These days, my motto is...

Life is hard. Get over it.

I don't care for...

Horror Movies.

Tezuka

An email I sent my girlfriend this morning:

Hey babe,
So I know this is a weird email to receive, considering it is about such an esoteric subject, but I just had to tell this to someone and the only people that would understand would be you and Lindsey.
I've been sitting here this morning reading Black Jack vol. 4 by Osamu Tezuka. Its about a surgeon who works on his own, outside of a hospital, but somehow he knows how to cure every weird medical disaster that comes his way. Honestly, the feelings I get when I read Tezuka's work I just can't describe, but I will try. His work is so creative, but, in this case, so based on actual medical science, that both my intellect and my imagination are enchanted. His writing just grabs me by the throat and forces me to keep reading. I honestly don't think any other author of books or comics has ever had the same effect on me.

GOD. I freaking love Tezuka's works. It is SUCH A SHAME that he is so unknown in the USA. I honestly think that if manga didn't have such a stigma here in the States because of Dragonball Z and such, his work could really be targeted to the intelligentsia and Tezuka could even be seen like Walt Disney, or at least Hayao Miyazaki.

By the way, if we ever visit Japan, we are definitely going to the Tezuka museum.

Lost in Lost

Dear Lost:
We've been together for nearly six years now and there is something I need to say to you. We've had some good times, and some bad times, but you've been there, and well, I enjoy you in my life. However, as times change, so does everyone and everything. Lost, I don't understand you anymore. Your mysteries seemed intriguing for many years, but a general lack of understanding and clarity into your very nature for this long has gotten to me. Yes, I will continue to watch you until the very end, but at this point it is more because I have stuck with you this long than anything else.
We'll always have Season 1.
Yours,
Brandon

30 Rock

Just saw the episode "Episode #210" of 30 Rock. I think the Midnight Train To Georgia was the best television moment I've seen in ages.

I couldn't have said it better myself

I've been looking for a way to say why Passing Strange makes me want to spread the news about the musical to everyone. A PS evangelist, one might say. Well, someone else found a way to say it.

It elevates Passing Strange from "very good and worth seeing" to "oh my god, am I going to do my best to make sure certain people see this as soon as possible."

From Drew McWeeny's review of Passing Strange

My Favorite Movies of 2009

Looks like this was the year of the animated feature film for me. 4 of my 10 favorite films of the year were animated in some way.

1. Passing Strange
2. Up
3. Coraline
4. The Princess And The Frog
5. Where The Wild Things Are
6. District 9
7. Star Trek
8. Ponyo
9. It Might Get Loud
10. Away We Go

Oh, and happy new year by the way.