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Who
is Lloyd?
Dave "Babe" Lloyd was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, in
the twentieth century. His father was the life of the party, his mother was a hot honour-student. This is why he is a hot, brainy, party man.
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Lloyd grew up, from the age of two years, in a suburb of Edmonton,
Alberta, Canada. The small city he grew up in was never really
prepared for his brand of thought and fashion, and Lloyd was persecuted
throughout junior high school and high school. Teachers, though,
continually pointed out that he was "wise beyond his years",
and said that he should end up making living by writing.
Lloyd earned a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Master of Arts degree
from the University of Alberta, in the Comparative Literature
program (abbreviated in the course calendar as "CLit").
He wrote his thesis on postmodernism, simulacra, and new heavy
metal. (The central theoretical text in the thesis was Jean Baudrillard's
Simulacra and Simulation, which, as Lloyd noticed after
he began his thesis, is the book in which Neo hides his contraband
at the start of The Matrix.)
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Lloyd began playing music in earnest--although with no professional aspirations--when
he was an undergraduate. In May, 1998, Lloyd recorded it's
so true at Crowtown
Productions with Dale Ladouceur.
As a graduate student, Lloyd wrote a scathing letter to the
local paper in his city, admonishing the paper for printing
such poorly written coverage of a heavy metal community hall
show which the police broke up. He was subsequently asked
to write a monthly editorial column
for the paper, which he continues to write at present.
Following the completion of his Master of Arts degree, Lloyd
decided to move to Ottawa. It what became complicated circumstances,
he packed his belongings into storage in Edmonton, took a
suitcase, and flew to Ottawa to stay with his aunt and uncle
and cousin, who, it turned out, lived much farther from Ottawa
than he remembered. Lloyd hung out in the immense ranch-house
by himself, wrote delirious e-mails to friends in Edmonton,
took an occasional school-bus into Ottawa for day trips, and
wrote a twenty-minute presentation to be delivered at a conference
on popular music being held by the Bulgarian branch of
the International Association for the Study of Popular Music
in Sofya, Bulgaria. Eventually, Lloyd befriended a hippie
girl and moved to a hostel in downtown Ottawa.
Lloyd enjoyed many advenutres with newfound friends in Ottawa,
rural Quebec, and Montreal, before flying to Sofya, Bulgaria.
There he gave his lecture, was commended heartily by Phillip
Tagg, the founder of the IASPM,
and had many adventures--all of them involving women--in Sofya,
the Turkish cities of Istanbul, Ayvalik, and Alanya, New York
City, and Montreal. Then he came back to Edmonton.
Lloyd is now a musician, writer, and housewife.
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