Column

Atlantic News Perspective #143 (May 30, 2005)
Vandalizing Summerside, poking around in Sydney and rethinking Point Pleasant Park.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

Video

"Black History Month" by Death From Above 1979 [Quicktime]

Music & Donairs

"I Can't Put My Finger On It" by ween | Chris Applebaum

Column

Atlantic News Perspective #142 (May 24, 2005)
Messed-up maps, an oily mess and a smokeless Nova Scotia.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

Stuff

MOTOR BOOST VENTILATOR | Chinese Export Commodities Fair

Cooking

It doesn't feel like summer is approaching (tonight's forecast: low of 4 w/ patchy drizzle), but read this anyway:

Everything You Thought You Knew About Grilling Is Wrong | A Work In Progress

Film

Rubber Johnny | dir. Chris Cunningham

Column

Atlantic News Perspective #141 (May 16, 2005)
High school hit lists, losing out on lobster and PEI cracks Coastal Living.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

Music

"Baby C'Mon" by Stephen Malkmus (courtesy of Matador Records)

Music

"I Turn My Camera On" by Spoon (courtesy of Matador Records...outside the US/Canada)

Music

"Twin Cinema" by The New Pornographers (courtesy of Matador Records)

Free Advertising

From Matador Records: Finally, we'd like to offer a shout-out (ie. "fuck you") to the cowards and thought-cops at the Ad Dept at Paste Magazine who have deemed our proposed advertisement for 'Face The Truth' to be beyond the bounds of "good taste." God forbid that anything might challenge the sensibilities of Paste's Yep Roc-loving, Starbucks-guzzling, Wes Anderson-worshipping readership. Seriously, if there's anything we or SM have done that is a poor fit with Paste's Ad Dept's narrow worldview, that is the highest compliment we've been paid since the last time Spin refused to run one of our ads.

Music

Allergic reaction ends rapping marathon | CBC Arts

Nerd Alert

Inflection Point | i, Cringely

Film

Truth In Advertising (d. Tim Hamilton) | studio2f

Column

Atlantic News Perspective #140 (May 9, 2005)
Bizarre boarder crossing, re-resurfacing the bridge and Big Brother in St. John's.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

Quote

"I myself have helped hundreds of people get off drugs. In Scientology, we have the only successful drug rehabilitation program in the world. It's called Narconon...It's a statistically proven fact that there is only one successful drug rehabilitation program in the world. Period, " Tom Cruise (SPIEGEL Interview )

Event

What? Windom Earle + Spincycle^2
When? Wed, May 11 @ 10 PM
Where? Reflections Cabaret
How much? $3 (Ladies Free)

Fake News News

Daily Show's Colbert gets own Comedy Central show | CBC Arts

News

"U.S. customs officials said he was wearing a bullet-proof vest and was carrying a chain saw, a hatchet, a sword, an assortment of knives and a can of pepper spray. Border officials confiscated the arsenal, then let Despres continue on his way." (RCMP lay charges against New Brunswick man in grisly double murder | Macleans.ca)

Column

Atlantic News Perspective #139 (May 2, 2005)
Seal hunt fiction, banning the Bible and Rosie's gay cruise.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

Picture This

The spaceship has been part of the Cavendish landscape for decades. (CBC News)

Picture This

This odd-looking device could help save the lives of football players. (Courtesy USA Today)

News

"Remember the Alamo! Shoot 'em!" he screamed to applause. "To show you how radical I am, I want carjackers dead. I want rapists dead. I want burglars dead. I want child molesters dead. I want the bad guys dead. No court case. No parole. No early release. I want 'em dead. Get a gun and when they attack you, shoot 'em." (Ted Nugent to Fellow NRAers: Get Hardcore | ABC News)

Film

The League of Gentlemen's Apocolypse

Post (MetaFilter)

People have a problem with me, cause I ain't lazy... | MetaFilter

News

Atlantic Film Festival Media Conference Webcast (Windows Media)

News

25th Atlantic Film Festival Blind-Sided by Festival International de Films de Montréal's Recent Announcement of New Dates

Film

The making of Rise of the Empire Trailer (Lego Version) | Jay Silver

Footwear

Media Advisory

Atlantic Film Festival's Reaction To Festival International De Film de Montreal's Recent Announcement of New Dates | Canada NewsWire Group

Column

Atlantic News Perspective #138 (Apr 11, 2005)
E-voting controversy on campus, space junk over Hibernia and Moncton looking for Stones.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

Music

Piercing the peer–to–peer myths: An examination of the Canadian experience | First Monday

Pics

my life as a cloud

Photo

The Stainless
Originally uploaded by boost ventilator.

Crazy Landlord Font: a handwritten typeface characterized by a complete disregard to upper & lower case letters, printing & handwriting, spelling & grammar, symmetry & spacing, punctuation & abbreviations and most importantly, manners. Typically found on the back of pizza boxes poorly taped to a wall in parking garages. Special note: when a printer and computer is used, expect the accompaniment of the comic sans font and excessive use of clip art.

News

Potty-mouth man can't fool science | Toronto Sun
An allegedly drunk driver with a taste for trickery failed to foil a police breathalyzer machine after stuffing his mouth full of feces.

Words

Panel Discussion moderated by Leo Furey, with authors Donna Morrissey, Jonathan Lethem, William Kowalski, and entertainment lawyer Rob Aske.

Are you interested in turning your piece of writing into a screenplay for a film? Do you have questions about the procedure, the possibilities and the pitfalls involved in selling your book for option to the film and television industry? Through the Word and Image panel, you can have these questions and more answered by people who have been through the process and who know the industry ins and outs. Come out on April 9th at 2:00pm and listen to an experienced panel of local authors, screenwriters and producers as they address the opportunities and challenges of selling Atlantic story rights to the International film and television markets.

Words & Image
Radio Room, CBC Radio Building
Saturday, April 9th, 2PM
presented by the Halifax International Writers' Festival & The Atlantic Film Festival in partnership with TradeRoutes.

Free admission, seating is limited. To reserve a seat, please email hgibson@khgmanagement.ca.

For more information please see the poster (pdf).

http://www.halifaxwritersfest.ca

Column

Atlantic News Perspective #137 (Apr 4, 2005)
The CFL in the HRM, leaving before the lottery and parched by PERC.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

Music

The Best 90 Minutes of My Life by Thurston Moore | Wired

Film

Hal Hartley's "The Girl From Monday" Trailer

Music

Requiem for a Record Guru | If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger, There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats

Film

The Man Who Shot Sin City | Wired

Film

PRIMER @ Park Lane
Monday, April 4, 2005
Trailer

"PRIMER is the headiest, most singular science-fiction movie since Kubrick made 2001." - Esquire

PRIMER is set in the industrial park/suburban tract-home fringes of an unnamed contemporary city where two young engineers, Abe and Aaron, are members of a small group of men who work by day for a large corporation while conducting experiments on their own time in a garage. While tweaking their current project, a device that reduces the apparent mass of any object placed inside it by blocking gravitational pull, they accidentally discover that it has some highly unexpected capabilities--ones that could enable them to do and to have seemingly anything they want. Taking advantage of this unique opportunity is the first challenge they face. Dealing with the consequences is the next.

PRIMER is a mesmerizing thriller that introduces a filmmaker with an exciting new sensibility. Shane Carruth, a former engineer who spent three years teaching himself filmmaking, conceived, wrote, directed, edited, and scored PRIMER and also plays one of the lead roles. His impressive feature debut – set in the very world Carruth abandoned to make movies -- tells the story of two engineers who stumble upon a remarkable invention which changes their lives in unimaginable ways. Engrossing and provocative in its exploration of the dark side of human nature and science, PRIMER electrified audiences at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, winning the Grand Jury Prize and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Award for films dealing with science and technology.

"Primer ranks among the best of recent thrillers such as "Memento" or "The Matrix," which rupture the fabric of reality and radically destabilize the narrative." - The Onion, Scott Tobias

"Fascinating and completely successful." - Roger Ebert

"Primer unites physics and metaphysics in an ingenious guerrilla reinvention of cinematic science fiction." - Village Voice, Dennis Lim

"Refusing to dumb down... Primer is "Mullholland Dr.," "Memento" for mad geniuses, or simply one of the most inventive films ever made." - Premiere, Aaron Hillis

"Prepare to be obsessed." - Miami Herald, Rene Rodriguez

"Love it or hate it, you won't be able to leave it alone." - Dallas Observer, Robert Wilonsky

Radio / Food

Windom Earle whips up some delicious cupcakes on CKDU

Tech

iPodlounge Buyers' Guide 2005

Column

Atlantic News Perspective #136 (Mar 28, 2005)
Investing in eco-tourism, awarding artistic merit and bank card skimming.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

Event

ƒuck art, let's dance!
April 2 at the Khyber Club
$5-10 (sliding scale)
1st floor: Special Noise, Windom Earle, Radarfame
2nd floor: INDIE DANCIN' with Da Deco Gangsta, Shiver Me Tatters, Readdan Whyte, Johnston Max
3rd floor: HIP HOP with Alphaflight and friends

Apocalyptic

Russell Simmons Puts Hip-Hop "Twist" On Yoga Videos

TV

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Post (Halifax Locals)

12 Reasons to Attend the Weakerthans/Constantines Show
In no particular order.

12 A coveted Coast Feature on the Weakerthans.
11 The cover art for Reconstruction Site was done by Marcel Dzama of Winnipeg's Royal Art Lodge (who is also responsible for Beck's upcoming Guero release)
10 The Music: The Reasons, Psalm For The Elks Lodge Last Call, Plea From A Cat Named Virtue, Aside, The Last One, Our Retired Explorer (Dines With Michel Foucault In Paris, 1961) LIVE, On A Beautiful Day, Watermark, Confessions Of A Futon-Revolutionist
09 Two words: Weakerthans Karaoke!
08 E-card and videos: The Reasons, Psalm For The Elks Lodge Last Call, Our Retired Explorer (Dines With Michel Foucault In Paris, 1961), Watermark, Diagnosis
07 You don't have to go to Winnipeg!
06 Fancy pants label affiliations: Subpop and Epitaph in US (Three Gut and G7 in Canada)
05 The Music Part Deux: Long Distance Four, Young Offenders, Arizona, On To You, Nighttime Anytime Its Alright, Blind Luck.
04 Check out one of their videos.
03 The Constantines are "big on crowd participation" and are "pretty fucking close" to writing anthems, according to Pitchfork
02 You don't have to go to Guelph!
01 Friday is a holiday...WWJD?