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“EVERYTHING’S GONE GREEN is about when you get older and you feel certain doors closing very quickly on you. It deals with that feeling of now or never.” – Douglas Coupland I’m really looking forward to this flick – I love Coupland’s work (I think I own just about everything he’s written!), and I totally…
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When trying to work out the schedule for our film selections, Google Calendar proved indispensible – we had calendars for our First Picks, Second Picks, and Other Picks, all laid out in different colours on a week-view calendar. We could enter exact start and end times of everything we were interested in and see if…
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Just got a couple more picks in – single tickets went on sale this morning at 7am – and man, was the site pooched! It took forever to get them, but here’s what we got: All The Boys Love Mandy LaneThere’s something about the name of this movie that grabbed me from the moment I…
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So we got back confirmation of what films we’ll be seeing on our film pass for the festival. Unfortunately, we didn’t get everything we wanted – advance tickets are distributed basically by lottery. We got most of our first picks, but three of our movies went to second picks, and two other pairs of tickets…
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Just got our selection forms and programme guide today for the Toronto International Film Festival – and I’m so fucking pumped about it! September 8-17, Danielle and I will be in Toronto for the Festival of Festivals – we got an apartment just on the edge of Yorkville for the week, and we plan to…
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So the International Astronomical Union (whoever the hell that is), after much speculation surrounding its recent re-definition of what constitutes a planet, has officially booted Pluto out of our solar system. Bad day for Pluto. Bad day for Science teachers too – they’ve only got a few short weeks to take a magic marker and…
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The first two parts of Spike Lee’s When The Levees Broke have aired on HBO. As you would expect from Lee, it can be a little heavy handed, and a lot of the death and destruction can be hard to watch, but it’s all very powerful and moving, and worth a look. For the HBO…
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Well, if Mike’s gonna start a blog, then I guess I can take inspiration and try posting again to mine on occasion… that, plus I got to get my motherfucking Sam Jackson on in the title of this motherfucking post. Motherfucker. Sam sure owns the term “Motherfucker”, doesn’t he? Nobody can quite do it like…
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Not that I imagine anyone comes here much, but what the hell… an update. Let’s see, what’s happened since April? Well, about three weeks after that post below about not having a job, I got a job… I wasn’t really looking, it just kinda fell in my lap. It’s a great job – another consulting…
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