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This is my tumblr blog. it's easier to manipulate. like stupid people. so i will be hanging over there more.

Another art opening event at MTS in which the MVP music coop booked live music.
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The MTS Gallery newsletter for this Friday Aug 20th. The MVP music coop is providing live music for this art opening event.

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Music Coop Showing 72 Musicians at Outnorth this Sat May22 6pm

Music Coop Showing 72 Musicians at Outnorth this Sat May22 6pm

Date:	Saturday, May 22, 2010
Time:	6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location:	Out North Theater
Street:	3800 DeBarr Road Anchorage, AK 99508
City/Town:	Anchorage, AK
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Description

The MVP Music coop is proud to show a movie about music and marketability in a modern world.

72 Musicians! ~ Finally!!!!

Saturday May 22nd
Doors open at 5:45pm
Movie starts at 6:00pm
Followed by a brief meeting for anyone interested in the Music Coop

Donations will be accepted to cover the theater rental.
No need to RSVP... but comments and friend invitations are encouraged!
Come support an entity whose soul purpose is to support local music in Alaska!

Limited parking so bike, carpool, bus etc. please don't park at the church and be respectful of the neighbors when you park on the street.

Follow this link to the facebook event page

check out their website and facebook. http://72musicians.com/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/72-musicians/99017005535

Anchorage International Film Festival

Forgive me Internet... for it has been many a month since my last confession. My penance shall be to write a painfully long and detailed account of the trivial pursuits that pertain to my life.

I never did make time to write about my experience with the Anchorage International Film Fest. It's been much too long to remember most of the details so I'll spare you those and mention the highlights.

I volunteered upon the Founder's recommendation as a projectionist because they were having trouble filling those roles. I also volunteered for the Hospitality suite because it was at the Inlet Towers which is close to my house and thought it would be fun to talk to any filmmakers who might pop in.

I met a really cool dedicated dude named Don from the Bay Area who was in charge of hospitality and transportation. Because I lived so close and I had a car I offered my services as a back up driver. More often than not, I actually was using the extra van that they had rented so I didn't have to worry about gas in my vehicle.

It was really cool being the projectionist for the films of the filmmakers that I was meeting. I met a dynamic filmmaker named Robyn Bliley who owns a production company with her husband in LA. She was here to screen her documentary about a traveling family circus called "Circus Rosaire". Also in attendance was the matriarch of the Rosaire family Kay, the filmmakers mother, and a Rosaire family friend. I had the unique opportunity to take them on a tour of Anchorage including the famous city mascot Star the Reindeer located on 10th & I st and various other landmarks such as the Oscar Anderson House. They were all a pleasure to meet and I had a great time getting to know them. It was convenient because their B&B was located a block away from my house. I screened the film as projectionist at the Anchorage Museum. The movie was great, aside from the Museum double booking us with a Christmas party in the lobby who had hired a very loud band. Robyn also co-taught a Documentary Filmmaking 101 workship with Stu Maddox director of "Gen Silent" which is about elderly geriatric patients going 'back in the closet'. His film won an award for best short doc.

Here's the google links for the Circus Rosaire film:

http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1GGLS_en-USUS293US306&aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=circus+rosaire

and Stu's Gen Silent film link:

http://stumaddux.com/GEN_SILENT.html

The first film I screened as a projectionist was at the museum and it was about my favorite thing... coffee. It was called the Perfect Cappuccino directed by Amy Ferraris. Upon her visit to Italy to research her heritage, she falls in love with the Cappuccino and when she returns to America, she finds it nearly impossible to find even a reasonable facsimile. This turns into an all-out obsession as she tries to define exactly what a perfect cappuccino is. Topics include anti-corporatism (ie starbucks), and artisan crafts.

http://www.cappuccinomovie.com/

Another film I really enjoyed was a story of a local Alaskan dealing with sanity, self-image, and ultimately the importance of compassion and family. It's called About Face and chronicles a girl name Gwen on her adventure of finding her mother who in a psychotic break placed her in a fire as a toddler. I ran cross country with Gwen my freshmen year of HS.

http://www.aboutfacefilm.org/

The one movie I really wanted to see was called 72 Musicians. It was a doc about being a broke musician. My favorite quote was, "If you want to be in a band, be prepared to eat crackers and pickle relish for dinner".

I hope to contact the filmmaker and screen it as part of an event for my music coop idea called the Musician Venue Partnership (M.V.P.). Every aspiring musician should watch this movie. More on that later.

http://72musicians

Birthday. An Australian film directed by James Harkness starring Natalie Eleftheriadis. AIFF was their first festival screening. It was a fictional story about the life of a prostitute. James was a wealth of social commentary and Natalie was delightfully chipper and pixie-esque.

http://www.thebirthdayfilm.com

Victor: A Life in Color directed by Jennifer Burns is a doc about a man who dances in bright suits on bridges in his local Chicago. Every town has a guy like this that entertains passersby. I didn't get to see it, but I met the star Vincent and the director Jennifer. Jennifer had quite the Karaoke voice!

http://www.zweeblefilms.com/

The darling of the fest was a local star in the form of Dear Lemon Lima. Her real name is Savana Wiltfong and she's just as darling in person as she was in the film. Her family were all in attendance at a filled theater at the Beartooth and cheered for her on screen. This film won an audience favorite award. It also just played this morning (Feb. 6th) at the Indigenous Film Festival at the Native Heritage Center in east Anchorage.

http://www.dearlemonlimamovie.com

Another surprise for me was screening a doc about Aleut culture filmed based in St. Paul called People of the Seal. It turns out I know a few people who know people in the film.

Overall, it was great experience and I enjoyed meeting the filmmakers. Many of them are my facebook friends and I plan on keeping in touch as best as I can. Filmmakers... there just like you and I. They just talk more!
Thanks for reading.
~Lonny

My Blog about twins from "Twins 4 twins" website

Here is the link from the "twins 4 twins site. But I'll also copy it in it's entirety below.

http://twins4twins.ning.com/profiles/blogs/interesting-books-about-twins

Nature's Thumbprint: the new genetics of personality; was written by a father and son team. The father Dr. Neubauer used twins separated at birth as the basis of his studies and after studying them for over 40 years co wrote this book with his son who is a writer. It talks about how we are all born with a certain set of characteristics as evidenced by the twins studies, (ie- twins having a lot of similarities even though they were raised apart) but how even identical twins can develop differently when raised apart. Really interesting read if you like that sort of thing. Written in common english not technical jargon so it's relatively easy to understand.

The next book is a memoir written by two female twins who a part of that study. It's called, "Identical Strangers". It follows the twins on there rediscovery of each other in their mid-thirties, and chronicles their journey. It's written in a narrative, interestingly though, the twins take turns writing about the same periods of time and their own personal reflections. It's obviously more of a personal story and easier to relate to.

As for my own experience being a twin, I related to both the books quite strongly. I was finishing Nature's Thumbprint on a plane back from Hawaii with my twin brother, and kept having him read sections as they became relevant.

My brother and I were probably more typical than either one of us, or anybody likes to think, that they are. We were very close growing up, but fought all the time. Then we found girlfriends and rarely spoke nearly as much after that. It seems that when you are close enough with someone that you rely on them and become dependent, it's difficult to break out of that mold in your next serious relationships, brothers or otherwise.

Does anybody else feel this way?

People ask us all the time if we can feel each others pain, or simply if we are even twins. We have prefab answers that we usually use on occasion. We do have what we call a 'twintuition'. But it's really something that you would have with anyone you are close with. Sensing if they are in trouble or harms way. Or if they are experiencing the same seasonal effective symptoms with the loss of daylight and the coming of winter.

I reflect upon it less now that I did when I was growing up, but feel that being a twin is an interesting way to exist. I always knew what it was to be so close with another person to communicate without words, and know exactly what they were thinking with a glance. I guess growing up with so many of the same influences, can only lead to similar thought patterns throughout life. But as we've grown up, we've succeeded in developing a stronger sense of identity.

We're now both 28, and ready to be friends again. We aren't so fiercely fighting for independence. I always knew that this day would come, but we both had to be ready. It's something we always wanted to have back, but we were both going in different directions and to acknowledge the others' gains was to smite are own. I now think that knowing who we are as individuals gives us more confidence in accepting each other.

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