tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762075.post8391319676097336649..comments2024-03-29T00:37:54.787-07:00Comments on Alienated in Vancouver: ...another damn work dream, but this one I like; plus Larry Fessenden digressionAllan MacInnishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05394301776870727673noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762075.post-24608948803640378892010-09-30T10:28:33.949-07:002010-09-30T10:28:33.949-07:00Hey, Dan And! When I saw a Dan had left a comment,...Hey, Dan And! When I saw a Dan had left a comment, I thought it was the other Dan that I mentioned... He's the steel-toed Blundstone guy, I just get the regular kind. <br /><br />Re: Shackleton, thanks! I've long wondered if that Branagh movie was any good - I'll take a look at it. I actually did a big New Model Army thing for The Skinny where Justin Sullivan and I talked about Shackleton, whom he is also fascinated and inspired by - there's a reference to him, or at least one of his vessels, in the song "Ocean's Rising." I can't find the article online, but the song is here (the full band version - it also appears on a Sullivan solo album): <br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laN9JSplaF0<br /><br />There's also a pretty good novel by SF author Kim Stanley Robinson called ANTARCTICA that I imagine you would love... we should start a "frozen wasteland" fansite (just kidding...).<br /><br />Anyhow, really glad you liked The Last Winter - you would also definitely like Fessenden's Wendigo movie; it's the better of the two, and it's pretty damn snowy. By the way, I'm waiting for Ox Fanzine to mail me an extra copy of the article with my German version of our interview(s) in it. Bison BC have press in Germany! If it doesn't show up soon, I'll fax Metal Blade a copy of the page, it has a GREAT Femke van Delft photo of you, James, and Masa onstage in it - one of her best ever photos, in my opinion, given the amount of intensity visible.<br /><br />Thanks for commenting!Allan MacInnishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05394301776870727673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8762075.post-20203088404573181212010-09-30T06:21:58.174-07:002010-09-30T06:21:58.174-07:00Allan, it's Dan And here. I always wanted to t...Allan, it's Dan And here. I always wanted to thank you for giving me that copy of The Last Winter. my girlfriend and i enjoyed it a great deal. i still have yet to see his other films but i somehow stumbled across your blog and am right now downloading the Wendigo. the tension and isolation of Last Winter reminded me a lot of The Thing and even some of my other (non frozen landscape) favs like the Abyss and Alien. Even 30 Days of Night wasn't too bad but i wonder if the snow didn't make me biased from the get go. <br /><br />i don't know if you've seen it but there is a Kenneth Branagh movie about Ernest Shackleton that i absolutely love. i managed to buy a box set of it along with 3 documentaries about Shackleton for insanely cheap at Welk's Discount Mart on Main and 19th. there's no demons, spirits or aliens but the Shackleton story has been the center of my arctic isolation obsession for as long as i can remember.<br /><br />i find it also ironic that you live in Maple Ridge because i have sporadically worked out there as a set dresser on low budget film and TV shows for the past four years (in a studio on Kingston behind the Canadian Tire and the new roundabout under the highway...right behind Emoli-1, the nearly abandoned energy warehouse). one of said TV series was a supernatural crime thriller called Blood Ties that had an episode about the Wendigo. it was, however filmed mostly in a provincial park in PoCo and at Riverview but still...Maple Ridge represent!<br /><br />Finally i am the proud owner of a pair of steel toed blundstones myself and love them like there's no tomorrow.<br /><br />That is all, thank you sir.<br />-Dan And<br /><br />ps. Ravenous was actually pretty good too. As was Alive and Cannibal: the Musical.Dan Andhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10528887533401154807noreply@blogger.com