Blog of Sal

A few years back I got bored and created a 10 minute edit of my favourite film, ROUNDERS. I didn't publish it for fear of copyright infringement and later just forgot about it. In any case, it is here (for now) for your viewing pleasure!  My editing process was to first create a logical 30 minute version, keeping as many of the important plot driving elements, best moments, and best lines as possible. Next I just kinda spliced away with feckless abandon until I had something that felt right and was exactly 10 minutes long. The full film is available  here on Amazon Prime .     D espite minor inconsistencies with technical poker aspects and maybe a few unnecessary eccentricities, the movie holds up very well as a depiction of what poker was like in the 1990s (the film was released in 1998). I would have some natural sense of this having cut my own poker chops in the Montreal underground in the early 2000s, a time when poker was receiving a sma...

We rode out into the heat of the New York sunshine towards the original site of Woodstock. My '81 Tercel hatchback as our transportation (the $240 car that always "smelled like gas"). I was chasing the ghost of Jimi Hendrix, and the dream of a political movement I thought I was supposed to care about. At the border crossing we were grilled and forced to empty our pockets. The was my first experience with the senseless power-tripping of US border officers (and not the last). All the while my best friend Surge had his marijuana safely rolled up in the leg of his pants. "They never look there", he told me later. I wonder how it would have affected us if they had found it? The turnout was good that year. There were a thousand hippies on Yasgur's Farm. The authentic kind too, old, with real flowers in long grungy hair. I met a man with a bag full of dog-ends who said he hadn't littered a butt since he returned from Vietnam. I was told that some were l...