The District – How do you get enough money to solve the conflicts in your ghetto between the gypsies and the gangbangers so you — a gypsy boy — can spend time with your gangbanger’s daughter girlfriend? Invent a time machine and bury some mammoths in the prehistoric past under your future district. The animation and music in this film are phenomenal but I was uncharacteristically annoyed at the many subtitles.

Jack Stevenson’s: Uncensored& – Jack Stevenson is an archivist and author who now lives in Denmark. He showed a few clips covering the depiction of sex in the film world that started in Sweden and Denmark and, of course, quickly made it to the States. I would attach a picture to this item, but this is a family show. If you have an interest you can read the book.

Your Name Here – The internet archive is one of the best things in this virtual world and I was especially glad to see Industrial Film Parody “Your Name Here” on the big screen before this night’s big event.

El Laberinto del Fauno – I refuse to call this stunning new offering from Guillermo del Toro by it’s pandering US release name. It’s marketed as a fantasy piece, but the core of this film is about post-war Spanish fascists trying to extract guerillas from rural mountains. The reality of his stepdaughter’s relationship with a fantasy world is only a part of this wonderful story that will surely get a foreign film Oscar nod.

I’m having a near-summer 04-level head implosion today reading about the Military Commissions Act which passed the House and is on its way to passing the Senate. (This is the one that lets George Bush define torture and interpret the Geneva Conventions so we can all be sure we’re still the good guys. It’s also going to let the people’s branch pretend like it’s still part of our government.)

Two quotes really crystallize my view of our two political parties: