this film wears cormac maccarthy on its chain-mail sleeve

'valhalla rising' (2009)
written & directed by nicolas winding refn

'his vision, from the constantly passing bars,
has grown so weary that it cannot hold
anything else. it seems to him there are
a thousand bars; and behind the bars, no world.

as he paces in cramped circles, over and over,
the movement of his powerful soft strides
is like a ritual dance around a center
in which a mighty will stands paralyzed.

only at times, the curtain of the pupils
lifts, quietly - an image enters in,
rushes down through the tensed, arrested muscles,
plunges into the heart and is gone.'

- 'the panther' rainer maria rilke (1875 - 1926)

from my collection

'akira club' (katsuhiro otomo)
dark horse manga, milwaukie OR 2007

'the art of ponyo' (hayao miyazaki)
viz media LLC, san francisco CA 2008

'lain illustrations' (abe yoshitoshi)
digital manga publishing, gardena CA 2006

'the art of blade of the immortal' (samura hiroaki)
dark horse manga, milwaukie OR 2010

my top 4 albums from back in the day:

the cult 'love' (1985)

siouxsie and the banshees 'hyaena' (1984)

echo and the bunnymen 'crocodiles' (1980)

x 'under the big black sun' (1982)

heart of darkness

'there's stuff that you're gonna have to get over bein scared of'

'winter's bone' (2010)
written & directed by debra granik

currently listening to:

'let me in' original motion picture soundtrack
(michael giacchino) 2010

zombies!

'the walking dead compendium one' (robert kirkman)
image comics inc., california 2010

'the new dead' (christopher golden, editor)
st martin's griffin, new york 2010

'the dead that walk' (stephen jones, editor)
ulysses press, california 2010

'the living dead' (john joseph adams, editor)
night shade books, california 2008

back in print!

'famous monsters of filmland' #252 october 2010