Last night I watched the documentary, Chez Schwartz (2007). It’s a film by Garry Beitel, the professor from my Canadian Documentary class at McGill, and a Montreal-based filmmaker who has worked on numerous independent documentaries (often for TeleQuebec) that narrow in on particular communities and individuals. Chez Schwartz is a film about the 75 year-old […]
July 4 - 7: The Gits Movie, NY and a special BUST event dedicated to the amazing Mia Zapata, who also, I think, just wanted to play…:
The Gits Movie is a rousing and heartbreaking story of Seattle band The Gits, whose promising start was cut short by the tragic murder of singer Mia Zapata. When […]
Review Haiku:
Less heartbreak, more joy
then Eternal Sunshine plus,
Rewind has Mos Def.
Be Kind, Rewind, directed by Michel Gondry of Dave Chappelle’s Block Party, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and lots of lovely Bjork music videos (plus about 200 others,) is post modern joyfultragichopeful American magical realism.
Danny Glover, Fats Waller, VHS, the copyright infringement […]
Movie created by Cyens, audio created by The Debauch Sophisticates……..
Prepare yourself for the Graveyard Shift.
Enjoy!
(Untill I figure out how to get the embed to work here… just check out the link to the video)
http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=32986997
Peace!
Claire Brosseau is a Canadian actress and comedian who is near to our Indyish hearts for lots of reasons, one being that she’s hosted 2 different Indyish shows, another being she’s hilarious. In a week and a bit (May 9) A Previous Engagement opens across Canada with Brosseau playing one of the daughters of the […]
First time I’ve tried the mid-Mess-blog, but here goes! We’re well into the 11th Monthly Mess. Simon is on the stage and we’re not sure what his act is yet, spoken word is coming, but quietly, and he asked the MC’s (hilarious with the accents) to make up his introduction, which ended up involving fairies. […]
Hello friends wassap? I hope X-mas was super dooper for ya. I also wanna wish you a sincere amazingly awesome 2008, which has the symbol of infinity in it, so lets be blissfull forever!
Anyways, Im not usually one to get all political on you. I took the conscious decision to lay off that and focus […]
We made a video for the song Mesa Races off our latest album, Distracting Strangers.
It is:
a) the story of two people who walk in the snow to get beer,
b) shot in Montreal on a photo camera with low resolution,
c) edited by Tessa while staying with her parents over the winter break,
d) made for small format […]