BBQMS

The final track recounts a badly damaged festival environment, put on by an overbearing and delusional CEO of a small tech startup, demonstrating labour exploitation in the high tech sector since its early 2000s deregulation in British Columbia, a crucial factor in our local tech/social media boom over the past several years. However, as this is poetry or theatre of a sort, the license to exaggerate has been also fully exploited. Here developers sign contracts in blood, get actual strings attached to their fingers so that their keystrokes will not deviate from what their bosses and clients desire, and are eventually cannibalized in front of their children, invited for a special Saturday 'hot dog day' in the plaza outside the commercial high rise.

With that we bring you "BBQMS", the tenth and final track, concluding the album Embers with the full-on Arrival of Late Capital, washing ashore with its Colonial overtones in Act One, rapidly dehumanizing and hyperindividuating through Act Two, and eventually eating its own means of production, workers, or tail. Don't say we didn't give a fair, accurate and timely account of the utter demise of Western Techno-capital. Hope you have enjoyed the party.

Arts & Entertainment

The social media divide rhetorical styles and common understandings as much as they mash us together into the same stylesheet. Here we have an example of dialogue gone wrong at the edge of the chasm, an argument going nowhere, as no one is listening. Instead we are diverging, multiplying, becoming dialectic, polar, weird to each other. And with this comes apathy. Depressing, isn't it?

Track Nine from Embers, "Arts and Entertainment".

Remote Controls

…and the logjam of higher education breaks, recalling an ennui of gargantuan proportions.
Besieged by youthful desperation on one side, and blank faced bureaucracy on the other,
you better take it in your hand before you lose control, or get trampled under the
Airstream Trailers of God parked outside the community college campus…

Track 8 from Embers, "Remote Controls".