Went to the Tim Burton MoMa exhibit with Vir today and it was great. I don’t care how cliche it is, I’ve been a huge fan of Burton ever since I saw a Nightmare Before Christmas when I was a kid. And no, I’m not some fat, pale wannabe Goth tween.

The exhibit was chock full of sketches, doodles, statues and props from pretty much everything Burton’s ever worked on, even his high school doodles. I had always thought of Burton’s only medium as being film, so I was pleasantly surprised at everything else I saw there (like the varying eyeballs used for Large Marge from Pee Wee’s Big Adventure).

Of course, there has to be a picture of Jack Skellington. This one in particular, was from the Nightmare display. In addition to other figurines of Nightmare characters, Jack was surrounded by other model heads they made for his various expressions throughout the movie:

Burton is a clearly talented artist and there were so many to pick and choose from. One of my favorite sketches was part of the Trick or Treat collage. Lookit the perspective:

Great way to spend the afternoon, reliving some hidden, warped desire for a childhood.

PS: There wasn’t any photography allowed in the exhibition, so all these pictures had to be taken off Google.

City of God (Cidade de Deus) 2002

This movie is awesome and it’s been out for a while, so there’s really no need to say anything more about it cause it speaks for itself. But I really didn’t expect a movie about such a grim topic (c’mon, drug lords and favelas) to be so … groovy, while still so gritty.

And Benny (“the coolest hood”), looks a lot like Moss from “The IT Crowd.” Both actors (Phellipe Haagensen and Richard Ayoade) are of Norwegian descent. Cool, huh? Lookit!

Benny: Moss:

thinking of you!

Woke up this morning to find this email from Jac in my inbox. I do love me some broccoli. Hahaaa.

She is driven and she is ready to be more productive than ever, she tells me. I wipe my greasy fingers on my jeans before responding, assuring her that she will be more than fine - she will succeed, she will have it all, she will be perfect.

I? I’ll just stick to the comforting sin of eating McDonalds and not working out and procrastination. We’re all only human after all.

I think my cousins are just about the only people I’d let use the adjectives “cute” or “baby” liberally when addressing me. They’re twins so they’re instinctively in sync with their shock and awe routine; those deadly girl bombs first stun you with their smiles and giggles; confuse you with how good they smell and how soft their hands are; and then go in for the kill. Eeeek.

I’m a bear in the midst of foxes.