Live! in Vancouver with IronMan

Hello:

So here is another link to the IronMan project where I performed as part of Live! Performance Art Biennale in Vancouver, Canada, in October 2007.

http://livebiennale.blogspot.com/2007/10/todd-janes-edmonton-canada-friday-oct.html

enjoy!

Todd

CBC radio's Socket and the angelic Angela Antle

Hello:

I though it would be great to present an audio link to an interview with Angela Antle. Angela I first met while in St. John's a few years ago and fell smitten.

I hope you enjoy it.

http://castroller.com/podcasts/CbcEditorsChoice/1144255


Todd

Lesson One and Then Some

So it has been over a week since I "got to come home'; and after 71 days in hospital I am really enjoying this place - there is this hunger to be everywhere and be a lot of things, but oddly I want nothing more than to stay at home and not have to answer questions by well-meaning people that look at me with concern and, maybe pity, or at least that is what I have transferred onto them...

I feel there have been lessons learned while I was "healing" - who am I kidding, I am still healing - hopefully by October I might be able to ride my bike - just once before it snows. Just once.

Lesson One
Gilbert was a deep friend, I miss him terribly - I now realize that we would often chat on-line and over the phone and have intimate conversations about our lives and always say let's get together… let's go to a movie… Suzette, Ray and I should have you over for dinner and then life just got in the way.

I think that I have grieved about Gilbert - long before they found his body a month after he went missing and there are still moments when I am pissed off at him because he took his life; times when I am angry at myself for when he said he was sad - or I would ask how he was (knowing that he was down) - but more than anything I miss him and am so sad that he is no longer here and that he was at a place where he thought that this was his only option. Gilbert wanted more than anything to be liked - be popular - to be liked and did so while sacrificing some of himself - but Gilbert's generosity and passion was infectious and I an certain that he reaped so much more. Gilbert and I were friends for 18 years - he was one of my first friends in teh big city of Edmonton and we clicked very early - I will miss him. So my lesson is to tell people who I love more often that I love them and to let them know how important they are in my life.

it has been awhile

Hello:

So it has been some time since my last blog and being as I am that has caused me to procrastinate about posting something new because I have been feeling bad about that and … well, enough about that. It has been some time because I have been not feeling well and for almost a month I was in pain and felt like doing anything besides getting through the day was just too much. While I am still feeling not super excellent I though at 1 a.m. is just as good a time as any other to begin the process of starting to blog again. I think part of it was that I received an email today from Linda Rae Dornan asking about Visualeyez and also sharing a smidgen about her new work. It was great hearing/reading from her and it got me to thinking about the need to blog again as a method of creating an arvhive about my process and about teh work taht I do that I do not doccument. This came to light even moreso since I dropped my laptop and lost so much information and files and writing.

So here I am again making a committment to at least myself to begin writing again.