Skirts On Fire

April 5, 2009 – Triage: Dr James Orbinski’s Humanitarian Dilemma

I saw this documentary at the Global Visions Film Festival last November.  It follows Dr. Orbinski’s trip back to Somalia, Rwanda and Goma 15 years after he was there with Doctors Without Borders.  This isn’t a happy movie but it’s an eye-opening one.

You can see this movie on Sunday at 2pm at the Stanley A Milner library for a whopping $0.  The NFB Film Club shows a variety of Canadian movies about once a month and you can borrow copies through the EPL.

Also worth checking out: Cinema at the Centre

Rolled.

Thanks to Greg.

Apartment spider!

Acceptable spider size < 1 cm.

Which led to philosophical musings on whether my peers would squish me if I was larger?!? ack! (aside: man, I love ack, did I learn this from Brenna??)

Which led to issues with uploading pics to Twitter in attempt to be witty

Which led to me wondering how to post to blog via iPhone as spider pic was on said iPhone

Which led to iPhone app that I couldn’t get to work

Which led to some very poor guess and test troubleshooting

Which led to changing my blog’s url

Which led to my blog being busted ohgodohgodohgod

Which led to panicky googling

Which led to adventures in databases

Which led to everything being ok except no iPhone blogging still and no getting to sleep early >: (

The Fifth Estate: The Code

Exploring the debate on fighting in hockey.  Contains Don Cherry, of course.

http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/2008-2009/the_code/

CBC Online Docs – Shock Wave

Things you should watch: http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/doczone/2009/shockwave/index.html

But not three weeks before going to Vancouver >: (

CBC or I must be getting old(er)

I feel like I’ve wasted 28 years of my life.  Well, at least, 25.  It’s only recently that I’ve discovered just how fantastic CBC can be.  Newsworld docs might be a reason to keep my cable once my two month freebie is done.

Here’s a link to DocZone, where if you live in Canada, you can watch full length films online.

http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/doczone/index.html

You can also follow DocZone on twitter here: http://twitter.com/DocsCBC

This new Chris Cornell album.

http://www.chriscornell.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scream_(Chris_Cornell_album)

Not bad.  Although I did go in with open ears as I had heard I shouldn’t expect anything remotely close to Soundgarden and his previous works.  I’m pretty sure that Timbaland and Chris Cornell were hanging out one day and Timbaland dared Chris Cornell to eat Kanye West.  This album is the result.

Mar 11, 2009 – DemoCamp

U of A, ETLC, E1-013
6:30pm-8:30pm

the wiki
the facebook group
the blog

Mar 10, 2009 – Johnny Feelgood at Brixx