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benoit

Half A World Away

About Me

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I was born in the wonderful city of Montreal. I came here to the United States when I got a scholarship to play baseball in College. Here, I met my soulmate Andrea. We have now been married 10 years, and have two wonderful daughters, Alexa Rae and Preslee Noelle. I really enjoy the cold weather; miss the snow too much, and love dark and cloudy days. I love melancholic songs that make you feel, and songs that tell real life stories. I am a major movie buff. I am particularly fond of independant movies where you can sense a throwback to so many great movies from the 1970's where the story and the characters are more important than special effects! I am very influenced by Woody Allen's cynical sense of humor. He's clearly one the greates filmakers that's ever lived along with Hitchcock and Scorsese. I can have the longest conversations ever when it comes to my music and my movies! I love my wife and daughters more than I could ever explain. With God, my family, my friends, and my own little spaced out world of music and movies, I can say that I don't really need anything else!

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Music:

I Make The Dough, You Get The Glory
KELLY PADRICK - Girl On (Music Video)
..COUNTING CROWS - YOU CAN'T COUNT ON ME The Bitter End
Travis - Turn
......Counting Crows, Ryan Adams, John Lennon, Prince, Brad Byrd, Placebo, Travis, U2, The Wallflowers, Bjork, Coldplay, Blue Rodeo, Pink Floyd, Ray Lamontagne, Damien Rice, Van Morrison, The Cure, Jean Leclerc (aka Jean Leloup), Sinead O'Connor, Massive Attack, Beth Orton, Kathleen Edwards, Peter Gabriel, The Waterboys, The Cranberries, The Rolling Stones, Daniel Belanger, The Beatles, Gemma Hayes, Kelly Padrick, The Jim Cuddy Band, Sarah Mclachlan, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Guns N'Roses, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Donell Jones, R Kelly, Anthony Hamilton, Remy Shand, Lucinda Williams, Hank Williams Jr, Dwight Yoakam, Wilco, Pete Yorn, Remy Zero, Minnie Driver, Enigma, ZZ Top, Morrissey, The Smiths, Whiskeytown, Leona Naess, Snow Patrol, Death Cab For Cutie, Iron And Wine, Cat Stevens, Simon And Garfunkel, James Taylor, Nick Drake, Jeff Buckley, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Buddy Guy, BB King, Harry Connick Jr, Lenny Kravitz

Movies:

Recently: Burn After Reading, Funny Games, Chapter 27, Cassandra's Dream, Reservation Road, The Diving Bell and The Butterfly, Before The Devil Knows You're Dead, We Own The Night, Sleuth. Some of my favorites, in no particular order: Annie Hall, The Falcon and The Snowman, Entropy, Swingers, Office Space, American Psycho, Ash Wednesday, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Better Luck Tomorrow, Birthday Girl, The Brothers Mcmullen, Buffalo 66, Carlito's Way, Closer, Confidence, The Cooler, Die Hard, Donnie Brasco, Donnie Darko, Dead Calm, The Departed, The Dreamers, Election, Fargo, Fight Club, Frantic, The Game, Go, The Godfather, Goodfellas, Groundhog Day, High Fidelity, Husbands and Wives, The Ice Storm, The Jackal, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill, The Limey, Little Children, Lost In Translation, Match Point, My Wife Is An Actress, Nathalie, The Ninth Gate, Old School, The Others, Play Misty For Me, Pulp Fiction, Reality Bites, Scarface, Seven, She's The one, Shock To The System, The Tenant, 25th Hour, Twelve Monkeys, Unbreakable, The Virgin Suicides, Waking The Dead, When Harry Met Sally, Wild Things, The Wonder Boys. ISOLATION Movie Teaser Trailer A
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Television:

Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Intervention, Tales From The Crypt, Poirot, Sherlock Holmes, Magnum PI, Cheers, Seinfeld.

Books:

Lolita by Vadimir Nabokov, The Shining by Stephen King, The Hottest State by Ethan Hawke, Merrick by Anne Rice.

Heroes:


My Blog

Purple Violets

How this incredible movie by such a gifted writer/director got missed? I'm wondering. Mainstream cinema has gone insane, and no one wants a good story anymore full of characters from everyday life, an...
Posted by benoit on Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:05:00 PST

Kathleen Edwards, Birmingham April 18th, 2008

I took my wife to the awesome Workplay in Birmingham last night for her birthday to to the Kathleen Edwards concert. I've been a fan of hers ever since her first performance on David Letterman back in...
Posted by benoit on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:08:00 PST

who knows?

" what is a prayerbut kneeswishes activated by fearsif what scaresyouis the talking tois the invisibilityof that earI take the guides with meif they are hereI imagine what they might like to seehearor...
Posted by benoit on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:49:00 PST

The Mill Pond

Remember the night we sat on the rocks? Remember the calmness in the air? Remember the long enduring conversation? Remember us walking away?   How can I forget the night that changed my life The ...
Posted by benoit on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 06:08:00 PST

Wish I had the strength to write such beautiful and painful words

"On A Tuesday In Amsterdam Long Ago"A picture of AmsterdamBare trees under glassFramed in the afternoon lightOf a winter long pastWhen I was a raiserTo Dublin I’d roamShe was a bareback riderSom...
Posted by benoit on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:34:00 PST

Better days

My love for the arts has always been indescribable. Art is a major part of what I am, and it also usually reflects my way of thinking and my instinct. If I wake up in a bad mood, which is very often t...
Posted by benoit on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:23:00 PST

wisdom

Not my words........  But so beautiful nonetheless   Memento Mori How do we mark the end of a life? Quiet the simple words of doing and being. Set loose the person who rode horses, Smiled a...
Posted by benoit on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 04:46:00 PST

the reworking of a poem...

Confused I'm drowning in a sea of tearsI never believed I had so many fearsHeartbroken and lonely in my heartThe distance makes us so far apartA letter of joy dedicated to youA lie so far from realit...
Posted by benoit on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:54:00 PST

Random thoughts

I've never been one to express what I feel completely Been so lost recently It's time to make a change before I lose the one Been ashamed of my actions Only time can heal all wounds Been losing total...
Posted by benoit on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:10:00 PST