immediately i see

I see suddenly the Happy Mondays references I have heard about the band. shoddy quality but now i want to see more of these guys.

WIDE AWAKE - THE TWANG

man i hate your band - little man tate

cute little behind the scenes of the hard working band just trying to ekk out a living.

Same Jeans - The View

generator the music to make you feel better.

So I am now going to centre this blog on anglophilia. I know it has been for a while but it's time to just embrace it. I might as well just get it over with.

So american tv shows in production that are british shows.

1. The Thick of It. The British show is an amazing satire on a the british government and one of it's offices. Created by Armando Iannucci who also did The Day Today and The Armando Iannucci Show (Just watched every episode amazing go on youtube and watch the clips especially Village Sniper). The American version of The Thick of It has Mitch Hurowitz is involved (Arrested Development). So it is going to be amazing and probably on the air for about a second. Will Arnett is also supposedly tied to it. This sounds amazing so spread the buzz now, god knows if this will ever happen.

2. The IT Crowd. Created by Graham Lineham who did Father Ted and Blackbooks. Good show, the laugh track can get to be too much though. Very standard sitcom but has a great cast including Richard Ayoade and Chris Morris and a guest appearance by Noell Fielding who I am growing more and more fond of. In short: AMAZING comedians. I really enjoy this show, so there is now an American version in the works. I can see this not working out too well. The best thing it has going for it is Richard Ayoade is going to in which is soooo bitter sweet because that means he isn't going to be in any more of the british version. Unless they filmed it already, which they might have because I believe the American version just went into production. Richard Ayoade is so cute, I wish I was working on that show.

You know what people are missing out on The Young Ones North Am. I have it all sorted out as an concept so I am not going to give you anymore hints so you can steal it, if you get me drunk though I will reveal entirely in mundane and painstaking detail.
I also have an idea for a Canadian version of an awesome British quiz show. What am I doing wasting my time at film school I should be wheeling and dealing.
Also what about Nathan Barley set in Montreal. I am just giving these away instead of just writing them in my new notebooks which I usually just jot quotes down in.

British Albums I am giving the once over

Little Man Tate - About What You Know
Bloc Party - A Weekend in the City
The View - Hats off to Buskers
The Rifles - No Love Lost
The Long Blondes - Someone to drive you home
and
The demos by The Twang on Myspace.

Lastly an open invite to anyone who wants to see the new Hugh Grant film, Music and Lyrics, on Feb 14.
And you know what else is going to be amazing the Brit Awards on CBC on february 15th. Russell Brand is hosting. Noel Gallagher told him is going to boo him. This is suppose to be the hippest Brits since, I guess 1996 which Jarvis Cocker danced across the stage while Michael Jackson sang.

If any of these facts are true that would be awesome I did minimal research and decided not too look anything up as I was writting them down. This is just the shit that circles in my noggin.

wine gum, envy, and pieces of rainbow

Spent a lot of time indulging in anglophilia yesterday. I know that is not news but I had the best time watching THE BIG FAT QUIZ of the YEAR 2006. If you have a lot of time to kill and don't mind wasting it on You tube I recommend it immensely. 3 teams of two being quizzed on the year in events.

Russell Brand (Big Brother Big Mouth and BBC2 radio presenter) and Noel Fielding (The Mighty Boosh)
vs.
David Walliams (Little Britain) and Rob Brydon (Tristram Shandy and various british tv)
vs.
Cat Deely (I'm not really sure, I think she might be the host of So You Think You Can Dance) and Jonathan Ross (talk show host)

Anyway very funny stuff, especially from Russell and Noel who played too cool to answer any questions correctly for most of it but the way Noel smiles when he says anything makes him impossible to hate. He could probably say something terribly malicious but his smile is so striking and sweet that it just does not matter.

"Ever notice that people who a really into jesus are not really good with anybody else" - Dylan Moran

Comedy Comedy Comedy .Mighty Boosh, Chris Morris, Russell Brand, Dylan Moran, Alan Davies and on and on and on.

It looks easy because it is so much fun. Ask the people who do it well they know it's hard those who don't think it's quite easy.


I've been watching a lot of comedy in spare time. I've never actually tried to write comedy. Seriously. I've toyed with concepts for sketches, like every one has. I have a concept or two for sitcom, but who doesn't. I love comedy from nonsensical hijinx of the mighty boosh to the dark and twisted minds of michael o'donoghue and chris morris to even the borish and obvious chevy chase. Love it all. Except jokes where people puke or get shit on them. I don't get shit jokes.

Anyway. I hate returning emails and I love it when Eric Roberts is in rap videos.

I think my fever is starting to break.

reebok classics and cannons at dawn, terrible warlord and good warlords and oh an english song.

JOY JOY JOY!!!!

This has made my month maybe year. My week has been filled with mishaps. I dropped and broke a glass butter dish, i fell flat on my face sober in Venus pizza in the middle of the afternoon, I missed my first class and went to the next one early in the morning which I found out was cancelled. Things in 2007 have been going less than adequately and also I have given up the booze which has made this the longest week of my life. But things are turning around and why? Because I sent and email to Russell Brand on his show and he read it. I like to think I am in.
It was just a quick little response to may december romances but still it was exciting. That it is why I prefaced it with all the sort of sagging shoulder tales that made up the week and think of it in the grander scheme of things of the beginning of this new year. I imagine by the end of this year I'll have lots of money and job security and living in London, or Toronto, or somewhere.
Not Montreal. Some one said to me, Why don't you go to Montreal?
I said, 'cos everyone goes there. '
She said, 'they go there because it is good. '
I said, 'lots of people go to American Apparel and so people are not to be trusted.'
anyway battery dying on the computer.