a year ago the fires raged

Roughly, a year ago, Toronto lost the Queen Street West location of Suspect Video, along with several other businesses. Hard to believe it was a year. Nothings happened with the space. Just rubble and memories.

Here is the post about the original tragedy.

Inside the pink cinema

No, I don't mean that kind of pink cinema, I mean this kind of pink cinema. Pal of Sticky Floors, Jason Gray posted about his experience going to one of the remaining pink cinemas in Tokyo over at his blog. You can also see some of the buildings in their surroundings in this post of his.

super (ultra) 8mm

There were put up for auction on eBay. I scored the one with the photo cover, but really wanted the other one as it came with an audio tape! Can't wait to spool up the old super 8 projector to check it out!

random kicks

Going through some lobby cards and found these curious snaps from this junky flick, A STEP TO HEAVEN. I have no idea what is going on in that telephone booth...