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Well.  It's the last day of a year I'm glad to see the back of.  Not that good stuff didn't happen.  It did, and some pretty cool good stuff, too, but it was overshadowed much of the time by all the crap that formed the hallmark of this past year from beginning to end.  If 2011 isn't any better, well, then I think I might just give up.

And after a few weeks of being ill, then injuring my knee, and pretty much keeping my head down with work -- suddenly -- well. Okay, I'm still not feeling up to snuff, but the knee is much better, and a few days ago I hit a major milestone on a project that unfortunately has to stay secret until next spring, except for this small snippet that's already been revealed.  Alas, because I'm really, really happy about it.

So I've spent the last few days catching up on some other stuff, and doing some planning for the next couple of months -- and listening to some music.  I decided just to go through my iPod and see what was on there, stuff I'd pretty much forgotten about.

And then I hit the cover of Patrick Juvet's disco classic "Ou sont les femmes?" by the French punk band Les Wampas, and I remembered, well, that the video clip for that song was totally appropriate for this blog:

 

Les Wampas Clip Ou sont les femmes
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Happy New Year, y'all.....

Totally Filmi Episode 015 - World AIDS Day 2010

Episode 015 - World AIDS Day 2010 (audio file format: 192 Kbps mp3 - duration: 11:25 [mm:ss] - size: 15.8 MB)

Shownotes:

This December 1st, the boys over at the Canadian Podcast Buffet invited Canadian podcasters to dust off their microphones, record an episode, and, well, just generally come on out to the barn and put on a show.

The podcast side of Totally Filmi, like the blog, has been languishing a bit as I deal with a very busy workload, but I couldn't resist the invitation.

However, December 1st is also World Aids Day, and I decided that I wanted to do something today to mark that.  So -- today -- an episode devoted to the Aids Jaago project.  Four films, from four distinguished directors:  Mira Nair, Farhan Akhtar, Vishal Bhardwaj, and Santosh Sivan.

You can watch three of the films at Jaman, and you can find the Vishal Bhardwaj film "Blood Brothers" here.

And as the song "Fatak" says:  "Lock your doors, get rid of this villain."

 

 (And a huge thank you to Bob Goyetche and Mark Blevis for giving us all a huge kick in the tush to go out and get an episode done!)

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Attributions:

"Tablas-Very Sharp" recorded by hammerklavier and uploaded to The Freesound Project

Theme music by John Meadows, host of the podcast "On The Log"