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secret passage way in Grand Central Station

little brand new baby pine cones

a thousand shades of green

feet on the ground

zen rock

rain drops

Lunchtime

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Can I haz cheezeburger?

I know this is going around, but it is too HYSTERICAL not to post. A drunken post-St. Patricks day altercation in Texas at some fast food chain filmed by some rappers (talking before and after). what a bunch of characters.

David Cross and Will Arnett together again...

The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret is a new comedy written by David Cross and also starring Will Arnett and Spike Jonze. Its already premiered in the UK and now is coming to the States in the Fall thanks to an IFC rebranding campaign. The pilot is hilarious and I only hope this will somehow be available on the internets as I don't have cable.

TIPDOTM from sean ryan on Vimeo.

the 6th dimension

yes! I just returned from a screening of the 80's camp musical The Forbidden Zone followed by Q&A with director Richard Elfman. The last time I saw the movie was many, many, many years ago on a friend's vhs tape and it was in black & white (as originally filmed) What a delight to find out tonite the film has been digitally colorized (Elfman's vision from the beginning, he wanted hand painted frames but it was too cost prohibitive) and it was on the big screen in vibrant color glory. Original, creative, surreal, musical mishmosh and a ton of fun The Forbidden Zone is a cult classic that combines animation, 1920's musical numbers, camp, yiddish jokes and is based on Elfman's stage show Mystical Knights of Oingo Boingo. He said he originally shot it in 16mm with a couple actors and "some crazies". Friends saw it and encouraged him to shot 20 more minutes to make a feature film out of it so he shot 20 more min in 35 mm with different actors and that turned out better than the original 16mm so he re-shot the original footage in 35mm basically making the film backwards. He was also friends with Hervé Villechaize who put his own money into the film and helped paint some of the sets. A bit of trivia, Hervé Villechaize and Susan Tyrrell, who is awesome as the evil queen, dated in real life and were split up at the time of the filming thereby creating "drama" on set. This film pre-dates Pee Wee's Playhouse and came out during the Reagan era, a solid contribution to cinema history. Also, for die-hard fans, there's a Forbidden Zone 2 in the works half of it being filmed in Ghana.

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