Surprise earworming

Damn you Pillock! Now I've got that stupid Starship song in my head. AND I ONLY KNOW THE DAMNED CHORUS!

Sunday Trade: Calvin & Hobbes

Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat: A Calvin & Hobbes Collection by Bill Watterson

There are children and teens growing up RIGHT NOW who will have never had the chance to experience Peanuts in its natural state. Or Bloom County. Or Calvin & Hobbes. Which makes me feel sad. Also old. But also sad...

The Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat collection has a copyright of 1994. That was FOURTEEN years ago. FOURTEEN. Some of you people have kids younger than that. Do they know who Calvin & Hobbes are? Do they only know them from various car window paste ons? Or from people's internet icons? Go and ask them. I'll wait...

Thats not to say there aren't good "strip" style comics being produced. But look at them. I love Get Fuzzy. Its funny and clever and fun. But I've based half my life on philosophies I picked up from C&H. Including some of the less than ideal ones that I probably WASN'T meant to adopt from Calvin. And yeah, webcomics are the future and so forth...

But I don't know if we'll get lucky enough to have people like Charles Schultz or old-school Berkle Breathed or Bill Watterson again. And thats just a pity...

Once

The gimmick here is that as the actors wrote and performed the songs their characters are creating in the movie. The acting is solid overall but the movie itself just feels..slight? Not sure. And while the music is good its also mostly forgettable, with the exception of the Oscar nominated "Falling Slowly". Really there is nothing bad here, there just isn't anything that really feels exceptional to me, especially given all the praise its recieved. Well other than the film-makers ability to shoot large sections using a handcam and not have it be annoying...

Still "Falling Slowly" really is a very nice song...