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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
I can’t believe some people are dissing book trailers. This is art, and I want more of it. What an amazing way to be introduced to a new read!