Paul Haines RIP

Funny, I went to high school in Fenelon Falls, Ontario, and Paul Haines was my French teacher. We never really had any idea of this man's accomplishments. When asked, he would tell us that he "helped write a song once for Linda Ronstadt." I have a tape he made for me called "Un Peu de Tout" It is my most prized possession from a man who had a profound effect on my outlook and life. Sartre, The Residents, the film Delicatessan...these were his curriculum for wild, crazy, hormone-overloaded teenagers. Paul Haines taught me to appreciate many different flavours of cinema, music, poems, sounds and many other things. Wow. What a man. I even went to high school with Emily and Avery. What a shock when i couldn't get tickets to a sold-out Metric concert in Montreal. Wow again.

DJ CLIFFORD

That's amazing!