Author: Jesse Ship

Chris Harper’s PHARMACY – BlogTO

Chris Harper’s PHARMACY – BlogTO

    by Jesse Ship / JANUARY 11, 2013 Pharmacy is a cozy little bar at the southwestern edge of Parkdale. Once a methadone clinic and pharmacy, it’s now a quirky and eclectic bar stocked with buffalo heads, found furniture, vintage knick knacks pillaged from Value Village Read more

Get Yog – for WeAreMomAndPop.com

Get Yog – for WeAreMomAndPop.com

  1.10.13 GET YOG Peter Pelberg and the guys behind running app Yog wanted a more social fitness experience. So they built one. STORY JESSE SHIP PHOTOGRAPHY MINNOW PARKPHILLIP LEE “Veronica and I are trying this new fad, I believe it’s jogging or yogging. It might be Read more

Aria Entertainment Complex – BlogTO

Aria Entertainment Complex – BlogTO

Posted by Jesse Ship / JANUARY 8, 2013 The Aria Entertainment Complex had been spamming me to death with Facebook ads for their new club, and having viewed their over-the-top promotional video which resembles a high-end diamond or perfume ad (or more appropriately The Simpson’s Barney Gumble’s epic shortPukahontas), Read more

Synth pop and garlic mingle at Feast in the East 21 – Blog TO

Synth pop and garlic mingle at Feast in the East 21 – Blog TO

Posted by Jesse Ship / JANUARY 7, 2013 As the name implies, Feast In The East is a monthly event that brings together a mix of indie bands and pairs them with a full meal (or snack, depending on your appetite). Every month features new foods, bands, and curated Read more

Liam Howlett’s Unreleased 1990 Demo Tape (SIDE A)

Liam Howlett’s Unreleased 1990 Demo Tape (SIDE A)

Back when I was teaching English in Taiwan in 2008, I wound up partying with The Prodigy’s sound engineer and their sessionist who also played with Gary Numan.  Through an inside tip,we found them at a shitty but ‘much hyped’ top 40s club (called Water Read more

BOYS NOIZE SET TO LET THE DOG BLOOD OUT WITH SKRILLEX ON NEW YEAR’S

BOYS NOIZE SET TO LET THE DOG BLOOD OUT WITH SKRILLEX ON NEW YEAR’S

Posted on Dec 31st 2012 4:00PM by Jesse Ship Snoop Dogg might be responsible for Boys Noize‘ retirement. “I used to joke with my friends saying I could quit music if I made a song with Snoop Dogg. Then suddenly I see myself with him in the studio, hanging Read more

GI Joe Closing Credits

GI Joe Closing Credits

I never noticed how ridiculously funky GI Joe’s closing credits were until I discovered the original Season 2 on Netflix!  It’s a legit disco remix even, I wouldn’t be surprised if they were released on a b-side somewhere. I can’t even imagine what the musical Read more

Dim Sum Guyyyy

Dim Sum Guyyyy

I’ve seen funnier memes but this wins just cuz it’s got dim sum in it. And it’s Christmas…..and I’m a Jew…. and that’s what we do on Christmas. Get it? We eat Chinese food.

Notorious S.A.N.T.A. aka Ready for Xmas

Notorious S.A.N.T.A. aka Ready for Xmas

Hopefully at least a few of these will replace Christmas in Hollis.  Not that I don’t love me some Run DMC but Cookin’ Soul and DJ Whookid have brought  some sehttps://shipwrckd.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/woman-traveling-in-france-2023-11-27-05-16-47-utc_Easy-Resize.com_.jpgus finesse (and good tidings too?) with this  mashup of classic Biggie joints and classic Read more

Afrika Bambaata – Toronto Dec 21 @ Revival

Afrika Bambaata – Toronto Dec 21 @ Revival

Imagine Hip Hop never grew old and we were stuck in a world of motherships, cowboys, aliens, and the Dr. Funkensteins that Afrika Bambaata emerged from. Would there still be the gun play, anger, bitches, and hos? It’s hard to say… The December 2012 issue Read more