Archive for October, 2008
Vincent, a short film from 1982: Tim Burton and Vincent Price, what more do you need? [ READ MORE ]
I’ll be flying up to Kamloops this weekend. My brother’s there staying with my parents for a short time, and I’ll be visiting with him. He seems to be doing quite well now. Look, a dancing robot! [via] Lastly, a quick good luck to everyone starting NaNoWriMo this weekend. I won’t be joining you this year, unfortunately, but [ READ MORE ]
This is the first video for the My Day, Yesterday Flickr group. [via] [ READ MORE ]
We had a bit of a family emergency this last weekend. I was in Vancouver and spent a good portion of my time there in a psychiatric ward. My brother’s dealing with a lot right now, was unknowingly bipolar and unmedicated, and tried to overdose. The suicide attempt was really one of a few surprises [ READ MORE ]
You might not hear from me for a few days, as I’m off to Vancouver tomorrow for the weekend. I’ll be heading to a Weezer concert tomorrow evening and then spending the rest of the weekend with some friends. It’s a good time for a holiday. I’ll have my laptop with me, so it’s possible I’ll [ READ MORE ]
Maybe I’m up too late, but I thought this was hilarious. A-ha’s* “Take On Me” with the lyrics changed to explain the video. [via] I always really liked this video, even though I probably didn’t see it for the first time until the early nineties. Rotoscoping is always fun to watch, and being sucked into a comic [ READ MORE ]
Terry Pratchett has long been one of my favourite authors. Last summer he was diagnosed with Posterior Cortical Atrophy, a visual variant of Alzheimer’s disease, and he writes about his experience with the diagnosis in the Daily Mail [via]: I was extremely fortunate in my GP. I think she was amazed to find that of the [ READ MORE ]
Here’s a teaser for Terry Gilliam’s next project, due out next year: This is the film Heath Ledger was making at the time of his death, so they filled the rest of his role with Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell. I’d heard of this role switching a little while back, but what I hadn’t [ READ MORE ]