Mark Vistorino is Flyerman, a real life superhero who possesses the ability to hand out movie extra flyers in the streets of Toronto with the flair & charisma of a Broadway star. And yet, he can’t understand why he is not famous.
From this seemingly absurd premise, directors Jeff Stephenson and Jason Tan follow Vistorino through five years of his life; in the process revealing one of the most engaging and self-destructive personalities that you are ever likely to meet.

Probably the only venue that my musical efforts are worthy of entertaining at this point, this weekend saw the exclusive Facebook premiere of the long time coming 5 track demo of First Child: Looping Through the Array. If you are on the Book, then please feel free to join the group. Otherwise, you can download the tracks here:A Love This Strong (intro)
Unleashed
Collide
The Autumn Days of Disco
Julia Sets

As an update to my writeup about William Gibson at the CBC Book Club, the podcast of the event has been posted over at Studio One for your listening pleasure.

One of the most beautiful pieces of film I have seen since…well, probably the last video I saw by Sigur Ros… check out this trailer for Heima, a documentary that follows the band as they play various gigs throughout their home country of Iceland.

From the Digital Collection Project at Interactive Publishing:
“This collection of screen shots from over 250 news sites around the world was taken on Sep 11 and 12, 2001. We hope the archive will serve the education of the online news industry and further its quality. Our logs tell us that it also has helped historians, researchers, students, teachers, journalists and many others.”

A bit last minute — the result of disappearing for a week in a half into cottage country– but Dawn Landes, who was featured here a few months back with her bluegrass take on Peter, Bjorn and John’s Young Folks, is just wrapping up a week-long tour with one of my current favourite bands, Midlake, so if you have an opportunity to get out to see them, it is sure to be a really great show.
Sept 9 – Paradise Rock Club – Boston, MA Sept 11 – Grog Shop – …

William Gibson’s stretched stooped figure curls over book and microphone under yellow lights that hang like a field of beauty salon hair dryers before an unlit neon sign tracing out the words Studio One on a wall deep within the bowels of the CBC. He has just returned from touring in the States and Europe, hitting a dozen cities in twice as many days while promoting his new novel, Spook Country. He is honed at this point. Listening to him read, you realize that this is how his writing is …