1. "Sergei Prokofiev's Peter & the Wolf": Suzie Templeton's 29-minute stop-motion short in its entirety. (Hattip to House contrib Peet Gelderblom who writes on the film in his aptly titled blog entry "Boys like Peet are not afraid of wolves".)
["The best animated picture of 2006 wasn't made by Pixar, Disney, DreamWorks, Blue Sky, Warner Bros. or Sony Pictures. It didn't feature any talking or dancing animals. It wasn't directed by Nick Park, Hayao Miyazaki or George Miller. It's neither CGI nor drawn. Hell, it wasn't even released in the US last year."]
2. "One on One with Jason Statham!": My man! Maybe soon to play the Sub-Mariner?!! (I say yea.) (Hattip to House contrib John Lichman.)
["It's funny, I took a meeting for Sub-Mariner. I don't know if I'd look right running around in a tight speedo with wings on my ankles but there's so many cool fucking characters."]
3. "Chávez says he chews coca daily": Another piece of the puzzle... (Hattip to House contributor Lauren Wissot.)
["Venezuela's controversial President Hugo Chávez has revealed that he regularly consumes coca—the source of cocaine—raising questions about the legality of his actions."]
4. Mike D'Angelo reports for Screengrab from Sundance, nine parts so far (if not in total): One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine.
["Persepolis didn't impress me much as a coming-of-age memoir, but even I, filing one of the few dissenting reviews amidst the tsunami of fervent acclaim, had to admit that its monochromatic animation style was stunning to behold on a frame-to-frame basis. If you, like me, are partial to stark black-and-white drawings, but would rather watch some poor dude being used as an insect incubator than a little girl in a chador singing "Eye of the Tiger," keep an eye out for Fear(s) of the Dark, a French-financed omnibus horror film that provides six renowned artists and illustrators with a forum to explore their personal phobias, using any graphic tool save for color."]
5. "Stowaway kitten makes it home again": The world is a better place when kitties are safe.
["How many lives did kitten Gracie Mae use up when she crawled into her owner's suitcase, went through an airport X-ray machine, got loaded onto a plane, thrown onto a baggage belt and mistakenly picked up by a stranger far from home? "She's got to be at four or five now," Seth Levy said after his 10-month-old pet was returned Sunday night by a kind stranger who went home to Fort Worth, Texas, with the wrong bag and Gracie inside to boot. "]
Quote of the Day: Rumi
Image of the Day (click to enlarge): From Groundhog Day (1993)
Clip of the Day: You know what scares me? Wheelers.
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