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Thursday, July 20, 2006

This Year at TIFF, Be Sure to Fuck the Man

Tonight was the cast & crew screening for Reginald Harkema's new film, Monkey Warfare. It stars Don McKellar, Tracy Wright & Nadia Litz (who you may remember from Rhinoceros Eyes) and will be premiering at TIFF in the fall:

Dan and Linda are two ex-guerilla activists from Vancouver, now living underground and off the grid in Toronto. To survive they scavenge through garbage and cruise garage sales for buried treasures they can sell "cash-only" on the internet ... [their] lives are turned upside down when an enigmatic, young radical named Susan ... enters the scene just as their dope-dealer is busted.

It's a laid-back, gritty, funny flick, sort of a pothead activist retelling of Anne of Green Gables. And it's filmed in my 'hood, so it was a treat seeing all the places where Zack pees up on the big screen. Every other scene, I would nod my head with satisfaction and murmur, "Oh yes, Zack's peed there alright."

I'm contributing some promo graphics to the production and they've stuck one of my thumbs up as a placeholder on the movie's page. More later ...

In Other News

RoninKengo has discovered VOX, which is being hyped as myspace for your grandma. It's not live yet (he snagged an advance invite), but when it is, VOX users will also be able to use iStock thumbs to illustrate their posts. The thumbs link back to the image's download and purchase page, which will hopefully make me WEALTHY BEYOND MY WILDEST DREAMS. Or help me pay the phone bill.

Check out RK's 10 Fav Movie Scenes Found on YouTube. Poor Louis del Grande. Good meme, I'll bite .... here are my 10 favourite tv intros found on YouTube:

1. The Rockford Files. Holy bleeding pee, the coolest opening title sequence ever. Moonlighting kida rips it off later on.

2. Space:1999, year 1 opening. So cool, the current Battlestar Galatica series pays homage to it. And all done long before the days of computer graphics. Also, lots of things blow up.

3.Futurama.

4. The Prisoner, clocking in at a staggering 2 minutes and 15 seconds.

5. Mary Tyler Moore ... I always liked the part when she throws the guy up in the air at the end.

6. Red Dwarf IV. Things blow up, Mr. Flibbles, things blow up.

7. The Fall Guy. Deserves a mention for the clever song and things blowing up. Runner up in this category: TJ Laser.

8. Pee Wee's Playhouse.

9. Oh, I guess it's a toss up between Mighty Orbots and Thundercats. Both have sequences that go really fast. Kids like things that go fast and blow up.

10. How 'bout the Muppet Show? Does that wrap it all up ok?

Whew. That was bloody hard work.

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