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| 9 x 5 Our contributors pick five things they're digging this month. |
9x5 – November 2004
Being There’s staff picks their favourites of the month.
Adam M. Anklewicz
(Technical Director & Staff Contributor):
1) The new public forum
2) Moving
3) Bookends – Simon & Garfunkel
4) Stargate SG-1
5) Monkey vs. Robot
Russell Bartholomee
(Staff Contributor & New Guy):
1) America: The Book by Jon Stewart and The Daily Show
2) Brian Wilson Presents SMiLE (best thing I’ve heard in over a decade)
3) Fall weather
4) Criterion Collection release of Rushmore (I know it came out a while ago, but I just got it)
5) Jon Stewart’s appearance on CNN’s Crossfire
Cari Crosby
(Media Relations & Marketing):
1) Disappointment in democracy
2) Shiraz
3) Organizing
4) Cooking
5) The Daily Show (as usual)
Shel Desormeaux
(Staff Contributor & Marketing):
1) Bed
2) The Grudge
3) The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
4) New York Pizza, Broadview at Danforth (Toronto)
5) Tiger Balm
Jennifer Halpern
(Staff Designer):
1) Early mornings
2) Mac OSX
3) Melanie Lyne
4) Office Gossip
5) Fitness One gym
Aaron Licht
(Staff Contributor):
1) Marius – my fresh baby nephew
2) Searching for a new place in downtown Toronto
3) Shaun of the Dead DVD
4) Stanley Kubrick’s first feature: The Killing (1956)
5) Enjoying as many gruesome Halloween-related events as possible.
Adam D. Miller
(Editor-in-Chief, Staff Contributor)
1) Calexico – World Drifts In: Live At The Barbican London
2) Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
3) Elliott Smith – From A Basement On The Hill
4) The Incredibles
5) Pizza
Brighid Mooney
(Staff Contributor):
1) from a basement on the hill – Elliott Smith
2) The Daily Show
3) The Simpsons
4) The Election
5) The Price of Eggs in China
Kid Spill
(Staff Contributor):
1) Mirah - C’mon Miracle
2) Escaping Toronto for southern California just as fall starts to tip towards winter
3) The peculiar fuckability of Jason Schwartzman
4) The band Better Than Everyone. Cause they are.
5) Bong sounds
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