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Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Dance of Reality trailer
Ooh, this is exciting... The film director Alejandro Jodorowsky is one of my artistic heroes. I've written about him extensively and even interviewed him once (albeit via email). Sadly, though, he hasn't made a film in over 23 years. Jodorowsky, you see, is something of an uncompromising artist and not the sort of four-quadrant guy who panders to test audiences or studio types. Over the years there have been a few false starts: a sort-of sequel to his seminal classic El Topo almost got off the ground (but didn't), and - more recently - David Lynch was set to produce [...]
The day Bob the Builder taught my child to swear…
Since playing the Bob the Builder game on the CBeebies website my 4 year-old daughter now regularly says 'A plastic sh*t!' Thanks for that, Bob.
Cookiewaits
Sesame Street's Cookie Monster + Tom Waits = Cookiewaits. It's obvious, really, and I love this much more than any man should love love some exquisitely edited video footage. Thanks to Pete for the heads-up.
The Grandfather Clock
April 24th is my youngest daughter's birthday. It would have been my Dad's, too. Here's something I wrote about the two of them.
