list of four

Today was weird in a nothing is as it seems kind of way. Not that the patrons were all lizard people or my co-workers giant sentient cats or anything (to be clear), but things were off and I felt awkward and clumsy and late even though I was on time and no more graceless than usual. Bah! I have a lot of half formed ideas about the power of perception and how misunderstandings can be compounded without much effort at all, but I'm tired of thinking about it and ready for it to be tomorrow.

But first, some links!

1. Wordnik is WONDERFUL! I would love to have this implanted directly into my brain. Here's what it is: "An ongoing project devoted to discovering all the words and everything about them." It's so much more than dictionary definitions, although you get plenty of those -- there's also examples from books, graphs on usage, pronunciations... it makes my heart happy! Plus, it's still new enough that you can be the first person to look up a word. (it tells you how many people have searched for a word.)

here are two words I looked up today for fun (because it's always fun!): perspicacious, serendipity

2. The video opening for the Beatles Rockband thingummy. I would watch this cartoon every week! I love their long pointy legs and the lively sense of playfulness that pervades the whole piece.

3. The We Love You So blog, which is tied in with Spike Jonze's Where The Wild Things Are movie -- they describe it as such: "This place has been established to help shed some light on many of the small influences that have converged to make this massive project a reality." I've been following it for a couple of weeks and they often have good stuff and links to other good stuff. Like this little piece on Roald Dahl's writing hut.

4. The World of Kane blog has kindly collected information about the Joann Sfar Serge Gainsbourg biopic, including these wonderful illustrations.

I love Sfar's work in comics (The Rabbi's Cat, Vampire Loves, the Professor's Daughter, Little Vampire), and am intrigued by these life and times of Gainsbourg drawings (more of which you will see if you click the link!). The film is live action and slated to come out in 2010. Gainsbourg's life certainly offers a lot of material, it will be interesting to see where they go with it.

bonus: here's Pitchfork's perfect 10.0 review of Histoire de Melody Nelson.