Reeling at Reel Asian: “Dooman River”
Posted by Jef in Film, Reeling on 13. Nov, 2010 | 0 Comments
Everything in Zhang Lu’s Dooman River is cold and slow. The film is full of long takes and pregnant pauses, and its characters hide their turmoil and rage behind deliberate dialogue and calm faces. Connecting the border of North Korea and China, the Dooman itself is shown as a gruelling and frigid trek for refugees [...]
Live: Big Boi at The Guvernment
Posted by David in Concerts, Music, Rappers on 12. Nov, 2010 | 0 Comments
In 2006, when Nas provocatively declared “Hip Hop is Dead”, Big Boi took offence. “Everybody is entitled to their opinion, but if it’s dead, why is the South boomin’?” asked the Outkast MC. Five years later a geographical region can’t claim genre dominance and Nas’s rhetoric requires yearly meditation. The Peace Dot Love Festival was [...]
Live: Dan Mangan at Trinity St. Paul’s Church
Posted by Simon in Concerts, Music on 29. Oct, 2010 | 0 Comments
Looking at Dan Mangan’s tour schedule, you notice the dude seems to really enjoy playing shows at churches. His tour manager is on to something, because there could hardly be a more fitting place for the Vancouver based Polaris Prize finalist to bring his brand of Canadian folk-rock to the masses than a venue where [...]
Reeling: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
Posted by Simon in Film, Reeling, Toronto on 29. Jul, 2010 | 0 Comments
The crowd in the theatre was literally buzzing during a recent advance screening of Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Everyone’s cell phones had been confiscated and nobody knew what time it actually was. Impatience begat face-to-face conversation and, nerdy and self-indulgent as it was, the energy in the air built to a fever [...]
Morning Dump: BP fun for everyone; Bearded; Yosemitebear Mountainman; MIA hyperlinked
Posted by theashcan in Morning Dump on 17. Jul, 2010 | 0 Comments
BLDG BLOG has an amazing, surreal discovery: a board game from the 70s brought to you from the fine people at British Petroleum. Make your own fortune in the exciting world of offshore drilling! It looks so fun I want to cry. (Sadly, no Go Straight to Jail options.) -jc Beards aren’t just the bastion [...]
