| The Indie's Turn Chicago's Carrot Top Records is a small and fiercely independent label, home to The Handsome Family and The Coctails. |
| Battle of the "Experts" How close to the truth are documentaries, really? Russell Bartholomee and Cari Crosby discuss. |
| Globetrotting Over the pond we go to Liverpool, home to much more than just The Beatles. |
| Been There This month's concert moment: Andrew Bird's dazzling violin and genre-bending act wows the audience at a New Pornographers concert. |
| Watching the Music A low-budget MTV contest submission proves to be a fitting visual for Sonic Youth's "Swimsuit Issue". |
| Whatever Happened To... XTC was once one of Britain's premier pop/rock bands. Being There's Shel Desormeaux does her best to track them down! |
| 9 x 5 Our contributors pick five things they're digging this month. |
9x5 – October 2004
Being There’s staff picks their favourites of the month.
Adam M. Anklewicz
(Technical Director & Staff Contributor):
1) Music + Science = Sexy
2) Gentleman Reg
3) Attempting to win a free iPod - Canucks only.
4) New season of Enterprise (It's still bad).
5) Apple vs. Apple
Russell Bartholomee
(Staff Contributor & New Guy):
1) Homicide: Life On The Street Season 5 (Best cop show ever in one of its best seasons)
2) The Jones Thing - A Comfortable Pair (Somebody sign these guys!)
3) Elvis Costello - The Delivery Man & Il Sogno (Two new Costello records in one month? Christmas came early!)
4) The Daily Show (At its best during any election year.)
5) Teaching US Government in an election year.
Cari Crosby
(Media Relations & Marketing):
1) Brian Wilson - Smile
2) Forgetting Poland
3) Slide Whistles
4) Redecorating
5) Elvis Costello & The Imposters - The Delivery Man
Shel Desormeaux
(Staff Contributor & Marketing):
1) Being a big mouth - last month I didn't elaborate my Top 5, and caught hell for it. Who knew some find my lippy tendencies to be charming?
2) Cynthia Nixon - for making herself happy.
3) My mom - oh, the things I'd rashly do if she weren't around to verbally bitch-slap me.
4) CSI New York - Gary Sinise. Just... Gary Sinise
5) Eating 27 times a day - I slipped off my eating plan for a while, and since my trainer now carries a gun for a living, I'm back to finding new angles from which to look at the canned tuna on my plate. Hi Tam. I'm being good.
Jennifer Halpern
(Staff Designer):
1) Ascent Magazine: Yoga For an Inspired Life
2) The Seventh Scroll by Wilbur Smith
3) America's Next Top Model... sorry but I just love it
4) Buying sweaters
5) Quit my addiction (online random chatting)
Aaron Licht
(Staff Contributor):
1) Industry Programming at the Toronto International Film Festival
2) Shaun of the Dead (dir. Edgar Wright)
3) Crash (dir. Paul Haggis)
4) Elliott Smith - XO
5) Sexual lucid dreams
Adam D. Miller
(Editor-in-Chief, Staff Contributor)
1) Brian Wilson - Smile (Album and concert at Toronto Massey Hall - mind-blowing)
2)Elvis Costello & The Imposters - The Delivery Man
3) The Daily Show (nothing like a good laugh before bed)
4) Tom Waits - Real Gone (I'm always in the mood for new Tom Waits)
5) The Motorcycle Diaries (dir. Walter Salles, gorgeous film)
Brighid Mooney
(Staff Contributor):
1) Elvis Costello & The Imposters - The Delivery Man
2) Richard Pryor - Live On Sunset Strip
3) Greg Proops - Back In The UK
4) Lewis Black - Back in Black, The Daily Show
5) The Simpsons
Kid Spill
(Staff Contributor):
1) New laptop! New laptop! New laptop!
2) Rediscovering Biz Markie's Turn Tha Party Out
3) Sour Keys - Sour Keys
4) High-speed precision driving
5)We Don't Live Here Anymore with luscious flower Mark Ruffalo and razor-edged diamond Peter Krause
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