Swanktrendz is a Vancouver ezine that promotes current music/ trends/ fads/fashions/ as well as the fine and performing arts. We have a variety of contributors from around the world who post to the ezine, and we have been administering swanktrendz.com for a number of years. Enjoy.

As for me - I do the majority of the final posting on behalf of the contributors (so yes, I get all the blame for bad editing). My interests, tastes, etc. are extremely varied in that I enjoy a lot of things from Saint Saéns, 'Danse Macabre' to Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. I can enjoy a badly acted movie (if in the right mood) and also a movie (preferable) where I have to actually think, rather than lay back and be entertained.

In music, I am on a morose Placebo kick, having followed the band's music for a few years. However, they aren't producing a lot of new songs, so I may have to look elsewhere until they ante up something new. I will always be faithful to a select few - Bowie being one and Concrete Blonde (particularly Johnette).

architecture and decor, fine and performing arts, movies, music, popular culture

I love all music.., My favourite genre (if I had to choose) would be alternative, almost all.., but I am open-minded enough to listen to a suggested artist, can't say country is an all time favourite, etc., goth, indie, industrial, punk, well

Hi Fidelity, come back to the five and dime jimmy dean, stand by me, the hunger, the player, the unbearable lightness of being, trainspotting

A & E channel, CSI, Comedy, Entourage, History Channel, Law & Order, Medium, Music channels

Bukowski, Shoeless Joe Jackson, The Well of Lonelineness, anything by tennessee williams, flannery o'connor, james baldwin, oscar wilde