Clever title connecting themes of populism, collaboration and many-headed beasts, to a glorified pile of links. Probably some kind of pun.

Little dawgies, there've been a few moons over the open range since last we spoke, and good land, there has been much afoot. We are staring into the chasm of FOUR, the second installment of 5 Seconds of Decision: Summer Love-In 2, counting down to ONE this Halloween.

That's a lot of math up there, huh?

Rather, all those names and numbers reflect the many-headed nature of the series, as we discussed last posting with regards to you folks in the audience. We have multiple points of reference for a multitude of participants. This nameless yet many-named, shapeless yet oddly categorical, serialized electric spectacle is like Revelation's leviathan, rising from the deep of our fair Port City, gate keeping the underworld, representing legion. Theological implications aside, it's all about the decentralization, yo.

What you see above is another wonderful element of our liquidity, the first in our artists' variant posters, which we'll feature each month compliments of our kin-folk at Third Space Gallery. Created by local dynamos Amy Ash and Gillian Dykeman, we will be featuring work from Geordan Moore in the future, among others. We will also be offering screen printing and more original mobile art to go for each work.

More multiplicity comes to us through yet more Third Space activity. Tuesday, July 26 will feature a Third Space Heel Burner Dance Party at Callahan's Pub, featuring music spun by Sir Lord Bobby Babylon (aka this hack writer), along with Adam Mowery and perhaps more 5 Seconds Folk. You can also visit the new Third Space location just inside the main entrance to Market Square Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, from 10am to 1pm, for members' work, workshops, artists' talks and, in late August, the Bizarre Bazaar, which we'll be flying our banner as a part of.

But of course, the main event on the docket right this minute is this FOUR business, taking place this Saturday at Peppers Pub. You've got all the goods from our various images and resources, so now it's up to you to do something with it. Please join our ranks and come celebrate the release of Mr. Adam Mowery's epic new retrospective on Hamburger Tapes, 4 Track Mind, the visitation of one of Eastern Canada's most creative compactors of lo-fi avant-garde pop detruis, Construction and Destruction, and a rare performance by the Port City's own architect of impressionist folk, Troy Chenier. You can also tune in to Local 107.3fm this Saturday from 1-3pm to catch the rebroadcast of the Wednesday Morning Mash-Up, featuring an interview with Construction and Destruction's David Trenaman in the latter half of the program.

Audio visual feats and a veritable East Coast avant-psyche-rock & roll market will be present and in full effect compliments of the 5 Seconds Family Unit, and all are welcome within our evening's hallowed halls to add to our numbers...

"I quit my job because the idea burrowed into my mind that, on the long list of things I could be doing, television news is not the best use of my short life."

Ladies and gents, the 5 Seconds Of Decision family will be meeting up at 8pm on on Tuesday, July 12 at Callahan's Pub to kick planning into high gear for the coming next installment of our fair Port City's ongoing electric spectacle of the same name. The event will take place Saturday, July 23 at Pepper's Pub, and will feature the release of a new record from Adam Mowery with Hamburger Tapes, as he performs with his Giants of Industry. Also in cahoots are Port Greville, NS's lavishly lo-fi duo Construction & Destruction (pictured above) and creative wellspring Troy Charles Chenier (the brain behind local wonders Jet, jeTprojecTlabs, Broken Boy, Mimic, The Weird Guy, Stabby Dancers and more), not to mention our partners, CultureHub.ca, Third Space Gallery and more, who will bring their own fruits to bear, including new 5 Seconds recording engineer Corey Bonnevie.

As has been discussed on this blog and elsewhere with regards to this event, we want to transform concepts of club culture, public perceptions of music and entertainment, the public's (realized or unrealized) fundamental participation therein, and generally explode the idea of concert performance and leisure into something much more subversive, playful and exciting through blurring distinction between the content and vessel of spectacle. We want you, the audience to take ownership of your role as the actual chief architects of public happenings through your very presence within such situations. You are the impetus kids. You are the heartbeat within any framework. You are the stuff dreams are made and all other nitwit hyperbole you like. We are relying upon you...

In the meantime, please enjoy this wonderful testimonial from yet another seemingly kindred spirit, CTV's Quebec City Bureau Chief, Kai Nagata (right), who recently resigned his position in an effort simply to take the reins of his own life and thought, and to take ownership over his own means of production, of his own ends, of whatever context you want to see one's personal actions in. The bottom line is, here is a person who has taken great responsibility upon himself purely by choosing to be honest with himself, which is a wonderful gesture. That he has openly shared these thoughts is something to be relished and appreciated.

In response to feedback on his initial posting, which quickly went viral, he writes:

"I had two very simple motives. I felt I owed it to the colleagues I would be leaving to explain my decision. And I needed to save my energy for driving, rather than telling the story to each and every friend and family member over the phone. When I was done digging a shallow grave for my TV career, I swung my pickaxe and stuck it in the ground. Then I sat down to rest.

"When I took my eyes off the horizon and looked down at the ground, I realized something was seeping out around the blade of the pickaxe. A tiny bit of sweet, clear water trickled out over the rocks. But it didn't dry up, like I thought. Now there's a little spring gurgling along, winding its way through the dust, carving a little channel as it goes along. It tastes amazing."

Watch this space soon for announcements on the next installment on July 23rd, new additions to the 5 Seconds family, and much more.

We have swung our own axe. We have rested. We now have work to do and play to indulge in. Please join us as creators, as artists, as audiences. The single most important thing however is simply that: Please join us.