mean that the completed pieces have to convey to the viewer that it is definitely a studio space without any of the artists' work represented.
Feel free to forward this note.
E mail: Robert Dayton at moustachedpainless@yahoo.com if you are interested and have any questions.

Last FEELINGS ever... or just for July?

FEELINGS
FINAL TRIAL SUNDAY JULY 26th
THE OSSINGTON (61 OSSINGTON STREET)
NO COVER! 9 PM-Late
With D.J. Body Beautiful and a midnight candlelight night recitation by Robert Dayton, Junior

Yes, this is the last Sunday. For our trial basis or for good? YOU decide! If it ends, it ends but use the money you save on cover for that bottle of scotch that is on the top shelf of The Ossington this Sunday. It all comes down to sales. For love. And honour.
For this possibly final night I will be spinning a special set of songs about France! Love letters from afar! Ever been? Never but why go when you can get the sensation here for cheaper than rare cheese.
I will also be selling the latest edition of my self-help booklet Y2K Compatible for just 2 dollars.
What happens at FEELINGS? See minutes for July 19th from our Facebook group and printed below...
Bask in them....
FEELINGS is a special night where we spin music that you probably won’t normally hear. A boutique mix of :
ELUSIVE DREAMINGS/PRIVATE PRESSINGS/BALD HEADED BALLADEERS/FREE FORMS/CAN CON CONCRETE/B SIDE EXCURSIONS/ELECTRONIC PRIMITIVA/EMOTIONS/EURO HORRORS/INTENSELY PERSONAL VISIONS/DEEP PSYCH/UN-EASY LISTENINGS AND BALLADS/PRISON SOUNDTRACKS/FANTASTIC JOURNEYS OF WONDER/ACTOR AS SINGER/
ORGAN-ISMS/NEO-BAROQUE
With a midnight candlelight night recitation by Robert Dayton, Junior
This will be ...special.
July 19th MINUTES:
Smoke machine had fresh juice and long stem roses abounded thanks to Jubal, Anna Mae set up the Jesus lamp, "Leave Her To Heaven" and "Shock Corridor" were projected thanks to my special guest DJ Dorleac whose fine mix of music included Heino, Petula Clark's version of Rain, my fave Bobby Darin song, a great Honeycombs B side, some intense Bollywood, and the soundtrack to the Cook, His Thief, Her wife, Her Lover- a movie that Dorleac does not like but is warm towards the music.
A special lamp was set up by Jubal for heightening effect during my Recitation. Lorenz turned it on. I thanked all for coming then took requests for topics. Gwen quickly suggested self-esteem , probably knowing full well that it was my battle that week due to my posting my insecurities on Facebook. I suggested means to raise self-esteem such as putting self-esteem in one's Day planner everyday at 6 Pm so that after sleeping for 16 hours one could feel better, hop in the shower, and scrub using the personally monogrammed loofa with the word "Smile." A small table of -er, i hate to judge- jockish looking people got strangely scared by my low-key Recitation and fled looking like their masculinity was threatened. For shame, as the recitation ended shortly after, maybe they'll be back. For Gwen's suggestion she received a long-stemmed rose. It truly was her night as last week she requested some Laura Nyro and The Poppy Family. I had found some Nyro on the street this very day for 50 cents! I brought my autographed Poppy Family in as well, such a perfect album, I could have played the entire thing!
For music, I kicked off with "To you with love", a Canadian Rod mcKuen-like album of recitations with dandy synths, LP given to me by Kevin Howes- and , yes, a single rose is on the beige cover. Then into selections from "Never Talk To Strangers" described as "A MUST FOR EVERY PARENT AND CHILD" , comes with colouring book, I played some scenarios and the song "Being a kid isn't always easy" sung by a mournful child. Then into The Beach boys' Still I Dream Of It, their most intensely touching ballad from their unreleased Adult Child album. "Don't Forget me" by Nilsson makes me feel the same way, it makes me cry. Ebo Solmaz- Vancouver by Night. Pretty much half of The Sweet- Level Headed album including a very synthy instro and "Love Is Like Oxygen."Metro- Criminal World, Francois Hardy- Chanson Noire (from her early 70s one night stand themed album), Lou Reed- the Bed, Les Baxter- Hate (from "The Passions"), Porter wagoner- Comes and goes, the Geraldine Fibbers-Get Thee Gone, Moby Grape- Horse Out In The rain, Terence Trent D'arby- To love Someone deeply, The Kinks- Morning Song, Suzanne- Shendah, Scott Walker- Dealer, Boudewijn de Groot- De reiziger, The Mauriora Maoris- A Million Stars, Milan Kymlicka- If I Let you Go, The wandering Stars- I'm Posion, Lucien hetu- Steppin Stone, The monkees- it's Not too late (from their 90s album JUST US), The Soule Setters- Cecil, the unwanted French fry, Think- Once you understand,Rosemary collins- Nevernding Love For You, Willie wilson- Before the next teardrop fall, Bobby Brown- Lonely boy No More, Jim Copp and ed brown- The duck, the tiger, the shrimp and the owl, Louis nye- heigh ho Steveo...and we had a special guest crazee rap by that guy people see all the time....

HIT LIST

Long-time between posts...
I got into a funk. See, I take (and need) criticism but I take it hard! So my period of "How's My driving?" turned into self-pity due to a large and fragile ego that I keep floating on a string attached to my sleeve.
So if anyone's reading I apologize.
In other news, and in Tony Randall fashion, I was asked to be a last minute replacement for a thing called Hit List where i list five current faves of any variety. I hate limiting such things to five and also having to use brevity due to word count (I edited out all personal asides and kept it quite straight forward) but it was a nice opportunity to give props.
Here:
http://www.akimbo.ca/hitlist/?id=42

I'll try to talk soon, my next funk is not due to happen for a month. And I'm still unsure of my 'driving'....

PLAYLISTING....

Mid-projects here, never enuff time....on that trial basis for FEELINGS. Last Sunday was pretty marvelous: showed projections of The Letter with Bette Davis, God Monster Of Indian Flats, and the Japanese movie House. This 1977 film is only available via bootleg but it is so unique and mindblowing. It shattered all senses. Schoolgirls go to a crazy house. It has a very synthy happy soundtrack and lots of amazing camera set-ups and artificiality- much use of stop-motion, painted backdrops, and other effects. It is like candy, very sweet, intense candy. All the schoolgirls have names that correspond to their chief characteristics, ie. the girl named Kung fu. An hour in, the movie gets gory. A girl gets eaten by a piano. Disembodied body parts. Blood spew. Teen nudity. A white persian cat. See House.
I just found a curious 1970 magazine "Scanlan's" with an article about the San Francisco film scene. In particular, The Cockettes, as well as the director of God Monster Of Indian Flats: Frederic Hobbs. Lucas and Coppola are briefly mentioned as newbies but are not nearly the focus. At the time of this article, Fredric Hobbs hadn't yet made God Monster, a messy film that people describe as indescribable Grade Z but he very clearly knew what he was doing, a total artist. In one scene of this film the characters discuss embryos and birth then cut to: a close up of a hard boiled egg being cracked with a spoon. God Monster takes place in a frontier town and features a mutated sheep monster that may be the key to all creation but much of the film is focused on power and mining rights. It's a provocative film that ends in total carnage on top of the town dump. Hobbs eventually retired from film and turned to sculpture, I'd love to find his other films (Roseland, Alabama's Ghost) and interview him. Look at that amazing photo of Hobbs. WOW!
Also at FEELINGS I did 2 recitations. One was about feeling completely unfixed in landscape, how I truly do not feel like I have a 'home-city' and that beliefs in such can be dangerous anyways (look at all the energy I put into Vancouver). The other recitation was by request, it was about the white squirrel. I discussed how it is not really white, it's grey and does the colour of its' pelt really matter?
I played this music:
Stravinsky- Rite of Spring
Staff Carpenbourg and the Electric Corona- Fantastic Party
Terence Trent D'arby- It Feels So Good to Love Someone Like You
Moolah
101 Strings with Bebe Bardon- Love At First Sight
Michel Polnareff- I Love You Because
Dionne Warwick- Don't Make Me Over
Glen Campbell- Highwayman
Jack Nitzche- Hanging Around
The Eight Seasons Of Chromalox
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory- The Wondrous Boat ride
Robin Gibb- Farmer Ferdinand Hudson
Bobby Conn- Without You
Joe Walsh- Inner tube/Theme From boat Weirdos/Life's Been Good
Phantom of the Paradise s/t- The Hell of It (by request)
Sweeney Todd- If Wishes were Horses
Mud- All I've Got To give
The Frogs- Persian Cat
Lewis Furey- The Sky Is falling
Phil Ochs- My Life
The 5th Dimension- Orange air
Jerry Toth- Last Tango in Paris
Frank Sinatra jr- Black Night
Telly Savalas- Something
John Phillips- April Ann
Hank- Exclusive Plot
Dolly Parton- Bargain Store
Skafish- Maybe One Time
Richard and Linda Thompson- Wall Of Death
The Fugs- The Garden is Open
Peggy Lee- Mary Jane
Leonard Cohen- Death of A Ladies Man
Chuck Barris- I Know A Child
The 4 seasons- The Night
Hugo Montenegro- Rocket Man
Unrest- London's theme
Thinking Fellers Union local 282- Hurricane
Butthole Surfers- Whirling Hall of knives
More Soul Sauce- Sabre dance
The Super Dupers- March Of Tarzan
Mondo Cane soundtrack
CroMagnon- Caledonia
Joe Hunter- Aloha
Marvelous Grace- Sitting at the feet of Jesus
Kathleen Yearwood- excerpt from "Opponent"
Mitchell Ayers- Number 7 theme
Rhonda Silver- Departure
Herman's Hermits- The World Is for The young
The Robert Tennison Troupe- my World Of make believe
Joseph Geczy- Falling leaves
Ginette Revel- Ou Irons Nous
Robie Porter- He Is not He
The Happy Moog- Re-entry to the Moon
Rodd Keith- Cloud Nine

This Sunday offers:
For this “fiery trial” of sensory exploration we would like to welcome D.J. Dorleac as a guest to our salon for the eve of Sunday July 19th. She has not DJed in over four years which will make for a barrage of pent-up vinyl emotions. Her extended set will hit a tense peak when her nicotine cravings set in. Her wry sensibility is imbued with a sense of honest warmth that emanates softly from deep within.

With DJ Body Beautiful, midnight recitation by moi, no cover, 61 Ossington Street
Trish Lavoie is DJ Dorleac
Once aptly described as "bourgeois without ambition", DJ Dorleac is a woman of quality tastes, varying degrees of talent, and a lot of charm (for when "talent" and "taste" don't pan out). In a pinch she will make you a pie or perform a puppet show, but at FEELINGS, she looks forward to soothing your troubled psyche with moog based compositions from the Space Age, bold soundtrack excursions and French ballads not likely to be heard in your nearest "bistro".

Poster for WET DIRT opening for the World Provider and Hank this Thursday

Here's the poster I designed. Yes, it's an owl with human ears. I have been listening to Hank's albums and have become a big fan, natch for World Provider. Both acts make extremely individual and catchy pop curiosities. I am excited to be on the bill!

WEEKLY FEELINGS

Heyyy folks! I'm going weekly! Check out my lovely poster and press release below!
Please tell all the kids in the neighbourhood (19 +) cuz, man, I really want to turn people on to inspirational sounds and cause expanded boundaries in global vibrations starting at a local level...

FEELINGS
NOW WEEKLY STARTING SUNDAY JULY 5th
THE OSSINGTON (61 OSSINGTON STREET)
NO COVER! 9 PM-Late

Most of society crumbles listlessly from Monday to Friday thus followed by weekend excesses to numb or mask this depression-stemming drudgery. Although we here at FEELINGS do not experience this vicious pattern, due to the fact that we are overly-sensitive lay-abouts, we most certainly empathise. And that is why we have been given the opportunity to GO WEEKLY! That’s correct, starting Sunday July 5th we will be operating on a weekly capacity to help you better get through this mortal life!

For this “grand reawakening” of sensory exploration we would like to welcome PLAN as a guest to our salon for the eve of Sunday July 5th. PLAN is an unemployed alcoholic jet setter. Collecting records for over 3 decades and publicly playing them for at least one. With current residencies on the west coast (SPICE) and Toronto (SLURM) he is always on the go. For "Feelings" PLAN’s alter ego DJFUNERAL will be warming up the decks with gris gris, swamp majic and other remedies....

Bask in them....
FEELINGS

With DJ Body Beautiful
And for this brand new night we present our rotating guest DJ:
DJFUNERAL

FEELINGS is a special night where we spin music that you probably won’t normally hear. A boutique mix of :
ELUSIVE DREAMINGS/PRIVATE PRESSINGS/FREE FORMS/CAN CON CONCRETE/B SIDE EXCURSIONS/ELECTRONIC PRIMITIVA/EMOTIONS/EURO HORRORS/INTENSELY PERSONAL VISIONS/DEEP PSYCH/UN-EASY LISTENINGS AND BALLADS/PRISON SOUNDTRACKS/FANTASTIC JOURNEYS OF WONDER/
ORGAN-ISMS/NEO-BAROQUE
With a midnight candlelight night recitation by Robert Dayton, Junior

This will be ...special.

To Hurting People

Since we are struggling with pain, even at this moment, we have first hand knowledge of what it is like to experience the silence of God. Sometimes the immense loneliness of pain-whether physical, mental or emotional-is completely overwhelming!
As you listen to us spin, let the music wash over your brokenness as great healing waves of God’s merciful love until you hear the music once again.

From our hearts to yours,
D.J. Body Beautiful...and our new special friend -----D.J.FUNERAL


D.J. Body Beautiful is Robert Dayton, a personality of living flesh and blood. Robert regularly contributes illustrations, features, obits, and quips to Roctober, Cinema Sewer, Free Drawings, and Broken Pencil, as well as the books “Lost In The Grooves: Scram’s Capricious Guide to the Music You Missed” and “Nog A Dod: Prehistoric Canadian Psychedooolia.” And as an artist he exhibits fully. Robert is a performer and songwriter with: WET DIRT; melodramatic glitter rock act Hallmark; defunct acid downer folk trio Points Gray; legendary longtime lucidly malleable act July Fourth Toilet; modern song and dance duo Canned Hamm. As an actor Robert Dayton starred in the feature “Male Fantasy” , a shelved Hillshire Farms commercial, and appears in the upcoming “Leslie, My Name Is Evil”. Due to his candour he has been a Master of Ceremonies as himself and as other bizarre personae. As D.J. Body Beautiful he will console you.