tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67511743266677316742024-03-12T21:25:41.288-07:00Robert DaytonRobert DaytonRobert Dayton, Juniorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18185115415084239474noreply@blogger.comBlogger375125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6751174326667731674.post-47801109103447849452016-01-06T14:40:00.001-08:002016-01-06T14:40:08.499-08:00folllow me here?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Hey gang,I have been blogging on my website, unsure if there is a need to blog here as well unless UNLESS people get zero notifications there? I dunno how things work, let me know,okay?<br />
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Robert Dayton, Juniorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18185115415084239474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6751174326667731674.post-18434738166828333602015-11-09T14:27:00.002-08:002015-11-10T11:19:18.077-08:00The destruction of many Points Gray albums<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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When I get an idea or get immersed in the act of creation I feel a rush of excitement, especially when sharing is involved, be it collaboration or even reaching out to people (which can also be a form of collaboration). Making art can be so spiritual, so divine, a curious lifting to get outside of or higher than oneself. In 1999 I suggested to Dan Bejar that it’d be neat to do
some psychedelic folk cuz no one else was doing it and we deeply loved Skip Spence and
Holy Modal Rounders and on and on, even Smiley Smile and Henske/Yester fit the
bill for us as weighty influences. I had all these intense, heavy gut-wrenching lyrics that I wanted to get out (even though I had a sense of humour about them), so the project would be acid <i>downer</i>
folk. Julian Lawrence came along for the ride to add some great musical flourishes as well. The creative process came about so easily, it was incredible. We recorded an album at Method, being 'folky music' it took no time even with the curious effects that we wanted to add, and I started pitching it to numerous labels of varying sizes. No bites. </div>
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A couple or three years after our recording psychedelic folk went through a revival however labels said that we were ‘good but weird’ (as labels would tell me oh so often about oh so many things) …too
weird for the psychedelic folk revival even. I don't go into a project thinking, "Let's make this weird so that there will be no audience." I usually regard the audience highly, that audiences want something different that speaks to them about the human (and beyond) experience, that they aren't zombies (are zombies still popular?)...I have mixed feelings about the word 'weird.' When I'd find, say, an old horror comic book called 'Weird' I am interested and intrigued because it probably won't be 'boring' but when the word is placed on me disparagingly I sometimes consider the source and think that maybe they want 'boring' or 'safe.' Is it really so simple? Does 'safe' sell?<br />
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Also we weren’t technically ‘active’
(one show only in 1999 and that's it) no bites…hey, the music industry is dying, labels want bands that are going to tour, that's the reality. But still I’ve pitched a lot of stuff over the years, I
get things done and try to make it good (I do not want to add to the forgettable dung-heap, I may as well just be working in an office instead of creating boring work that has no depth -by the way, I am writing this in an office) but no bites. Finally in 2013 I decided
to do it myself …yet again. Always DIY, DIY has sucked me dry, I've done it so much and I don't want to do it again, I've tried and I've tried and I can't make it alone, I hit the ceiling of my own reach. Soooo crowd-sourcing! Crowd-sourcing is a bit embarrassing, even when one treats it like a pre-order the infrastructure of crowd-sourcing platforms set it up to seem like begging ("Won't you please help so and so to make their dream a reality?") With the crowd-sourcing I basically made the money back, though reviews were few if any, next to none (the industry has changed so much, now one has to hire a publicist to get any ink)…Couldn't I have just put it online to get lost in the hallowed halls of the internet? I am a record collector and clearly I am attached to the physical object. Is it really more real, more legit, because it is a record? Isn't manufacturing a record somewhat wasteful? Attachment can be a killer. Maybe that's what's at issue here, maybe that is the source of these very long-term frustrations: attachment. Certainly letting go of things is healthy. My next therapy appointment is in three weeks, I'll keep you posted.<br />
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I got my MFA (Masters of Fine Arts, the air of legitimacy) this year and left the hallowed halls to yet again pitch
and hustle to the response of silence and/or rejection. Waves
of frustration hit me again. I was back in Toronto in a house with fleas and a few housemates including a shirtless noodle slurper (which terrified me from bringing dates over), perhaps mercifully it wasn’t long before we were 'renovicted' (as a blessing in the midst of my jobless perpetual wall hitting the land-lord let us live rent free for the final months). When it came time to leave I had to move so many heavy records including the unsold copies of the Points
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How to make the physical album be as precious as it sounds? How to
try to tear down these walls that block me (I am not blocked creatively -I must
assure and be grateful for that, it is a blockage in getting it to the people and I am grateful for the people, I am grateful for the people that I care about, I am grateful when I reach and impact people) that may be outside of my control? How to let go of attachments? How to heft around less albums and downsize? Destroy 100 copies. But first I wanted to trade
some copies to anyone who was interested in the days leading up to the destruction for the small
sum of dark chocolate and the odd subway token. This felt more like a magick ritual and much less selfish. People that I did not know seemed
genuinely excited to get a record. I am unsure how they feel now that they have
listened to it. I destroyed the albums myself in the back alley of my new home. Perhaps doing it alone made it seem truly more 'self-important' in that the importance was minimized (yet here I am writing about it and sharing the experience) while texting close pals like Kevin Howes, who wrote the liner notes, and texted back images of one of his own record destroying moments. Then, as a method of cleansing, I burnt some sage (apparently sage actually does cleanse, not just spiritually but physically, too) and threw them in the recycle bin. That this is such an emotionally heavy album where some of the songs were pretty perfect for Halloween, which had just passed, made it all seem right. I well and truly hope that
it was a positive act and I can move forward with my current and future projects. There's still a few copies out there by the way, it isn't so 'diiiiire' you can order it here:<br />
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Robert Dayton, Juniorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18185115415084239474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6751174326667731674.post-9995601897704491112015-11-04T12:24:00.001-08:002015-11-04T12:28:42.006-08:00The Canadian Romantic at Jason Mclean art opening: London Ontario Saturday Nov 7, Michael Gibson Gallery<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Friends, after taking part in the delightful Guelph launch at eBar of Publication Studios Guelph's book <span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.76px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.76px;">“The Ecstasy and the Void: An Introduction to the Occult of Mulagi” ( the world’s first compendium of the apocryphal lore and mystery surrounding the Serbian folk-hero, Mulagi. Sayings, fragments of stories, and unearthed poems have been brought to life in twenty-four original artworks by twenty-four original artists from across the globe ...including me) where The Canadian Romantic hosted and even ran a confessional booth (so many dark secrets), The Canadian Romantic is now jet setting to briefly perform in London, Ontario, birthplace of the concept of 'cosmic consciousness' (Richard Bucke, 1871) for my long-time friend and collaborator Jason Mclean's art opening of new drawings "Son of a Salesman." If you haven't seen Jason's work you should, colourful magickal text subconscious imagery springing forth making humourous connections....</span></span></div>
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latest election poll results project that Stephen Harper is in the lead,
according to a polling firm run by The Harper Government, with the less
comfortable seats going to the other parties to scramble and fight over.
However, a recent, more independent (and much more independently minded) poll
suggests that Gnah The Conqueror, an eight foot warrior composed of factory
outlet carpet samples, is in the lead due to the public being drawn into his
combination of fear and cuddliness. That was five minutes ago. Gnah The
Conqueror has just fallen slightly in the polls, but don’t worry, he is not in
physical pain thanks to his well insulated body. Now a shiny set of keys has
quietly nudged up as the preference to run Canada, a country composed of three
syllables. I am trying to grab the shiny set of keys for investigative
purposes. Just when I get close, the shiny set of keys gets pulled away at the
last second. And that’s what it is down to with these predictions: seconds. And
even thirds for the more politically hungry.</span></span></div>
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does this election data come from? Many a small child has asked that question
while precariously perched on their surrogate Mother’s knee. The projected data
is selected from a range of sources including reading tea leaves –switching to
decaf in the evening as otherwise they’d be up all night thinking about
candidates- as well as select supermarket produce section bump-ins which prove
that shoppers unfairly prefer the candidate with the most teeth. Random
calculations are made using lots of stuff (ie. time travel scenarios). This
data is then professionally analyzed as ‘deeply troubled’ and sent to Vince in
Shipping who winks, says “I’m rubber stamping it!” and proceeds to ignore it.
Strategic voter sites then use the data with the largest font possible
declaring, “STAY INFORMED!”</span></span></div>
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currently a large soft serve ice cream cone has overtaken the shiny set of keys
in the polls. This could change at any moment with the ice cream melting down
my arm and summer becoming but a distant memory. Oh wait. Hold that. Thanks. We
are receiving conclusive data that over-rides all other data like a monster
truck crushing a long row of cars. The victor will be ‘white guy.’ It’s always
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Robert Dayton, Juniorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18185115415084239474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6751174326667731674.post-91649681267115571732015-09-22T12:41:00.004-07:002015-09-22T12:41:38.012-07:00The Canadian Romantic with live musical backing by Marker Starling opening for Hank LP release, plus: Pussybasket at Videofag<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
LIVE! In Kitchener and Waterloo. The new HANK album is a stunner (link to a track below that features me looking like I am the singer but I am not the singer ha ha, I am not in HANK)....<br />
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As well, The Canadian Romantic will be performing as part of the final Pussy Basket at the great Videofag venue in Toronto on October 13th <span class="fsl">at 7 PM. "Join Emcee Jenna Syde for the (possible) death of Videofag's bi-anal PussyBasket Spoken Word
Cabaret. With Halloween on the horizon, this installment will have an
undead chill to it. Children of the night include Marcy Rogers, Lizzie Violet, The Canadian romantic with Lynn Crosbie to kiss the series closed. Brock Hessel will be read from an exquisite
corpse he has assembled from the words of all those poets and performers
who've made PussyBasket runneth-over over the years. This event is made
possible by <a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=124546230910125&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A681176598648838%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Mark-S-Bonham-Centre-for-Sexual-Diversity-Studies/124546230910125">The Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies</a>."</span><br />
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Robert Dayton, Juniorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18185115415084239474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6751174326667731674.post-1771876597787492162015-08-26T18:11:00.001-07:002015-08-26T18:17:30.736-07:00Website finally up!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Oh hi! My website is finally up, check it out, take a look, maybe now my life makes more sense to the uninitiated multitudes:<br />
<a href="http://www.robertdayton.com/">http://www.robertdayton.com/ </a><br />
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Robert Dayton, Juniorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18185115415084239474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6751174326667731674.post-55216064463796084642015-04-27T09:56:00.001-07:002015-04-27T09:56:44.695-07:00MFA art show!!!! Phewwww<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>Performance by New Horizzzons at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_389506052" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">7:00 pm</span></span></b></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><em>Outta This World</em> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">is comprised of drawing, video, music, performance and installation elements. This body of work is an outcome of my thinking about the concept of the nation-state, in this case Canada, and the way that it imposes specific identities on its’ citizens. Using strategies of humour, abject beauty, social engagement and ritual, my work proposes alternate possibilities of Canada through a difficult, yet ultimately beneficial process of de-repression</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">. The artists would like to thank: Joy of Flowers, Princess Cinema, Bang-On, and The Yeti Cafe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The artist will also be available in-gallery as his alter-ego Support </span>from 12-3 on the following dates: May14, 16, 19, 20, 21, 26, 27, 30<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Robert Dayton is a multidisciplinary artist whose work </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">aims to dissolve repression and create a sense of wonder. He is an MFA candidate at the University of Waterloo and received a BFA from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. As The Canadian Romantic he has performed all over North America, most recently as part of Ann Magnuson's <i>One-Hour Bacchanal</i> a mini-carnival in the spirit of Mike Kelley at MOCA in Los Angeles. His collaborative performance and recording projects include Canned Hamm, July Fourth Toilet, and New Horizzzons. His drawings and writings have appeared in numerous publications, including <i>Nog A Dod: Canadian Psychedoolia</i> and <i>The Canadian Romantic</i> book published by Pitt Projects, Vancouver. He is the recipient of a Keith and Win Shantz Fellowship and has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and Ontario Arts Council. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://www.robertdayton.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">www.robertdayton.com</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Outta This World is comprised of drawing, video, music, performance and installation elements. This body of work is an outcome of my thinking about the concept of the nation-state, in this case Canada, and the way that it imposes specific identities on its? citizens. Using strategies of humour, abject beauty, social engagement and ritual, my work proposes alternate possibilities of Canada through a difficult, yet ultimately beneficial process of de-repression. The artists would like to thank: Joy of Flowers, Princess Cinema, Bang-On, and The Yeti Cafe.</span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Please join us in celebrating the thesis exhibitions by these promising emerging artists.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Exhibitions are free and open to the public.</span></strong><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #d81e00;">UWAG</span></span></strong><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">University of Waterloo Art Gallery</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">East Campus Hall 1239</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Gallery: <a href="tel:519.888.4567%20ext.%2033575" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank" value="+15198884567">519.888.4567 ext. 33575</a></span><br /><a href="http://uwag.uwaterloo.ca/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; 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Robert Dayton, Juniorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18185115415084239474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6751174326667731674.post-76205866335587404842015-04-01T15:16:00.001-07:002015-04-01T15:16:21.909-07:00MFA/Toronto home search/karaoke/NEW HORIZZZONS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Oh hi, I am in the final month of grad school right now for my MFA, my show 'OUTTA THIS WORLD' opens Thursday May 7th at UWAG...hopefully my website will be more 'proper' before then with the apropos bells whistles pomp circumstance<br />
In the meanwhile I am looking for a <span style="color: red;">home</span> for my well behaved cat Tommy and I in <span style="color: red;">Toronto</span> on <span style="color: red;">June 1st</span> if you know of anything. This sense of search has led me to host karaoke this Sunday night at The Beaver (1192 Queen Street West, Toronto) and call it 'I NEED A PLACE TO LIVE' KARAOKE. Starts at ten Pm and it will be lots of fun! The preceding night my act NEW HORIZZZONS is playing a show at Smiling Buddha...our first show of 2015... look at this lovely poster designed by Jona...<br />
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Robert Dayton, Juniorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18185115415084239474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6751174326667731674.post-69716186938415676352015-01-13T19:25:00.000-08:002015-01-13T19:25:47.727-08:00The Canadian Romantic album needs a home<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Meantime here's some live footage:<br />
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Robert Dayton, Juniorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18185115415084239474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6751174326667731674.post-6153748278737818112014-10-01T06:01:00.000-07:002014-10-01T06:01:46.340-07:00Canned Hamm Oct 9! July Fourth Toilet 20th anniversary Oct 16 in Vancouver! New Hank video!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Canned Hamm is playing The Fox Cabaret on Oct 9, Thursday!!!! Vancouver! With Talent Time! Come!<br />
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And then on Thursday Oct 16 July fourth Toilet is playing our 20th Anniversary Show as part of Wrongwave!!!! Jason Mclean is making my costume right now! many members who haven't played with us in ages performing!!!! jody Susan Soressa my brother Frank!!!! Check the link:</div>
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Where can you order NEW HORIZZZONS' incense and EP? From the amazing
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Fourth Toilet vinyl here as well)...extremely limited quantities so
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If you are in Montreal on Sunday, July 20th I will be there for this^ as I have a chapter in it on Stinky and am excited to be a part of it....<br />
<b>"KID POWER Book Launch, Screening and Cereal Buffet!<br />
</b>Fantasia Film Festival, Montreal Canada<b><br />
Sunday, July 20 – 1:30pm<br />
</b>J.A. DeSeve Cinema (at Maisonneuve & MacKay on the Concordia campus)<br />
Fantasia is proud to host the world premiere launch of Spectacular Optical’s first anthology book, <i>Kid Power! – </i>all
about cool, tuff and inspiring kids in cult film and television.
Co-edited by Kier-La Janisse and Canuxploitation’s Paul Corupe and
featuring writing by a diverse array of genre film criticism’s most
unique voices, <i>Kid Power!</i> covers the gamut from <i>The Peanut Butter Solution</i> to <i>The ABC Afterschool Special </i>and the dark side of Disney. And tons more! The launch will be accompanied by a rare 35mm screening of <strong><i>Something Wicked This Way Comes </i></strong>(1983)<i> </i>and a FREE cereal buffet!<br />
Buying in person will save you both on shipping and on the cover
price, as we’ll be selling the books on-site for a special price of
$25.00 CAD! We’ll have T-shirts for sale too, and maybe even some KENNY
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I've been negligent. Done so much yet posted so little. It's called getting older (or instagram...or twitter). New video by The Canadian Romantic. Enjoy.<br />
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Robert Dayton, Juniorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18185115415084239474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6751174326667731674.post-71044001980309701402014-04-15T15:41:00.000-07:002014-04-15T15:53:07.056-07:00Canadian Distribution: Wyrd Distro<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1397577069663_159871" style="font-family: 'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 13px;">This album is close to out of print, ltd. edition 500 copies with download code. </span><span id="yui_3_13_0_1_1397577069663_159868" style="color: #363636; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.882790565490723px;">Full colour gloss cover, high quality vinyl manufactured in the Czech Republic, mastering by Josh Stevenson at Cast Exotic, an art booklet with art by July Fourth Toilet members and collaborators as Jason Mclean, Owen Plummer, Mark Delong, Julian Lawrence, Ben Jacques, jody franklin, Robert Dayton, more...</span><span style="color: #363636; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.882790565490723px;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'bookman old style', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 13px;">From July Fourth Toilet, Canada's wildest and most unpredictable band ever, Vancouver based, established 1994 with a mandate to never do the same show twice, always changing, always shifting, numerous members that have ranged in age from 8 to 80. Veering from the cosmic to the personal, from heavy boogie to visions in sound, the album goes all over the map due to obstacles being set up prior to recording.</span><br />
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Robert Dayton, Juniorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18185115415084239474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6751174326667731674.post-53462295498846484742014-02-19T19:56:00.001-08:002014-02-19T19:56:24.986-08:00The Canada Goose Arctic Program<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Robert Dayton, Juniorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18185115415084239474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6751174326667731674.post-60086191568146360262014-02-11T14:20:00.002-08:002014-02-11T14:20:53.234-08:00VALLOWEEN<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Oh hi. Grrrreat news …for me and those who have to be around me. I am 99 percent free of allergies, thanks to being on allergy shots the past few years! It worked and I am a much more bearable person to be around - I think. I still have bad sinus problems when there is rain (sorry Vancouver) and barometric pressure changes but it worked! IT WORKED!<br />
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I will be in Toronto performing as The Canadian Romantic on Saturday, February 15th at Double Double Land (209 Augusta, alleyway then up the stairs).<br />
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Robert Dayton, Juniorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18185115415084239474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6751174326667731674.post-86506884716695908752014-01-13T20:08:00.001-08:002014-01-13T20:08:31.950-08:00up to dayton<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I should really get a website going. No really. so all my music, performance, pen and ink, writing projects are easily findable, hell, even a CV so I look 'legit' or whatever that word is.<br />
I just got an Instagram. therobertdayton<br />
Go find me. same as my Twitter<br />
<a href="https://twitter.com/therobertdayton">https://twitter.com/therobertdayton</a><br />
Mostly jokes and things that spur me, move me, fascinate.<br />
Oh, and The Canadian Romantic winking pics are back in stock at Magic Pony, Likely general, if you are a store and want to carry them, drop me a line. They are on my etsy as well.<br />
Just made some more vids, hopefully up in coming months.<br />
Julian cope compared to a band to July fourth Toilet...after 20 years we made it, ha ha!<br />
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Wow, this year is our 20th anniversary! Since we played the artschool ball hockey tournament. And now I am back in art school ! whoah!<br />
Hainey said some kind words here as well about me, love that sweety:<br /><a href="http://weirdcanada.com/2014/01/featurette-retrospective-weird-canada-2013/">http://weirdcanada.com/2014/01/featurette-retrospective-weird-canada-2013/</a><br />
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Robert Dayton, Juniorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18185115415084239474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6751174326667731674.post-59055935783676672632014-01-10T09:16:00.000-08:002014-01-10T09:16:05.492-08:00Authenticity by NEW HORIZZZONS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Enjoy this video!<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" mozallowfullscreen="" src="//player.vimeo.com/video/75889227" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="500"></iframe> <a href="http://vimeo.com/75889227">NEW HORIZZZONS- Authenticity</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user21443573">Robert Dayton</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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Robert Dayton, Juniorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18185115415084239474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6751174326667731674.post-25426811406584496312013-12-02T13:28:00.001-08:002013-12-02T13:28:50.199-08:00Juul Haalmeyer: THE MOVIE campaign<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">My talented pal Erin is making a doc on Juul Haalmeyer</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> , the incredible costume designer for SCTV, Codco, The Alice Cooper "Welcome To my Nightmare" special and much more! He also was the leader of SCTV"s Juul Haalmeyer dancers who deeply i</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">nspired Canned Hamm. She has started an indie-go-go campaign, feel free to spread the link below, check out the vid (music by Big Hamm of Canned Hamm):<br /><a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/juul-haalmeyer-the-movie" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/juul-haalmeyer-the-movie</a></span><br />
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Robert Dayton, Juniorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18185115415084239474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6751174326667731674.post-45860758805251148522013-11-17T14:56:00.003-08:002013-11-17T14:56:53.944-08:00IMPULSE! Shatner! An appreciation.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I have no gumption today, drained from both last night's show and today's rain here in Lonelytown...so much to do, but bureaucratic red tape (I can't remember my password) and lack of inclination drive me back. I feel...alone. Where is my IMPULSE? Oh, here it is...check it out, I did it for the wonderful site Spectacular Optical and the link leads to the full movie! Read then watch! SHATNER at his most intense! This was a joy to write. I am also doing something for Spectacular Opticals' very first book on Kid Power. Excitement.<br />
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Robert Dayton, Juniorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18185115415084239474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6751174326667731674.post-89579077674549140772013-11-14T13:20:00.001-08:002013-11-14T13:20:26.993-08:00The Canadian Romantic in Waterloo opening for B.A. Johnston<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ten bucks. Get there by ten sharp- that's when it starts! Jane Bond, 5 Princess.<br />
The Canadian Romantic performed in Toronto last week and it went super well, really incredible, so very excited to perform again and to see B.A. again! </div>
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