Still Alive – Humans short Edit by Stupid Human

and earlier today i was jamming to this few years old gem from the mexican institute of sound:

oh pam…

Tracy Wright garnered tremendous respect and admiration from peers and followers as an actor of substance and taste, but her legacy is that of an under-the-radar star.

She often undertook offbeat and smaller roles with naturalistic ease, exhibiting intensity and vulnerability at the same time, and was described as warm and grounded in her private life.

Tracy Wright: 1959-2010, True to her craft until the end (The Globe and Mail)

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Toronto actress Tracy Wright died on June 22, almost seven months after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. She was 50. Known for gem-like character parts in film, TV and theatre, Wright worked with directors such as Bruce McDonald, Daniel MacIvor, Daniel Brooks—and her long-time partner, actor and filmmaker Don McKellar. Four weeks after her diagnosis last December, McKellar married Wright. And in her final months, MacIvor wrote a starring role for her in a feature film called Trigger, which McDonald directed.

Thankful to the very end, Don McKellar’s letter to friends after Tracy died (Maclean’s)

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She was the quintessence of the character actor who is beloved and acclaimed by her peers, and whose formidable talent consistently outstrips her fame.

Losing, and discovering, Tracy Wright (Maclean’s)

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So it was grand when Miranda July stalked Tracy for Me, You and Everyone We Know. Tracy was alarmed by Miranda at first; she was never good at being worshipped. But she ended up taking the role and making one of my favourite movies ever – and one of the most heartbreaking moments in cinematic history. There was something of Tracy in that character, something perhaps of each of us, lonely and searching. After setting up a blind date with a potential lover, she waits and waits on a park bench until she realizes her date is the little boy sitting next to her. It rips out my heart, that moment when hope fades.

‘Tracy was willing to try anything, even if it most likely wouldn’t work out’ (Xtra!)

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The loss of such a talented woman is especially sad because, in a way, we feel we were only just really getting to know her. Sure, we always found her a riot as the cat-obsessed Dizelle on Twitch City, and in this classic Kids in the Hall sketch, and it was fun to see her pop up in bit parts in everything from Last Night to Superstar to the infamous Bubbles Galore. But it’s her more recent projects that have really shown us what she was capable of, from her turn as the gallery curator who accidentally begins an online relationship with a small boy in Me and You and Everyone We Know, to her role as a one-time radical in Monkey Warfare opposite McKellar, to her wonderful work with Caroline Gillis in Daniel MacIvor’s A Beautiful View, she has given performances that are strange, generous, and disarmingly honest.

Torontoist

just hearing this remix today. in late summer of 1998, i received the album shortly after it was released, an import from england. i got it straight from the hands of a british pal who was visiting me at the time when i was living in seattle. this has to be one of the most underrated r&b albums ever produced. i already knew about mica paris–listened to her first album so good incessantly when i was in college. black angel is her fourth studio album and just damn excellent from beginning to end. the album was never released in the united states and remains a hard to find import. and the cover? love the black feathers. check her out at: micaparis.com

blood pudding is a interdisciplinary theatre piece that celebrates the history of Black people in New Orleans. Through blood memories of a gurl born in Congo Square, blood pudding explores a landscape of magic made of Ancestral Love. In this polyrhythmic telling the blues is sacred. Narrators are holy. Indigenous people are honored. The drum shapes reality. This is ritual/jazz theatre.

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Written by Sharon Bridgforth.
Directed & Choreographed by Baraka de Soleil!.
Music by Helga Davis, Jimmy Lopez, and Monica McIntyre
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