A friend pointed me to an interesting cut and paste work today from Wax Audio. Wax Audio released an entertaining EP of songs in March 2005 that you can download from their site for free. Wax Audio’s Mediacracy is likely not “illegal” per se, but I’d be surprised if some people didn’t attempt to sue, [...]
Read more →I haven’t really focused on posting previews of upcoming shows, but sometimes I catch wind of something that sounds worth mentioning. It would be nice if this film opens at the VIFF, but looks like its Sept 30 premiere is in only two cities in the USA. (Update: It’s playing Sept 13 and 15 at [...]
Read more →They’re slowly announcing films, a handful at a time, with the rest to be announced next week. I’m looking forward to CHINA BLUE and AVENGE BUT ONE OF MY TWO EYES at this point. The Festival today announced the nominees for the 13th annual National Film Board of Canada Documentary Award, including Paul Rosdy’s NEW [...]
Read more →From the Vancouver International Film Festival Press Release, August 31, 2005; The VIFF is also proud to announce the World Premiere of BANKING ON HEAVEN (US), an unflinching look at a cult of Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints (FLDS). The film alleges the polygamist communities of Colorado City, Arizona and Hildale, Utah (and, by extension, Bountiful, [...]
Read more →I finally took the time to setup MythTV to control my digital cable tuner so that I can record the digital channels above channel 60; this includes channels like IFC and the Documentary Channel that I enjoy, but I just don’t find myself watching since I’ve started using MythTV. I noticed that there was a [...]
Read more →Checked out the new and improved Life Against Death last night at The Astoria Hotel. The opening bands were Open Fire and Kersey; Open Fire was the better of the two openers. Life Against Death have gone through a surprising number of changes in their first year of life. They started out as a five [...]
Read more →I’m that guy that the film industry markets to when they put together good commentary tracks on the DVDs they sell me. I’m a big fan of hearing the stories of filming while I’m watching the film with the regular film’s dialogue is displayed in subtitles. I especially enjoy the panel style commentaries like the [...]
Read more →Initially, I was happy to have the trackpad on the new 12″ Powerbook provide back and forward navigation through Firefox’s browser history. It struck me as a Good Idea. That is, until I realized just how obscenely sensitive Firefox was being to horizontal movement. I would be scrolling down a long page, reading, or writing [...]
Read more →Vancouver International Film Festival has just announced a handful of the films slated to screen at this year’s event. They have specifically mentioned two programs, with the remaining films to be announced at a media conference in mid September. The VIFF press release announces two specific programs of films that they will be featuring; American [...]
Read more →Well, posting to MySpace was pretty much a non-event; it just worked with no fight at all. Now I have the LiveJournal account and the MySpace account taking my posts from the WordPress site. For the LiveJournal types, this gives you a choice between full feed (xinitsblog) that hasn’t been importing correctly (because LJ can’t [...]
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