Final Grumpy Kulture - The Hangover

This post was supposed to be on Friday but I figured that Easter Sunday would be a bit more appropriate. After all, this is the day that Jesus woke up in a cave with big holes in his hands and feet, a splitting headache and very likely wondering what the hell had just happened. [...]

Grumpy Kulture - The Art Of Politics

The 20th century was the era of blood-soaked art movements. It was the century of spectacles that kill.
From the Nuremberg Rally to copyrighted “Shock and Awe” to Stalin’s cult of personality to modern terrorism, there has been one carefully crafted, multimedia, murder spectacle after another. A series of madmen have attempted to remake [...]

Grumpy Kulture - Pretension Inc.

These days it seems like most people I know are involved in fashion. My roommate Amie is a designer, my other roommate Daryl is a photographer, my mistress (I’m married to the bottle and the computer) Anita is a fashion blogger for BlogTO and they’ve all had quite a bit of success.
This makes me [...]

Grumpy Culture Tuesday - A History of Ultra-Violence

The term ultra-violence was coined by Anthony Burgess in his 1962 novel A Clockwork Orange. Over forty years later it has grown into a sub-genre of film and literature. It is not meant to be pleasant or light entertainment. When ultra-violence is done properly it is disgusting, difficult to [...]

Grumpy Culture - Monday

Negativland is not what I would call a musical group. Although they are sometimes and, perhaps, inaccuratly credited with the invention of sampling during their Over the Edge radio shows, they use these fragments of pop culture to create a sonic collage as opposed to dancey tracks. This methodology has caused them [...]

Grumpy’s Culture Week

This week will be culture week on The Grumpy Owl. What does this mean to you? It means that along with the robots, cyborgs and scientific oddities that we’ve all come to love, The Grumpy Owl will also provide you with an assortment of cultural debris. From Monday to Friday - incapacitating [...]