Bad Pun Alert

RIM Jobs

Column

Atlantic News Perspective #160 (Nov 28, 2005)
Air Canada's oxygen, Halifax nation's crime capital and mourning John "Junior" Hanna.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

The Worst Shit Ever

Romance?

Film

Trailer Park Boys: The Movie

Post (Halifax Locals)

Warning: This post contains no pictures.

* 'Sloan' to join CBC as satellite radio DJs

* The Canadian Podcasting Tour - Halifax: November 23 (7:30 p.m.)

* Ninjatune update:

S&N 'Homages' Double 7" EP
Sixtoo (1200hobos/Sebutones/etc.) and Norsola Johnson (Godspeed/Mollases/etc.) are S&N. No need for some witty snapping sales pitch here. Shit is hot. 4 sides of heat...with Sixtoo on live and not live drums and electronics. Norsola plays the cello, bass and other assorted instruments. Yes!

Sixtoo 'Duration' CD/DVD Re-issue!
Originally produced on Dollar Store VHS copies, we decided it deserved an actual DVD release, a full step up from the original 50 dollar store tapes that it was home-duped on! Say word. Also included on the bonus DVD is a full gallery section, a description of the project, and a high res gallery of other Sixtoo related goodness. There is also a CD of the instrumental hiphop classic Duration album.

* Buy Nothing Day is Friday Nov 25

There will be a street party and musical march meeting at Grand Parade Square at 5:30pm, and leaving at 6:00pm.Bring noisemakers, merriment, and fun to celebrate Buy Nothing Day. If you can't make the celebrations, then tune in to CKDU 97.5 from 6-7pm for live updates.

Dating Jimmy Kimmel, meta-bigotry and Zoloft

Sarah Silverman | Onion AV Club

Irony Maiden | Slate

Sarah Silverman Interrogation | Slate

Quiet Depravity | The New Yorker

Jesus is Magic

Column

Atlantic News Perspective #159 (Nov 21, 2005)
Muskrat meat, deep fried SUV fuel and the "pass-out game."
By: Iain K. MacLeod

Road Trip?

Sigur Ros
FEB 6 @ 7:30pm
On-Sale Friday, November 18
Tickets are $30.50, general admission, all ages.
http://www.liveatthestate.com/

US Politics

"Members of Congress have increased their own pay by $30,000 per year since freezing the minimum wage at $5.15 per hour (the lowest among industrialized nations)." - Jimmy Carter (This isn't the real America | LA Times)

Music

Halifax Pop Explosion Reviews (October 11 to 15, 2005)
By Carsten Knox, Iain K. MacLeod and Scott Reid

US Politics

On Bush, the Dems, Jon Stewart, Hunter Thompson, Bill Moyers, and King (not Don) by John Cusack.

Column

Atlantic News Perspective #158 (Nov 14, 2005)
Rose hips, prison tattoos and young vets.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

Stuff

Moleskine planners are available at The Bookmark (5686 Spring Garden Road) in Halifax. If I wasn't hooked on my Palm and iCal, I would probably buy one.

Post

Ultimate Geek Tool | Ask MetaFilter

Halifax Locals

Dangerously clever
Halifax 'rap nerd' to launch latest CD at Seahorse
By STEPHEN COOKE, Entertainment Reporter, The Chronicle Herald

Dangerously zone
Halifax hip-hopper Jesse Dangerously brings a crew along for the first time on his guest-laden EP Inter Alia.
By Jon Bruhm, The Coast

MP3>Jesse Dangerously's "Outfox'd (When Pacitists Attack)"

Cancon

Hoser courtesy of The Colbert Report.

The New Math

Geek Alert: Linksys WRT54G ($89.99) + The Open Source WRT54G Story = $600 router?

Nerd Alert: GTD + 43 Folders + Lifehacker + $19.86 Brother PT-65 Electronic Labeller = productivity porn

Video

The White Stripes - The Denial Twist (d. Michel Gondry) (QuickTime)

Column

Atlantic News Perspective #157 (Nov 7, 2005)
Free crack pipes, the Tolosa International Choral Festival and millions of gallons of manure.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

Event

Tonight's Grizzly Man screening @ Park Lane (7 PM) has changed. The Monday Night Movie has been moved to December 5th.

Critical Confessions

"It's a dirty little secret among critics, I think, that we don't always feel today what we felt yesterday, yet I think that's a secret that we keep as much from ourselves as from our readers." - Scott Tobias confesses in The Onion AV Club.

Ignorance Is Bliss

"People who do things badly...are usually supremely confident of their abilities -- more confident, in fact, than people who do things well...One reason that the ignorant also tend to be the blissfully self-assured, the researchers believe, is that the skills required for competence often are the same skills necessary to recognize competence." - New York Times (January 18, 2000)

No Good Reason

Awards

Best of Halifax 2005

Best local website: halifaxlocals.com
Wi-five! Halifaxlocals.com wins for the second straight year as the best local website, keeping us all in the loop about the Halifax music scene. The site relies on an open-source, message board-style format that keeps things current—and unpredictable. “On the front page of Halifaxlocals, you’ll typically see a lot of show posters, but that was really not my original intent at all,” says site moderator and co-founder Sean MacGillivray. “That’s just what the user base has done with it. That space was supposed to be filled with news, filled with stuff that’s going on and original content, but all of the sudden people got this idea to put up their show posters. And now we’re inundated with requests to put up posters!”

Courtesy of The Coast readership!

Column

Atlantic News Perspective #156 (Nov 1, 2005)
Immoral theatrical performances, tomato fights and churches for sale.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

DVD

Office Space: Special Edition with Flair

Radio

My pledge to CKDU aka Jessica's litter box story.

Quote

"The odds of hitting the Lotto 6/49 jackpot by plunking down a toonie and picking all six numbers are one in 13.98 million.

To put that in perspective, math gurus say those odds are roughly equal to your chance of dying within 15 minutes of buying your lottery ticket - or flipping a coin and getting 24 tails in a row.

You are also somewhere between 14 and 50 times more likely to get struck by lightning, depending on who's doing the calculations, they say." - Macleans.ca

Quote

"Brave stories that authentically and straightforwardly reflect the director’s inner and outer world. They are seldom funny. Like the time of comedies is maybe over." - The 54th International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg

Quote

"It's entirely possible that the course of human history, at least as it pertains to the naming of rock bands, has built up to this moment. Has there ever been a band name as perfect, as right, as Platonically ideal as...?"

Halloween

Poetry

The Way I See It: No. 23

Chances are you are scared of fictions.
Chances are you are only fleetingly happy.
Chances are you know much less than you think you do.
Chances are you feel a little guilty.
Chances are you want people to lie to you.
Perhaps the answer lies on the side of a coffee cup.
You are lost.

— David Cross, Comedian

Column

Atlantic News Perspective #155 (Oct 24, 2005)
Enormous eggbeater, family feuds and the drinking olympics.
By: Iain K. MacLeod

Events

The Facts:

Kathryn Calder of Immaculate Machine is Carl Newman's niece (of The New Pornographers) and fills in for Neko Case on the road.

donate money to what's new, mitsou? on ckdu tuesday night between 6-7:30 and you could get a windom earle prize pack featuring a shirt, pins, and a framed pic of stephan in a bathtub full of cookies.

windom earle is doing a rare video set

this is possibly the last windom earle show for a while.

Are you game?

GTD

Meet the Life Hackers | NY Times

Fitter, happier, more productive | The Guardian

43 Folders Podcast

Film

The Cult of 'the Dude' | Globe & Mail

Event

Update: Stephan is scheduled to perform at 10:30 tonight at Gus' (corner of North and Agricola).

He can also be heard giving a tour of Excitement Video on Popped Culture's "SEX & ROMANCE" episode and Windom Earle can be heard giving an extremely rare "unplugged" performance on Radio Free Polygon. Both available in Podcast form.

Lastly, here is an chance to see the Windom Earle video set: CKDU FUNDING DRIVE: Immaculate Machine w/ Windom Earle and HotShotRobot @ Stage Nine $5 ($7 after 10pm)Tune into What's New Mitsou on Tuesday, Oct 25th to pledge and win tickets.

TV

The Colbert Report...Gravitas: Colbert Vs. Stone Philips

Event

Film

Big Lebowski Collector's Edition DVD With Coasters, Cards and Towel

Tech

Why Do-It-Yourself Photo Printing Doesn't Add Up | NY Times

TV

60 Minute's Andy Rooney and Robert Smigel's TV Fun House.

Religion

Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

Film

Hollywood's Best Blunders by Edward Jay Epstein.

Blog

A weeklong journal from a writer and director. By Judd Apatow

TV

Awesome Town

Energy

"The aim here is efficiency, not austerity. We all remember the energy crisis of the 1970s, when people in positions of responsibility complained that Americans just used too much energy. Well, it's a good thing to conserve energy in our daily lives, and probably all of us can think of ways to do so. We can certainly think of ways that other people can conserve energy. And therein lies a temptation for policymakers -- the impulse to begin telling Americans that we live too well, and -- to recall a 70s phrase -- that we've got to "do more with less." Already some groups are suggesting that government step in to force Americans to consume less energy, as if we could simply conserve or ration our way out of the situation we're in. To speak exclusively of conservation is to duck the tough issues. Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy. People work very hard to get where they are. And the hardest working are the least likely to go around squandering energy, or anything else that costs them money. Our strategy will recognize that the present crisis does not represent a failing of the American people." - Dick Cheney in Toronto, April 31, 2001

Music

From Fat Possum Records:

R. L. Burnside
November 21, 1926 - September 1, 2005

We at Fat Possum are sad to announce that R.L. Burnside died today at his hospital room in Memphis.

Blues artist R.L. Burnside, who redefined the blues genre by incorporating indie rock acts and hip-hop production, died September 1, 2005, at St. Francis Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. Burnside was born November 21, 1926, in Harmontown, Mississippi, and spent most of his life in the north Mississippi hill country, where he worked as a sharecropper and a commercial fisherman and played guitar at weekend house parties. In 1968, noted folklorist George Mitchell recorded Burnside for the first time. In 1991 Burnside was the first artist signed to then-fledgling Fat Possum Records in Oxford, Mississippi. His debut, "Too Bad Jim," was produced by former New York Times pop critic Robert Palmer. Along with his friend, neighbor, and label-mate Junior Kimbrough, Burnside was one of the most popular and important blues musicians to emerge in the last two decades. He recorded the crossover collaboration "A Ass Pocket of Whiskey" with the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion in 1996 and became a cult hero. In 1998, music from "Come On In" was featured in several movies and television shows, including The Sopranos. Burnside sold hundreds of thousands of records in his lifetime. He is survived by his wife Alice Mae, twelve children, and numerous grandchildren.

Those wishing to help should send donations to:
Freeland & Freeland Trust Account
Burnside Memorial
P. O. Box 269
Oxford, MS 38655
(662)234-3414
All proceeds will go directly to RL's widow, Alice Mae.

Film

Atlantic Film Festival box office is online.