Lisa Marr is best known locally for her contribution to Cub with Robynn Iwat and Valeria Fellini, but since then she's moved to the States and started working on a solo career and about a million other projects. She hasn't been Toronto in nine years, so she's poking her head into Wavelength this Sunday to give us a bit of a gift. She and Ryan McLaren talked about the essentials over email last week.

SO, WHAT BRINGS YOU TO TORONTO? I found out that Vancouver Special, a short film I made last year, was scheduled to screen at the Images Festival as part of their International Super 8 Night on April 13, which just happens to be my birthday! So what better way to celebrate than visiting a city I love and haven't been to for many, many years??? Getting a chance to play Wavelength is truly the icing on the cake!!!

WHAT'VE YOU BEEN UP TO THESE DAYS? HOW'S LIFE? Oh it's busy busy busy with all kinds of new and exciting adventures, which is exactly how I like it! Making music, making movies, working as a Paid Friend to pay the bills, teaching filmmaking and helping run a non-profit media arts center, traveling around the world spreading the gospel of the cinematic revolution with my sweetheart The Polyester Prince... they say there's no rest for the wicked but sometimes I manage to find the time to ride my bike, eat nice food, do crossword puzzles, read books, drink coffee with friends, sleep in late... what more could a girl want?

YOU'RE WEBSITE IS A SMATTERING OF ART PROJECTS. MUSIC, PHOTOGRAPHY, PAINTING... DO YOU HAVE A.D.D.? No A.D.D., just a good ol' Canadian work ethic and a seemingly endless desire to pursue the new. Jack of all trades, master of none: that's me!

ARE YOU STILL IN L.A.? ARE YOU HAPPY THERE? Yeah, I'm still in LA; I've been here seven years and it seems more like seven months! It is definitely very strange to live in America and stranger still to live in LA where the insanity of urban living abounds and the cult of celebrity is inescapable. The strangest thing is that I've really come to love this city with all it's chaos and contradictions. There is boundless possibility here that I've only scratched the surface of. Happy? Hmmm. As I get older, I'm beginning to think happiness is over-rated'¦.

I KNOW IT MIGHT BE KINDA LONG, BUT CAN YOU TELL US THE STORY ABOUT HOW YOU GOT TO BE WHERE YOU ARE TODAY? I HAVE A FEELING IT'S A GOOD ONE. Yikes, where to begin? Does anybody know how they get from A to Z in this crazy life? I guess it comes down to a whole lot of luck, curiosity, The Beatles, tenacity, middle class guilt, wanderlust, the other kind of lust, television, good timing, socialism, an ongoing obsession with process over product... uh, did I mention luck? Buy me a Jamieson on the rocks some night and I'll spin you the whole sordid tale.

WHAT CAN PEOPLE EXPECT WHEN THEY COME TO SEE YOU AT WAVELENGTH? Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue... Oh, and of course a whole bunch of new merch!