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8x5 – September 2004
Being There’s staff picks their favourites of the month.
Adam M. Anklewicz
(Technical Director & Staff Contributor):
1) “You and your CanCon" - Adam D. Miller
2) "Famous Blue Raincoat" by Leonard Cohen
3) "Don't You Believe A Word" by Sloan
4) "Rebel Prince" by Rufus Wainwright
5) "Set Out Running" by Neko Case & Her Boyfriends
Cari Crosby
(Media Relations & Marketing):
1) Toronto International Film Festival
2) A Girl Called Eddy by A Girl Called Eddy
3) Sleep
4) The Mary Tyler Moore Show
5) Joni Mitchell
Shel Desormeaux
(Staff Contributor & Marketing):
1) Trailer Park Boys (That Bubbles. What will he do next?)
2) Tomatoes
3) Crabbuckit by K-Os
4) The Cornish Trilogy by Robertson Davies
5) Oxygen Magazine
Jennifer Halpern
(Staff Designer):
1) River God by Wilbur Smith
2) Dr. Phil afternoon TV show
3) High-heeled shoes
4) Back to school never more
5) Go Transit
Aaron Licht
(Staff Contributor):
1) Converting my 'film festival fever' into a seven week full-time job with the Toronto Film Festival. I sleep with my staff pass.
2) An empty house all to myself.
3) Eating cherry tomatoes right from the garden.
4) Eightball #23 by Daniel Clowes
5) The Raspberry Reich (2004) and the rest of Bruce LaBruce's intelligent punk porno. LOOK OUT! Revolutionary bisexual Porn Comedy may shock the boring straights into thinking!
Adam D. Miller
(Editor-in-Chief, Staff Contributor)
1) Eat, Shoots, and Leaves by Lynne Truss (laugh-out-loud book on punctuation)
2) A Girl Called Eddy by A Girl Called Eddy (dark and brooding songstress with echoes of yesterday)
3) This is Where I Belong: The Songs Of Ray Davies & The Kinks (solid tribute album)
4) Kojak Variety reissue - Elvis Costello (particularly the bonus disc)
5) The Toronto International Film Festival (I am having the time of my life right now)
Brighid Mooney
(Staff Contributor):
1) Freaks And Geeks: The Complete Series
2) The Daily Show
3) Relentless - Bill Hicks
4) Bertrand Russell
5) Good News For People Who Love Bad News - Modest Mouse
Kid Spill
(Staff Contributor):
1) Nomadism
2) Hairstyles of The Damned by Joe Meno
3) Mississauga Goddamn - The Hidden Cameras
4) Napoleon Dynamite
5) Washing my hair as infrequently as hygienically possible.
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