I finally got around to seeing Tetsuya Nakashima's Kamikaze Girls The movie bills itself as "The extraordinary adventures of a Lolita-look aficionado and a tough biker gang chick," but I'm going to describe it as "Fight Club meets Hello Kitty meets Clueless" and that's not a bad thing at all. Go watch the trailer and then put it on your Netflix queue.
Pal J Ho has gone and done what I was telling him to do for ages - gotten himself one of them sketchblogs that all the kids are talking about. Knowing him, it's going to have a more-than-healthy amount of 80s pop-culture junk, but he's just so darn good that I can't complain overmuch.
Last year, I laid into Open Book Press's Mike Gagnon because I had the distinct feeling he was more into making press releases than actually, you know, publishing comics. Turns out I was right: Newsarama's Ryan McLelland has an excellent piece of journalism up about one creator's miserable experience with the man.
In addition to those, you can be my fake internet friend on MySpace and follow me on Twitter and look at my photographs on Flickr before buying me a present from my Amazon wishlist. Heck, you can even shop at my Amazon shop if you want to help make sure I have booze money.
