Put four more in...... no, that's too much.

Tekkon Kinkreet was great. Complex, beautiful, nonsensical and inarguably unique. Very much like most things I love.

The Japanese animation studios are leaps and bounds ahead of anything american film or animation is doing. American's are just fine with the same things over and over again. As if hoping for tweaks here an there to alter or enhanced the same situations. This only leads to muddy, contrivance and pretension. How many times can the same type of people have the same problems? Emulated in the same way only colored different and in different shades of light. It's very tiresome. I would love to just make animated features. About anything. It's really the only way to see a reflection of someone's dreams, or envision your own. I guess that's why i find it so appealing, animation I mean. I love live action film but really it's a compromise of vision, a vision consistently stifled by the laws of our waking, conscious reality. With animation you can really tap into the very core of what you'd want to say as a film maker. Because you can say anything. Not simply allude to or emulate an idea or an emotion. Of course what I'm saying isn't any new kind of revelation. But for me it's a road I wouldn't mind taking and seeing through. Cartoons man.

I'm just finally getting into Antony and the Johnsons. And without trying to state the obvious I'll say that it's damn fine music. I'm really enjoying it.

The New Mars Volta Record is out today. Cop that shit. Best record of '08 so far, and funky as hell. You can hear a lot of Omar's Parliament influences on this one.

Oh god, I'm severely dehydrated. Hold on I'm gonna go get a glass of water...