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8x5 – February 2004
Being There’s staff picks their favourites of the month.
Adam M. Anklewicz
(Technical Director/Webmaster & Staff Contributor):
1) Kosher marshmallows (they’re vegetarian)
2) Matt Mays’ self-titled album
3) New Battlestar Gallactica series… and it’s not crap like the original
4) New Doctor Who series… hopefully it’ll live up the original.
5) Doctor Who: Lost In Time DVD set – episodes with Patrick Troughton I haven’t seen!
Russell Bartholomee
(Staff Contributor & Associate Editor <New Music>):
1) The Office – The Complete Collection DVD
2) Starflyer 59 – I Am The Portuguese Blues
3) Soul Junk - 1956
4) Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland
5) Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid
Cari Crosby
(Media Relations, Marketing, and Advertising):
1) Hitchcock films
2) Nellie McKay
3) Saving up for my big move
4) My new mobile phone
5) Ethiopian food
Shel Desormeaux
(Staff Contributor & Associate Editor <Film & DVD>):
1) Spinach and feta cheese anything
2) Chocolate
3) House (the series)
4) My snazzy iTunes Music Store gift certificate
5) My snazzy new electric blanket
Aaron Licht
(Staff Contributor):
1) The Woodsman (dir. Nicole Kassell)
2) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: Special Extended Edition
3) The Tenant (dir. Roman Polanski)
4) The Magnetic Fields - I
5) Modigliani at the Art Gallery of Ontario
Adam D. Miller
(Editor-in-Chief, Staff Contributor)
1) Hitchcock films
2) Nellie McKay – Get Away From Me
3) Shivaree – Who’s Got Trouble?
4) The Book Of Illusions by Paul Auster
5) KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic
Brighid Mooney
(Staff Contributor, Associate Editor <Books & Classic Music>):
1) New Years Eve at Cobb’s in San Francisco
2) Absolutely Fabulous
3) Fawlty Towers
4) Pinstripes
5) New Year’s goals
Zayne Reeves
(Staff Contributor):
1) Steve Forbert – Mission Of The Crossroad Palms
2) A Right To Be Hostile: The Boondocks Treasury by Aaron McGruder
3) William Shatner – Has Been
4) Chronicles Volume One by Bob Dylan
5) Cate Blanchett as Katherine Hepburn in The Aviator
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