10:37 PM (0 comments)

“People do not seem to realize that their perception
of the world is also a confession of character.”
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

9:01 PM (0 comments)
Earlier today I got my hands on a copy of Batman: Dead End, the short film (you may still be able to download your own copy) that's been the talk of the web since it premiered at the San Diego Comicon last weekend. In short, it's fantastic. Fanboy indulgence? A bit, sure. But the look is great.

In search of more information on the people behind the film, I suffered through the AICN TalkBack until I found the link to a forum thread where the filmmaker, Sandy Collora, has been discussing the film while it was in progress. In one of his posts he was nice enough to provide a link to his own site. Nothing on the Batman film there, but he has worked on a couple commercials that I recognize.

Hopefully he and many of the other people involved with the film will find work in Hollywood--and ideally on a Batman project--as soon as possible.

2:39 PM (0 comments)
The 365 Days Project passed song #200 over the weekend. I still try to swing by every couple weeks to grab the latest and far-from-greatest. I particularly recommend the swinging horror of "Young Adults" from Hamms Beer, Wild Man Fischer and Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh doing an oddly touching (and ultimately unaired) version "The Way We Were" for the last episode of "Pee-Wee's Playhouse", "Sand"--my favorite corporate track since the brilliant "Woolworth Manager's Work Song", and--can you believe it?--the "Metamorpho Theme Song".

Via that last track's page in the 365 Archive, I found the Power Records Page. I still have a bunch of these at home! Almost all of the audio samples posted were part of my childhood's soundtrack. All he would have to add would be a bit from the Superman record "The Killer Bees"...

5:30 PM (0 comments)
New pictures, as promised. I'm going to go collapse for a while now, if that's okay with you.

In the morning: laundry, library, a flurry of work....the rush to leave town again begins anew.

12:07 PM (0 comments)
Whoa--via Metafilter, the Online Etymology Dictionary. It may not be (anywhere in the neighborhood of) comprehensive, but it does provide information I've been trying to track down for a few days: the origin of word bar with respect to the counter across which drinks are served:

bar - 12c., from O.Fr. barre, from V.L. *barra "bar, barrier," possibly from Gaulish *barros "the bushy end." Legal sense (c.1600) derives from the railing that separated benchers from the hall in the Inns of Court. Meaning of "tavern" is first attested 1592, from the bars that were pulled over the serving counter at closing time.

Y'know, in case you were wondering as well.

12:05 PM (0 comments)
Greetings from the overpriced hinterlands! Having a spectacular weekend, climbing mountains and watching people hurl themselves off, eating good food, talking to relatives, getting chased by cowboys and mountain men, etc. etc. Expect a new round of pictures to the right once I return tomorrow.