Kills two birds of obsession with one stone–my high regard for all things bovine and nostalgia for the music of my yout’. These guys never made it big on the national scene, but were one of the greatest live acts on the Minneapolis New Wave scene.
I’ll have what Tex Avery was having….
… when he made this crazy-ass cartoon.
Who Killed Who? The tumbling butler corpses is just surreal, and hilarious.
Grave of the Fireflies
September 21, 1945… that was the night I died.
Just watched this powerful, gorgeous film again last night (you can find complete versions online at surfthechannnel.com).
Animation or no, it’s one of my favorite films of all time. The ineffable beauty of childhood innocence and the brother/sister bond comes up against the unspeakable evil of the firebombing of a nation, already defeated, whose buildings were mostly made of paper and wood. Not to mention the indifference of an adult population with its own survival issues.
What imagination: the visual pairing of dying fireflies with scenes of incendiary devices trailing gently down from the American planes. What acid observation: the doctor tells the boy Seita that Setsuko, his deathly ill younger sister, needs food, not medicine, and turns his back.
(FWIW I just read that in its theatrical premier in Japan, it played on a double bill with another Studio Ghibli masterpiece, My Neighbor Totoro. That seemed weird to me at first glance, but on reflection makes perfect sense).
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Daft fun from dour Scots
I heard “French Navy,” a song from Camera Obscura’s latest album in Lowe’s the other day! But I don’t love that video. This one, however, is a lot of fun.
Friday morning twist party
This song, this video, a cup pot of coffee. (Saw this on Boing Boing.)