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December 30, 2010#

The best movies of 2010

My Top movies for 2010 (no particular order)

The Social Network

Inception
Can Christopher Nolan do a bad movie?

The Town

Toy Story 3
Gotta hand it to Pixar to create one of the most memorable and moving sequences in a movie this year.

Tron: Legacy
When the original Tron was released, my father took me to see it, and I was blown away watching it.  Fast forward almost 30 years, I took my son, Brodie to see Tron: Legacy.  We both loved it.  My favourite moment was during the light cycle sequence, Brodie leans over and to whisper how cool the movie was.

I still have net seen the one movie that I’m dying to see this year, 127 Hours as it is not playing anywhere in London, Ontario.

Honourable Mentions:
Kick-Ass
Scott Pilgrim vs the World
Black Swan
The Book of ELI

Looking forward to 2011, the movie I’m looking the most forward to is Kevin Smith’s RED STATE.

October 28, 2010#

Hot Chip / LCD Soundsystem @ The Fillmore, Detroit MI.


My birthday present from my wife this year was 2 tickets to see Hot Chip & LCD Soundsystem in Detroit. I’ve become a huge fan of Hot Chip over the past year, and have been dying to seem live. Being a UK based band, it is very rare for them to play in North America, so the fact that they extended their “One Life Stand” tour into the fall was an amazing surprise.

Hot Chip’s set was evenly balanced covering the high point of the past 3 albums.

Hot Chip Set List: (highlights bolded)
And I Was A Boy From School
One Pure Thought
Thieves In The Night
One Life Stand
Over And Over
Hand Me Down Your Love
Shake a Fist
We Have Love
Hold On
I Feel Better
Ready For The Floor

Some video highlights taken from my iPhone of Hot Chip’s Set:

Going into the show I knew that Hot Chip would be a solid performance, but had doubts about LCD Soundsystem. I’ve been a casual listener of the band, and only own 1 of their albums, I was blown away by their live set, and stayed way longer than I intended.

LCD Soundsystems Set List:

Dance Yrself Clean
Drunk Girls
Get Innocuous
Daft Punk Is Playing At My House
I Can Change
All My Friends
You Wanted a Hit
Tribulations
Movement
Yeah
Throw
Encore:
Someone Great
Losing My Edge
Home
Encore 2:
New York, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down

Wrapping up, in hindsight, this was one of the best concerts that I have ever attended. More pics here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/eplatero/sets/72157625259084150/with/5123459025/

June 7, 2010#

Walter Gretzky Street Hockey Tournament 2010

June 4-6 Tracey and I traveled up to Brantford for this year’s annual Walter Gretzky Street Hockey Tournament. As fans of filmmaker Kevin Smith, we made the trip and had an amazing time last year. Last year I took a bunch of pictures of the event and was invited to take more this year by Ming, the View Askew web guru and Hockey event organizer.

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This year really was a step up. I was given access to take photos from the bench and from within the rink after the game. Having that close proximity to the players allowed me to get some great shots.

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Spending the weekend down in Brantford also gave us the opportunity to meet a lot of the players on the other View Askew teams.

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Aside from taking pics, I also designed an iPhone app for the tournament that featured all of the View Askew teams. I will do a post on the app in the next few days.

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I just wanted to drop a huge thanks to Ming Chen he really is the MVP of the View Askew organization.

All of my pics from the tournament, can be found here:

Day 1: http://www.flickr.com/photos/eplatero/sets/72157624205809682/

Day 2: http://www.flickr.com/photos/eplatero/sets/72157624218270814/

Day 3: http://www.flickr.com/photos/eplatero/sets/72157624218380378/

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