HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!! WHAT OUR COUNTRY NEEDS IN PEOPLE LIKE THESE IN THE MEDIA THESE DAYS. Not some chicken shit reporters reading what corporations give them to read to placate the masses and scare us into voting for some retarded son of an asshole.
I know this is just a movie. But it is about real people and real events, and it makes you wonder where the media lost it's spine. These people fought against the sponsor and won. So could we if we tried. The fact that they used real footage of McCarthy is pretty cool and over all this was a great movie. i highly recomend it. it is soo choice.
4 out 5 taco sauce packets
Friday, March 31, 2006
Turk 182!
i barely remember this movie from when i was a kid. It is pretty shitty but pretty fun too. Not great but a decent 80's movie.
3 out 5 taco sauce packets
3 out 5 taco sauce packets
Masters of Horror: Cigarette Burns
This movie/episode rules! Someone decided to make a tv show where "masters of Horror" got to direct and episode on whatever they want. This episode is by John Carptenter and it is fantastic. It's kind of a spin on in the mouth of madness combidned with the better parts of the ninth gate. I was throughly entertained, and it was well acted.
4 out 5 tacosauce packets.
4 out 5 tacosauce packets.
Thursday, March 30, 2006
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
what level of hell are you?
The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Second Level of Hell!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
Take the Dante's Inferno Test
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
| Level | Score |
|---|---|
| Purgatory (Repenting Believers) | Low |
| Level 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers) | Moderate |
| Level 2 (Lustful) | High |
| Level 3 (Gluttonous) | High |
| Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious) | Low |
| Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy) | High |
| Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics) | Very Low |
| Level 7 (Violent) | High |
| Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers) | High |
| Level 9 - Cocytus (Treacherous) | Low |
Take the Dante's Inferno Test
Monday, March 27, 2006
ahh a glorious win over the goddmaned kings
fuck yeah 7-4 oh yeah !!! we moved up to 8th place in the west. it's going to be a hard road the next month. fuck yeah we're ready for it!!! go canucks go!
R.I.P. Stanislaw Lem
I was sorry to hear that Sci-Fi pioneer Stanislaw Lem passed away today. I have only partially read one of his books so im gonna go and finish it now probably. It is called solaris. They made some movies about it one turd with George clooney and one incredibly dull one by Andrei Tarkovsky neither i would say were terrific but they were both interesting.
anyway RIP Stanislaw Lem
anyway RIP Stanislaw Lem
Sunday, March 26, 2006
James Bond
So while recovering from last nights hijinx (which included meeting a dj from "jammin 95.5" at a cowboy bar, not my choice my best line was " oh really i listen to a lot of radio, satalite radio" that went over well, i am such a charming fellow after a night of drinking, and to top it off i had a shot, which just about garuntees i will be too drunk.) so after a night of line dancing and dirty looks in my new awesome phil esposito hockey jersey. i woke up to a terrible headache on the couch (don't ask me why, it must have seemed comfortable at the time) and my room mate power sanding outside about three feet from my head. yuck, anyway i turn on the tv and what is on but JAMES BOND marathon. fuck yeah, so i have been watching kick ass movie after kick ass movie and it made me feel much better by six pm. blech
i did have fun last night but i didn't make it over to my friend kendras house warming party, (that's good kendra that i used to work with at kennedy school, not evil kendra for those of you who might know the difference).
you can't be everywhere.
im off to bed.
i did have fun last night but i didn't make it over to my friend kendras house warming party, (that's good kendra that i used to work with at kennedy school, not evil kendra for those of you who might know the difference).
you can't be everywhere.
im off to bed.
Saturday, March 25, 2006
Friday, March 24, 2006
Indie Music...
Ok so im listening to the xm on the old school rap channel and this song comes on thats pretty good, so i look up the artist and i can't find the song on any of their albums, i go to the site that i get my music from and they only have the comercial albums, and as i reasearch deeper and deeper everyone says this song is the shiznit but no one knows how to get it. how irritating is that? At least the anthrax songs that were hard to get like friggin in the riggin were crappy so that when you heard them you didn't go oh i gotta get that that's hot, no these songs are known to be some of their best but difficult to find, so after hunting thru the blogsphere for long enough i finally found a place to dl it, i got to the point where i would have paid for it on itunes (if i didn't have all those free songs ;) ) but they didn't have it nor did anyone else. what good does that do? does it make the hardcore fans that much cooler cuz they have some cassette with it? that was the general concencus. yuck. well fuck you hieroglyphics and fuck you souls of mischief. put out a b-sides album. so that we can hear your good songs...
update...
after reading this it makes me sound like a grumpy old man. and DJ Quik came on the XM and i think that's more like it, then i realize this song came out like fucking fourteen years ago, and that kids today probably think of this like i thought of run dmc. wow im getting old. i'm a crochety old man that's not willing to dig thru the stacks anymore to find the songs that i want. so i'm a spoiled old man. damn. that's depressing.
update...
after reading this it makes me sound like a grumpy old man. and DJ Quik came on the XM and i think that's more like it, then i realize this song came out like fucking fourteen years ago, and that kids today probably think of this like i thought of run dmc. wow im getting old. i'm a crochety old man that's not willing to dig thru the stacks anymore to find the songs that i want. so i'm a spoiled old man. damn. that's depressing.
XM Tracker
I think i got my XM Tracker to finally work again, it had been bugging the shit out of me. So now it should actually say what song, who and on what channel i'm listening to when im using XM online. cool eh?
phew...
always make a backup is no bullshit, i was doing some remodeling here you can see some changes on the sidebar. and i seriously fucked things up. big time, thinking i was a smarty pants, luckily, thru my years of training i had made a back up before i started fiddling with things, and i was able to recover my good old template and merge it with the changes i had made to make the site better over all. my test with ads was a complete failure and it made my site look like shit, so i took them all out, adsense can go fuck itself.
so take heed ye who read this, back up often if you're fiddling with things you aren't sure about and even with things that you are sure about.
--sicky out
so take heed ye who read this, back up often if you're fiddling with things you aren't sure about and even with things that you are sure about.
--sicky out
new south park.
holy fucking shit they tore iaasic hayes a new asshole. wow, this episode is sooo damn funny. opie and anthony were talking about it on the repeat, and my roommate saw it over at the house jonelle is house-sitting at. So i dl'd it today and holy shit it's funny.
and the star wars reference makes me happy.
they really beat the shit out of the scientologists. which they deserve. because i think they're all assholes. especialy tom cruise. why won't you make top gun 2: electric goosaloo?
Ok, so drinking coffee and being sick and not sleeping aren't exactly good ideas, but wtf. i have tommorow off. i can sleep in all damn day if i want to.
and the star wars reference makes me happy.
they really beat the shit out of the scientologists. which they deserve. because i think they're all assholes. especialy tom cruise. why won't you make top gun 2: electric goosaloo?
Ok, so drinking coffee and being sick and not sleeping aren't exactly good ideas, but wtf. i have tommorow off. i can sleep in all damn day if i want to.
Thursday, March 23, 2006
King Arthur
i heard this movie was a turd too but luckily i didn't buy will got it from netflix, now what possesed him to get it i'll never know, but it is something new to watch and i never turn that down, well almost never. anyway this piece of revisionist garbage is about the "real" king arthur and it's a compelete turd, the only redeeming value is that keira knightly is really hot. however clive owen should be the high point but he's just not that great in this kind of historical role, its not his cup of tea. he should be in a gangster movie or something, he just kinda sticks out like a sore thumb. this movie sucks. dont watch it. unless your sick at home and someone wants to watch it. even then take a nap instead or read a book. you have plenty of them for fucks sake.
1 out 5 tacosauce packets.
1 out 5 tacosauce packets.
American Wedding
This movie was funny in the theater. I remeber a time when i didn't like teen comedies. I was too cool for them, i was embarresed to have even watched the first american pie. Well that was a long time ago, i embrase the fact that i enjoy crappy movies and this is no exception. It was a steaming turd, but soo funny. The stiffler dance off is the funniest thing in any of these three movies. oh and did i mention that this fills a glaring whole in my collection. oh yes one that has been burning for years now, i feel a bit vindicated.
3 out 5 dancing taco sauce packets
3 out 5 dancing taco sauce packets
Man-Thing
man this movie was a turd. i heard it was and i was expecting it to be a turd but it was really a turd. Man thing was hardely in it and it was much more like swamp thing than man thing, there was no fear created acid, it was really poorly acted and even the tits in it didn't make it worth watching. im sure glad that i payed money for this piece of shit. oh well you get what you pay for.
1/2 of a used taco sauce
1/2 of a used taco sauce
I'm sick
I am under the weather so on my way home i stopped by hollywood and picked up some cheap movies, so expect some reviews of crappy movies like vision quest one i just did.
also man-thing. yes the man thing marvels answer to swamp thing.
american wedding, and incident at loch ness.
i hate being sick. Boo fucking hooo.
now gonna read comic books and slip into a sick coma...
also man-thing. yes the man thing marvels answer to swamp thing.
american wedding, and incident at loch ness.
i hate being sick. Boo fucking hooo.
now gonna read comic books and slip into a sick coma...
vision quest
i have never seen this movie before, i thought it was pretty good for an 80's movie. I liked it for the fact that it was an eighties movie. Mathew modine was mostly a sympathetic character and you really did want him to win at the end. the girl was hot, but that didn't turn out the way you'd expect in an eighties movie, but that's okay.
the soundtrack was a great mix of eighties music, and that made the movie better. I want to watch full metal jacket again, mathew modine was good and maybe i should check out his other movies.
the soundtrack was a great mix of eighties music, and that made the movie better. I want to watch full metal jacket again, mathew modine was good and maybe i should check out his other movies.
Waiting...
So i have been hearing about this movie for a while and decided it was about time to watch it. Having worked in resturants for most of my employeement history, I'm a little picky about how things get portrayed in them. This movie got a lot of things right. Damn it was.
The quote "How the hell did you know that? You know this place people with the day off already know." hits the mark.
and all the different types of servers where hillarious, they have alot of stereotypes down. Its hillarious.
Dealing with the customers. the people who order a steak well done and complain about how long it took. or the bitchy complaining customer who just keeps fucking with the servers until the ultimate happens. The wannabe gangsta busboys. This movie was really funny.
but the best part of this movie was the cooks waiting to leave and the custies coming in like 3 minutes till closing. THE BEST, Thats how i felt every damn night when i used to close the kitchen. terrific.
The rapping busboys were fucking hillarious. just like a-ron wicked clown bitch!
3 out 5 tacosauce packets
i gave it that many for the reason that i don't think i would ever watch it again.
The quote "How the hell did you know that? You know this place people with the day off already know." hits the mark.
and all the different types of servers where hillarious, they have alot of stereotypes down. Its hillarious.
Dealing with the customers. the people who order a steak well done and complain about how long it took. or the bitchy complaining customer who just keeps fucking with the servers until the ultimate happens. The wannabe gangsta busboys. This movie was really funny.
but the best part of this movie was the cooks waiting to leave and the custies coming in like 3 minutes till closing. THE BEST, Thats how i felt every damn night when i used to close the kitchen. terrific.
The rapping busboys were fucking hillarious. just like a-ron wicked clown bitch!
3 out 5 tacosauce packets
i gave it that many for the reason that i don't think i would ever watch it again.
Wrestlemania 1
wow i rented this from netflix and i thought it was pretty amazing. I mean it was shitty but in a really good way. hulk hogan and mr. t vs rowdy roddy piper and mr wonderful bwas awesome. in a really shitty way. it was fun but im glad i rented it.
2 out 5 tacosauce packets.
2 out 5 tacosauce packets.
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
the ghost and mrs. Muir
i started watching this before breakfast today, and now im still watching it. It's good, im gonna netflix it. it's kinda cheesy and really old, but still its worth watching.
3 and a half salty sea tacosauce packets.
3 and a half salty sea tacosauce packets.
Saturday, March 18, 2006
Friday, March 17, 2006
Domino
I heard some mixed things about this movie. I liked it alot it was cool stylistic, well written, and actiony. I really liked it. oh and keira knightly is fuckin hot too.
3.5 out 5 tacosauce packets
3.5 out 5 tacosauce packets
V for Vendetta
i liked this movie. It wasn't perfect but it was entertaining and it got the point of the book across in an enteraitaing and violent way. Natalie portman kicked ass and hugo was good too.
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
my what a busy week.
totally swamped with work hardley any time to watch movies. i've been watching my dvd's of the '72 summit series and man it was a good series. all my hockey heros. playing against the evil russians. should have some time this weekend to watch some movies, oh and maybe pics from w-hawks game tonight.
Saturday, March 11, 2006
scanner party - the infamous blue bell
it's not really a party it's me sitting at my computer listening to my ex-girlfriends radio show on college radio in bellingham, being lame.
technorati tags: fat, high school
Jesus Christ:Vampire Hunter
No movie has ever made my mouth drop out of sure awe than this movie. It is hillarious and terrible all at the same time. It is deffanetly worse than Mattew Blackheart monster smasher, but also better. So Jesus comes back to earth to kill vampires because they are killing all the lesbians? Ponder that for a minute. The fight scenes are about as good as the chase scenes in an episode of Benny Hill. The musical numbers are way over the top and just too awesome to discribe. This movie is one of a kind.
3 out 5 taco sauce packets.
3 out 5 taco sauce packets.
Space Hunter
I can't figure out why i wanted to see this but for some reason it got bumped up to the top of my exclusive netflix movie queue. It was really pretty crappy and the only good part of this was molly ringwald and she wasn't that great.
barely 1 tacosauce packet out of five
barely 1 tacosauce packet out of five
R.I.P. Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion
He was an amazing player and he will be missed...
Bernie Geoffrion dead at 75
11/03/2006 11:03:42 AM
Legendary Montreal Canadiens forward Bernie (Boom Boom) Geoffrion has died at the age of 75.
CBC Sports
Bernie (Boom Boom) Geoffrion died early Saturday. His jersey is set to be retired prior to Saturday night's game in Montreal. (CP PHOTO/Paul Chiasson)
Word of his death came early Saturday, the exact date the Canadiens had set to raise Geoffrion's No. 5 to the rafters prior to their game against the New York Rangers at Bell Centre.
The Canadiens said the ceremony will go on as planned.
Earlier this week, Geoffrion assured Canadiens Alumni Association president Rejean Houle that his heath troubles wouldn't prevent him from attending the ceremony.
But on Thursday, Geoffrion's wife, Marlene, and daughter, Linda, had him admitted to a hospice in Atlanta, where the family lives.
One day later, son Danny Geoffrion described his father as entering "the last stage."
A tumour was discovered in Geoffrion's stomach during a check-up two weeks ago. Doctors operated, but found the disease had spread too much to be removed.
Geoffrion, who many view as the innovator of the slapshot, was the second player in NHL history - teammate Rocket Richard was the first - to score 50 goals in a season, in 1960-61. That same season he won the Hart Trophy as the NHL's most valuable player and the Art Ross Trophy as the league's leading scorer.
He also won the Art Ross Trophy in 1954-55.
Geoffrion was a three-time all-star in the Quebec Major Junior League with the Laval Nationale. He made an immediate splash in Montreal, winning the Calder Trophy as the rookie of the year in 1952, with 30 goals and adding 24 assists in his first season in the NHL.
He was a member of six Stanley Cup winners with the Canadiens, leading all players in the 1956-57 playoffs with 11 goals and 18 assists in just 10 games.
He retired in 1964. After coaching the Quebec Aces in the American Hockey League for two seasons, he came out of retirement in 1966 and played two seasons with the Rangers.
In a 16-year NHL career, Geoffrion compiled 393 goals, 429 assists, and 689 penalty minutes in 883 games. He played in the league's all-star game in all but five of those seasons.
Geoffrion was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1972.
He tried his hand at coaching, taking the helm of the expansion Atlanta Flames for two and a half seasons in the early 1970s. He even got to coach the Canadiens in 1979-80, but lasted only 30 games.
He suffered from stomach ulcers, which were exacerbated by his coaching stints.
Geoffrion's wife, three children and some grandchildren will be on hand for the ceremony in Montreal on Saturday night
Bernie Geoffrion dead at 75
11/03/2006 11:03:42 AM
Legendary Montreal Canadiens forward Bernie (Boom Boom) Geoffrion has died at the age of 75.
CBC Sports
Bernie (Boom Boom) Geoffrion died early Saturday. His jersey is set to be retired prior to Saturday night's game in Montreal. (CP PHOTO/Paul Chiasson)
Word of his death came early Saturday, the exact date the Canadiens had set to raise Geoffrion's No. 5 to the rafters prior to their game against the New York Rangers at Bell Centre.
The Canadiens said the ceremony will go on as planned.
Earlier this week, Geoffrion assured Canadiens Alumni Association president Rejean Houle that his heath troubles wouldn't prevent him from attending the ceremony.
But on Thursday, Geoffrion's wife, Marlene, and daughter, Linda, had him admitted to a hospice in Atlanta, where the family lives.
One day later, son Danny Geoffrion described his father as entering "the last stage."
A tumour was discovered in Geoffrion's stomach during a check-up two weeks ago. Doctors operated, but found the disease had spread too much to be removed.
Geoffrion, who many view as the innovator of the slapshot, was the second player in NHL history - teammate Rocket Richard was the first - to score 50 goals in a season, in 1960-61. That same season he won the Hart Trophy as the NHL's most valuable player and the Art Ross Trophy as the league's leading scorer.
He also won the Art Ross Trophy in 1954-55.
Geoffrion was a three-time all-star in the Quebec Major Junior League with the Laval Nationale. He made an immediate splash in Montreal, winning the Calder Trophy as the rookie of the year in 1952, with 30 goals and adding 24 assists in his first season in the NHL.
He was a member of six Stanley Cup winners with the Canadiens, leading all players in the 1956-57 playoffs with 11 goals and 18 assists in just 10 games.
He retired in 1964. After coaching the Quebec Aces in the American Hockey League for two seasons, he came out of retirement in 1966 and played two seasons with the Rangers.
In a 16-year NHL career, Geoffrion compiled 393 goals, 429 assists, and 689 penalty minutes in 883 games. He played in the league's all-star game in all but five of those seasons.
Geoffrion was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1972.
He tried his hand at coaching, taking the helm of the expansion Atlanta Flames for two and a half seasons in the early 1970s. He even got to coach the Canadiens in 1979-80, but lasted only 30 games.
He suffered from stomach ulcers, which were exacerbated by his coaching stints.
Geoffrion's wife, three children and some grandchildren will be on hand for the ceremony in Montreal on Saturday night
Tuesday, March 07, 2006
Bad News Bears (1976)
How did i never watch this movie? it was on KPTV like every damn saturday. It is freakin hillarious. Just for the stuff that flew back in the 70's martin landou has a beer in his hand in almost every scene, and the ones he doesn't he's pulling a cooler around full of it. This movie is funny and watching landou drunk is great.
3 out 5 taco sauce packets.
3 out 5 taco sauce packets.
Nowhere man
this show is pretty cool. It's pretty damn dated these days but it's still fun, you could tell that the producers like the prisoner alot. The fact that it was all shot in oregon doesn't hurt either.
2 out 5 taco sauce packets.
disc two was alittle better.
2.5 taco sauce packets
2 out 5 taco sauce packets.
disc two was alittle better.
2.5 taco sauce packets
Mission Hill
This movie has it's moments, sometimes its funny and sometimes its crap. The nerdy episode was the funniest when the brothers fight over the hot chick. and they go to a sci-fi con.
2 out 5 tacosauce packets
2 out 5 tacosauce packets
Holes
I never saw this movie in the theater but i heard that it was good. I didn't waste my time before. I watched it last night with will and its pretty good. It's not great but it brings to mind the fun disney live action movies of old. Like escape from witch mountain and something wicked this way comes. anyway some kid gets thrown into a work camp for supposedly stealing a pair of famous shoes, even though he didn't do it. blah blah blah. watch it if its on tv. or rent it if you want to see a decent movie, that as much fun for adults as it is for kids.
3.7 sweetwater/caveman packets.
3.7 sweetwater/caveman packets.
Monday, March 06, 2006
Ultra Violet
I love this movie. No one else does. Milla is super hot and really funny, she was on o&A this week and it was a good show. The expolsions were big and the fights were kick ass.
3 out 5 tacosauce packets.
3 out 5 tacosauce packets.
Sunday, March 05, 2006
Friday, March 03, 2006
i fucking h8 bush most of the time
New York Times article discussing President Bush's trip to the Indian subcontinent. There, he urged Americans to welcome global competition for their jobs. From the article: "Mr. Bush, reiterating a theme of his trip, strongly defended the outsourcing of American jobs to India as the reality of a global economy, and said that the United States should instead focus on India as a vital new market for American goods ... 'The classic opportunity for our American farmers and entrepreneurs and small businesses to understand is there is a 300 million-person market of middle class citizens here in India, and that if we can make a product they want, that it becomes viable,'"
how about we outsource fucking bush and hire some one with a fucking sliver of common sense. Does bush have any idea what he's saying???? How about we ship all the jobs over to india and then the rich business owners can produce products for them instead of americans WTF!!! AAARRRGGG how many years till this douche bag gets kicked out of office? fuck i cant wait. two more goddamn years of this bullshit. i hope the country makes it that long.
how about we outsource fucking bush and hire some one with a fucking sliver of common sense. Does bush have any idea what he's saying???? How about we ship all the jobs over to india and then the rich business owners can produce products for them instead of americans WTF!!! AAARRRGGG how many years till this douche bag gets kicked out of office? fuck i cant wait. two more goddamn years of this bullshit. i hope the country makes it that long.
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
oh this is good...
damn it it got cut off...
http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2006/20060301.jpg
damn thats funny
love me love my jets...
So this was on my favorite hockey blog. And they asked to link to it and pass it on. So Pass it on.
http://vancouvercanucksoped.com/2006/03/01/end-the-suffering-of-winnipeg-jets-fans-a-plea-to-vancouver/
Love Me, Love My Winnipeg Jets
L’Atelier national du Manitoba’s PLEA TO VANCOUVER
In Canada, the divide between the haves and the have-nots grows wider every day. We less-fortunate souls are continually left behind, downtrodden and ignored by you wealthy lot and all of your fanciness.
Consider the facts, dearest Vancouver! Think of how fortunate you are! Look at all you have: a winter Olympics that will surely embarrass the scope our 1999 Pan-Am Games; a majestic natural beauty that shames our ‘ugly-sister’ frozen prairie tundra; and, a mediocre NHL team that could handily outperform our mediocre NHL team…that is, if we still had one.
[Editor’s Note: The Canucks? Mediocre? Okay, we’ll just let that slide…]
Nowadays, all we Winnipeggers are qualified for in the realm of hockey is to hand-over our best minor-league Moose players to your Canucks (whilst opening our hearts and our arena to your on-ice rejects
But it wasn’t always this way. Once upon a time, we flew high! Our story is being told in a new feature-length documentary, Death By Popcorn: the Tragedy of the Winnipeg Jets. A compendium of Jets videographic history, the film is about as conventional as a Hawerchuck goal—but just as poetic. The movie has already skated circles around audiences in Winnipeg, Saskatoon and Whitehorse!
Synopsis: Peppered with action-packed cameos by Winnipeg All-Stars Dale Hawerchuk, Burton Cummings, Teemu Selanne, Billy Van and a recent interview with the man who sent the Jets straight into the jaws of death by throwing a cataclysmic box of popcorn onto the ice in Game 6 of the 1990 playoff series, Death by Popcorn follows our ill-fated team through their many travails with arch-enemies Wayne Gretzky and the Edmonton Oilers, soul-crushing NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and many other agents of Winnipeg annihilation. Sadness on ice!
To YOU, Vancouver, the nation of Winnipeg submits this PLEA:
Contact your local Art House movie theatres, and request that they show Death By Popcorn: the Tragedy of the Winnipeg Jets. Tears are not enough!
Pacific Cinémathèque
Jim Sinclair, Programmer: info@cinematheque.bc.ca
604-688-8202
Vancouver Film Centre
Mark Peranson, Programmer: mark@viff.org
604-685-0260
You can read here what the CBC has to say about the film.
Insignificantly yours,
ATELIER NATIONAL DU MANITOBA
atelier.national@gmail.com
http://vancouvercanucksoped.com/2006/03/01/end-the-suffering-of-winnipeg-jets-fans-a-plea-to-vancouver/
Love Me, Love My Winnipeg Jets
L’Atelier national du Manitoba’s PLEA TO VANCOUVER
In Canada, the divide between the haves and the have-nots grows wider every day. We less-fortunate souls are continually left behind, downtrodden and ignored by you wealthy lot and all of your fanciness.
Consider the facts, dearest Vancouver! Think of how fortunate you are! Look at all you have: a winter Olympics that will surely embarrass the scope our 1999 Pan-Am Games; a majestic natural beauty that shames our ‘ugly-sister’ frozen prairie tundra; and, a mediocre NHL team that could handily outperform our mediocre NHL team…that is, if we still had one.
[Editor’s Note: The Canucks? Mediocre? Okay, we’ll just let that slide…]
Nowadays, all we Winnipeggers are qualified for in the realm of hockey is to hand-over our best minor-league Moose players to your Canucks (whilst opening our hearts and our arena to your on-ice rejects
But it wasn’t always this way. Once upon a time, we flew high! Our story is being told in a new feature-length documentary, Death By Popcorn: the Tragedy of the Winnipeg Jets. A compendium of Jets videographic history, the film is about as conventional as a Hawerchuck goal—but just as poetic. The movie has already skated circles around audiences in Winnipeg, Saskatoon and Whitehorse!
Synopsis: Peppered with action-packed cameos by Winnipeg All-Stars Dale Hawerchuk, Burton Cummings, Teemu Selanne, Billy Van and a recent interview with the man who sent the Jets straight into the jaws of death by throwing a cataclysmic box of popcorn onto the ice in Game 6 of the 1990 playoff series, Death by Popcorn follows our ill-fated team through their many travails with arch-enemies Wayne Gretzky and the Edmonton Oilers, soul-crushing NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and many other agents of Winnipeg annihilation. Sadness on ice!
To YOU, Vancouver, the nation of Winnipeg submits this PLEA:
Contact your local Art House movie theatres, and request that they show Death By Popcorn: the Tragedy of the Winnipeg Jets. Tears are not enough!
Pacific Cinémathèque
Jim Sinclair, Programmer: info@cinematheque.bc.ca
604-688-8202
Vancouver Film Centre
Mark Peranson, Programmer: mark@viff.org
604-685-0260
You can read here what the CBC has to say about the film.
Insignificantly yours,
ATELIER NATIONAL DU MANITOBA
atelier.national@gmail.com
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