Hello Thursday. Let me begin by apologizing for yesterday’s Arctic Son recommendation. I was intrigued by its mention of Seattle’s urban jungle in its deceptive capsule advertisement. In fact, the young protagonist hailed from Port Orchard before being drawn to the tiny village allure of Old Crow, a dry town in the Yukon Territory. The film holds the distinction of being one of the most boring films I’ve seen at SIFF (along with The Horizon Events, which at least had the good sense to be beautifully photographed). Neither father nor son is particularly or emotionally revealing and the film fails to answer many questions — what motivated the son to go to canada? how did his parents ever hook up? why is this supposed first journey to his father’s home not much of a culture shock? did they really need to skin that rabbit on screen? — and any hopes for circumstances of life in the wilderness to inject a bit of drama (will they be eaten by wolves, fall into the river, run out of gas and be forced to eat each other) went unrealized. [1/5]

With that out of the way, a couple of things you could do tonight:

• Metrobloggers meeting is tonight at the Big Time Brewery at 6:00 [upcoming]. Want to yell at us for not posting more about your favorite things? Just want evidence that we occasionally leave the safety of our laptop screen’s warm glow? or interested in finding out more about the glamorous life of typing things into a weblog? Stop by and say hello. It will make our entire week.

[Ed: you can tell that we're excited about this because Samantha and I simultaneously posted about it. -- great minds, I suppose.]

• A few more blind SIFF recommendations — I didn’t get to the press screenings for these and really hate watching DVDs; so take them with a grain of arctic salt. Get psyched about the 2006 World Cup by watching people from all over the globe watching the 2002 World Cup in La Gran Final [siff] (Egyptian, 9:30 pm).
  There’s also The Heart of the Game [siff], a documentary about the Roosevelt High School girls’ basketball team (7:30 pm, Neptune), and the Road to Guantanamo [siff] a pseudo-documentary from Michael Winterbottom about British Muslims who were accidentally sent off to be tortured in Cuba. Oops! (7:15 pm, Egyptian)