From: payne@ecf.toronto.edu (PAYNE DENISE JOYCE)
Subject: Re: Q: does "FIX SIGNS" mean anything to anyone?
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Distribution: tor
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 16:01:20 GMT


 
Re Fix Signs.
 
Well, its been a major scandal. If you're out in the west end, then mebbe you
haven't been reading Eye magazine who did a large piece on this stuff.
 
Here's how it goes.
 
Fix Signs keeps popping up everywhere, primarily OVERTOP (in aforementioned
thick black marker) promo posters posted by local artists/promoters.
 
They are unhappy and organize a loose effort to try to catch whoever is doing
it since its ruining their posters and promotion efforts. (The ethics
debate therein lies, since the posters are being put up on public and private
property for free.)
 
At anyrate, not to tangle with that, but Fix Signs gets out of control and
other people (I assume, for it is too much work for just one idle set of
hands) start writing it on other things, other than posters and in a much
larger area.
 
This leads to an article in Eye magazine on the whole fiasco. Sometime around
May or June, as I recall.
 
They interviewed such luminaries as Elliot Lefko (promoter, but luminary?
bahahahha! He's responsible for the Sonic Youth fiasco last year at the
Music Hall on queen st. SY never returned for the promised show.)
They also interviewed others, local bands, etc.
 
Someone writes an anonymous letter to Eye saying that they are Mr Fix Signs,
and that sat morn after the publication date, he will be "fixing signs" from
2am to 4:30 am somewhere along queen west. And thus you can go find him if
you're a really gullible eye mag reader with nothing to do.
 
Supposedly a few people go out to find him but find nothing, of course.
 
On tuesday (appearing in that thurs. issue), MIKE DENT, soundman from The
Rivoli, also a fireater (performed at Archaos as well as the DHI /
Crawl/Child show at the opera house around march or earlier) owns up to
FOOLING eye magazine. He gave it away to some people, such as me, since he
said he was the soundman at a Queen club, and a few other things.
 
It was a total joke the WHOLE time and he is NOT Mr Fix Signs at all. Eye
is FURIOUS about this for being had so easily. Losers, but so is Mike Dent.
He writes them another letter telling them they have no business being
pissed off, since Eye magazine had pulled a fast one on people themselves.
(They once created an imaginary band with fake bios, pictures and a demo
tape - but the demo tape was BLANK!! THen they sent it off to record companies
who said "sounds pretty good! we'll get back to you!") 
 
So Mike felt justified to do that to them. (I think they deserved it too.)
Tha's typically Mike tho as well. His relationship with Eye has continued
in a number of vitriolic letters, most directed at Donny Lypchuk, columnist
for Eye. He's also managed to get the SPACE FOR RANT on page 4. I think Eye
are just tring to create an Enigmatic local "star" or something now. What
a joke.
 
Has anyone seen the imitative FIX ORIENTATION stickers that have been
appearing around campus lately?
 
/kc
Ken P. Chasse
sizone!nike_dent_sucks@ee.ryerson.ca
via payne@ecf.toronto.edu
 (her signs have nothing to do with my signs, etc.)
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