I was looking for the song about the "lime in the coconut" -- and now I know it's a Harry Nilsson song called Coconut. It's one of those songs that gets stuck in your head, possibly because (according to Wikipedia), "the entire song is played using one chord, C 7th." (weird). Anyway, I found this video of a performance of it from 1971... in gorilla suits.
Gorilla suits always make me think of the end of Trading Places -- my favourite non-Christmas Christmas movie. :)
30 November 2009
28 November 2009
Rankin-Bass season
With less than 30 days to Christmas, it's the time of year we dig out the Rankin-Bass holiday specials. My niece had never seen Santa Claus is Coming to Town so I plunked in the DVD and hit play. A few minutes in, she asks, "Why is the bad guy called Burgermeister Meisterburger?"
I thought for a moment and said, "Because this show was produced at a time when there was still a lot of bad feelings towards Germans and Germany."
A few minutes later, during his anti-toy tirade, she says, "Oh, so toys were his Jews." It was impossible to watch the rest of the show without making Schindler's list comparisons.
Today, we were watching Rudolph and all we could think about was eugenics.
Hmm.
I thought for a moment and said, "Because this show was produced at a time when there was still a lot of bad feelings towards Germans and Germany."
A few minutes later, during his anti-toy tirade, she says, "Oh, so toys were his Jews." It was impossible to watch the rest of the show without making Schindler's list comparisons.
Today, we were watching Rudolph and all we could think about was eugenics.
Hmm.
26 November 2009
Happy Thanksgiving, America.
We celebrated Thanksgiving last month, of course, but that isn't stopping Hubby from cooking turkey tonight, too.
The photo at left is from a Flickr friend, Alicia, who makes wonderful crafty things. The photo shows something I never really thought about: the preparation for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. It took me a while to figure out that the balloon on the left must be Snoopy in his "versus the Red Baron" aviator outfit. On the right it looks like Mickey Mouse. Nifty.
Enjoy your turkey and pumpkin pie my American readers, and thanks for stopping by.
The photo at left is from a Flickr friend, Alicia, who makes wonderful crafty things. The photo shows something I never really thought about: the preparation for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. It took me a while to figure out that the balloon on the left must be Snoopy in his "versus the Red Baron" aviator outfit. On the right it looks like Mickey Mouse. Nifty.
Enjoy your turkey and pumpkin pie my American readers, and thanks for stopping by.
25 November 2009
More stop motion love.
In the Brick Film tradition, this is a sequence from The Matrix; I especially love the way they show the slow-motion bullets.
The above sequence (just under 90 seconds) took aproximately 440 hours to make. Here's a brief behind the scenes clip of that bullet sequence. Awesome.
The above sequence (just under 90 seconds) took aproximately 440 hours to make. Here's a brief behind the scenes clip of that bullet sequence. Awesome.
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