From Illustrations of Madness: Exhibiting a Singular Case of Insanity, And a No Less Remarkable Difference in Medical Opinions: Developing the Nature of An Assailment, And the Manner of Working Events; with a Description of Tortures Experienced by Bomb-Bursting, Lobster-Cracking and Lengthening the Brain.
Month: June 2006
Chester Brown’s Wonder Woman
At least as cool as Seth’s X-Men is this comic by Candian indie comic force Chester Brown, a redraw of a page from a 1941 Wonder Woman story.
Indie Canadian Movie Night: Thursday, June 15, 7 PM
This week I feel likedown-home indie Canadian cult road movies directed by Bruce Macdonald.First, ROADKILL, a low-budget, black-and-white film about a woman(Valerie Buhagiar) learning to drive, a serial killer (Don McKellar),a confused film crew, Joey Ramone, and tons of circa-1989 grungyCanadian indie music. It’s cool and gritty and funy, and it remindsme a bit of Clerks (which came 5 years later).Roadkill is only 70 minutes long, so I wanna couple that with BruceMacdonald’s much slicker 90-minute HARD CORE LOGO, a Spinal-Tap-likemockumentary about a punk band on a tour of western Canada.