Akira Ifukube Conducts
Akira Ifukube conducts the Osaka Symphony in a selection of his Godzilla works.
Carol
Carol Borden was editor of and a writer for the Toronto International Film Festival’s official Midnight Madness and Vanguard program blogs. She is currently an editor at and evil overlord for The Cultural Gutter, a website dedicated to thoughtful writing about disreputable art. She has written for Mezzanotte, Teleport City, Die Danger Die Die Kill, Popshifter and she has a bunch of short stories published by Fox Spirit Books including: Godzilla detective fiction, femme fatale mermaids, an adventurous translator/poet, and an x-ray tech having a bad day. Read and listen to her other shenanigans at Monstrous Industry. For her particular take on gutter culture, check out, “In the Sewer with the Alligators.”
The Butcher, The Chef and The Swordsman
Violence + cooking. It just doesn’t get any better. The Butcher, The Chef and The Swordsman.
Cinema Overdrive
Wicked posters for Raleigh, North Carolina’s Cinema Overdrive film series.
Women Read Comics in Public
Here are some pictures of the ladies reading comics for Read Comics in Public Day. As Gail Simone writes, “Take note everybody in comics!” (For the record, Carol read Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service 5 on a sidewalk bench, but there’s no photo).
48 x 61
48 vs. 61 in Rintaro and Katsushiro Otomo’s excellent bicycle racing short where the racers look kinda like Rintaro and Otomo. Also, damn fine music and possible steampunkery.
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Klingon opera has finally happened. Get an earful at Cinematical. (The musical part begins at about 2:15).
The Cultural Gutter 