Fiery Parental Sri Lankan Doom!

My parents have decided to take a holiday in the "resplendent land" of Sri Lanka for a couple of weeks, and to take my mind off the fact that there will be people actively trying to kill them I'm going to think about some of the funner aspects of that troubled country. The Ramayana.

They taught us about the Ramayana story in Junior school and while not a lot of it stuck I do remember that it's about a guy who teams up with a superpowered monkey god(I love those guys) to get his girlfriend back from a ten headed demon king. Which was a damn sight more entertaining than any of the Christian parables we got taught.

Okay I'm still a little concerned, this is going to take the Ramayana story as acted out by Devendra Banhart and Natalie Portman.



Ah well, if the Tamil Tigers get them at least I'll get the house.

And now Osamu Tezuka's Cleopatra: Queen of sex

Because I've had a weird day...



Does anyone remember the time before Vertical's recent releases when everyone thought of Tezuka as that nice old man who created Astro Boy? Now it's all dog fucking and giant sperm attacks...

Isaac Hayes (1942 - 2008)

Two cool animated trailers

Before I go see Dark Knight and spend the walk home afterwards pissing off Ian by whining about the Watchmen trailer, here's some cool stuff.

Genius Party Beyound



Looks insane.

The Princess and the Frog

I'm apparently the guy who draws hot Disney girls (well that's what Bowers' says). So yeah, hot Disney girl.

Ah maybe it's not so bad...

Laaandaan...

Saw Sweeny Todd last night, it was alright, but it just made me want to see the stage version.

The visuals were too inconsistent (no, not just the bits where it was meant to be like that) it looked ike several films edited together. While it was mostly just a stylised costume drama Depp and HBC were wandering around like kids going to a My Chemical Romance gig in Harajuku. It was all over the place.

Burton made what is possibly my favourite film of all time (Ed Wood natch') and this isn't quite the return to form I'd hoped for.

Is this someting to do with Minovsky physics?

Why are all the explosions in Gundam Seed pink?

Scotch Mist

My mother keeps giving me disaproving looks because I said I wasn't paying much on the download because I'd buy the record store release if I liked it, and I haven't got round to it yet.

I am part of the problem.

Kuro & Shiro

I just watched Tekkonkinkreet, the last half hour of which is the film equivalent of a fine mist.

Plaid are pretty awesome aren't they.

The reason for the season

A very merry Christmas to the three of you who read this!

Dun-da-lun-da-lun-da-lun-da-dun...

I demand some continuing adventures in comicbook form.

Plus there wouldn't be a laughter track

My secret shame: No 1

I actually kinda' like the uniforms in Star Trek: The Motion Picture.





Though that collar on Deforest Kelley does look pretty stupid.

Shut up.

Inking

Well I find it interesting...