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First SPINearth video is up!
It's been a while since my last blog, mostly due to the fact that I've been drowning in school. Most of my time has been dedicated to a news story on last week's World Wheelchair Curling Championships so I'm sorry for the neglect. However, my first movie for SPIN went...
Peppermill Records and the Shel Silverstein Project
“If you are a dreamer, come in. If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, a hoper, a prayer, a magic-bean-buyer. If you’re a pretender, come sit by my fire, for we have some flax-golden tales to spin. Come in! Come in!” — Shel Silverstein These are the lines of a poet...
Vancouver indie bands will “Dance in Our Debt”
Special to the VANCOUVER SUN VANCOUVER - Spurred by the ongoing dialogue about the global financial recession, a group of independent musicians will play free street shows for the public tomorrow night at undisclosed locations in the downtown east side. The location...
“Confessions of a Shopaholic” means woman is debt
Based on the best-selling novel by Sophie Kinsella, P.J. Hogan's film Confessions of a Shopaholic will be playing in theaters this February 13th, just in time for Valentine's day. Our headstrong, but sweet and suggestible protagonist Rebecca Bloomwood (Isla Fisher)...
Kevin Smith film uses porno as a means to love
This Tuesday, Kevin Smith's latest film Zack and Miri Make a Porno will come to DVD. It's a film about lifelong platonic friends who are broke, disillusioned with their dead-end jobs, and cohabitate in financial squalor. Much like the global financial crisis they...
Olympic resistance wins small battle over Vancouver city council
Vancouver city council received many anti-Olympic sentiments from the Olympic Resistance Network (ORN) at a meeting this morning at City Hall, finalizing in revisions to Appendix A which prohibited non-regulated signage. The criticism came largely from the debates...
Teeth is a new look at horror feminae
"It's true! Vagina dentata! Vagina dentata! Vagina dentata!" Someone on the bus the other day was talking very loudly about a film where the main character had teeth in her vagina. Intrigued, I later discovered on an IMDB search that he was referencing Mitchell...
Lucie Idlout’s ‘Swagger’ sounds like trailer park music
Hailing from Nunavut, Lucie Idlout's album is full of sweet contradiction. She's one of those singers who can pull off the most soulful lines while sounding rougher than a train wreck – a sort of midnight Whisky rasp that sounds uniquely feminine too. After a while,...
five favourite femme fatales in film
From the evil, the downtrodden, to the genuinely heart warming, here is a list of five very memorable female acts: 5. Marla Singer, Fight Club (1999). David Fincher casts Helena Bonham-Carter to play the love interest of both Tyler Durden and his alter-ego, jointly...