I know Yvette Ipsaralexi from my volunteer work with Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter. But now I learn that she has an interesting side interest – as a roller derby girl! And neatest of all, she is the subject of a mini-documentary on the Globe and Mail website.
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At last, you can take your favourite song and make it even better: add MORE COWBELL!
MoreCowbell.dj takes the classic SNL skit and brings it to fully-interactive life. Upload your favourite song and add cowbell. Plus, drop in a bit of Christopher Walken shouting encouraging remarks from the studio. It’s crazy cowbell fun! Read more »
For a couple of years now, I’ve been on a quest to enter the world of film and TV acting. One recommended strategy for getting on-set experience and building a “reel” has always been to pursue roles in student films. I’ve been on a few auditions but nothing had ever come of it – until now!
I auditioned for a Vancouver Film School project entitled “Straight To Video”. In it, a somewhat hapless aspiring rock star is working the late shift at the video store when an old videotape of a self-help “guru” magically transports him into a vision of his rock-and-roll fantasy come true – but even in this preview of music superstardom, things don’t go nearly the way he had imagined.
The role I auditioned for was that of the outrageous, turbanned “Guru Goulby” – the smarmy self-help swami whose videotape appearance sets the plot in motion. Read more »