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The Whyte Movie · 6 November 08
A couple guys approached me well over a year ago and asked if they could use a few of my songs in a documentary about the Oiler’s Stanley Cup rush in 2006. The movie is called The Whyte Movie and this is what the film makers have to say about it:
“The WHYTE Movie pays homage to Edmontonians who came together to celebrate with each other and ultimately showed why Edmonton is still the City of Champions, a city where, in all aspects of its daily life, its people live, work, and play with a spirit and enthusiasm seldom seen anywhere else,” says Calgary filmmaker Daniel Sponagle, who directed the film.
In all, the movie features 18 songs, including eight Edmonton artists from Brock Skywalker and Captain Tractor to Paul Bellows and Whitey Houston.
“It is a fun-filled, delightful journey that highlights everything that is great about the city of Edmonton,” says Sponagle.
So, without any further fanfare, here is the portion of the movie that features a song I wrote with John Whytock – Blue Satin Jacket.
Thanks to Neil Evenson, who edited the film and sent me the link.
Nov 7th update – The Big Fall has been posted now too.
I don’t even want to think about what this could mean. At least they could have said whether it was plumbing or electrical… that would take some of the “yuck” out of it.
Nagging about religion isn’t so much like telling someone about to eat a piece of candy that it’s bad for their teeth as it is like telling someone about to drink a glass of juice that it’s bad for their shpedaddle.
My buddy Ben Sures sent me an email the other day:
would you vote for me at www.jlsc.com/vote? i have a one in two chance of winning a big publishing advance from EMI and thus increasing my profile and thus making me a more useful act to you!! the voting starts wednesday.
I voted like crazy yesterday and I urge you all to do the same. Visit the site, click on the ‘folk’ box and vote for Ben Sures – “Any Precious Girl”. Contest runs between March 15 and April 26.
If you are looking for me after 6:15pm today, try the corner of Spadina and Queen.
I’ll be the guy with a street dog in one hand and a ROM guide in the other! Woohoo!
I return to snowy Edmonton late Sunday night.
Freaky advocates of “family values” suddenly have a good reason to love gay cowboys.
Among the movies up for this year’s Oscar – best picture award, “Brokeback Mountain” looks rather sissy when judged by FamilyMediaGuide.com, which gives out grades to movies, video games and TV shows based on the amounts of profanity, sex, violence and smoking they depict.
“Crash” contains 182 swear-words compared to only 92 curses in “Brokeback Mountain.” If “Crash” wins the best picture Oscar it will be the third most profane winner ever. The other two sweary-films being “Platoon” (329 expletives) and “The Deer Hunter” (208 cusses).
“Munich” is the most violent, “Good Night, and Good Luck” is the most smoky, and “Brokeback” is the most sexy (“Crash” comes a close sexy second).
It is interesting to note that FamilyMediaGuide.com also claims all five nominees contain 45% less sex and 31% less profanity but a 65% increase in violence and 313% rise in tobacco use from last year’s top 5.
I don’t know where they are, what they are all doing together, or even who the lady in the middle is, but I do know that none of them look happy to be there. What unhappy occassion could have brought these two Georges together? Does George W actually think Reagan’s ‘Star Wars’ program involved Lucas in some way? Does anyone know? Please tell me!
Interesting addendum – George Lucas on declaring that the Force is with the Democrats: “The emperor works behind Darth Vader, he doesn’t actually stand in front. I say that in fear of getting hit with a lot of buckshot.” (Rush & Molloy)
Riding the coat tails of the wildly successful film Brokeback Mountain, we encountered the oh so predictable Top Gun 2: Brokeback Squadron (we always knew Tom and Val "flew that way"). But now finally, a real love story for all the geeks out there, they bring you the touching tale: Broke Mac Mountain. And no, it is not a "gay geeks" movie. It is much deeper than that. Much deeper and sadder.
