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Very excited about Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street opening this month (which does not guarantee I will make it to theater to see it, but excited nevertheless). My best friend Dobkins gave me the LP of the Original Broadway Cast Recording when I was still going to community college back in the early 80's. I was ( Read more... )

Cool! Just heard about this - Anime Bento ( Read more... )

The Biology of B-Movie Monsters
http://fathom.lib.uchicago.edu/2/21701757/

I love weird creatures in my fantasy and science fiction, but it's also fun figuring out whether they would actually work. Granted, most of the B-movies mentioned are fun just because they're so ( Read more... )

Ok, angelsmum, your next assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to teach Gemma to do this:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6742988194956129075&q=dalmation

Hmmm, maybe not - no one'll ever be able to keep up with her then...

I'm sitting here listening to the Escaflowne movie soundtrack as I do my monthly landings report. I'm realizing that a few of the orchestral/choral pieces in it (Dance of Curse and Black Escaflowne) remind me a lot of Carmina Burana. Not that that's a bad thing.

The Last Unicorn remains one of my best-loved books, since a favorite English teacher in high school gave me a copy. By turns, touching, tragic and humorous (how could it not be, with a clumsy wizard named Schmendrick), I loved the language and all the little cultural references for the time it was written the author tossed in - which I wonder if ( Read more... )

I watched Il Postino over the weekend, while folding several loads of laundry (and why is it, after all that laundry, that I can't find clean shirts for the boys for school this morning, I wonder ( Read more... )

John just called and they're on their way to pick me up from work. I am searching for pictures of bluefin or yellowfin tuna to use for a flyer for Dave and Steve's retirement party (we actually have a committee to plan this thing, coming up in November). I have found a few that don't involve fishing boats or lines; even though those two are avid ( Read more... )

I guess the kids got Happy (crappy) Meals yesterday which included toys from the Fantastic Four movie. Angus has been having fun making the Invisible Woman change colors from blue to clear; last night he put her in a cup of water and stuck it in the freezer to make sure she was blue this morning. He was trying to thaw her out of her ice cube when ( Read more... )

I never really thought of Jackie Chan as being able to sing.

My dad found a copy of Mulan at the store on sale, for about 1/3 the original price. It has a music video of him singing "I'll Make a Man Out of You" in Chinese.

He actually has a rather decent voice.