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Friday
26Feb2010

Open Letter To all ET’s From a Fed up Earthling

 

Dear ET’s,

A professional athlete apologizes to the world for the indiscretions most men would kill to enjoy given half a chance to walk in his shoes for a day.  With nuclear proliferation becoming a significantly real possibility it’s no wonder that what’s troubling most people is the latest engineered scandals surrounding American Idol.   People go to jail in China for trying to speak freely, warlords in Africa spend money on guns and ammunition to subdue starving populations, American citizens are flying planes into IRS buildings and yet Canadians are the bad guys for respecting the rights and traditions of an indigenous people to hunt seals.  If these aren’t the signs of an impending apocalypse I don’t know what would classify as such.

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Friday
29Jan2010

The Loving Dead

Sometimes life gets so hectic that we forget that it gets that way for just about everybody.  We take for granted that we aren't alone in our miscommunications and relationship hiccups.  Adam Pike's short film The Loving Dead (2007, 12min) really illustrates that things can get complicated for the most simplest of creatures...yep even zombies got it bad.  In his film two newly undead have trouble figuring out love, relationships, and their place in the scheme of undead living.  Needless to say this makes for a lot of miscommunication and incredibly creepy laughs.  But, what you wouldn't expect is that this quirky movie would relate to that bigger picture in life.  Once you strip down the zombie make up and overall weirdness of intestine eating, you find that maybe you got more in common with these zombies than you initially anticipated.   

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