Eleminternet -or- Baker Street Irregular

To illustrate the greatness of what you can find on the internet, I link this excellent and easy find. It's a collection of copyright free Sherlock Holmes radio shows starring my favorite team Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, as well as Sir Sir John Geilgud and Sir Ralph Richardson along with many other actors.
Basil Rathbone is my favorite Sherlock. When I think of Sherlock, Basil's voice, face and mannerisms all come to mind. I do wish Nigel Bruce's portrayal of Watson was a little less vacuous, but the personal friendship and camaraderie between Basil and Nigel shines through and only adds to the validity of the characters. I heard a story where they would both intentionally walk on each others lines during the live broadcast in the attempt to throw one another off, which usually only served to throw off the ancillary actors instead.
My favorite parts always seem to be the initial meeting of the client, in which Sherlock seemingly divines deeply personal aspects of the patron, only to immediately reveal the divination only to be a higher attention to detail, which all of us could have if we just practiced it. An intelligent character who challenges others to be intelligent. Ah, bliss.
Although the collection is far from complete, (wiki says that Basil and Nigel made 200 radio shows alone) there are many hours available. Download or just listen online. The copyright has expired, to the benefit of all of us. The game's afoot.

In addendum, there will be a new Sherlock Holmes movie released in 2009 which stars Robert Downey Jr. as Sherlock and Jude Law as Watson. Although the title roll going to Robert Downey Jr. is very encouraging, it also lists Rachel McAdams as Irene Adler, which means there will be a love story in it. Does everything that Hackywood do have to have a fuckin love story in it? Sherlock was about the game of solving the crime, not getting the girl. If you had to put one in, it should have been Watson since Sherlock was, as a point of character, a confirmed bachelor, even counting Irene Adler. His interest in her was more of criminal intelligence than sexual lust.
As immediate evidence that the internet can provide embedded in this very text, have a listen to the first 2 minutes (or the whole thing) of this read of A Scandal in Bohemia read by the great Basil Rathbone himself.

Don't screw this one up, Hollywood. Please, he said to deaf ears.

Animator Chuck Jones

As a spotlight, I could mention his academy awards, his being voted 4 of the top 5 Top 20 Cartoons, or How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Personally, I could mention how I can spot his style as easy as I can hear George Harrison riffs in a song, or how he defined Tom and Jerry over all the animators that did T&J over the years. I could also go the easy route and post videos of "What's Opera Doc" and "Duck Dodgers in the 24th & 1/2 Century". Instead, to let him speak for himself and his style to speak for my adoration, I post two of the more obscure (if anything Chuck did commercially was obscure) but no less loved cartoons.
Ralph Phillips's Boyhood Daze

and A to Zzzzz

Deep Thoughtentosh or G42

It's true.

and while I'm at it...

I bet it doesn't beat "Shawn"

...but awesome.

Bye Bye Bettie

The queen is dead. Long live the queen.

Bebop Dream Team

The internet rumors are circling about a live-action Cowboy Bebop movie with Keanu Reeves as Spike. Since I have neither have any desire to see Bebop live action, nor any faith in Hollywood to do anything right, (they have, they've just done much to much wrong) I offer here my dream team for a live-action Cowboy Bebop movie.

Spike Spiegel - Christian Bale

He's a very good actor. He know action. The three things that the character calls for is Martial Arts (Batman Begins), Slight of Hand (The Prestige) and enjoyment of a serious situation (American Psycho). He's got the look and the voice and he'd be an ultimately better choice than Mr. Men Don't Leave. In the research, I've also seen Hugh Jackman's name floated, which would work.

Jet Black - Ron Perlman

The perfect look, the perfect voice, and if he's not given one-liners to say, Hellboy isn't that far off from Jet.

Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV - Ivana Baquero

She's an excellent actress. When she played in Pan's Labyrinth, she was the right age and looked just like her, sans the red hair. That was two years ago but I bet she can still play younger.

Faye Valentine - Christina Ricci

Two Words: Ghost and World. Two more words: Fear and Loathing. Plus she already played Trixie so she's got experience in Anime to live-action.

Julia - Uma Thurman

Perfect.

Vicious - David Bowie

Yes. THE David Bowie. Not A David Bowie. Ya, ok. So I got lazy at the end and went for the easy one. Still...

Better pics

Looking at my pics from my WOW character, I saw I needed new ones, cuz she looks so much cooler than when I took the previous snaps. This is Dharmas. She got a big staff.
Horde Life, brothers.

Newmation

Got a new animation up. It's for a little extra incentive post-interview for a company called noodleStream, which would let me animate for a living. Animate and educate both, so cross you fingers, pray, sacrifice a goat or whatever yer pleasure, cuz I want the job. I post it here cuz it's funny to me. Especially Uncle Scratch whupin my ass. See it here.
noodleStream Job Animation
'N' don't forget to call noodleStream up to tell em how awesome I am.

Who's got time for blogging?

Not me. Not with the "New Economic Reality" rearing up to whup everyone's ass. I'm too busy selling my soul to the man. Well, at least there's a WOW expansion pack 0.01% of the entire population of the earth gave $35 bucks for. Now I have to wait 10 minutes to log on to my alternate reality. Hey, you. Get offa my cloud.

That's right. I'm a girl in my alternate reality. An undead girl. With magic. Wanna duel about it?

Left-Eye Sight - a mix

Since my left eye sees the past, I thought I'd turn it's gaze on youtube.
The Ocean Blue - Ballerina Out of Control

The Ocean Blue is a mix between The Smiths and XTC. Andy Partridge had better lyrics, Morresy had better angst. These guys were a guilty pleasure cuz I knew they weren't cool, just college-band angsty. Especially driving around downtown late at night before Bricktown was built over the ashes of the angst-heaven of dark, empty streets and boarded-up buildings.

NWA - Boys in tha Hood

Easy muthafukin E. Dr Dre, Ice Cube and Yella. Back then, I was a boring, suburban, white kid givin those beats my doe and identifying more with them than I did the kids in my hood. Now Easy's dead from the bug and Cube is doing boring, suburban, white movies identifying with the lifestyle I rebelled against by listening to NWA.

Rocky Horror- Time Warp (again)

By far, I've done the timewarp more than any other named dance ever. I've done the timewarp in my underwear more than maybe I want to admit, but at least I know I can fill it out better than Barry Bostwick. I'd like to say that I wish I had all that money back that I spent on seeing that movie, but I never paid to get in. Man I miss those people sometimes.
It's just a jump to the far left.

Dead Milkmen - I Walk the Thinnest Line

It was dark and scared the squares, so I liked it. Still do.

Smashing Pumpkins - Hummer

I lasered a groove in this track I played it so much. This was a favorite when made the turn north on Clines Corner which marked my favorite leg of my favorite road-trip. Ow! My nostalgia!

Jane's Addiction - Stop

Not that anything is too personal to post, it was a toss-up between this and Porno for Pyro's "Pets". The latter has more personal meaning for me just from when, not what. This was first, which is the only reason it made the cut and it's apples and oranges as far as I'm concerned. Hello, hearing-loss.

Cab Calloway - Minnie the Moocher

I used to speak the language of big-band jazz. It wasn't all about the rock. This version is the one I grew up with, and grew to love... which is great cuz it's still Cab Calloway. With the bonus of my hero, Tom "Bones" Malone wailin on the destructo-machine.

XTC - Summer's Cauldron
I can listen to it any time, but a late afternoon in July always makes it taste better.

cheepeats - or - Om nom nom

Hunger is the best spice, but even Kerouac wrote extensively about the finer points of eating quality food.
I had 2 really good meals recently as close to equal in delicious as to make no odds. The first was the Lafayette Chicken & Shrimp from the Longhorn Steakhouse chain which was awesome. I've never been partial to chains, but it was very tasty. You can hardly go wrong with chicken topped with melted cheese, really, but it was expensive, coming in at just under $15 bucks alone.
The second was a concoction I made from hunger and thrift. It was a 18.5 ounce can of Cambell's Chunky® Sirloin Burger soup with a half-lb of browned (not overcooked), lean ground beef added for that extra hungry... and it was amazing. Couple of slices of bread and butter and I still can't get over how good it was. It cost me around $2 total. Win.

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