Quite Quite Fantastic (music blog)

Tonight: “Blonde Bombshell” @ M Modern Gallery, Palm Springs. Hosted by legendary 50′s sex-kitten Mamie Van Doren with go-go dancers! Artists include: David Lachapelle, Shepard Fairey, Chris Reccardi, Glenn Barr, Ron English, Dave Burke, George Hurrelland Bernard…

Jan 27th: Lucha in Compton. This sounds great. The main event is MISTICO, LA PARKA, DR.WAGNER, AVERNO. We will keep you posted as we know more later…

MIND GAME

Sometimes an animated movie comes along that turns your perceptions about the whole medium, upside down.  We don’t even know how to describe MIND GAME to do it justice.  Even example screengrabs or stills would tell you nothing. All we can suggest, is go out of your way to find the movie, and see it.  Mad, confusing, inspired, original and uplifting.  Japan leads the way, once again.

It’s film-making that uses another part of the brain…

MIND GAME is apparently a low-budget(!) feature debut by Yuasa Masaaki of Cat Soup & Samurai Champloo.

Stylistically, the movie is all over the place. A mix of grungey, psychedelic, cartoony hand-drawn styles, live action, CG…  and it all works! The aesthetic style changes with the emotional content, like water changing shape in different containers. We hadn’t read any plot spoilers beforehand and were holding our breaths through most of this film, intensely engaged and always surprised.

Some links:

• Movie trailer
• Reviews via Cartoon Brew
• The Gline: review
  
• Twitchfilm: Fantasia Report
• Japantimes: Interview with Director
  

Unfortunately, the MIND GAME DVD is not in stores. My imported copy with English subtitles is Region 2 and cost forty-eight bucks (!!!) Totally worth it, though!

(Download MP3) Closing Theme Song

I know this blog hasn’t been updated as regularly as it used to. This is because (1) we are too busy  (2) I am not surfing blogs as often as I used to, and  (3) am spending more of my “net time” downloading music, or uploading music. Check out the new Jukebox playlist! – No. 5 is compiled by Eddie.

Between us, we also have a stack of DVDs and books/comics piling up since Christmas. Some stuff that I am looking forward to watching/reading:

Fantastic Four/Iron Man “Big In Japan” Issues #1-4
Ultra colorful designy mayhem! Another xmas present from Eddie.

Mind Game
…mentioned on Cartoon Brew and The Gline. Very curious.

Johnny Quest – Complete 1st Season
Back when the animation drawings were cleaned-up in a cool comic-book style…

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LINKS…

Inflatable costumes for the World Cup 2006?

Podsville!

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The Stanley Kubrick “film props” Exhibition looks awesome.(Click on the ‘Panoramas’ link for a virtual tour) The show includes the ‘Korova Milkbar’ set designs from Clockwork Orange!  And it’s on in Melbourne this month!

This Is Pop! (blog) – for cool eye-candy. I want one of these…