Smear The Queer

I thought I could get by at least one Friday without seeing an offensive bumper sticker/car decoration. No. Last Friday nearabouts Pontotoc I saw...printed across a big Chevy trucks' windshield...."Speak English or DIE!"


.........yuh-huh.
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According to MySpace, I have a new hero now. His name is Michel Gondry. He's that French guy, who, if you watched cool videos on MTV.....he made that Bjork 'bear/nightmare' video, Daft Punk's "Around The World" video, Chemical Brothers' "Let Forever Be" video, and, most famously, the White Stripes' "Fell In Love With A Girl" and "Hardest Button To Button" videos. ORRRR....if you've never seen those, perhaps you've heard of a movie called "Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind." Yeahhhh....the director of that movie has made some of the most amazing videos ever seen by the world.

And obviously, you have to see them to believe them. I honestly cannont take my eyes off the video while it's playing. The insane amount of camera tricks he uses is astounding. Actually, most recently I've been doing kind of the same thing, and then this weekend while wathing the "The Work Of Michel Gondry" DVD, I realized that we have connected before and subconciously I've been trying to imitate his work—I just didn't know it was his work. [it's all technical mumbo-jumbo....you'll have to email me for me to explain. Or, just watch some of my commercials....I use that 'image pan/zoom' technique.]

Earlier tonight I started the "The Work Of Spike Jonze" DVD, and while Spike is good......he is a total amateur compared to Michel.



In fact, Fuck You Spike Jonze.
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**Surprise Movie Discussion!!!**
Tonight's Film: "Tim Burton's The Corpse Bride"

If I were to say that 'The Corpse Bride' was anything less than magical, I would be speaking out of my ass. In general, animated musicals always have that ability to fascinate even the oldest children. Even 24-year old children. But, when Tim Burton does an animated musical, he not only fascinates.....he tends to use Danny Elfman and lots of skeletons.

I'm angry b/c when I was young my mom didn't really like Tim Burton, so she didn't really want me watching his movies. Well, actually the only one she never let me watch was "Nightmare Before Christmas." I saw the other movies on TV.

Now, I can watch what I damn well please.....and Tim decides to do another stop-motion fantasy at the right time. I will admit, it's not particularly for children.....unless they're cool with dead people......but it's a fun film.

The only problem: it was really short. Yeah, it seemed to just be picking up pace and then just ended. I thought there was room for an expanded plot about the corpse bride and her killer....and that somehow seeing him at the wedding would bring back memories how he killed her, and then she would realize that she shouldn't marry Johnny Depp, and then more stuff would happen, and then it would be really happy.


****SPOILERS*****
Nah....it's basically Johnny Depp is betrothed to someone he doesn't know....they meet, he likes her but fucks up wedding vows at rehearsal....goes into forest to pout......recites vows....ring falls on corpse finger.....poof they're married, he's underground.....they go up, they go back down, then back up to make it official......and at the last moment the corpse bride sees real bride and says 'nah, you have him' and flutters away as butterflies.****END SPOILERS******

As I said.......every scene is just so enjoyable that you forget to notice the time and detail it took to make this world. Even with fun visuals and eye-popping songs, there just wasn't enough. I'm going to buy the DVD with the hope that they filmed about 25 more minutes but just cut it out.