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MUSIC Nardwaur and ICP square off in interview Giftgate
Vancouver’s favourite Human Serviette accused of not being the tam-clad Santa he famously seems
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by Mike Usinger
Who are you going to believe?
A tam-sporting treasure who’s universally regarded as a national legend in Canada—a country generally regarded as one of the most polite, compassionate, and generally decent nations on planet earth? Or a greasepaint-smeared former American jailbird who has no problem putting a weave in his nut hair, jizzing in your macaroni, and getting naked and walking the street, winking at freaks with a two-litre stuck in his butt cheeks?
The question is a relevant one considering what’s been going on between Vancouver’s Nardwuar the Human Serviette and the Insane Clown Posse’s Violent J.
While it might be stretching things to suggest the two have been beefing like Eminem and Machine Gun Kelly, or Mad Child and Snak the Ripper, they’ve definitely had a different view of reality.
And what’s not disputable is who started things.
Last week ICP MC Violent J guested on Wild Ride!, the new podcast from Jackass alumni Steve-O.
Pre-podcast, the big news was that Steve-0 would be apologizing for being a shithead the first time the two met. But when things got going it was Violent J who ended up coming across as the shithead. Well, sort of a shithead.
At one point the subject of Nardwuar came up. And that’s when Violent J suggested everything is not what it seems during the Human Serviette’s interviews.
First, some background.
As Nardwuar’s 196,000 Twitter followers and 1.83 million YouTube subscribers know, the greatest celebrity interviewer in show business often brings obscure records and various forms of rare memorabilia to interviews. Such items are tied into the obscure loves and obsessions of the artists he’s talking to. Think a Redd Foxx doll trotted out for Snoop Dogg. Or signed Joan Jett promo pic for Rico Nasty. It’s all part of a strategy that has made Nardwuar one of the most respected, not to mention bravest, interviewers, on the planet.
One of the big secrets of music journalism is that most artists despise the interview process. But not when they’re standing in front of Nardwuar. Think of another journalist who would have the, ahem, nards, to not only walk into an abandoned Texas warehouse for an interview with A$AP Rocky and his, ahem, posse, but win over the crew almost immediately.
Sometimes Nardwuar will give what he’s brought to artists as a gift. And sometimes he’ll use them as a way to get his interview subjects to open up and start talking. Note the distinction there. In case reading comprehension is a problem, when Nardwuar has a gift for someone, he announces it’s a gift. When something is presented as a conversation kickstarter, it’s not a gift and isn’t presented as such.
Now consider what Violent J. had to say to Steve-O on Wild Ride!. During his interview five years ago with Violent J and his ICP bandmate Shaggy 2 Dope, Nardwuar pulled out a Smiley record. Violent J evidently thought that meant it was Christmas.
As such, at the 45-minute-mark of Wild Ride!, the rapper said this: “I don’t want to say nothing bad about Nardwuar but I gotta tell you something. I remember he gave us a Smiley album, who’s a local Detroit rapper that we used to be fans of when we were kids. And he had some Smiley vinyl. We were like, ‘Oh my God!’ He gave it to us, we were like ‘Hell yeah.’ After the interview, he takes it back, man.”
To translate for the Juggalos out there who’ve done one too many whippets this morning, Violent J. suggested that Nardwuar is anything but the tartan-attired pop culture Santa Claus that he makes himself out to be. And that immediately got ICP fans reaching for the pitchforks, torches, tar bucket, and Southwest Voodoo chicken feathers.
Nardwuar took to his newly launched Twitch channel to set things straight. He posted a 40-minute video that explains what goes on in his interviews, including a crystal-clear explanation of when something is a gift and when it’s not.
“I thought that I explained everything,” Nardwuar says, reached by the Straight by phone at his Vancouver home. “Some of the comments from Insane Clown Posse fans, though, were things like ‘Fuck him—he takes back everything he gives.’ And ‘You gave gifts and you took them back—FUCK YOU!!!’. And ‘Fuck Nardwuar—he took all those gifts back. What a punk!’”
And there’s (admittedly unsubstantiated) evidence to suggest that the Juggalo harassment isn’t stopping online.
In the middle of talking to the Straight, another phone in Nardwuar’s house rings, at which point you hear the muffled but menacing, “I’m looking to speak to Mr. Motherfucker.” (For the curious, Nardwuar politely says “I think you have the wrong number” and then hangs up the phone.)
Returning the issue at hand, he says, bluntly, “I don’t take back my gifts.”
He adds: “And the interview is Nardwuar vs. Insane Clown Posse. It’s not Nardwuar gives gifts to Insane Clown Posse for 25 minutes.”
Still, gifts were given during his Insane Clown Posse interview five years ago, and they were not reclaimed as soon as the camera went off. One of them was a promotional Sir Mix-a-Lot keychain that Nardwuar dug up with help from the staff at Neptoon Records. As ICP are fans, the gift was not only appreciated, but evidently kept close at hand.
“Some other ICP fans sent me a link of Shaggy on a podcast a couple of weeks ago emptying his bag. And one of the things in there was the Sir Mix-a-Lot keychain that I had given to them five years ago. He’s kept that keychain for five years, and out of the blue he pulls it out of his bag before any of this even started.”
That alone should prove that Nardwuar doesn’t take back everything—or anything that’s given as a gift. But as the message was clearly not getting through, Nardwuar posted a second video on his new Twitch channel called “Case Closed”.
Nardwuar notes that if there’s anything he’s shown someone (as opposed to given) during an interview that an interviewee decides they have to have, he’s happy to help.
“If somebody afterwards says ‘I know that record you showed me is your own, but I’d really like to get a copy of it’, tell me and I can phone up Avi from Beat Street Records and try and get it for you. If Violent J. really liked it, I could have helped him find a copy. It’s weird that, five years later, he remembered the record that wasn’t a gift. But I don’t think he remembered about the gifts that I gave him. And he didn’t remember that his bandmate took the keychain.”
The good thing about all this? That would be that the two members of Insane Clown Posse were evidently listening, even though the Juggalos of the world haven’t been. g
Nardwuar the Human Serviette with Insane Clown Posse members Shaggy 2 Dope (left) and Violent J, neither of whom had a clue what to do with his gift of a Kiss Halloween Makeup Kit.
– Nardwuar the Human Serviette
MOVIES / ARTS Online film festivals aim to put bums on couches
by Craig Takeuchi
Health measures during the pandemic may have prevented people from watching films at cinemas, but online festivals have opened up a whole new world of possibilities. Once-landlocked screen celebrations can now reach a wider geographic range of audience with online offerings. Such is the case with the following upcoming film programs that can be seen in Vancouver, elsewhere in B.C., and some even beyond.
VICTORIA FILM FESTIVAL February 5 to 14 2021.victoriafilmfestival.com/ Forget the ferry fare this time around—this year’s 27th edition will present all 50 features and 23 shorts from 21 countries to B.C. web viewers for its 10-day run. There’s everything from the Vancouver Island–filmed All-in Madonna to the Canadian premiere of The Secret Garden, starring Colin Firth, to international selections like Japan’s antiwar fantasy Labyrinth of Cinema, the South American documentary Once Upon a Time in Venezuela, and the Chinese disaster blockbuster Skyfire. And as an added bonus, filmmakers will chat in virtual Q&A sessions.
POWELL RIVER FILM FESTIVAL February 5 to 16 www.prfilmfestival.ca/films/ Powell River’s historic Patricia Theatre, where this annual festival is presented to locals, has remained dark since last March, due to the pandemic. But this year, everyone across the province will be able to take in the festival’s 20th edition in its first online version. The 12 features (plus free short films) include the B.C. Indigenous supernatural mystery Monkey Beach and big-name queer dramas Ammonite
Secwepemc actor Grace Dove stars in Monkey Beach, an Indigenous film to be shown by the Powell River Film Festival. and Falling. Plus, B.C. filmmaker Jennifer Abbott—whose The Magnitude of All Things and The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel are in the lineup—will participate in an online Film Philosopher’s Café.
RENDEZ-VOUS FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL February 4 to 14 www.rendez-vousvancouver.com/ This annual Vancouver-based fete of francophone films from Quebec and around the world will offer more than 60 titles en français to viewers in B.C., Alberta, and Yukon, with some limited access from elsewhere in Canada. Among the picks are the Canadian documentary Errance sans retour (Wandering: A Rohingya Story), about the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh; Miss, a comedy about a young man who participates in the Miss France beauty pageant; and the world premiere of Jean-Sébastien Lozeau’s Live Story, Chronique d’un couple. (A new viewing-platform website is about to launch for this online edition, with all the necessary details.)
VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL February 19 to 28 vimff.org/ With more than 50 films to choose from about outdoor recreation and mountain culture—plus workshops and panel discussions—this is one way to get outside even when you’re staying in. Among the premieres are “Crux”, about how a recovering addict dealt with the pandemic separating him from what helped him with his mental-health struggles: rock climbing; “Beyond the Break”, a profile of a multisport professional athlete who doesn’t let his high level of paralysis stop him; and Horse Tamer, about a relentless horseman determined to catch those who stole his horse in northern Mongolia. There’s everything from water and snow sports to biking and cycling adventures to environmental and health issues and Indigenous and women profiles in the lively mix.
US: A BLACK PEOPLE’S MONTH FESTIVAL February 25 to 28 www.ensembletheatrecompany.ca/ Vancouver’s Ensemble Theatre is curating a free online arts festival, Us: A Black People’s Month Festival, with new shows released every Thursday until February 25, and content will remain available until the end of the month. For its final show on February 25, Film Festival: A Drive-In Experience will offer a collection of local and international works to celebrate Black screen talent. A fine way to cap off Black History Month, which, of course, is always inspiration for year-round learning. g
Creative process brought to life in Graveyards
by Charlie Smith DANCE
GRAVEYARDS AND GARDENS
Coproduced by Vanessa Goodman and Caroline Shaw. Commissioned by Music on Main as a partner with the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival on January 29, livestreamed from the Annex. No remaining performances
d ANYONE WHO believes arts and culture have taken a hiatus during the pandemic needs to start paying attention to livestreamed events.
Case in point: Music on Main’s Graveyards and Gardens, a mesmerizing coproduction featuring original choreography and dance by Vancouver’s Vanessa Goodman juxtaposed with a musical story created and voiced by Pulitzer Prize–winning musician Caroline Shaw.
The world premiere at Vancouver’s PuSh International Performing Arts Festival was moving, captivating, and at times even a little confusing until a secret was revealed in a flourishing finale of dance and song.
In this show, music was the metaphor for creation, with the garden’s perimeter consisting of orange cables ringing the stage.
At various times, a diligent and very focused Goodman adjusted musical devices—a cassette player, a speaker, a turntable, a microphone, etcetera—and then responded with her body to the sounds being created.
If you are at all curious about what a cassette player looks like in dance, Goodman provided a spellbinding demonstration, with jerky movements in perfect synch with the sounds. And to drive this point home, her looping arm and hand movements represented the spinning spools inside machine.
As more and more sounds were created during the show, including musical beats and ocean waves, Shaw’s voice came up with various phrases like “of marinated memories” and “everything returns to soil”. Kudos to audio designers Kate De Lorme and Eric Chad for feathering all of this together so elegantly.
The single stage light and series of lamps inside the orange cables, overseen by lighting designer James Proudfoot, enhanced the otherworldly feel.
The camera work—focusing on Goodman’s feet or hands or parts of the set, including the ever-present cables—also reinforced the mood. It ranged from contemplative to exuberant, depending on how Goodman is expressing herself at any given time.
As I watched, I wondered where on earth this kaleidoscope of sounds, phrases, flashing lamps, and singing bursts would take Goodman, whose sole presence onstage remains riveting throughout.
I’m not going to spoil the ending except to say it left me pondering the cycle of life, the history and evolution of music, and the entire process of artistic creation. All in less than an hour. g
Dancer Vanessa Goodman is seen in a contemplative moment in Graveyards and Gardens, which she created along with Pulitzer Prize–winning musician Caroline Shaw. Photo by David Cooper.
ARTS Craigslist cantata pivots back to its online roots
by Steve Newton
Amiel Gladstone has been a theatre fan for as long as he can remember. The 48-year-old playwright and director traces his earliest memories of Vancouver theatre back to the 1980s, when he went to see Ann Mortifee’s musical Reflections on Crooked Walking at the Arts Club Theatre as a kid.
“I remember seeing that on Granville Island when I was in elementary school,” he recalls on the line from his home on Gambier Island, “and I remember it was a huge hit, ‘cause it seems like it just ran and ran and came back and was remounted. I couldn’t tell you the plot of the thing, but I remember being so intrigued by just the theatricality of it all. Like the music and stage magic and all of it. It was just so cool.”
About four decades later, Gladstone has roughly 50 theatrical credits to his name in various capacities. His current role is as director and cowriter of do you want what i have got? a craigslist cantata, which streams from the Cultch this Friday to Sunday (February 5 to 7). It’s the latest mounting of the musical created by author and playwright Bill Richardson and composer Veda Hille, which was first performed in a 20-minute version at the 2009 PuSh International Performing Arts Festival.
“When we did the original cabaret version at the PuSh festival,” Gladstone says, “people were immediately taken by it. But it was like a one-off—we were only doing two nights—so there was no chance for it to be a ‘hit’; there was just a chance to see if audiences liked it. And then after a couple of years of development it ran at the Arts Club in a full-length version, and that was a hit.”
The production is based on actual Craigslist ads that were chosen by Richardson and given musical life by Hille.
“Vancouver was one of the first places where the ad site took off,” Gladstone notes, “so I think there’s something particular about Vancouver audiences that are into the quirky and diverse Craigslist community. I think there’s something about the idea of putting that to music that kind of tickles people, in a way. It’s an idea that feels impossible and yet you kinda want to see how we pull it off.”
Craigslist cantata is the second hit show Gladstone has collaborated on with Hille, as 2016’s Onegin was also a great success. He’s currently working on a third project with her, which leads to the question of what Gladstone thinks the singer-songwriter’s greatest talent might be.
“Good question,” he replies. “She’s got so many, it’s hard to say what. When you ask that, this is the first thing that comes into my head, so I reserve the right to maybe change my mind. But I think it’s her ability to take unusual text and lyrics and put them to melody.”
That skill of Hille’s transforms reallife Craigslist ads into poignantly wacky tunes like “300 Stuffed Penguins”, “Chili Eating Buddy”, and “Decapitated Dolls”, which are performed by cast members Meaghan Chenosky, Josh Epstein, Kayvon Khoshkam, Amanda Sum, and Andrew Wheeler, with Hille on keyboards and Barry Mirochnick on drums. The dangers of COVID-19 meant that each artist had to perform separately in a different location.
“As you know, doing theatre during the pandemic has been a real challenge for all of us,” Gladstone says. “There were two things to consider: safety, and what was allowable under the provincial health orders. And so I had to keep adapting what we knew about those two things in terms of how aerosols work in the room and all that stuff. Initially, the idea was that we would do it on-stage, and then that sort of got adapted to, ‘Well, we’ll do it throughout the theatre in order to space it out.’ And that got adapted to, ‘Let’s do it in separate rooms in the Cultch.’”
Gladstone points out that it’s kinda funny (and weird) how craigslist cantata is a show that was originally adapted for the stage from online content and is now being adapted back online. The theme of the show is people’s struggle to connect with others, so the timing of the global pandemic couldn’t be, for lack of a more suitable word, better.
“I know,” Gladstone agrees. “I remember when [Cultch executive director] Heather Redfern and I were talking about it. Initially, it was, ‘Oh, this show is relevant to our lives,’ and then the pandemic hit and it became even more relevant. Suddenly all of us were stuck behind screens and having to work and communicate and live and party and everything else behind screens. So seeing these characters trying to reach out through their screens and reach other people felt even more appropriate.
“I do think it’s been helpful for people to know that they’re not alone,” he adds. “We’re all going through it, and this shared watching of the show together is a bit of a soothing balm, let’s say. People can share the experience and also be nostalgic for what theatre was and how much we miss it.” g
Amanda Sum is one of the performers in Amiel Gladstone’s craigslist cantata, a production where Veda Hille songs like “300 Stuffed Penguins” give a musical spin to online classified ads.
– Amiel Gladstone
do you want what i have got? a craigslist cantata streams live twice per day from the Cultch on Friday and Saturday (February 5 and 6) and once on Sunday (February 7).
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SAVAGE LOVE Sex recession is a hard reality of pandemic life
by Dan Savage
b I’M A 30-YEAR-OLD straight woman in a three-year relationship with my live-in partner, who is also 30. I love him and he loves me, and he wants to make a life with me. However, in this pandemic, the stress is so great that I have lost all desire to have sex.
I don’t want anyone touching me right now, not even myself. I feel like I’m in survival mode. I lost the career I love and I’m working four different jobs to make up for it. I have also been coming to terms in therapy with a sexual trauma I suffered, which is making me want to be touched even less. He’s been extremely patient and says that we can work through it, but I’m really worried that this is the death knell for our relationship.
I’m really trying to figure out ways to get myself back in good working order, Dan, but, honestly, I’m just trying to survive every day right now. Help?
- Witty Acronym Here First, you’re not alone. So many people have seen their libidos tank in response to the overlapping stresses of lockdowns and job losses that sex researchers are talking about (and documenting) a “pandemic sex recession”.
So what can you do?
You have a long, hard slog in front of you, personally and professionally, and
Scan to confess
This is Fine. I’m Fine.
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Confessions, an outlet for submitting revelations about your private lives—or for the voyeurs among us who want to read what other people have disclosed.
I rounded the corner to my late thirties this month, a few months out a horrible separation. I legit peed my pants on the way home from a bar the other day for the fi rst time in my life. Then I ran out of toilet paper and have just been ripping up paper towels, instead. Yesterday, my sheets just decided to start falling apart so they look like some kind of sleepy tiger had a nap in them. lol. I feel like I have my shit together, and then I get into bed and hear another rip. I’m feeling a bit like that meme come to life, right now. It takes a lot to just do yoga, work, and try to tick the next thing off the list. Trying to be kind to myself, but it’s pretty funny. At least I can laugh?
Need a cuddle
So desperate for touch that I’m shopping for teddy bears. What do ya look for in a good teddy bear?
I’m pansexual
I haven’t told anyone because I’m an introverted guy with no sex life so what difference would it make?
Heretic
I don’t believe in coffee.
My mommy says to eat my vegetables
... so I do not still to this day. I’m eating mainly wheat and meat and doing quite well! The key is physical activity like a run or a jog twice a week and NOT to do a desk job.
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COVID-19 has taken a major toll on sex lives, with the stress caused by job loss a major contributor. Patience is key to moving forward to more normal times. Photo by Cristian Newman/Unsplash. you need to carve out enough time and space for yourself to you get through this. And to do that you’re not just gonna need to reset your partner’s expectations for the duration of the pandemic and/or until you’re back on your feet again professionally and emotionally, you’re going to need to take his yes for an answer.
If he tells you he’s willing to tough/rub it out until you’re less stressed out, less overworked, and less overwhelmed, and he’s not being passive-aggressive about your lack of desire, then you should take him at his word. If he’s not trying to make you feel bad about the sex you aren’t having right now, WAH, don’t make yourself feel bad about it.
There’s no guarantee your relationship will survive this (the pandemic), that (your crushing workload), or the other thing (the trauma you’re working through in therapy). Any one of those things or some other thing could wind up being the death knell for your relationship. But the only way to find out if your desire for your partner will kick back into gear postpandemic, post–career crisis, and post–coming to terms with past sexual trauma is to hang in there, WAH, and reassess once you’re past those posts. Will you two still be together once you’re out of survival mode? Survive and find out. Good luck.
b I’M A 34-YEAR-OLD straight woman dating a 32-year-old straight man. When we first met, we had both recently relocated to our hometown and were living with our parents. When we first started dating, things were great; however, the sex wasn’t mind-blowing. Foreplay was limited and he always jumped out of bed afterward.
I thought this was probably due to the fact that while we had privacy, we were having sex at my parent’s house, which isn’t particularly sexy. We finally moved in together nine months ago, and now it feels like we’ve been married for decades. He almost always turns my sexual advances down. And when we do have sex, it lasts about five minutes and I do all of the work and get zero satisfaction out of it. He will hold my hand on the couch but if I ask him to cuddle he acts like I am asking for a huge favour.
I’ve explained to him I need to feel wanted and to have some kind of intimacy in this relationship. And yet, despite the multiple conversations about how sexually, physically, and emotionally unsatisfied I am, he has put in little effort. Otherwise, our relationship is great. We have fun together, I love him, I want to be with him, and we’ve talked about marriage and kids, but I also can’t live this way for the rest of my life. What can I expect from a man who is emotionally and physically unavailable?
- Intimate Needs That Involve Making A Team Effort
A lifetime of frustration.
You wanna make the sex and physical
intimacy work because so much else is working—it sounds like pretty much everything else is working—but you can’t make the sex and intimacy work if he’s not willing to work on it. And even if he was willing to work on it, INTIMATE, even if he was willing to make an effort sexually, there’s no guarantee that working on it will actually work.
Some couples work on this shit for decades and get nowhere. Opening the relationship up might make it possible for you to have him and sexual satisfaction too—by getting sexual satisfaction elsewhere—but opening up a relationship also requires effort, INTIMATE, and effort clearly isn’t his thing. DTMFA.
b MY FIANCÉ AND I (both male) have been together for six years. I am fully out but he is only out to his close friends and his mom. The rest of his family doesn’t know. His coworkers don’t know. I’ve met his family and coworkers who don’t know and played the “friend” and “roommate” and it kills me, but he still won’t budge.
It’s also not like homosexuality is taboo in his family. He has a gay uncle, and his uncle and his partner are invited to family holidays and welcomed with open arms. Is it even worth continuing this relationship?
- Feeling Insecure About Needlessly Closeted Engagement Your fiancé has to choose: he can have you or he can have his closet but he can’t have both. It’s not about telling him what to do, FIANCE, it’s about setting boundaries around what you’re willing to do. And for the last six years you let him drag you back into the closet—you were willing to pretend to be his friend or his roommate— but you’re not willing to do that anymore. If he wants to have a life with you, he can choose to come out. If he’s not willing to come out, he’ll have to learn to live without you.
b I WANTED TO say something about WEASS, the man with the HIV-positive boyfriend who was reluctant to disclose his status to a new sex partner. As someone who’s been HIV-positive and undetectable for almost 18 years, Dan, I’ve gone through a few different iterations of dealing with (or not) and disclosing my status (or not). But starting about 10 years ago, it just seemed easier on my conscience to disclose my +/U status to my partners—that is, HIVpositive but undetectable and therefore not capable of infecting anyone.
Even after nearly a decade of PrEP and decades of HIV education, my status still generates negative reactions ranging from guys declaring me “not clean” to guys accusing me of trying to spread the virus (which I literally can’t do) to guys rebuffing me in kinder ways. Even people on PrEP have gone from DTF to “no thanks” when I’ve disclosed. So based on my experiences, Dan, I don’t think that every potential hookup out there would react in an informed and rational way, not even guys on PrEP.
- Undetectable Poz Fellow Relieved Over Not Telling Any Lies The man WEASS and his HIV-positive boyfriend were thinking about having a threesome with might react negatively to the disclosure—that’s why I advised WEASS to sound this guy out before looping his BF into the conversation. If the guy reacts badly, WEASS can spare his boyfriend the grief. But if the guy reacts like an informed and rational gay grownup, UPFRONTAL, then WEASS should loop his boyfriend in. g
Email: mail@savagelove.net. Follow Dan on Twitter @FakeDanSavage. Website: www. savagelovecast.com.
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