The scurry over to College Park at 9 in the morning and already the lineup was of day one of ticket sales to the public proportions but all went well and the Toronto International Festival 2007 Roots bag this year is a black shopping bag of the Green variety - filled with the usual useful stuff and advertising : Starbucks coffee card good for $5 and reloadable - this always is a good thing - the Fedex foldup pen - the green and yellow marker - the Volkswagen schedule book - the programme book - a bottle of Dole orange tangerine juice = no wonder the bag was so heavy - Lindt chocolate - always handy -
The t-shirts this year are pretty awful this year but break the convention of just having the TIFF logo on it [ which in itself is pretty bad this year ]
WILL ___________ for tickets-
Sex Drugs and Cinema Verite.
So by 9:30 ish that was done and over with - and it was scooting down to Dundas and Bay to Best Buy to see if you could get the wristband for the Heroes autograph session at Dundas Square on Friday. As luck would have it the rest of the world probably thought it was impossible too and we were number 66! Of course we bought the Heroes dvd set with the Heroes comic - Best Buy exclusive. So after getting all the details of what to do on Friday to line up [ then spending a while looking at flat widescreen monitors - the prices on those things are almost good in the $699 range - almost as much as what a VGA 14 inch monitor used to cost ]
Then it was scurrying back up to College Park to partake of the KFC toonie tuesday - except it's no more ! KFC Chicken Fries combo for 3.99 $ is pretty bad stuff - [ at least you still get one piece of original recipe chicken ] during which we went through the schedule book and just about finished our schedule of selection by about noon. [ thanks to TOFilmFest which we studied like crazy for the last few days - it felt like we almost got to know the films we wanted ] - of course right from the get go on Thursday night there are scheduling conflicts already. This is the fun part.
We were pretty surprised as we passed by the box office again that Box 1 for the lottery was already being filled.
The rest of the day was spent enjoying the sights of too skinny ladies wearing too tight tops that were too small on Queen Street West on a hot summer day in Toronto.
P.S. As we go crazy here creating the final list there are now 8 days to go now.
P.P.S. The online My TIFF list over at tiff07.ca does not work very well. You will find your list of movies shorter than you think because the listmaker starts to truncate the number of movies being entered.
soundtrack for your life : Metric The Check is in the Mail
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