Archive for September, 2006
Treasure Hunt
September 10th, 2006Over the weekend I started a new flickr group called Classic Disneyland Souvenirs. It’ll hopefully be a nice showcase for things like the 1957 Tom Sawyer Island map below (I’m still in the process of adding stuff). We already have 15 members and anyone is welcome. Tell your friends!
I Want and Gimme
September 8th, 2006If anybody has an extra $650 to blow on something, I would personally love to be gifted Essential Art House: 50 Years of Janus Films from Janus and Criterion. My birthday is coming up next month, so you still have a few weeks to go. The title of this post, by the way, came from […]
Oskar Fischinger on NPR
September 6th, 2006NPR’s Day to Day aired a good but too-brief segment on filmmaker Oskar Fischinger today. Fischinger’s influential animated shorts from the ’30s and ’40s translated the concept of abstract art into moving images; his Allegretto (1943) is a jazzy example shown below. And some of his work just recently came out on DVD! More info […]
Reviewing the Reviewers
September 5th, 2006It’s been an interesting last five weeks witnessing the variety of guest reviewers fill in on Ebert & Roeper while Roger Ebert is out recovering from surgery. I’ve been watching this in some form ever since Gene Siskel and Ebert’s Sneak Previews days, but I have to admit the show lost a lot of since […]
A Bachelor Padful of Space Age Pop
September 1st, 2006Want some spiffy old music without trucking down to the Goodwill record rack? The answer can be found in PCL Linkdump’s entrée to dozens of Space Age Pop albums for download. Don’t know the legality of those links (most of the LPs are long out of print; a few might still be available on reissued […]
