Sunday 24 August 2008

Newton Faulkner One NZ Show

Newton Faulkner is non your ordinary singer songwriter � as he sings, his old-soul voice dips from a gently captivating croon to a commanding roar full of longing and vividness. His playing surpasses

Thursday 14 August 2008

Fight Back Against High Gas Prices by Watching a Short Film About a Bike

How far would you ride your bike to visit a girl wHO may or may non want to see you? Tom Schroeder's adorable and funny animated 2000 short Bike Ride tells the seemingly childlike tale of a man�s 50-mile cycle journey to pay a surprise visit to his girlfriend. Schroeder�s line drawings illustrate both James Petersen�s freewheeling narration and Dave King�s makeshift jazz soundtrack. The consequence is a dreamlike, dizzying head trip. Now in its eighth year, The Bicycle Film Festival is a traveling showcase that journeys to seventeen cities to show films that celebrate the ability of bicycling �to transport us in many ways,� none of which cost $5 a gallon. �Bilge Ebiri







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Wednesday 6 August 2008