The Witzard

Mitchell Kezin is a self-described Canadian "gentle giant, crate-digger, and filmmaker" whose award-winning film, Jingle Bell Rocks! toured the international festival circuit in 2014, including The Beefeater IN-EDIT Music Documentary Film Festival held in Barcelona, Spain . Jingle Bell Rocks! was then, acquired by Brooklyn -based Oscilloscope Labs —founded by the late, great Beastie Boy Adam "MCA" Yauch —and released theatrically in over 50 cities across the USA and can now be found on Amazon Prime , iTunes, VUDU , and like-minded streaming services and on DVD through Oscilloscope . Mitchell 's current film, BUT FOR NOW: The Music & Mojo of Bob Dorough about the Bebop/Jazz legend and Schoolhouse Rock! creator is currently in-production. Jingle Bell Rocks! thoroughly examines the slightly obsessive habits and tendencies of avid Christmas CD, vinyl record, and cassette tape collectors. Jingle Bell Rocks! follows Mitchell Kezin , as he seeks out...

When taken quite literally, David Bowie 's Folk Rock -laden "Space Oddity" (1969) is about an astronaut "sitting in a tin can, far above the world" gazing back down @ his home planet from the depths of outer-space. But I bet Ziggy Stardust , nor anyone else for that matter, would've ever imagined that a man could actually manage to write/record a song in a Canadian space shuttle orbiting over the Mediterranean . I've always been pretty fascinated with NASA , space travel, constellations, etc. But this most recent technological advancement is CRAZY/cool on a whole 'nother level!; Chris Hadfield has been steadily updating us mere Earthlings through Facebook , Twitter , and Reddit during his long, tedious process of launching into space. The infamous space recording has been rumored for a while now and "Jewel In The Night" was finally released on December 23rd, just in time for Christmas . I'm guessing Hadfield somehow transmit...