The High Llamas – “Sun Beats Down”

Playlist March 30th

TED LEO & THE PHARMACISTS The Unwanted Things (Living with the living)
THE HIGH LLAMAS the Old Spring Town (Can Cladders)
RICHARD SWIFT Kisses For the Misses (Dressed up for letdown)
LAMEXCUSE Another Giveaway (All important little things)
THE TROUBLE WITH SWEENEY The City Let Me (Fishtown Briefcase)
SMOG Cold Blooded Old Times (Knock Knock)
THE LADYBUG TRANSISTOR Everybody’s Missing the Sun (Here comes the rain EP)

Food Pets Die For: Ann Martin

This morning the Friday Morning After spent the show discussing the US war on activism and the resulting massive Menu Foods pet food recall. 1000s of pets will die due to an unregulated industry that owns the government to such a degree, it has the government lock up any opposition to their bottom line.

Ann Martin has investigated what actually goes into commercial pet food. The results are surprising. Ann discussed her books, “Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food” & “Protect Your Pet: More Shocking Facts“, as well as the tragic Menu Foods recall.

mp3 of Ann Martin Interview is HERE

Alka Chandna from PETA

This morning the Friday Morning After spent the show discussing the US war on activism and the resulting massive Menu Foods pet food recall. 1000s of pets will die due to an unregulated industry that owns the government to such a degree, it has the government lock up any opposition to their bottom line.

Alka Chandna is a Senior Researcher at PETA and speaks about Menu Foods’ past, an unregulated industry where everyone has blood on their hands and more…Did Menu Foods hold back the recall so two weeks of evidence could be thrown away by consumers?

Visit Peta.org

mp3 of Alka Chandna Interview is HERE

Andrea Lindsay of SHAC7

This morning the Friday Morning After spent the show discussing the US war on activism and the resulting massive Menu Foods pet food recall. 1000s of pets will die due to an unregulated industry that owns the government to such a degree, it has the government lock up any opposition to their bottom line.

The SHAC7 are 6 activists and a corporation, Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty USA Inc., that have been found guilty of multiple federal felonies for their alleged role in simply campaigning to close down the notorious animal testing lab, Huntingdon Life Sciences. The six individuals are all currently in federal prison. They are not accused of actually smashing windows, liberating animals or even attending demonstrations, rather reporting on and encouraging others to engage in legal demonstrations and supporting the ideology of direct action.

Andrea Lindsay is the spokesperson for the Shac7, a group of animal rights activists put in prison for trying to expose the crimes at Huntingdon Research Lab.

Please visit www.shac7.com for more info.

Note for mp3: This mp3 contains audio from a CNN report regarding Chiquita Banana Terrorism in Colombia to highlight the pure hypocrisy of the “war on terror” & the “war on activism”

mp3 of Andrea Lindsay Interview is HERE

Part 3: We Will Force You to be Free, by Adam Curtis

“The Trap: What Happened To Our Dream of Freedom?” is a three-part series of films written and directed by BAFTA-winning producer Adam Curtis, explaining the origins of our contemporary, narrow idea of freedom.

Episode 1, “F**k You Buddy“, will show how a simplistic model of human beings as self-seeking, almost robotic, creatures led to today’s idea of freedom. This model was derived from ideas and techniques developed by nuclear strategists during the Cold War. It was then taken up by genetic biologists, anthropologists, radical psychiatrists and free market economists, until it became a new system of invisible control.

Episode 2, “The Lonely Robot“,  tells the story of how, in the 1990s, politicians from both right and left tried to apply an idea of freedom modelled on the freedom of the market to all other areas of society.

Behind it was a scientific model of ourselves as simplified robots, rational calculating beings whose behaviour and even feelings could be predicted by numbers. Out of this came today’s systems of management – from performance targets to the new categories of mental disorder, and reading the genetic codes buried inside us.

In Episode 3 entitled “We Will Force You to Be Free“, the program suggested that following the path of negative liberty to its logical conclusions, as governments have done in the West for the past 50 years, resulted in a society without meaning populated only by seflish automatons, and that there was some value in positive liberty in that it allowed people to strive to better themselves. The closing minutes hinted that instead of seeking either positive liberty, with its coercive undertones leading to tyrrany, or negative liberty, with its selfish undertones leading to meaninglessness, a balance could perhaps be achieved, or that positive liberty could in fact be employed in our societies without resulting in violence and coercion.
Part 3, “We Will Force You to be Free” (Real Player Video) is HERE

Part 2, “The Lonely Robot” (Real Player Video) is HERE

Part 1, “F**k You Buddy” (Real Player Video) is HERE

LCD Soundsystem – “New York I Love You But…”

$20 Bucks

Film Critic of FFDPM

The 2nd Annual Montreal Human Rights Films Festival

(Festival de films sur les droits de la personne de Montreal FFDPM) will run from March 23 to 29, 2007, at the Cinema du Parc in Montreal, during Action Week
Against Racism (AWAR).

LE PORTEUR D’EAU

Canada, 2006, 52 min, doc, v.o. français, s.-t. anglais
Réal./Dir., Mont./Ed., Camera : Pascal Gélinas
Prod. : Office National du Film du Canada
Musique/Music : Jean Saint-Onge
Narration : Jacques Languirand

While the West is battling it out with Islam, as bombs and killings break a fragile peace, this film follows the efforts made by the men and women of Florès Island in
Indonesia, to re-invent their daily lives after 32 years of dictatorship. Amongst them, we find a Canadian, Gilles Raymond, in search of a code of ethics where action coincides with words. Through the simple quest for clean running water, Catholics and Muslims work together to instill a direct democracy and sustainable autonomy. Beyond money, beyond religion and politics, this film reminds us that all men are born brothers.Ok, I’m a documentary filmmaker myself and as I always said, for those of you who know me, documentary doesn’t have to be boring when it explores serious subject matters. In fact, a good documentary has to hock its’ audience with more than just delivering the concern of the information or the message that is trying to get cross. Unfortunately this doc is too boring. The subject matter is interesting but the way the filmmaker has explore the story is far from attractive, not only visually but also the pasting of the story telling. The beauty of documentary filmmaking is to bring the attention of the mass to a subject matter that is being neglected by the mass media. It is about the lives of ordinary people and their extraordinary journey. However, the challenge is to tell it in away that would be interesting enough to sit down and watch it from the beginning to the end. I watch most movies from the beginning to the end just to make sure that I don’t judge it too soon.  But, this doc was too painfully boring for me to watch it till the end. So, my final verdict is run away from this doc unless you want to take a nap at the theatre.   

However, what I recommend to you as must see is the short films at the FFDPM.  Some of my favorites:

EXIT

[France, 2005, 8 min 28, animation, v.o. français , s.-t. anglais]

Réal./Dir. : Xavier Aliot, Florian Bestel, Nicolas Chombart et Guillaume Roux

Compétition Prix court-métrage

A doctor and an insane patient give their points of view on the world during a drawing exercise. In the end, who makes more sense?

Projection : VENDREDI 23 MARS : 19H00 SALLE (THEATRE) 1 & MERCREDI 28 MARS SALLE (THEATRE) 1

SUR LA LIGNE (Border Shop)
Canada, 2006, 15 min, fiction, v.o. français, anglais, s.-t. français
Réal./Dir.,Scén./Scr. :FrédéricDesagerCompétition Prixcourt-métrage End of summer 2000, somewhere in
Quebec. Two young native brothers are watching a gripping report on television about the conflict that opposes fishermen from the native community to federal agents from the Fisheries and Oceans Department. Furious, the older brother decides to install a barricade on the road leading to the entrance to the reservation. The first car that shows up is one with two young French tourists who want to spend part of their honeymoon in immersion in a First Nation community. The Natives speak English, the French speak French and what seems at the beginning to be a funny misunderstanding will rapidly degenerate, especially after the arrival on the scene of a native policewoman and a
Quebec provincial agent.

DON QUICHOTTE À JÉRUSALEM (Don Quixote Be’Yerushalayim)

[Israël, 2005, 5 min, fiction, sans dialogue]

Réal./Dir., Scén./Scr. : Dani Rosenberg

Compétition Prix court-métrage

Don Quixote and Sancho Pancha arrive in Israel in the year 2005. They reach a hill on the Jerusalem , by-pass a road overlooking the wall which divides Israel and the Palestinian Authority. They inspect their target. The two men are already in their 70’s. Quixote is having difficulties mounting his horse and Sancho struggles with his tools. But Don Quixote is determined to attack.

Projection : LUNDI 26 MARS : 21H30 SALLE (THEATRE) 1

Playlist March 23th

LCD SOUNDSYSTEM New York I love you but… (Sound of Silver)
BETTY DAVIS If i’m in luck i might get picked up (LP)
SHAWN LEE Francoise Hardy (Voices and Choices)
HOTBOX Spit that murder (Frostbite)
SPOON Was it you (Fast Food nation Soundtrack)
CRASH TEST TAURUS 3 fillettes blondes ouvrent le bal (the name is an anagram)
THE EARLIES When the wind blows (The enemy chorus)
DALMINJO Wouldn’t wanna go without you (One day you’ll dance for me Tokyo !)
ARIZONA Some kind of chill (Welcome back dear children)

Maxime Robin – “Carlos (my name is not)”

Redeye – Co-op Radio: Military Recruiters Target First Nations Youth

As heard on the March 23, 2007 show:

Summary: The ad reads “Bold Eagle is a unique summer training and employment program that combines military training and Aboriginal cultural awareness”. It’s aimed at First Nations youth and its goal is to get them to join the army.

Link to mp3

Redeye – Co-op Radio: New Law to Disenfranchise 1000s of Canadian Voters

As heard on the March 23, 2007 show:

Bill C-31 makes critical changes to the Elections Act that will do away with provisions allowing the most marginalized members of society to vote. It will also give political parties access to the date of birth of everyone on the voter’s list.

Link to mp3

Damian Marley ft. Nas – “Road To Zion”

The Lonely Robot – Part 2 of “The Trap”

“The Trap: What Happened To Our Dream of Freedom?” is a three-part series of films written and directed by BAFTA-winning producer Adam Curtis, explaining the origins of our contemporary, narrow idea of freedom.
Adam Curtis continues his series of films explaining the origins of our contemporary, narrow and limited idea of freedom.

This episode tells the story of how, in the 1990s, politicians from both right and left tried to apply an idea of freedom modelled on the freedom of the market to all other areas of society.

Behind it was a scientific model of ourselves as simplified robots, rational calculating beings whose behaviour and even feelings could be predicted by numbers. Out of this came today’s systems of management – from performance targets to the new categories of mental disorder, and reading the genetic codes buried inside us.

Part 2, “The Lonely Robot” (Real Player Video) is HERE

Part 1, “F**k You Buddy” (Real Player Video) is HERE

Montreal Human Rights Film Festival

The 2nd Montreal Human Rights Film Festival (Festival de films 

sur les droits de la personne de Montreal (FFDPM) runs from 

March 23 to 29, 2007, at the Cinema du Parc. 

This year’s official spokesperson is activist filmmaker Hugo Latulippe.

 The second annual FFDPM uses cinema to promote awareness and 

respect For human rights and fundamental freedoms. 

Short and feature-length fiction and documentary films will be 

shown on the big screen. 

The festival will open with Bamako, directed by Mauritanian 

filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako and distributed in Quebec by 

Remstar (Jury Prize at the 2006 Carthage Film Festival; 

Coup de Coeur du public at the 2006 Festival Lumieres d'Afrique  

in Besaneon; Grand prix du public at the 2006 Festival Paris Cinema;

Out-of-Competition Official Selection, 2006 Cannes Film Festival).

Founded by Images Interculturelles, the festival continues in the

same vein as the film program presented for six years during 

Action Week Against Racism (AWAR). 

For more info visite: http://www.ffdpm.com 

SARA’S FILM RECOMMENDATION

East is East (England, 1999) 

Directed by: Damien O’Donnell

Writing credits: Ayub Khan-Din (play), Ayub Khan-Din (screen play)                    

Staring: Om Puri, Linda Basset, Jordan Routledge   Genre:Comedy /Drama                                                                                                                      Plot Outline: In 1971Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways. But his children, with an English mother and having been born and brought up in Britain, increasingly see themselves as British and start to reject their father’s rules on dress, food, religion, and living in general.         

Documentary Film: What is INDIE?

After finishing off 2006 with the announcement that the film had been licensed to the National Film Board of Canada, Montreal-produced documentary film What is INDIE? will have its first local screening of 2007 on Thursday, April 5th at the famed Empress Cultural Centre (5560 Sherbrooke Street W.) in NDG. The evening will also feature live music performances by local NDG artists Scott MacLeod, Tristan Tondino and Josane Brunelle of MacLeod 9 and Rob Lutes. 

Entrance to the event will be free, and will be hosted by artist Scott MacLeod, who has been working as a professional artist since 1987 as a musician, photographer, painter and now filmmaker. Scott will join Dave Cool for a Q & A session and discussion following the screening to talk about the changing music industry and the opportunities for independentartists:  The free screening at the Empress will give local artists a chance to see a film that will hopefully inspire and empower them, as well as discuss how the music industry is changing and what affect it is havingon their own careers. – Dave Cool, Director,What is INDIE? The event will start at 8PM and is sponsored by the McAuslan Brewery, a local brewery with the same diy and indie philosophy that the evening hopes to encourage. What:Screening of documentary film What is INDIE? Performances By Scott MacLeod and Rob Lutes 

Where: Empress Cultural Centre (5560 Sherbrooke Street W.)  

www.empressndg.org  

514. 885. 2846 – 514. 481. 6277  

When:Thursday, April 5th, 8PM 

Cost:FREE!

25th INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF FILMS ON ART

The 25th International Festival of Films on Art runs until March 18th. 

The International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA) celebrates its 25th year honouring the world’s greatest artistic achievements, past and present. With works of photographer David Lachapelle; the tragic story of the Giant Buddhas of Afghanistan; the dark thrillers of James Ellroy; the Malian music of Habib Koité and narrative of puppet-master Yaya Coulibaly urging harmony between cultures; nude models, who finally have the chance to express themselves; the deeply moving poetry of Léo Ferré; the secrets of Marc Lévy, P.D. James, Mary Higgins Clark, Douglas Kennedy and Ken Follett, who write novels that people want to read; and the fabulous adaptation of Carmen by Czech choreographer Jiri Kyliàn for a group of dancers all past the age of 40. 

Take the opportunity to Watch some of the best art movies by both Canadian and foreign filmmakers, Choose from over 275 films from 25 countries,  and Participate in Exchanges and networking forums. 

> Full schedule

Theatre/ Dance/ Art-Rium

L’Affaire Porc-Épic / Theatre

 L’Affaire Porc-Épic with François Brochu, Jeanne Dompierre, Leïla Louchem and Edith Fanny Morin. Text by Geneviève Baril, produced by Stéphane Jaques, stage design by Sonia Léontieff. March 13, 14, 18, 19, 20, and 21 at 8:30 pm. $12. O Patro Výš. 356 Mont-Royal E.

 

 

Uu homme et une femme / Dance

 

A two-person show featuring Dominique Porte and Alain Francoeur, choreographed to the vibrant musical landscape of Bluebeard’s Castle by Béla Bartók. From March 20 to March 24 at the Agora de la danse. Agora de la danse. 840 Cherrier.  

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Pepin’s “ART-RIUM”

 

Hotel Nelligan presents an exposition of works by
Montreal artist Lysanne Pepin as part of its “ART-RIUM” series. This exclusive vernissage, Criollos, is based on the movement of horses and pays tribute to its namesake, a breed of noble Patagonian horses. Hotel Nelligan. 106 St-Paul W.