Candyland

Finally saw Shaun of the Dead yesterday, very funny. Zombie movies are always a great allegory for whats going wrong with the world....with consumerism, with a handful of people seizing resources and excluding others, with people who like to hole up in their homes and ignore the problem, etc... it's a great genre. Team America, on the other hand, was a little disappointing, it ended up being a-political. It was more of a satire of the Hollywood action film, which is fine, it just wasn't as funny as their South Park material. Hmmm...what else? There's a chance that I could get to see the Throwing Muses/Pixies show in New York on December 18th. A friend apparently has a ticket on hold for me, it's just a matter of working out transportation. That'll be a once in a lifetime sort of deal, I've seen Hersh live but never the Muses....add in the Pixies and it becomes too much to comprehend, yikes. I'm reading the Italian comic Wipeout by Francesca Ghermandi. It's amazing, each page is a work of art. The imagery is sort of Woodring-esque in the sense that it combines the cute with the surreal. She utilizes imagery from billboard advertisements and bright candy colors in a story that has a sort of dark, dream-like quality. I need to find out what else she's done. On Tuesday night I am taking my lovy lover Liz to hear Kronos Quartet, who we have been listening to for years, and now we'll actually get to see them, it's exciting. Okay, happy-time purging is now complete. End.