love that knitting

Whenever I get depressed I watch Andrea Dorfman’s little film called: Love That Boy and it makes me happy pretty soon after.
It’s brightly coloured, quirky and satisfying eye candy that might even be called… dare I say it? Heart-warming. Yes, I think it just might be.
While filmed on the east coast somewhere, it always reminds me of cool Toronto kids. The characters knit, sew, bake, wear Fluevogs and Damzels in this Dress dresses and live in perfectly manicured, thrift/scavenged, retro environs (not to mention, have an awesome indie rock soundtrack - but that pretty much goes without saying at this point).
It is one of my favourite movies of all time.
Liam has just been turned down for yet more jobs, so yesterday afternoon I curled up in the bedroom with my laptop and a copy on DVD and emerged cheerful.
I then decided to look up Ms. Dorfman to see if she was up to anything new (Love That Boy was distributed a long 3 years ago). I found a biography somewhere that said she was working on a new script and, more importantly, owned a little shop called the Knit Cafe here in Toronto. A little shop that just so happens to serve coffee, tea, and yarn. A little shop I’ve passed by many times, because it happens to be only about two blocks away.
I think I’m going to have to investigate this.
And possibly learn how to knit.
And if there’s one thing I suck at, it’s knitting.