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At Home With My Pocket Change

Memo — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:44:16 +0000

As you all probably know I had worked briefly with Kris Booth on the film At Home By Myself... With You. Well the film has finally premiered last week and I got to watch it one more time and ignoring the fact of what it took to get the movie made it's still a beautiful little gem of a film. Gorgeously shot and terrificly acted, At Home By Myself...With You is truly a work of art that everyone involved should be proud of. Kris and Ramona wrote a beautiful, whimsical, and at times intriguigingly dark tale of an agoraphobe who suffers from many other crippling phobias. While Romy deals with these issues with the aid of a troubled handsome neighbour we get to learn about human nature and the day-to-day struggles we all have to leave our boxes. The film has gotten written up in all the Toronto papers, and today I noticed that it even got written up on Boing Boing! If you get a chance to see it please get down to the Royal this week and support Canadian independent films and more importantly go see a great film!

The Sun Always Shines on TV... Unless you live in Canada

Memo — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:30:58 +0000

Well, about a month or so ago I figured out that a-ha's current tour will be their last. Yes a-ha were still putting out great albums and touring them. They hadn't been to Canada or North America in quite a while but after the announcement of the farewell tour they teased about returning to North America. Lo and behold pretty much all the concert dates are listed. Keep in mind I've been a huge a-ha fan for most of my life. Probably longer than Depeche Mode but of course not as deep because in conclusion I must say, eat shit a-ha. Really, I've been a fan I've bought the albums and apparently a lot of Canadians have since your albums have sold here better than in the US for like a decade. So what are they doing. They announced a night in New York and a night in LA... There you go, there's your North American tour. Of course there's like 7 shows all over Brazil, 17 fucking shows all over Germany etc. No exaggeration. So fans get angry, and what do they do? add two more nights to LA and New York.... seriously? I mean not a single show in the MIDDLE of the US, not a single show in Australia, Not a single show in Canada? Wtf guys? what kinda shitty unbalanced farewell tour? Well if that's the way you treat your fans than you can stick your farewell tour up your asses. I'm so furious for all your fans including of course myself. Seeing a-ha was a dream for me and now it will not happen? why? not because you died or something no, because you seem to have a bunch of morons plan your tour. Totally unfair and I can't forgive. Yes I know I probably sound like a whiny teenybopper complaining about not seeing a washed up 80's band but you know what? If De/Vision can play Canada guess what? a-ha can get off their asses and make a proper farewell tour and satisfy their fans. So unless something changes, fuck you a-ha. Sorry Jeff...

Nevermind, Just Get Out...

Memo — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:01:34 +0000

Saw this in Unionville. Sounds like you'd get some really friendly service in there! Sadly I don't think it's a joke. I wonder if they realize how uninviting they sound. I wonder if they care!

Weekly World News NOW!

Jeff — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:44:57 +0000

Thank GOD Google chose to scan and index these treasures before they were all gone! You can find any WWN issue you may have missed, or that you have squirled away in a box somewhere for safe keeping. Enjoy!

A Very Fortunate Fortune!

Jeff — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:38:59 +0000

We were at Mandarin for our company Christmas party just before the holidays and out of a group of about 40 people, two fortunes from the fortune cookies stood out. Have a gander at them below and you'll see what I mean.

HORNY NERD ALERT!

Jeff — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:03:33 +0000

Special thanks to my wife for finding this on Perezhilton.com. Enjoy, geeks!

What vowels would you choose?

Jeff — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:20:22 +0000

Three lines up from the bottom there...#121 across...what do YOU think it should say?

Best Buy Bastards (well, not bastards, just stupid this time!)

Jeff — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:12:29 +0000

Here's a quick shot I took on my way out of Bestbuy before the holidays. Apparently, if you buy the bigger 8 pack of batteries, they charge you MORE than if you were to just buy two 4-packs! Genius! More paper and packaging, for $2.01 less!

I Read: Worlds Without End

Memo — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:35:39 +0000

I found this collection of three Clifford D. Simak short stories at a flea market near Nihan's. I was quite excited to find it as Clifford D. Simak is quite a hard writer to find these days. I think he was fairly popular in the 60's and 70's but he's almost disappeared in the last twenty years or so which is sad since the sci-fi he tends to tackle is one that's pretty untouched. Clifford D. Simak works in rural landscapes and life into his science fiction stories and from the books I've read tends to delve into concepts of time and telepathy. So anyway, the stories in this collection are; Worlds Without End, The Spaceman's Van Gogh, and lastly Full Cycle.

The titular story, Worlds Without End, follows Norman Blaine who works for the Dreams department. Dreams department puts people in like a catatonic state for extended periods of time and chooses what they'll dream about. Naturally, some kind of conspiracy pops up and at the end I was kinda unclear as to what the hell happened. Another problem? It's missing all that rural life stuff that I like in Simak.

The next story is entitled The Spaceman's Van Gogh. This story is very quiet and subdued. It's about this guy who follows this recently deceased artist throughout the galaxy and ends up at his final subject planet. The artist in question was partially through a painting when he died and the explorer wanted to find out what he was painting and why. This is more inline with what I like about Simak. It's not a rural Earth setting but it still retains that feel since you're seemingly on a barren planet. This story was merely ok as it was again confusing and convoluted at the end. My problem with writers like Simak is I don't know when they're being literal or when they're being metaphoric especially with trippy 50's 60's sci-fi. Does he feel like a rainbow colored bird? or is he really a fucking bird?

The final wrap up story is Full Cycle, which in my opinion is the strongest story. It's about this history professor who is forced into retirement and therefore leave his small town to travel around the country in search of community. He meets interesting characters and even has a great inventive sci-fi thrown in. I honestly think it could make a good movie. Anyway, a strong finish to an otherwise weak anthology.

Full Cycle even sounds like it'd be a cool movie. If you find any Clifford D. Simak on your travels be sure to pick it up. It's rare and decent and definitely deserving of greater things. Sigh, if only someone would adapt one of his stories into a movie...

I Read: Stranger in a Strange Land

Memo — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:40:06 +0000

Robert A. Heinlein's classic book 1961 went on to inspire hippies. I'm sure you can imagine what I thought of it.

Fallen Caryatid by:Rodin