Visual artist, showing in If We Can’t Get It Together: Artists Rethinking The (Mal)Function Of Communities, to February 22, Power Plant, speaks at a related symposium, January 23 and 24
What’s your key resolution?
To start doing yoga again – them bones are feeling creaky!
What’s your green resolution?
Stop eating farmed salmon.
What guilty pleasure do you refuse to give up?
My fetish for body hair, which, happily, my boyfriend is not forcing me to live without.
What resolution should Stephen Harper make?
To quit politics over his cynical attempt to eliminate subsidies for political parties and limit the ability of women to sue for pay equity.
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KEVIN DREW Broken Social Scene
What trend would you like to see less of in the new year?
The “Let’s open a bar on Ossington” trend.
Which of your prior resolutions have you succeeded in keeping?
To not give in until I feel the dirt being tossed on top of me.
What resolution would you impose on someone else?
To stop using the word “douchebag.”
Which underappreciated Canadian artists will be huge in 2009?
The Two Koreas.
DAN BURKE
booker extraordinaire
What trend would you like to see less of in the new year?
The decay of the English language and grammar in both casual and formal Internet communication.
Which of your prior resolutions have you succeeded in keeping?
The only thing I’ve ever kept in my life is a really, really bad lifestyle, which I’ve finally quit. How’s that for resolve!?!
What are you looking forward to in the new year?
A civic activist or official brave, bright and noble enough to put an end to the gunfire in Toronto and get wayward youth back on track. In other words: fucking leadership.
What changes would you like to see in the way music is made in Canada?
A return to memorable lyrics and the calibre of voice (and melody) that allows them to be heard. Or is it my hearing that’s in decline?
Which underappreciated Canadian artists will be huge in 2009?
If there’s any justice: Montreal’s Hexes and Ohs, Toronto’s Two Koreas.
AMY
Millan
Broken Social Scene & Stars singer
What trend would you like to see less of in the new year?
Texting at the dinner table.
Which prior resolution have you succeeded in keeping?
I have never been good with authority, even if I’m the one giving myself the orders. As Paul Haines (Emily’s dad) said, “Everything in moderation, including moderation.”
What changes would you like to see in the way music is made in Canada?
MuchMusic’s Disband should be blown to smithereens and should have nothing to do with how music is made.
Which underappreciated Canadian artist is going to be huge in 2009?
Mark Roy.
DAVE MacKINNON
Fembots
What trend would you like to see less of in the new year?
I’d like the 80s revival to go away.
What resolution would you impose on someone else?
Just the basics, really: shower every day, brush your teeth, don’t be a dick, work hard.
What changes would you like to see in the way music is made in Canada?
It’s hard to complain. The death of the major label system has been the best thing that ever happened to Canadian music. If only the radio and TV conglomerates would die off, things might be perfect.
ADAM VAUGHAN
city councillor, Trinity-Spadina
What’s your New Year’s resolution?
We have to be nicer to the right wing on council. Their near-religious belief in the free market system has been blown out of the water in the last few months. Their fearless leader has been shown to be a fraud, and the only thing that saved him is the divine intervention of the Queen. They’re so fragile, weak, disillusioned and bankrupt of faith that you just shouldn’t go after them when they’re down.
What resolution would you impose on someone else?
I’d make the right wing resign. I think they should leave politics alone, since none of their ideas work. They can take a long walk in the snow and find something else to do with their lives.
