Well, in considering my lack of direction, I decided to complete my Disney pitch of the HMS Albatross as an animated series.
If you're interested in reading the pitch and offering advice, suggestions, or praise : ) please email me and I'll send you the pitch, which covers about 1/3 of the material I've mentally prepared for the junior novel version.
I've never really had much desire to own or wear jewelry. It's always seemed rather superfluous, not to mention a hassle. But I was watching a Discovery Channel special last night about a beautiful green glass that was forged thousands of years ago by an asteroid impact in the Sahara.
I think it would be pretty awesome to wear a piece of jewelry with that kind of natural history.
I really enjoyed this film. It was more than a little confusing at times, but I think I managed to make it to the end with both my feet on the ground. And I think that's impressive considering the surrealist storyline about journeying into people's dreams. The animation is really beautiful, although it was more restrained than I was expecting. And the film is undeniably influenced by Miyazaki, but that's never a bad thing.
It's worth a rental, but only if you've already seen Tokyo Godfathers, another, and I think better film made by the same creative team.
Futurama: Bender's Big Score
I was surprised to find I had more difficulty following this movie's storyline than Paprika's plot. There are a few good yucks here and there and the story wraps up nicely and with characteristic sentimentality. But in the end, it felt more like fan service and less like quality film. Pretty good, but not great. Then again, it took me a long time to warm up to the original series, so maybe my disappointment will change with time and repeated viewings.
UPDATE: Oh I can't resist! Here are the first 7 minutes of Tokyo Godfathers. Watch it, watch it, watch it!
And it turns out trained Japanese research chimpanzees have better short term memory than trained college students. Seems the myth of the sacred human mind has received another blow!
You've just lost nearly all my respect accrued from your great game show days.
"Darwinists"? I think the word you're searching for is biologists. "Lightening striking mud created a Boeing 747" What an infantile strawman! Come on man! It's clear you've undertaken no serious investigation of biology. In fact, I'm reminded of this:
