Jeff Simmermon, a blogger at And I Am Not Lying, and a fellow cable industry shill, links to what may now be my favorite stop action animation piece of all time.  It’s a music video for Zombie Zombie’s Driving This Road Until Death Sets You Free.  The video, features footage of the band performing interspersed [...]

A few weeks ago I launched a Twitter project called @MoviesIn120. The idea was to share movie reviews in 120 characters or less. I’ve been having a good time with that and it’s starting to build a good base of followers.
Today I decided to kick off @MusicIn120 or less for much the same [...]

About 17 years ago, or so, I went to a short and animated film festival.  They had some really great work on display and I was particularly impressed with two films - Juke Bar and Balance.  It has been nearly two decades since I first saw them, and I had not seen either one since.  [...]

Thought of the day from the opening scene of the movie High Fidelity:
What came first?  The music or the misery?  People worry about kids playing with guns and watching violent videos, we’re scared that some sort of culture of violence is taking them over.  But nobody worries about kids listening to thousands — literally thousands [...]

The incident on Monday at Virginia Tech was horrible.  The capacity for the human animal to commit savagery on its fellow man is astounding.  I feel terrible for the families and friends of those affected by what happened.
However, when I watched Cho Seung-Hui’s video tonight, I broke up laughing.  I couldn’t help but think of how [...]