I agree!

reading is sexy
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Be always on your guard.

Kpu Lap is watching.

Let the nightmare begin!

One of my favorite MST3K shorts of all time. Ooh-ee, this is gonna be dark...

In my mind there is a John Hughes movie for all decades. In it, a teenage Helen Slater is constantly dancing with James Dean

...dancing in order to keep herself from going over the edge as they await the ambulance.

Ironically, she'd written herself all those notes as a reminder to go bikini shopping

My favorite color cloaks its moves in the shadows

there’s something about putting those two characters out there dancing in space

Brief, fun interview here with Ben Burtt.

Burtt, as most of you know (good filmgeeks that you are) was the sound designer/editor for most of George Lucas' films, the Indiana Jones movies, & Dark Crystal, among many others. He was also picture editor on Star Wars episodes one-three.

Interview samples follow.

Q. And the story about your wife?
Ben Burtt: That was on Invasion of the Bodysnatchers, a long time ago. We went to listen to a sonogram of the child, my daughter Alice, who’s now grown up and has her own child. It was this great, throbbing sound, and at that time I was looking for the sound of an alien pod germinating and it sounded exactly like the alien pod germinating, so I thought why not?

Most recently, and more to the point of this interview, Burtt acted as sound and character voice designer for Wall-E...and as the voice of Wall-E himself.

Q. What’s your favourite moment from the film?
Ben Burtt: I really love the scene where they’re out in space together with the fire extinguisher, I think it’s the lyrical nature of that, the calm in the middle of the storm.

I should've found this on July Fourth, but Sarah Michelle Gellar is almost always awesome to look at

He said, "Look at it this way. No matter how you do in your events, you can't possibly blow it worse than I..."

Headline:

Bush gives US Olympians a rousing send-off

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You have my attention...

Some evenings you just feel more isolated from your culture than others

Leonard Maltin reviews The Dark Knight on his website. Makes me think I'm correct to think I wouldn't enjoy it.

The script drives home the belief that one should never negotiate with terrorists, a fateful reminder of contemporary geopolitics...but how does one reconcile that somber worldview with the goal of creating entertainment?

When it comes to comic book movies, finding the balance between not taking the superheroes seriously enough and taking them too seriously is the trickiest bit of all. If Maltin is correct--and he very well may not be--then TDK erred on the "too seriously" side of the line.

His description reminds me of something I think Frank Miller said about the comics that followed his own Dark Knight Returns comic book series: "They're not grim, they're glum."

Al Gore and Nancy Pelosi in an affectionate, friendly embrace...in a picture from the New York Times, no less.

I run this image, and link to the NY Times blog post that goes with it, for one real reason. To scare away any right-wingers who may be looking in.

This ought to be enought to make any good right-wingers head explode. Faster than they can say "There's no climate change!”

Yes!

My gray wolves are back on the endangered species list (via the AP). It's not permanent yet, but it's good news. You may remember from earlier posts that the only reason they were taken off in the first place is so Cheney and other dicks could hunt them.

Never mess with my gray wolves.