Dystopia
Midnight Juggernauts

Is Australia the next big scene for electronic music?
Probably not, but lately I’ve been listening to some
great bands coming from Oz. Cut Copy is the most
famous, but Midnight Juggernauts are just as worthy
of the world’s attention. The trio that form Midnight
Juggernauts first released Dystopia Down Under in
2007, and here in Canada in 2008, but I only recently
came across them. The electro-synth-pop album is
catchy although it has more of a brooding-space-disco
feel than the happy-dance feel of Cut Copy’s latest
album. “Into the Galaxy,” an electro-synth dance
tune channeling Bowie, stands out as an immediate
favourite. “Ending of An Era” is another catchy club
track. Others take a French House influence from

Air (“Dystopia”) or Daft Punk and Justice (“Road to
Recovery” and “Tombstone”). The album must be
experienced as a whole as the intro and concluding
songs bookend a cosmic journey crossing over genres
and influences. It’s easily danceable, but eerie and
melancholic enough to want to turn off the lights, lie in
bed and close your eyes.

—Timothy Arndt

 

Unidentified Flavour Doritos

The flavour of these chips may be labelled as
“unidentified,” but they can be easily recognized
by their plain white bag labelled with a big dollar
sign. Doritos is having a contest where people are
asked to invent a name and a marketing campaign
for this new flavour of chips, and the winner

gets $25,000 and one per cent of net sales. This
sounded really interesting, so I decided to try out
the mysterious new chips, with their brand new
flavour that Doritos couldn’t find a name for. Then
I took a bite and realized that they were basically
regular Doritos with a few additional spices.
There’s nothing interesting about this mysterious
new flavour at all! The reason why they can’t
come up with a name for it is because there’s
nothing new there to name. You can see some of
the ideas for names and commercials that other
people have submitted at www.doritosguru.ca, but
because the flavour of the chips is so bland, it’s
basically a competition to see who can come up
with the wackiest amateur commercial.

—Mark Fisher

 

   

 

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Wilby Wonderful
Film Movement

Just as the name suggests, everyone is waiting for
something better to come along in this Nova Scotia-based
film by Canadian actor/writer/director/producer Daniel
Maclvor. Starring a young Ellen Page, pre-Passcendale
Paul Gross and a sharp Sandra Oh, Wilby Wonderful has
what so many cookie cutter Hollywood films ignore:
charm, spunk and quirky Canadian content! Wilby
Wonderful is a dark comedy which takes a day-in-the-
life look at a group of “islanders” and their secrets,
dreams and fantasies. From suicides to love affairs,

the characters of Wilby Wonderful move in and out of
each other’s lives, get into each other’s business and
together create a charming “slice of life” film about the
Canadian Maritimes. It was awesome to see Canadian
stars such as Page and Oh contribute their talents to the
movie’s ensemble—which does a great job of “selling”
the movie’s offbeat, and distinctly Canadian small town
humour. I highly recommend this movie to anyone
looking for a quirky, charming and deliciously Canadian
film.

—Ashley Whillans

 

 

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Batman: R.LP.
Grant Morrison

Shortly after the first X-Men movie came out, Marvel
comics hired Grant Morrison to write the ongoing
monthly series. Morrison’s work on the book was
praised for its complex storytelling and heavy
symbolism, but it was also criticized for failing to build
on the momentum of the movie and introducing too
many new concepts that old readers balked at (splitting
up Cyclops and Jean Grey didn’t help him either). Eight
years later, history has repeated itself as Morrison who
is hired to write Batman, DC Comic’s highest-selling
monthly series, proceeds to go completely nuts with

it. Whether you like or hate Morrison’s writing, you
can’t deny that he gives the reader a lot to think about,
and this hardcover collection of his work from issues
#676-681 of Batman will blow your mind, at least a few
times. From the Joker doing a David Bowie impression,
to Batman thinking he is an alien and having
conversations with stone gargoyles, this controversial
story has many memorable moments. The surprise
revelation on the last page of the story is something that
Batman fans will never forget.

— Mark Fisher

 

 

 

 

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