ATTENTION CANADIANS! I'm gonna be read on Q.

Hey TFPers.

I got an email today from Q informing me I'd be receiving a response to mail I had sent them regarding a discussion they had on it. Furthermore, Jian was going to read it on air in an upcoming episode of Q! Hurray! I feel incredibly proud/excited. I can't wait to hear my words on Radio; it'll be the first time.

And it's far more gratifying then stage obviously. As Don McKellar's character Darren Nichols said in Slings and Arrows:

"I don't hate theatre; I pity it. It's this small, sad little medium struggling to get heard. You know, more people listen to the radio then go to the theatre. And nobody listens to the radio."

Here is letter if anyone is interested:

Hi Jian,

Big fan sir. In regards to the June eleventh broadcast of Q, in which you discussed Hollywood's recent trend of playing to kids. Several of your guests mentioned the death of Romance films; nothing contemporary that meets the cinematic prowess of Gone With The Wind, et al. I would have to disagree.

Film, like any medium, grows in style of content as contemporary film changes direction and technique. Romance films have simply become less of the Romantic era, and one of the Reflective. I only have to point at a few films in this decade: the beauty and enthralling love affair of William, Penny, and Russel in Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous. John Cusack's sullen and self-defeating Rob digging through old love to find out why he can't find consistency in romance in Hornby's High Fidelity.

The 80's had John Hughes; and Cusack to think of it. Lord knows, I long to stand outside Dianne Court's house blasting Phil Collins. Yes, the epic and all too fairy tale-esque Romantic Era pieces have, dare I say it, gone with the wind, but romance has not.

It's simply the move from 'Here's looking at you kid' to 'what came first? The music, or the misery?' Then again, I'm a romantic.

thanks Jian,

- Taylor