I'm starting to get exhausted with this blogging stuff. Since I'm winding up, I thought I'd just throw a muffin-basket together for yas.
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While looking around for info on some (small, lap)dog-food commercial I saw that used Magnetic Fields' "I Think I Need A New Heart," I stumbled upon the news that Portastatic will be providing a live score for "The Unknown" at the Seattle Film Festival. Pianos are being de-tuned as we speak. More info here. All I can say is : cool!
Mac McCaughan also scored "Looking for Leonard," a Canadian film (Molly Parker!)* that's had few, if any, opportunities to be seen by us Shatner-stealin' Mexico-touchers.
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With all the disappointed reviews of "The Da Vinci Code," the worst news, to me, is that it was produced by John Calley. I think Will Blythe is the John Calley of fiction. Or vice versa. I could listen to either one talk forever. I especially enjoy Calley in the (admittedly in-house) Kubrick thing. You know, the one narrated by Tom Cruise.
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I may be opening up Pandora's can of sleeping dogs here, but the one thing from the WB thing I neglected to mention was his comment that he, as editor, preferred his non-fiction to be done by fiction writers, as he saw them better able to tell/see stories. When I had the GW as my instructor in grad school, I mentioned that I was considering a 3rd semester genre switch - when the GW realized it wasn't poetry I meant but non-fiction, the look I got told me WB isn't the only one who believes that. Not sure where I stand, but I sure as hell didn't bring it up with my non-fiction classmates.** What do you guys think?
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Tomorrow is Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals. I had to ratchet back to one $eat becau$e of the price and I hope my superstitions are debunkable, because the $eat I was given for round$ 3/4 is where I sat for the awful Montreal blowout.
And here's hoping The Arcade Fire doesn't pop up on my iPod during the shuffle tomorrow. That happened the days of Game 1 Round 1 and Game 4 Round 2. The uncivilized would say it's because a portion of all sales of Funeral go to the purchase of Hurricanes tickets.
(and there's even *more* info on the Seattle Portastatic live scoring at that last link, if you scroll down a bit)
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If you've ever wanted to build a replica of The Stanley Cup ( and who in their right mind hasn't?), here are some instructions (pdf 848 kB).
Can't find the instructions for the Stanley Cup costume for babies.
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*if you ever hear of anyone arrested for camping outside a Molly-Parker-window, shouting "Why do you linger?!" it's probably me.
**Until now, I guess.
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