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The Butterfly Circus
While I passed Water for Elephants at the bookstore several times, I was finally hooked on the idea after viewing this short film set in a Depression era circus. The costumes and sets are wonderful. I’m always impressed when someone stretches to make inspirational art without a specific religious message.
Margaret Atwood: Sci-Fi Speculation Informs Our Choice of Future
Margaret Atwood is a good interview, and there’s plenty of interviews available. She’s done a whole series on religion on YouTube, and I previewed several vids where she discussed the MaddAddam Trilogy. The Year of the Flood is out in paperback already, and I’ll be looking for some enlightening material to post on the development [...]
The Scent of Green Papaya
After reading The Wind Up Bird Chronicles, I went looking for vids on Haruki Murakami. No such luck. There’s a couple of bootlegs of a lecture with him on YouTube, but by and large he’s been rather elusive, and claims to have never been on TV. A more recent novel, Norwegian Wood, brought him significant [...]
Johnny Mnemonic: Molly’s Prequel
William Gibson’s novel Neuromancer features a character, Molly Millions, that he developed for the story Johnny Mnemonic. It was made into a movie starring Keannu Reeves. Blast from the past, baby. Ice-T? and hey, he can hold 80 gigabytes of data in his head! What did we think a gigabyte would be in 2021?
Animal Farm: Animated in 1954
Here’s a look at the animated version of Animal Farm produced in 1954. It’s available to watch on YouTube as an eight part series originally broadcast by the BBC. Outside of the credits, it seems remarkably contemporary, probably because retro styles have come back with animators. I liked the opening in particular, and the evil [...]
Augusten Burroughs on The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos
I found this hipster-lit vid on YouTube. I will probably soften up on Augusten Burroughs as I read more of his work. At the moment, though, I’m asking myself, “If you got famous for making art out of your most miserable experiences, would you ever stop thinking about them, and just enjoy your life?”
Trailer: Ablutions
This absurd and compelling animated trailer reminds me of Mike Whiteside’s stories, which all began, ” I was sitting in this bar in Hollywood..” I may actually read the book, since I dug the flow of the prose.
Trailer: Eating Animals
Jonathan Safran Foer, the novelist best known for Everything is Illuminated has written a new book about meat. Here in the trailer he discusses his inspiration, and we meet some of the key characters. I linked to this via an article in Slate which was a discussion about whether or not a book ought to [...]
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