Spittin' Wicked Randomness: New Year's Eve Edition
Currently on The Fake Life: My review of Pan's Labyrinth (go see it!), My Top 15 DVD's of 2006, and a New Year's Eve edition of What's Left?, concerning Alan Arkush's rock n roll comedy Get Crazy! And Bobbie makes her Fake Life debut with this well thought-out skewering of Dane Cook's Vicious Circle DVD. Check it out!
I didn't feel like I've seen enough movies this year to do a top 10 list or whatever, so I stuck with DVD releases for the article above. But the plan today is to go catch a double feature of Children of Men and Charlotte's Web, so if all goes well, maybe I'll post a preliminary list here tomorrow.
Elsewhere, check out this NPR story about the fight to save a playground made up of concrete sculptures of animals in San Gabriel. Apparently, authorities want to demolish it because it's not up to contemporary safety standards. It's a unique work of public art, an local excentricity in a world where every town looks the same, and people want to do away with it because kids could get hurt while playing on it. If I can get on my soapbox for a minute, and indulge my latent libertarian streak, kids are supposed to get hurt now and then. scraped knees, twisted ankles, even the occasional broken wrist, are parts of growing up. Kids survive them quite well, thank you. Leave this park alone. Also, scroll down the page and follow the link to this story about an even less safe "Adventure Park" in Berkeley, and this neat little essay about a mural over a playground, which kind of links this whole thing together.
Links to YouTubes of the 50 Greatest Cartoons Ever Made on one convenient page. Watch 'em before the copyright holders find out! (via Cartoon Brew)
AICN has posted video of Charlie Rose doing a roundtable interview with Mexican filmmakers Guillermo Del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth), Alfonso Cuaron (Children of Men) and Alejandro Gonzalez Inaritu (Babel).
What I should have asked for for Christmas. And, also via Bubblegum Fink, The Dukes of the Stratosphere EP! The best fake 60's psychedelic record ever!
Bandini's Best Tacos of 2006 list (essential)!
I didn't feel like I've seen enough movies this year to do a top 10 list or whatever, so I stuck with DVD releases for the article above. But the plan today is to go catch a double feature of Children of Men and Charlotte's Web, so if all goes well, maybe I'll post a preliminary list here tomorrow.
Elsewhere, check out this NPR story about the fight to save a playground made up of concrete sculptures of animals in San Gabriel. Apparently, authorities want to demolish it because it's not up to contemporary safety standards. It's a unique work of public art, an local excentricity in a world where every town looks the same, and people want to do away with it because kids could get hurt while playing on it. If I can get on my soapbox for a minute, and indulge my latent libertarian streak, kids are supposed to get hurt now and then. scraped knees, twisted ankles, even the occasional broken wrist, are parts of growing up. Kids survive them quite well, thank you. Leave this park alone. Also, scroll down the page and follow the link to this story about an even less safe "Adventure Park" in Berkeley, and this neat little essay about a mural over a playground, which kind of links this whole thing together.
Links to YouTubes of the 50 Greatest Cartoons Ever Made on one convenient page. Watch 'em before the copyright holders find out! (via Cartoon Brew)
AICN has posted video of Charlie Rose doing a roundtable interview with Mexican filmmakers Guillermo Del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth), Alfonso Cuaron (Children of Men) and Alejandro Gonzalez Inaritu (Babel).
What I should have asked for for Christmas. And, also via Bubblegum Fink, The Dukes of the Stratosphere EP! The best fake 60's psychedelic record ever!
Bandini's Best Tacos of 2006 list (essential)!
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