Stop asking questions that you aready know the answers to...

After spending a year as a neglected (abandoned) experimental blog, icouldmovetotoronto.blogspot.com is being made-over into, what will most certainly be, a scantly updated (neglected) vanity project blog. We doubt that anyone will notice or mourn the loss of witty self-indulgence, but it's time to emerge a anew as the I Could Move To Toronto Press.




The I Could Move To Toronto Press is a publishing company based in the lower suburbs (the hinterland of the suburbs, if you will) of the Greater Toronto [Free-Trade] Area [of the Americas]. Geographically, we're located above Toronto, but despite what of politicians might spout, that doesn't put us above the city.

Just as the smog almost ends at the edge of the GTA, so too does the cultural influence of the most powerful city in the holy trinity of Canadian cities (Montreal and Vancouver being the other two). Yet on a clear day, you can see the CN from our tallest hill. Thankfully we can't smell Spadina on a hot day from the same vantage point, but yet something drives the local creatives to contemplate, muse and philosphize about Toronto. This is unique trait that only exhibited in the most listless and genuine of local creatives. Its an uneasiness, an idiosyncrasy and a muse that can only be described as claustrophobic inspiration. This condition is what informs the I Could Move To Toronto Press philosophy.

The name, I Could Move To Toronto, has its origins in an actual dialogue between two creatives, a painter and a filmmaker. Both lived and worked in different hamlets and both sustained themselves and their work through petty, unrelated employment in the service sector.

Painter: I can't take this anymore, I'm great artist but aren't opportunties for people with my vision in this shitty town.
Filmmaker: I know what you mean. There isn't a cultural industry in this town -- not even in this region.
Painter: You know, I can paint, I can design websites, I can design logos, I can draw, I could move to Toronto and do all of that.
Filmmaker: You and every other person just like you.

The painter's gravity impassioned assertion and the filmmaker's curt retort need to be absorbed if you really what to grasp what the I Could Move To Toronto Press is all about. But of course, small town folk already get it.