The Last Pogo Muffins, Rough Trade, The Diodes, The Demics and Simply Saucer among others. The Last Pogo The Last Pogo is a short film made by Colin Brunton in 1978. Shot in Toronto, at the Horseshoe Tavern, "The Last Pogo" concert on December 1 was billed as "the last punk rock concert" in Toronto—at least for that original wave of punkers circa 1977/1978. Named as ironic tribute to "The Last Waltz", the concert film of the final concert by The Band directed by Martin Scorsese. Featuring performances by The Scenics, The Cardboard Brains, The Secrets, The Mods, The Ugly, The Viletones and
The Last American (novel) made at the time. All of the Persians have farcical names (Nōz-yt-ahl is the name of an historian, for example) and often speak in breathless wonder at what they see. "The Last American" was among a group of anti-Utopian disaster literature which were published in the late 19th century, along with Ignatius Donnelly's "Caesar's Column" and Park Benjamin Jr.'s "The End of New York". Montesquieu's "Persian Letters" may have provided some degree of inspiration. In its own turn, the book seems to have been a rough model for Aldous Huxley's "Ape and Essence". The Last American (novel) The Last American