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9x5 – March 2004
Being There’s staff picks their favourites of the month.
Adam M. Anklewicz(Technical Director/Webmaster & Staff Contributor):
1) “Maybe Baby” by Buddy Holly & The Crickets
2) “Halo of Gold” by Beck
3) Unwillingness to ask Neko Case for an interview because she seems too annoyed by other interviewers.
4) “She Loves You” (any and all versions) by Peter Sellers
5) “A Child’s Claim To Fame” by Buffalo Springfield
Russell Bartholomee
(Staff Contributor & Associate Editor <New Music>):
1) Golden Ocean, 50 Foot Wave
2) Raging Bull Special Edition DVD
3) The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D’oh of Homer by William Irwin, Mark T. Conard, and Aeon J. Skoble
4) Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland
5) Movies about Gladiators, Bigamy Sisters
Cari Crosby
(Media Relations, Marketing, and Advertising):
1) Gamay Noir
2) The Jayhawks
3) Million Dollar Baby
4) Turning 24
5) Murphy Brown
Shel Desormeaux
(Staff Contributor & Associate Editor <Film & DVD>):
1) Ash. My man. He fuckin’ rules and forgets ALL THE TIME.
2) All of my girls. They know who they are.
3) Poached eggs and toast
4) Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
5) DMC floss
Lisa Hood-Anklewicz
(Staff Contributor)
1) Barbie dolls
2) Joel Plaskett
3) Setting plastic piggy banks on fire
4) Wishing I could carry a tune, but not letting that stop me from singing my way through the park.
5) Laughing
Aaron Licht
(Staff Contributor):
1) Mr. Show – The Complete Fourth Season
2) I Heart Huckabees (dir. David O. Russell)
3) It’s All Gone Pete Tong (dir. Michael Dowse)
4) Born Into Brothels (dir. Zana Briski & Ross Kaufman)
5) Douglas Sirk’s melodramas, Imitation of Life and All That Heaven Allows
Adam D. Miller
(Editor-in-Chief, Staff Contributor)
1) Million Dollar Baby (dir. Clint Eastwood)
2) Buena Vista Social Club Presents Manuel Guajiro Mirabal
3) The Friendly Thai (678 Yonge Street, Toronto. I recommend the Curry Pad Thai)
4) Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (dir. Michel Gondry)
5) Rough Dreams, Shivaree
Brighid Mooney
(Staff Contributor, Associate Editor <Books & Classic Music>):
1) Peter Sellers
2) Bill Hicks
3) Greg Proops
4) Stanley Kubrick films
5) Kind of Blue, Miles Davis
Zayne Reeves
(Staff Contributor):
1) Joe by Larry Brown
2) Costello & Nieve box set – Elvis Costello & Steve Nieve
3) Deadwood: The Complete First Season
4) Charley Varrick (it deserves the Criterion treatment, but I’ll settle for El Cheapo just to have it!)
5) Morgan Freeman in Million Dollar Baby
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