While I was 26

Posted: June 22nd, 2009 | Author: Dan Misener | Filed under: Life | Tags: , | 1 Comment »

Tomorrow I turn twenty-seven.

And because someone once told me that “celebration without reflection is hollow and empty,” here then, in no particular order, are some of the things I’m most proud that happened in the last year. I:

  • Celebrated a year of marriage (thanks Jenna)
  • Started running (thanks Beginning Runner’s Handbook)
  • Started playing the ukulele (thanks Tom, and thanks Steve and David)
  • Pitched, produced, and hosted my very own pilot for CBC Radio
  • Started drinking Scotch seriously
  • Helped make another season of Spark, a show that I think is both important and good
  • Schooled another class of aspiring audio producers at Ryerson
  • Took a weird digital cable channel up on their offer to host a fake talk show
  • Formed a brand new rock and roll band with my friends Tristan, Mike, and Isaac

Here’s to becoming old!

Revisiting Canadian Heritage Vignettes

Posted: January 20th, 2009 | Author: Dan Misener | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , | 3 Comments »

A few years ago, when Tristan and I lived at 298 Jarvis, alongside shooting episodes of Jim Dupree, we started a short-lived side project called Canadian Heritage Vignettes. We only made three episodes, all shot with the video mode of a Casio Exilim EX-S500 still camera. The joke, of course, was that they had nothing at all to do with Canadian heritage. In our defense, though, they were vignettes.

So then, collected here for your enjoyment, all three episodes of Canadian Heritage Vignettes. My favourite is episode three, in which Tristan accidently drops his iBook.

Episode One: Tristan finds Dan’s photo on Google Image Search


Episode Two: Dan examines the ingredients used in Ruffles potato chips


Episode Three: Tristan asks Dan for the remote control