The Waking Eyes stay true to themselves on latest release By Lindsey Rivait
Arts Editor October 15, 2008 Manitoba band The Waking Eyes has a lot to offer—vinyl records, the farfisa, and using iTunes to its full potential.  The band, playing a show with Finger Eleven at the UWindsor CAW Student Centre on Oct. 20, has even more to offer with their new release, Holding On To Whatever It Is.
The Waking Eyes, composed of Matt Peters on vocals and guitar, Joey Penner on bass, Steven Senkiw on drums, and Rusty Matyas on vocals and guitar, came together after the break-up of The Pets and Novillero.
Holding On To Whatever It Is sees The Waking Eyes throwing caution to the wind and embracing their true selves. >> | Abstractions of a Paradigm showcases UWindsor grad's work By Christopher Trotman
Lance Writer October 15, 2008 Far from the leis, grass skirts, and sun of Hawaii, Scott Yoell brings Abstractions of a Paradigm to Artcite. A mixed media exhibit combining paintings, sculptures, and even a moving projector all with an explicitly horrific beauty.
Yoell, a Windsor-born artist, obtained his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Windsor. This is his second time returning to Windsor since his BFA exhibition, the first time being in 2003 where he did a performance piece in the Other Wedding Extravaganza.
Yoell notes that his stay at UWindsor affected him positively stating “It made me a believer … I went to school after having a knee injury … and it allowed me to combine disciplines.” >>  | | Campus Kiss | | Vintage Vault: Crumb By Jeff Vandusen
Lance Writer October 15, 2008 “How perfectly goddamned delightful it all is, to be sure,” was the personal mantra of Charles Crumb, the older brother of famous underground comic book artist Robert Crumb—creator of such characters as Fritz the Cat, Mr. Natural, Devil Girl, and Flakey Foont and the artist of the cover for Big Brother and the Holding Company’s Cheap Thrills album.
 Charles Crumb may perhaps be the biggest artistic influence on Robert, and he (along with Robert’s other brother Maxon) are the focal points of Robert’s life.
The unnerving fact about this is that Charles and Maxon, both incredibly talented artists in their own right, live in squalor, unable to properly deal with the outside world.
Charles, a depressive recluse, lived with his mother in a house that stunk of cat urine where he repeatedly read the same books until he committed suicide in 1994. Maxon spends his days meditating on a bed of nails in a filthy San Francisco apartment where he paints portraits of the Oriental women he admits to obsessively fetishizing. >> |
