Tag: TV Shows

Deaf Difficulties (one of two: General Difficulties)

This was written in the early 2000’s this segment was recorded over and I no longer have the video. It originally aired on Rogers Television on a news program called Focus NB. Lead: There are many disabilities faced by New Brunswickers. One of the most noticeable is cultural deafness. Our Reporter Charles Frees-Melvin brings us the difficulties faced by the Deaf in day-to-day life. Stand-up: Deafness is a condition faced by several hundred residents in this province. Many people are unaware of some of the difficulties faced by these people. Gerald Frazee stressed that the biggest concern is the need of interpreters to be present. Gerald: (48:47-48:59) 12 sec “Culturally I am deaf and a lot of what goes on in the world I perceive with my eyes, so probably the biggest concern for me would to make sure interpreters are present” VO: Mr. Frazee can’t stress enough the troubles he would faces trying to cope with day-to-day life without an interpreter. Gerald: (49:08-49:21) 13 sec “Oh, Gosh it’s chaos, the communication breaks down, writing back and forth isn’t adequate enough only having an interpreter there are we able to interpret adequately.” VO: Joanne Burke also agrees with the need…

The Irish Finale

I departed the Enterprise starving, and in pain a bit from the ridiculous amount of walking in Belfast. I went down the stairs to the tram station and the Google Transit app said there were no more trains but there was a dot-matrix display showing next tram in 7 minutes with a group of at least fifteen people waiting for the tram. Then a local said to the group no more trams tonight and the screen was for the next station down the line. A vocal man with an American accent convinced the group of people that the local was wrong. I looked at the sign and noticed it said “Busáras” and the blank one said “Connolly”. Since I can also read perfect Gaelic, I recognized that Busáras means Bus Station and Connolly was the name of the train station. I decided the local was right and since I didn’t know where the Bus Station stop was, I just followed the track, and it was not even a block away. My plan for the night was to go to an Irish Pub and grab dinner there, but once I got off the Luas (what Dublin calls trams/streetcars) near my hotel…

2009 Oscar Predictions Revised

At the point of the original post I had not seen some of the nominees. I have since seen The Reader and Slumdog Millionaire. Here is my new list. Performance by an actor in a leading role Frank Langella in “Frost/Nixon” (Universal) (WRONG) Performance by an actor in a supporting role Philip Seymour Hoffman in “Doubt” (Miramax) (WRONG) Performance by an actress in a leading role Kate Winslet in “The Reader” (The Weinstein Company) (CORRECT) Performance by an actress in a supporting role Amy Adams in “Doubt” (Miramax) (WRONG) Best animated feature film of the year “Bolt” (Walt Disney) Chris Williams and Byron Howard (WRONG) Achievement in art direction “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.) Art Direction: Nathan Crowley Set Decoration: Peter Lando (WRONG) Achievement in cinematography “The Reader” (The Weinstein Company) Chris Menges and Roger Deakins (WRONG) Achievement in costume design “Australia” (20th Century Fox) Catherine Martin (WRONG) Achievement in directing “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight) Danny Boyle (CORRECT) Achievement in film editing “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight) Chris Dickens (CORRECT) Achievement in makeup “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.) John Caglione, Jr. and Conor O’Sullivan (WRONG) Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score) “WALL-E” (Walt Disney) Thomas Newman (WRONG) Achievement…

Farewell to 2008

2008, as you are bidding us ado for the uncertanties of what 2009 will have instore. I am going to take a moment to reflect on the times we had togeather as we prepare to spit on your grave upon your death this evening. Unless we are of the 45% that will pass out before your death. This has been a year of taking things away so I will start with the things I lost this year. Disk 2 to my Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan set, my grandmother, my job at Zellers, two of my favourite Rogers TV shows to make Daytime and Too Close to Call, and my dignity (lol). Once again procrastination hampered this post.

My IQ

I just did the IQ test on Facebook and scored a 134. I think that is pretty darned good, and typical to what I get on most of those on-line IQ tests. I only had 3 out of thirty questions wrong. Probably the ones I had to guess on. And while we are on the topic of Facebook, I would like to point out how annoying some of those application invites get sometimes. And that vampire one actually sends an IM to you after you have left it and even blocked the application. I usually block many of the applications before I even get invited most of the time. And for my loyal crowd I’m going to give you all a sneak peek (moved to portfolio) at the graphics I have just created for the TV Auction that will air next Sunday @ 1pm on Channel 10. See www.lancasterkiwanis.net for more info on it.

Toronto, Cabaret, and 25 other warm fuzzys.

While it has been such a long time since an update so this one might be a little longer than normal. And the full blame of this goes to www.facebook.com and www.youtube.com I have spent most of my Internet time on those two sites. Some of you might be even reading this from the notes section on Facebook. Okay so let us start with Toronto, I took lots of pictures that I will add to my gallery soon, and some very interesting ones at that. The greatest story was the one where I was sitting in the Glenn Gould Studio in the CBC Broadcast Centre as the marble tile fell off of the 60th story of First Canadian Place it shook the ground and nobody really noticed that is Toronto for you. And I went to see the show at Medieval Times Dinner and Tournament  www.medievaltimes.comit was defiantly one of the coolest things I have ever seen in my life something that I would for sure go see again, and the food was amazing. I’m not sure what the soup was but my mouth is watering just thinking of it. I also took a trip up the CN Tower again it…

It’s Superbowl Sunday!!!

And I don’t really plan on watching it. Even though I made a prediction of the Colts 25-20, on 2C2C:Too Close To Call this evening. So I just finished a first draft of a screenplay that I plan on Producing this Spring. It is a short that will be about 10 minutes in length. So what have I been upto in the past few weeks… Well you could say work but I work so few hours that it seems more like a casual activity that a real job. Although it is getting kind of boring but the question at this point is that if I left what would I do? I’ve kinda had bad luck with a few of my last several jobs. But anyways what’s next… I’ve done 5 TV shows over the past few days. Some were very interesting. Well, I guess I’m not going to get to finish this, Tony called and we are off to see “The Messengers”. That’s all for now.