Month: January 2003

  • This came in the post today, from WB: It’s Krypto the superdog! It’s hard to imagine this cute and fluffy little puppy version having superpowers… (and we didn’t know he had long whiskers!) but he will, in the project we’re going to work on…

    Krypto’s super-powers – including X-ray vision, super-strength, invulnerability, and the power of flight - are similar, if not identical, to Superman’s own, although his strength is undoubtedly not as great as Superman’s, just as the strength of an ordinary dog is not as great as that of an ordinary man. On the other hand, however, Krypto’s super-hearing and “super-keen sense of smell” are probably more acute in a canine that in an ordinary human being.  Like any surviving native of Krypton, Krypto the Superdog is vulnerable to kryptonite.

    - Quoted text and image from the Krypto website 

  • …We watched The Frightened City (1961) last night – a great b/w crime noir starring a pre-Bond Sean Connery; with a very cool twangy-guitar and bongos soundtrack.

  • Mothman Prophecies

    We finally got around to watching this on video – especially since Eddie had read the book by John Keel. Here’s an apt review that compares the film with the book – Hollywood Vs.The Moth

    In this eerie supernatural thriller, the title character literally phones in his performance – as a disembodied electronic voice calling Richard Gere and the rest of the cast at inconvenient hours. In the few instances when we’re afforded an onscreen sighting of the creature, it’s a fleeting apparition, the film equivalent of a Rorschach blotch.

    As Eddie says: “Less Prophecies! More MOTHMAN!”

  • “Dancers” found on the japanese version of this site: Geisha Asobi Blog. Description by the owner, Asobi Tsuchiya:

    “Geisha asobi blog” is link site which is introduce funny, crazy and interesting site. We have many crazy sites in my country, Japan, I pick up some interesting sites for people don’t understand Japanese.

  •  MUCHA LUCHA Press

    All links to articles/reviews of ¡Mucha Lucha! are now archived in one place - this page will be updated as soon as we find more stuff. You can access this page via the little “ML Press” link on the right. Please be sure to contact us if you know of any other reviews!

    See the Mucha Lucha press archive

  •  DO THE ALI SHUFFLE

    …Have been listening to: some great mix tapes and CDs from overseas (traded through AOTM). Last night, we listened to the very fun and funky Ali Shuffle - courtesy of laufi from Munich. Also listening to: Voodoo! , and I am one with the surf …and more…

  • ANIMATION NEWS

    Here is the list of nominees for The Annie Awards this year. So how does one enter this ‘prestigious’ Hollywood festival? As quoted from the Rules page:

    SUBMISSION ELIGIBILITY
    Entries submitted for consideration must be from productions that first publicly aired or were exhibited in an animation festival or were commercially released in the United States between August 1, 2001 and December 31, 2002 .    … The person submitting the entry must be a member of ASIFA-Hollywood in good standing. While any individual may submit an entry for consideration, each entry form must be signed by an Executive Producer or Producer associated with the production.

  •  A pair of stuffed toy panda bears floated past the camera as the two men, dressed in coveralls with Chinese flags on the chest, donned space suits in the background.The broadcast added to signs of China’s growing confidence in its effort to become the third nation, after Russia and the United States, able to send its own astronauts into orbit.

    From this news article: Rare glimpse at Chinese astronauts

    Our space race cartoon could in fact, be very timely…

  • COSMIC BABY: IMAGES


    Click on each pic for a closer look (higher resolution)



    “Kitty want to try one?”



    “Better turn the people’s heroic music back on”



    ???



    stinky stuff…



    Double Happiness



    Cosmic Baby and Laika

  • LUCHA VA VOOM

    It’s coming soon – February 13th, and hopefully we’ll be there this year to see it! (the website). Mexican wrestling meets burlesque with Blue Demon Jr., La Parka and Neutron Jr. vs Medico Asisino Jr, Dr. O’Brien and Karonte 2000 and midgets.