A REASON TO SMILE

brian wilson will be playing at massey hall in a few months to play "smile", his long lost beach boys album. tickets go on sale tomorrow but they're too damn expensive for me...oh well, i didn't get to see it when it was in its prime anyway.

instead, i have a good smile of my own when i think about the latest slew of groups that are inextricably tied to the brian wilson sound:

the animal collective
the hidden cameras
devendra banhart
the microphones

what excites me tremedously: devendra and the animal colective will be playing in toronto one night after the other in november, and the sum total of ticket prices is still cheaper than the brian wilson show.

off to watch the last waltz, which i've been told is the best rockumentary of all time. i think im gonna make a film about the festival express, but instead of a documentary it'll be a fiction, and the cast will be totally kingston based. it'll be shot with 16mm NFB cameras and the sounds will all be recorded live, so y'all better get your shit together. the drugs will be real, and so will be the wild sex orgies. so here we go:

dance to the underground presents...
RIDIN' THAT TRAIN
a clarke mackey film

aaron guravich as robbie robertson
steve birek as rick danko
big steve mckay as levon helm
tony higgins as bob weir
billy holmes as phil lesh
mike sallot as jerry garcia
alison lang as janis joplin
paul hopson as buddy guy
megan harrison as sylvia tyson
jesse landen as ian tyson
and
the jack kerouac knapsack band as the flying burrito brothers

we also need some energetic performers to play the role of sha na na. who's down?