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| 8 x 5 Our contributors pick five things they're digging this month. |
8x5 – December 2004
Being There’s staff picks their favourites of the month.
Adam M. Anklewicz
(Technical Director & Staff Contributor):
1) The first good season of Star Trek since DS9 went off the air. Thank you Brannon Braga for stepping down.
2) iTunes Music Store Canada
3) Being torn between buying the Beatles' Capitol Records box set because it's Beatles or not because it's a useless product.
4) The Flashing Lights - Sweet Release
5) Being a lonely Jew at Christmas
Russell Bartholomee
(Staff Contributor & Associate Editor <New Music>):
1) Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose
2) Tanner '88 - Criterion Collection DVD
3) A Chistmas Story DVD
4) David Bowie: A Reality Tour concert DVD
5) Peter Gabriel: Play - the Videos DVD
Cari Crosby
(Media Relations & Marketing):
1) Desperate Housewives
2) Two thanksgivings
3) Eddie Izzard
4) Ken Jennings
5) The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Shel Desormeaux
(Staff Contributor & Associate Editor <Film & DVD>):
1) Five golden tea strainers
2) Four minutes to six PM
3) Three layer candles
4) Two fat purring cats
5) And a fruitcake no one but me will eat
Aaron Licht
(Staff Contributor):
1) Toronto's 8th Reel Asian International Film Festival
2) Malcolm McDowell in If... (1968) and O, Lucky Man! (1973)
3) Natalie Portman in Closer (2004)
4) Living on my own
5) Meeting someone new and exciting
Adam D. Miller
(Editor-in-Chief, Staff Contributor)
1) The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
2) Rufus Wainwright - Want Two
3) Otis Redding - Otis Blue
4) Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
5) Avoiding any Christmas music that was not produced by Phil Spector
Brighid Mooney
(Staff Contributor, Associate Editor <Books & Classic Music>):
1) Hitchcock Films
2) Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Shake The Sheets
3) Greg Proops - AudibleProops
4) Milky Ways
5) Pepperoni Pizza
Zayne Reeves
(Staff Contributor):
1) The I Hate Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, Sean Hannity... Reader
2) Norah Jones, Gillian Welch, and David Rawlings performing "Loretta" off Nora Jones & The Handsome Band - Live in 2004 DVD
3) Greg Trooper - Floating
4) Thomas Haden Church's performance in Sideways
5) A good egg, cheese & sausage bagel sandwich.
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