Here in Toronto, the forecast calls for a windchill of -10 and 5 centimetres of snow tomorrow. Fortunately, culture is an all-season sport! Stop by the library, video store, and your favourite vendor of snacks this afternoon, so you can spend the weekend holed up in your cozy home.
READ: Books about pop culture can be thinly veiled publicity stunts, or they can be smart exercises in cultural studies. Stick with the latter. I just finished Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. by Sam Wasson. You get to indulge your appetite for Audrey Hepburn, Edith Head and Givenchy, but still feel smart while you brush up on Truman Capote, the sexual revolution, and the history of film production. It's the thinking woman's chick lit. As for me, I'll be reading the Jay-Z memoir Decoded.
WATCH: Here's hoping I'm not the only person left who still rents DVDs. The Social Network is out this week, so if you missed it in theatres, now's your chance to weigh in on the Oscar hype and watch Jesse Eisenberg and Justin Timberlake play complete assholes. If you caught it the first time around, check out Mao's Last Dancer, "the other ballet movie of 2010." Realistically, I'll probably be watching Black Swan for the third time - my coworker picked up a bootleg copy for me.
LISTEN: Cold weather calls for something mellow, introspective, and hey, why not Canadian? Check out Freedom or Death here. I'm planning to catch up on radio shows I missed during the week due to my radio-unfriendly workplace. Paul Giametti was on Q on Monday to gab about Barney's Version - you can listen in here (January 10). And if you take my advice to read Decoded this weekend, obviously you will need to listen to the Black Album on repeat.
Stay warm!
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