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HAIR

Getting a hair cut the other day got me thinking of hair. It’s a subject I can talk about off the top of my head. Curly and straight, short and long. Brown and black, red and blonde. Despite all hair actually being dead cells, one strand usually lives for about five and a half years. Hair dye was first discovered by a French chemist by the name of Eugene Schueller in 1907. Later he found the company L’Oreal. The Buddhists shave it, the Rastas dread it, the Hindus wrap it, and the Ancient Egyptians beaded it. Hair, hair, everywhere. 

FILM OF THE WEEK:

Shampoo, By Hal Ashby

BLOOD

“All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood,” Rainer Rilke once said. Blood flows through your body at about 3 feet per second - coincidentally at about the same speed you walk. In England and the United States during the 19th century, transfusion of milk for blood was commonplace. Alfred Hitchcock may have replaced blood with chocolate syrup when shooting Psycho, but a synthetic substitute for blood still has yet to be discovered. Whether blood is sacrament, a medium, a medicine or a beverage…we all have it. 

FILM OF THE WEEK:

My music video debut, “Covered in Blood” because, well, it’s a bloodfeast. Shot during the Zombie Walk in Toronto, we got the most candid moments with gruesome detail. 

COVERED IN BLOOD

Words

Words can hurt, words can heal…sometimes words can even fill you like a meal. To some words are dead, others will die for them. Some people play games with words. Ernest Wright wrote a whole novel without the letter “E”.  But imagine living with no words. I wonder how we’d communicate. This week’s theme is in conjunction with my new film Jinx, a film just about that conundrum…a life with no words.

If you’re in Toronto on February 12th, check out my comics come to life on the big screen at Toronto Underground Cinema.

Film of the Week:

JINX