Before Tomorrow/Le jour avant le lendemain
March 27, 2009
While sis and I wait for the new Kate & Anna McGarrigle website to be up and running (end of next week) I’m including a link to a CBC review of the Canadian feature Before Tomorrow which opens today in Canadian theatres and in which we have some songs. I confess that when I saw the rushes for it last year so well did our music fit under the visuals that I cried at the end of this sad tale of Inuit struggling to survive after their encounter with Europeans and all that entailed. The film won a best feature award at the Toronto Filmfest last September and was shown at Sundance this past February.
BEFORE TOMORROW – CBC REVIEW Another review EYE WEEKLY
The songs used are “Why Must We Die” from MATAPEDIA and “Ce matin” from LA VACHE QUI PLEURE
the Mittenstrings
March 21, 2009
Neale Mcdavitt-Van Fleet has created a rather classy-looking website for fictional band
the Mittenstrings. Visit behind the scenes and see the making of the sitcom which was shot at Lily’s Drolet St flat in Petite-Patrie, Montréal. I wonder what union these little guys belong to..AFofM Foamcore division? I understand they are packed away in a box awaiting plans for a sequel.
How come nobody sees this stuff?
March 19, 2009
This caught my eye which in retrospect makes a lot of sense.
–”Eliot Spitzer, the former New York Governor who was set-up in a sex scandal to prevent him investigating Wall Street’s financial gangsterism, pointed out on March 17 that the real scandal is the billions of taxpayer dollars paid to the counter-parties of AIG’s financial deals. These payments, Spitzer writes, are “a way to hide an enormous second round of cash to the same group that had received TARP money already.”
I wonder who the new dictator is going to be..
From article on AIG Bail-Out Possible Scam? by Paul Craig Roberts.
Pete Seeger’s 90th birthday bash at MSG May 3 2009
March 19, 2009
It’s official. We’ve been asked to play Pete’s big bash. Alert! ‘Sean, your pink light is on!’*
We intend to be there unless we get turned back at the border.
* taken out of context, a bitchy comment by one airline steward to another (hannity?), once heard.
La vie en gris ou Le dilemme de Mme W.
March 17, 2009
These cartoons are so old they predate Brangelina and Pino who was a French dog hadn’t yet learned English.
Steinway Testimonial – Hector Berlioz
March 14, 2009
No doubt translated from the French, in 1867 the flowery but cranky Berlioz enthuses over the Steinway piano. Kate who is deep into Berlioz’s autobiography has been regaling me with anecdotes from his unhappy life in the ‘music biz’ (&in love) and assures me that nothing has changed in that regard. Plus a short video of harpists rehearsing for the Symphonie Fantastique. Filagree. 
crazy stuff
March 8, 2009
I was attempting to scan some old hand-painted slides and discovered this highway. Wonder where it goes.. what side of the road I should drive on.
Cirque du Soil
March 1, 2009
When Naan gets writer’s block (she’s a writer?) the carrots are her fallback. Those hardworking little roots have proven very popular and she was wise to exploit them when she did. Just a matter of time before some angry carrot relative turns up and claims them as kin.
Naantes
