Saturday, November 28, 2009

I never intended to kill this blog...

and in fact, I do maintain the gadget list of media morsels I consume during any given week. The absolute minimum contribution.

There have been some interesting films and books moving through my house these days and I'm
maybe feeling more motivated to make a real effort in annotations. Perhaps after December programming, meetings, classes, workshops, social events, etc. are over. Or, possibly, as a concurrent escape?

Monday, October 20, 2008

Fart Party / Julia Wertz

Fart Party is amazzzzing.  That's Fart. Party. By Julia Wertz. Atomic Books published a compilation of the heroically ID black and white comics one whole year ago (as of October 3), and you must read it. I cannot explain why it is what it is (and it is one of the best books I've read all year. And actually, one of the best zines of the year since I first read it in minicomic/zine form), because I won't be able to do it justice.  Simply point your browsers to fartparty.org, where you can find all sorts of thrice-weekly comic delights.  Read the most recent then compulsively read every single last one in the hefty backlog.

Uh, see also Liz Prince of Will you still love me if I wet the bed? fame.

They are both cool as hell.

Stuff I'm reading, watching, listening to this week

  • Noisy outlaws, unfriendly blobs, and some other things that aren't as scary, maybe, depending on how you feel about lost lands, stray cellphones, creatures from the sky, parents who disappear in peru, a man named Lars Farf, and one other story we couldn't quite finish so maybe you could help us out / edited by Ted Thompson with Eli Horowitz (YA F -- for work)
  • Purple Rose of Cairo / (film) Woody Allen, dir.
  • Psycho / (film, duh) Hitchcock, dir. (duh, again)
  • Meridian / Amber Kizer (YA F - for work)
  • Hets (Torment) / (film) Alf Sjöberg, dir.; Ingmar Bergman, asst. dir. ; screenplay by Ingmar Bergman.
  • Demon's Lexicon / Sarah Rees Brennan (YA F - for work)
  • Vegan Lunch Box Around the World / Jennifer McCann
  • Marcelo In the Real World / Francisco X. Stork (YA F - for work)
  • Liar / Justine Larbalestier (YA F - for work)
  • Herbal Defense: Positioning Yourself to Triumph Over Illness and Aging / Karta Purkh & Singh Khalsa
  • Kristin Lavransdatter (film) Liv Ullman, dir.
  • Bergman Island (film - documentary)
  • Prophecy of the Sisters / Michelle Zink (YA F for work)
  • Bergman Island (film) Ingmar Bergman, dir.