Behind every smile hides another row of shiny teeth!

I'm returning from the Summer's regular-job-schedule-imposed hiatus (this was the first place I had worked at since Krogers - back in the mid/late 90s, mind you - that didn't have interweb access in the office), so I'm just going to throw out some updates.

The first is this simply wonderful music video that's been floating around Cartoon Network. The show that this comes from, The Adventures of Flapjack, isn't one that I watch regularly, but the times I've caught bits and pieces seem pretty funny, plus I think it's made in Sweden and just dubbed into English:



I just love the "but your mom has poor eyesight" line - perfect!



In sadder news: As of Wednesday, August 27th, I have officially given up on Wes Anderson. I was a huge fan of Rushmore, and very much enjoyed Royal Tenenbaums. Life Aquatic was tough, but I watched it several times (and own a copy) for my Bill Murray research. Hell, I even liked Anderson's American Express advertisement. But I got around to watching The Darjeeling Limited yesterday, and it was just too much I can't deny that he's got a really distinctive cinematic style (and one hell of an eye for diegetic space), but I found Darjeeling just honestly difficult to watch. The characters and dialogue almost seemed like someone was parodying the stuff that had worked much better in Anderson's other films.

My mourning was short-lived, however, as I have found my new indie film favorite - the Campagna brothers, whose movie Six Reasons Why is just plain awesome. It's a Western (technically it's set in a post-apocalyptic Western frontier, but it does't really affect the film noticably), but the best way to describe it is as someone trying (and pretty much succeeding) to capture the spirit of Sergio Leone and other spaghetti western filmmakers. There's also a fairly gutsy narrative complication, which I think is also pulled off successfully. In a perfect world, Six Reasons Why would be opening in hundreds on theaters this weekend instead of Disaster Movie.