Shipwrckd Travels

If I were stuck on a desert island, these some things I'd bring…

Year: 2012

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Moonrise Kingdom – Trailer 1

I hated overnight camp.  I  felt left out from everything, maybe because I wasn’t suburban enough. I don’t know, but this looks fun.  I’m excited to see what dry wit and chemistry Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola might dream up.

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Jokers Of The Scene – JOT5 EP Preview

I got snared into going to the Gladstone Hotel for New Year’s Eve the other week and the only thing that made the stupid 40$ cover charge justifiable was that I would be seeing one of my favourite Canadian Fool’s…

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The Joy Of Books

No books were harmed in the filming of this video. (Source: Type Books Toronto.)

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Museum Secrets – Season 2

I’m not gonna lie, I’m pretty excited about Museum Secrets – Season 2.  Being an ancient history geek and Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations studies grad from U of T has its benefits when it comes to specialty TV these…

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Glerups: Warm and Woolly, Especially When Wet

Glerups are an exciting product from the Scandinavian land of warm and fuzzies, a.k.a. Denmark. I quite like the vibrant, earthy, woolly tones that they’re available in. But what are they exactly? It’s a sock, it’s a shoe, it’s a…

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Pingu’s THE THING

  As a horror/gore buff I’m ashamed to admit that I don’t remember watching John Carpenter’s The Thing,  or the shoddy remake of recent years, but I have reconnected with my favourite Swiss penguin mime, Pingu.  This claymation remake is…

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Active Child – High Priestess (CFCF Remix)

My favourite Montreal slo-disco producer CFCF has recently released this remix for Active Child, one of the more interesting groups on the post-dubstep/chillwave/borderline witch house groups to emerge from the Vagrant Records roster. Ok, he’s probably the only one. Listen…