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EP 408 - Definitely A Chat With Definitely The Real Alex Lifeson (AKA Tony Binns)
- 2025/03/27
- 再生時間： 1 時間 19 分
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Mark interviews Tony Binns, an award-winning stand-up comedian and screenwriter whose feature #ROXY was nominated for 3 Canadian screen awards, 3 Canadian Comedy Awards, and took home Best Feature at the Ampia awards as well as Best Feature for Teens at the Kidscreen awards. Tony is also the man behind the parody profile on Facebook called Definitely The Real Alex Lifeson where he pretends to be a guy pretending to be the real guitarist from Rush. Prior to the interview, Mark reads comments from recent episodes, shares a personal update, which includes a few engagements he'll be speaking at in person and virtually: IN PERSON: (Brantford, ON) Brantford Public Library (April 2, 2025 from 6 PM to 7:30 PM) – Inside the Writer’s Mind: Mark Leslie Lefebvre on Ghosts and Paranormal StorytellingVIRTUAL: (Online) The BookFest (April 6, 1:30 PM Eastern). Keynote: Writer, The World Needs You: Why Your Writing Is More Important Than EverIN PERSON: (Los Angeles, CA) Writers of the Future. Week of mentoring winning writers and Gala Dinner/Evening celebrating this year's winners on April 10, 2025 Mark then shares a word about this episode's sponsor. This episode is sponsored by Toronto Indie Author Conference, taking place April 26 & 27, 2025 in Toronto, ON. The schedule appears below Learn more about Toronto Indie Author Conference 2025 here. In their chat, Mark and Tony talk about: How Tony is a multi-faceted nerd who used to tape episodes of SCTV so he could play them back and memorize themBeing big into Monty Python and, of course, RushAlways thinking that he was going to be an actor and his love of Shakespeare, but always getting the comedic partsBeing a good actor but not being so good at auditioning because he freezes when put in a pressure situationFounding a comedy sketch troop called Obscene But Not Heard which was partially inspired by his love for Kids In The HallEvolving into doing stand-up despite being a shy personDeciding to leave stand-up comedy around the time that Covid hitThe movie XROXY (a modern tale based on Cyrano de Bergerac) that Tony wrote after he pitched it to some producers he had done some other work forHaving a strength for dialogue but a weakness when it comes to plotBeing brought in to help punch up an episodic YouTube series that was a campy horror flick and make it funnier (TRUCKSTOP BLOODSUCKERS)Tony's most recent script entitled SAVING MR. CHRISTMAS and how it evolved into a completely different movie than the one that he originally pitchedThe "we love this, change everything" thing that happens with moviesTony's WAITING FOR WAITING FOR GODOT which is a show about two women waiting for a production of the play Waiting For Godot which never happens, and how that play was inspired by the way that days could blur together for people, particularly as we get older and "become that guy"Being a Rush fan since he first heard "Spirit of Radio"How Tony was inspired to create a fake Alex Lifeson account on Facebook after he's seen a fake Geddy Lee accountThe relation between ADHD and being "all in" on something -- like Rush, Monty Python and Rush for TonyHow, during Covid Tony did a one-man reading of Monty Python and the Holy GrailDoing a Canadian overdub of Dragonball ZAdapting a pilot from a Canadian novel called The Smeltdog Man by Frank Macdonald and leveraging the "Deadpool" style of breaking the fourth wallAdvice that Tony would give to the young nerdy Mark and TonyHow Tony used to write sketches even though he didn't have an outlet for themThe Dungeons & Dragons podcast that Tony is a part of called The +2 RodcastAnd more . . . After the interview Mark reflects on a few things that came up in the discussion. Links of Interest: Tony's Definitely The Real Alex Lifeson Facebook ProfileTony on Twitter/XTony Binns on IMDB #ROXYTruckstop BloodsuckersFugget About It Buy Mark a CoffeePatreon for Stark ReflectionsEP 353 - Tao Wong on The Toronto Indie Author ConferenceAlex Lifeson's Speech on Behalf of Rush at Rock & Roll Hall of Fame InductionMark's YouTube channelMark's Stark Reflections on Writing & Publishing Newsletter (Signup)An Author's Guide to Working With Bookstores and LibrariesThe Relaxed Author Buy eBook DirectBuy Audiobook Direct Publishing Pitfalls for AuthorsAn Author's Guide to Working with Libraries & BookstoresWide for the WinMark's Canadian Werewolf Books This Time Around (Short Story)A Canadian Werewolf in New YorkStowe Away (Novella)Fear and Longing in Los AngelesFright Nights, Big CityLover's MoonHex and the CityOnly Monsters in the Building The Canadian Mounted: A Trivia Guide to Planes, Trains and AutomobilesYippee Ki-Yay Motherf*cker: A Trivia Guide to Die HardMerry Christmas! Shitter Was Full!: A Trivia Guide to National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation The introductory, end, and bumper music for this podcast (“Laser Groove”) was composed and produced by Kevin MacLeod of www.incompetech.com and is Licensed under Creative Commons: By ...