Category: tivo + movies + music

My mistake – Wes did not help write this movie – He produced it though Linda rented a movie that I had completely forgotten about and had wiggled it’s way…

Lovely cover of this song by Postal Service from their 2003 album “Give Up” – the description in Youtube says “From jTV in Australia, Ben Folds’s Like a Version from…

Tuesday August 29, 2006 at the Saints Showbar (Address is 30 Ste-Catherine O. Montréal, QC – 7 PM $20) there’s a rockin’ benefit concert for Emergency Communities in New Orleans…

My good friend Andi State attended the last night of the Cinema Du Parc. She took some absolutely wonderful black and white shots. She was the manager of the Cinema…

PBS had a nice little piece about Black Star ship-lines which was owned by Marcus Garvey in the early part of the century. Interesting man, with some questionable practices and…

There are 3 or 4 apps out there that all do this with basically the same interface, This one is a little cheaper and does the job just fine ……

Almost Skateboards has released a short movie starring Chris Haslam and Daewon Song entitled “Cheese and Crackers”. The movie revolves around a mini ramp session over multiple days – trying…

We watched Le Déclin de l’empire américain last night. I had only ever seen a small portion of the movie in my Quebec Cinema class. It’s one of those movies…

I remember the first time I saw MTV – in Grade 5 – the first video was Madonna – Like a Virgin …. “MTV famously claimed its first casualty with…

“Close your eyes. Open your heart.” — This new film from Michel Gondry looks very good. I have enjoyed “Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind” a couple of times over….

Fantasia – now in it’s 10th year – is half over. Once again I missed the one or two movies I wanted to see so I gave away my tickets….

Found this lovely map compiling much of the info about the show so far. It includes an event timeline, a corporate directory of the Hanso foundation, a map of the…

“Back in February, I asked if people would send me letters describing their experiences with our health care system. I received over 19,000 of them. It was truly overwhelming as…

(wonderful drawing by emmanuelle walker) Sad news – I’ve had multiple people in my life work there, manage that place or otherwise just become addicted to cheap late night flicks….

This link has the ability to magically kill any productivity that might have been accomplished on this fine Wednesday — Please be careful. “If it seems like lately we’ve been…