Death is the Road to Awe

[thehefner]

Will the Zoo even be open tomorrow? It's that time again, the time to find an animal for my second class pantomime. If it's even open what the hell am I going to find? Maybe something in the reptile house? Gah.

For the past three days, I've pretty much been listening to the soundtrack to THE FOUNTAIN on a continuous non-stop loop. It reminds me a lot of a Michael Nyman score: the utter beauty of GATTACA mixed with the obsessive beauty of THE PIANO.

My Harvey Dent/Renee Montoya retrospective is now up at scans_daily, for those of you who are interested (bloo_mountain, particularly).

Finally, I just uncovered an old gem from a drama class in my senior year of college. We were studying Ibsen, Chekhov, and Strindberg, and I had come up with a little title to call these three godfathers of realism. The ever-wonderful Liam seemed to get a real kick out of my idea and took it to heart, making this:



Classic, man. Just classic. Definitely click to see a larger version. Strindberg's totally bugfuck-crazy eyes are what really sell the whole thing.