Hearwax is a webblog that specializes in music, film, and comics.  Our goal is simple: to provide insightful and intelligent coverage of important artists.

You can view our lovely profiles down below.

Name: Alec Joseph McKay

Favourite Bands: Mogwai, Anata, Spawn Of Possession, Shai Hulud, Misery Signals, Augury, Orgone, Martyr, Envy, Xasthur, Lykathea Aflame, Into The Moat, Grayceon, Converge, BrokeNCYDE

Favourite Movies: Magnolia, La Regle Du Jeu, After Hours, Primer, Der Leztt Mann, The Descent, Memories Of Underdevelopment, Children Of Men, Ran, Encounters At The End Of The World, Empire Strikes Back, Serpico

Hobbies: owls, guitar (pro 5.1), curling, not enjoying film, lvl up, film history/research, filmmaking, comics elitism, sobriety, getting nodes

Favourite quote: “It did not remove the gleaming crackhouse districts, or take the urine out of the county pool” – Stephen Jarret

Name: Gabriel Nylund

Favourite Bands: Amanda Palmer, Auf Der Maur, Beck, Björk, Beastie Boys, David Bowie, Broken Social Scene, Johnny Cash, Chad van Gaalen, The Dead Weather, Death From Above 1979, The Dresden Dolls, Eagles of Death Metal, Eliott Brood, The Flaming Lips, Gorillaz, Lullabye Arkestra, The Magnetic Fields, Man Man, Nick Cave, Nine Inch Nails, Neko Case, The Pack A.D., Queens of the Stone Age, The Scarring Party, Sebastian Grainger & The Mountains, Sonic Youth, Sufjan Stevens, Vermillion Lies, Violent Femmes, White Stripes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

Favourite Movies: Films by Stanely Kubrick, Wes Anderson, David Fincher, Quintin Tarantino, or Tim Burton.  Boondock Saints, Choke, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Fight Club, Pan’s Labyrinth.

Hobbies:  Copious amounts of reading and music collecting.

Favourite quote: “It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.”

Name: Ian Reale

Favourite Bands: Tears for Fears, Paramore, The Dillinger Escape Plan, The Hope Conspiracy, Cursed, Circa Survive, Crime in Stereo, Depeche Mode, Junius, Failure, Converge, Hall & Oates, Depreciation Guild

Favourite Movies: Robocop, Mean Girls, Terminator, Predator, Demolition Man, Surf Ninjas, Top Gun, Taxi Driver

Hobbies: Videos games, playing/listening to music, sunsets, anything pertaining to the 80’s, trying different beers, huffing jenkem.

Favourite Quote: “They don’t think it be like it is, but it do.” –Oscar Gamble

Name: Josh Schonblum

Favourite Bands: Squarepusher, Cut Chemist, The Avalanches, The Pharcyde, The Chemical Brothers, Stephane Pompougnac, Cibo Matto, Alpha, Neko Case, Len, Plaid, The Strokes, The Hives (1997-2004), The Misfits, Chet Baker and anything else not on MTV.

Favourite Movies: The Wayward Cloud, Stalker, My Own Private Idaho, Slacker, A Clockwork Orange, Gozu, Oldboy, Dogville, The Casting by Omer Fast, The Cremaster Cycle, Electroma

Hobbies: Filmmaking, Existentialism and a little gay donut.

Favourite quote: “Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee. He Smiled and stood before a bar with a shining steam pressure coffee machine.?”What’s yours?” asked the barman.
“Nada” “

-Earnest Hemingway from A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, (1926)

Name: Julian Papas

Favourite Bands: The Cult, Eels, The Cure, Dandy Warhols, Fatboy Slim, Foo Fighters, Prodigy, Groove Armada, Jane’s Addiction, Lou Reed, Moby, Motley Crue, No Doubt, Pearl Jam, The Smiths, Soundgarden, Talking Heads, Velvet Revolver, David Guetta

Favourite Movies: Boondock Saints, Pulp Fiction, Primer, Real Time, Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist, Dark Knight, About a Boy, Warriors, 10 Things I Hate About You, Army of Darkness, Hot Fuzz, Royal Tennenbaums, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Nightmare Before Christmas, Indiana Jones, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, Swingers, Star Wars, Dead Alive, Princess Bride, Crow, Superbad, Lost Boys, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Die Hard. Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Shaun of the Dead, A Clockwork Orange

Hobbies: Comics, video games, writing, Batman, listening to music, watching movies, filmmaking.

Favourite quote: Make love when you can. It’s good for you – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

Name: Logan Broger

Favourite Bands: Orgone, Mastodon, Queens of the Stone Age, Converge, Aesop Rock, Between the Buried and Me, Trap Them, Tegan and Sara, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Paramore, Trash Talk, Genghis Tron, The Endless Blockade, Pig Destroyer

Also,

Break Bad, Tyrell’s Niece’s, Divorce, Girls Know, Gay Friend That’s Straight

Favourite Movies: Reservoir Dogs, Twelve Angry Men, Hunger, 500 Days of Summer, The Departed, Fight Club, Kill Bill Vol.1 and 2, Catch Me If You Can, Collateral, Inside Man, Pulp Fiction

Hobbies: Writing, writing music, listening to music, watching movies/playing video games, hockey

Favourite quote: “I am not your therapist”
- Break Bad

Name: Nick John Gergesha

Favourite Bands: Converge, Isis, Trap Them, Meshuggah, Slint, Pig Destroyer, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Pelican, Xasthur, Immortal, Anaal Nathrakh, Poison the Well, Broken Social Scene, Masonna, Merzbow, Envy, Drive Like Jehu, Dillinger Escape Plan, Fugazi, Minor Threat, Bergraven, Melvins, Napalm Death

Favourite Movies: Memento, Seven, Dazed & Confused, A History of Violence, The Ice Storm, Superbad, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Short Cuts, Nashville, Rushmore, Le Samourai, Solaris, Traffic, Boogie Nights, Bad Lieutenant, Pulp Fiction, Man Bites Dog

Hobbies: Guitar, listening to music, criticizing others’ music, being an all round renaissance man

Favourite quote: “Do you know how it hurts your eyes to stare at the horizon? If you stare at the horizon long enough, all you can see is fire. The entire line of the horizon is burning. Fires as far as the eye can see” – David Lynch’s always obscure dialogue in the short lived Hotel.

Name: Vuk Varicak

Favourite Bands:  aesop rock, at the drive-in, black moth super rainbow, boris, botch, broken social scene, camera obscura, ceremony, circa survive, converge, ceremony, cursed, the dillinger escape plan, dj shadow/unkle, electric wizard, eyehategod, the fall of troy, genghis tron, god is an astronaut, gorguts, harvey milk, if these trees could talk, mastodon, meshuggah, minus the bear, mogwai, mono, neurosis, pig destroyer, pink floyd, pulling teeth, refused, rome, sigur ros, these arms are snakes, thrice, thursday, torche, trap them, the velvet underground

Favourite Movies: the shawshank redemption, the good the bad and the ugly, fear and loathing in las vegas, city of god, pulp fiction, the gods must be crazy, the shining, the godfather I, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, chinatown

Hobbies: Listening to music, writing, literature, playing/writing music, sports, etc.

Favourite quote: “I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous — a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche