Category: General

And the new Prime Minister of Canada is…

Posted on by boj Posted in General

We hit the Fringe with vengeance this year. It has only been two days and we’ve seen seven plays.

SIC: Scenes of Invesitgatable Crime
This one was all right. The troupe had tons of fun with it and the energy shone through. The show is a spoof on crime drama such as CSI.

G-Men Defectives
This is very much along the lines of the previous play. It is a slapstick comedy about crime fightin’ men.

Smoked Glass Ceiling
I think we’ve found Canada’s next Prime Minister. The memoir of Rita Deverell as dramatized by herself is fascinating.

i
This was a blast. It is a physical play about events of a day.

The Big Kiss off
Hardboiled and fun!

Zombies
I was exhausted by the time we got to this one. It is insightful story detailing a bus ride with a guy who can see people’s thoughts.

Can’t Get Started
Along with Smoked Glass Ceiling, this one is my favourite of the festival so far. It is a dialogue between an actress and a playwright about his hopes in life.

Slow week

Posted on by boj Posted in Gardening, General

Nothing much happened this week. I biked to meet up with Chris after his baseball game and it took me hour and fifty minutes. That’s pretty bad considering that I could cover the distance in 45 minutes last year. But, not to worry, the season has just begun and I will get in shape.

Today I spent 5 hours weeding and mulching the front yard. I got about two thirds of it done with the trickiest parts still left to do. We bought nine bags of mulch and I’ve three left. It is crazy how red the red mulch is when you first take it out of the bag. It will be brown in a few weeks so I made a point of capturing it in a picture.

Red Mulch

Film – American Dreamz

Posted on by boj Posted in Film, General

Whatevz.

Anyway, I started biking to work this week and it’s been great. It takes me 20 minutes from my front door to my cube which is the same as with the car. I hope I get a lot of biking done this summer because biking is the best!

Film – Thank you for Smoking

Posted on by boj Posted in Film, General

Chris and I had a discussion on what our top 10 movies of all time lists would be like. I baffled at the idea of making such a list. Each excellent movie has such specific appeal that it makes it difficult to rank them against each other. Would serious, morally and emotionally engaging films push out brainless fun flicks on basis of merit or pure snobbishness? How do you pick between items that are artistically profound from ones that are culturally significant. For example, if you were making a list of great albums, would “Appetite for Destruction” be featured?

In any case, here are some of the films Chris and I tossed about yesterday. They are not necessarily top 10 worthy, but we (both or either) consider them strong films:

The Life of Brian
Yes
Casablanca
Fog of War
Wings of Desire
Annie Hall
Alphaville
Pretty Village, Pretty Flame
This is Spinal Tap
7 Samurai
American Movie
SLC Punk!
Dirty Pretty Things
The Great Dictator
Manhattan
Roman Holiday
Shaun of the Dead
…
And others that we can’t think of right now…

P.S. Thank you for Smoking is funny.