Red V. Blue Dueling Barbers

In November, we were in Kentucky, working on our Red V. Blue documentary about the UofL-UK college basketball rivalry. The documentary has been in production since December 2011 and is picking up steam. Among the developments, we have added a new producer WHAS sports reporter Adam Lefkoe who started the popular UofL-UK themed "The Rivalry" YouTube series. Most recently, we were in Louisville, KY, where we went inside WAG's barbershop, a “divided” establishment where UK and Louisville fans once sat side by side. Boone clipped the Wildcat fans, and Mark Wagner and Mark Wagner Jr. clipped the Cardinals supporters. You may remember them from Adam Lefkoe's "The Rivalry" YouTube channel.

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After the 2012 UK national championship, the barbers butted heads, and Boone struck out on his own. “Designed by Miracles” was the result, a barbershop with an interior painted entirely blue and white about twenty blocks east of WAG's on Broadway Avenue in downtown Louisville. For Red V. Blue we check in with Boone and the Wagner family before reuniting the barbers for a passionate debate on UK-UofL basketball.

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See you at the big game on December 29th!

This Song Will Break Your Little Feckin Christmas Heart

To help get the holidays started, we are cracking opening the vaults here at Man Bites Dog Films and taking you back to 2008 with this original song by George Gloucester, aka Long Island George, a New Yorker and Vietnam Vet. I filmed this with P.G. Banker in Charleston, WV, while we were making the documentary "Toxic Soup." We went back to George's apartment after several libations at the Empty Glass to hear the new Christmas song that he had written. Not sure what its official title is, but it will break your little feckin Christmas heart. [vimeo id="55043315" width="560" height="340"]