When culture gets overinflated, yet refuses to pop, I want to be there with the needle. Enlightened cynics of the world unite! Express your love or hatred of things from the sacred to the mundane.
Only the NFB could allow me to travel for millions of miles, hypnotically transfixed, from a rowboat to the galaxies to the atom to the rowboat... gently down the stream.
What a trip? Now if I just had a Chipwich to tide me over.
Some of the resources I listed in the podcast can be found here:
A great series of short animated clips that show the dangers of rampant abuses of the Alberta Tar Sands and the dangers that Canada faces as a country if we allow our government to continue down this crude road.
Thanks to the creators for some great work and Vimeo for hosting some of the best videos on the web.
After a two-day distraction to keep media outlets and the public sufficiently distracted from the Throne Speech and the Budget, the Tories plans to change the national anthem to make it gender-neutral have apparently evaporated. How transparent can media manipulation be. Any news outlet that printed the anthem change as anything but a distraction should be ashamed.
Another great gift via the nfb.ca website.
I've never been a huge fan of Leonard Cohen, but the stylish 45 year old look at one of Canada's most popular poets and performers was too cool to pass up. Beyond its examination of Cohen, it really gives viewers a sense of place and time in such a way that is esssential, and unfortunately often unique, to some of the great National Film Board content creators that we still enjoy today.
While I would never expect any to sit back and watch all 45 minutes, it is entertaining and engaging. And now you know where to find it.
An article that infuriated me so much... I had to rant and rave and swear a little bit too.
I am trying for a revival of listening to entire CDs, albums, cassettes, 8 tracks.
Instead of typing and typing paragraphs of information about why I love my favourite 10 albums of all-time, I decided to record my love letter to the art that inspired me for the past few decades. Hope you find something you like or, even better, something you might like.
