Jessica over at Peace Dividend is looking forward to seeing the new Hayao Miyazaki film, the released-under-Disney-rather-than-Miramax Spirited Away. Well, new for most of us. Apparently, former Pixar employees (and, y'know, folks in that one island nation in the Pacific -- Ocean of Death!) already enjoyed it ages ago.
But we will not hold this against people. Much. Publicly.
Nausicaa.net points out there's a trailer, clips and featurette up at Yahoo. Not that I can see any of this. Not without copying plugins, anyway.
Scott, whose site Mozilla doesn't care for at all, mentions Ebert & (ugh) Roeper "babbling with glee" on a recent show, but I didn't see the review(s) on the show site. For the best, probably. Seeing/hearing Roeper just makes me miss Gene Siskel and think how Elvis Mitchell should have got the gig instead.
That link takes you to the Treatment, Mr. Mitchell's show on KCRW (which seems odd, as he's on staff at The New York Times, but if Tom Joyner can do it. . .). This week's guest: comics writer and artist Frank Miller.
Think I'll pass. The library had a copy of The Dark Knight Strikes Again, and I passed on it, which should let you know how interested I am. Not even for free.
Footnotes. Yeesh.
Tom Joyner used to do the morning drivetime show in Dallas, then the afternoon drivetime in Chicago on WGC-triple-dot-that-I by getting on a plane and flying back and forth. Hence, the nicknames "The Fly Jock" and "The Hardest Working Man in Radio". Which, yes, with satellite feeds and what-not was unnecessary, but some of us like the idea of a local DJ actually being local. We're wacky that way.
Now he's got a nationally syndicated show, the availability of which probably maps pretty well with the Black population of the U.S. Can't hear it in Vermont? And this surprises you?
They're lying about Minnesota, by the way. WRNB/BlackMusicAmerica is cable-only.
Fucking Minnesota.
Just played - Miss Teena Marie. Hell yeah, I'm listening to TJMS now.
The advantage of living in the DC area is "All your movie are belong to us". I got to see C.H.O. the day after it premiered, and if I dig around I'll probably be able to find these too.
Of course, now that the wife unit has turned us into a member of the 'burb brigade' (we're moving to the Dulles area next week... 20 mi. outside the beltway), who knows what I'll be able to see.
So does that count as yet another reason not to move to Vermont?
What, you need more than one, i.e. that it's Vermont?
Scott, no idea how wide a release Disney is doing. It'll be in at least one theater in Minneapolis, but it's one of the art houses, which is probably a bad sign. . .
yay kcrw links.
Roeper...ugh.
Is the Tom Joyner show good? This is the second reference in a week to it.
Both about excellent music selections.
He plays here on KJLH but I never, ever listen to that radio station.
Why be so down on Vermont? It's the only state ever to elect a socialist senator, and I think their gay marriage law still stands, doesn't it? (please smack me if I'm wrong and missed that!!)Plus is has both mountain and big water. Can't be all bad!
I cannot be objective about Tom Joyner. Yes, great music, although you might wonder if it's a dusties show from time to time.
And from the taglines on KJLH's site -- "Southern California's Adult Choice" and "The artists you know!. . . the songs you love!" -- I can see why you'd avoid them. No chance of hearing anything new, then?
Garrity, I just avoid states where I, alone, would be a statistically significant addition to the black population just by driving through. Michelle has her own reasons. Something about snow and Sub-Zero.
She's not a big Mortal Kombat fan.
See Vermont is cold, very cold. Do you know what winters are like in Vermont? I don't deal well with winters like that. Not at all. And there's also the slight issue that my girlfriend has an interest in moving there and I don't.
Mortal Kombat? What the hell?
If the wife and I lived on the East Coast, we'd be in the same way, Michelle. Substitute "Oregon" for "Vermont," and you'll have us pegged just about right.
The Tom Joyner Show is a piece of crap that should be avoided at all costs. I want Isaac Hayes back as the morning DJ at my local radio station.
Ahem.
Your host is from Chicago, and retains a certain fondness for Tom Joyner, Doug Banks and the classic WGCI crews.
He's also in a really, really shitty mood right now.
So, what was that you were saying?
Thank goodness, George, somebody knows my pain.