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10x5 – May 2005
Being There’s staff picks their favourites of the month.
Adam M. Anklewicz
(Technical Director/Webmaster & Staff Contributor):
1) Space’s teaser in front of every episode of Stargate “Who’s your daddy?!?!”
2) “A Taste of Complete Perspective” by Elevator
3) “Cut Out The Wick” by Elevator Through
4) “Backteeth” by Elevator to Hell
5) “Song for Julie/Smother” by Eric’s Trip
Russell Bartholomee
(Staff Contributor & Associate Editor <New Music>):
1) Guero, Beck
2) Criterion Collection release of Akira Kurosawa’s Kagemusha
3) Haiku by Dionysus
4) This Is Spinal Tap
5) Campari and soda
Cari Crosby
(Media Relations, Marketing, and Advertising):
1) Nice weather, finally
2) Woody Allen
3) The Office (original version)
4) The audio commentary on Sideways
5) Moving downtown!
Shel Desormeaux
(Staff Contributor & Associate Editor <Film & DVD>):
Shel is on leave for May. But fear not, she will return!
Lisa Hood-Anklewicz
(Staff Contributor)
1) My iPod and its playlists
2) Interpretations
3) Spring
4) Oriignal Sinsuality Tour bootlegs
5) Mary Magdalene
Aaron Licht
(Staff Contributor):
1) Sin City
2) Quest for Fire (dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud)
3) Finishing up my film degree
4) Visiting my brother on Vancouver Island
5) Hot Docs: Toronto’s Documentary Film Festival
Adam D. Miller
(Editor-in-Chief, Staff Contributor)
1) The Forgotten Arm, Aimee Mann
2) Sleeper (dir. Woody Allen)
3) Picaresque, The Decemberists
4) Devils & Dirt, Bruce Springsteen
5) The Office (UK version)
Brighid Mooney
(Staff Contributor, Associate Editor <Books & Classic Music>):
1) Woody Allen movies
2) Lolita
3) Ambient pop
4) Fantasy Baseball
5) Deadwood
Zayne Reeves
(Staff Contributor):
1) Bubba Ho-Tep
2) One Moment More, Mindy Smith
3) The Duel, Alison Moorer
4) The Shield
5) Kindness
Nathan Williams
(Staff Contributor):
1) Every last frame of Fanny and Alexander
2) The Troublemaker, Willie Nelson
3) Lucas’s last non-experimental film
4) Sculpting in Time by Andrei Tarkovsky
5) Baseball
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