Who's a greedy bastard then?

Go to:
http://www.supercheapauto.com/
and click on the "xmas" video.

Sexy legs 'n' all...and they let me keep the boxers.

My kids hate this ad.

More silly sheanigans from youtube....

Tickle your fancy? Just what the hell is the point of this segment? I guess if it was explained it would ruin the sheer dagginess of it all...



Blankety Blanks in the USA?



Which came first I wonder?

Danny Elfman is the Devil. It's true.



It's from this slice of weirdness...god bless the alternative 80s

Animation Kicks

I've stumbled across a couple recently that made my neck hairs tingle:
Graveyard jamboree in particular has got everything going for it, puppet, stop motion, 2d, cut out - I just loved it.




More info at Screen Novelties

and also from the incomparable Fleischer studios comes the original Mysterious Mose




Enjoy.

The Trip

So many crazy things happening in the real world at the moment - so, for the time being I'll rename this blog "Lliam Amor's Denial-emporium"

RRR's Trip magazine for it's loyal subscribers is going to do a section on the Last Laugh Theatre written by the man who started it all - John Pinder. Check it out if you can...and speaking of music:

I've had three albums on high rotation at the moment -

Koop - Koop Islands. Magnus Zingmark and Oscar Simmonson aka Koop are a wonderful cross dressing Swedish duo who a class act when it comes to spiffy electro jazz. Koop Islands features singers Ann Brun, Yukimi Nagano, Earl Zinger and Mikael Sundin and is eclectic as it is electric. Here's their MySpace page which has some sublime tracks for your listening pleasure and a great video to boot.


Brazilian Girls - Brazilian Girls. I can't tell you how much this album rocks my world. It's got everything. A beautiful lead singer who speaks 5 languages, hypnotic bass lines, wry tongue in cheek lyrics, catchy pop snags, Brechtian trousers, a chorus that you can't play to your kids (no darling, it's about a Persian king's Pet cat...Pussy, pussy, pussy Maharajah...) Get it today and you too can have that smug self satisfied look of someone who knows, baby...who knows...
BG: vocals: Sabina Sciubba, keyboards: Didi Gutman, bass: Jesse Murphy, drums: Aaron Johnston

Yann Tiersen - Black Sessions (slightly disappointed that it wasn't self titled in keeping with the others). You know Yann - he did the music for Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulaina yeah? This was a live music broadcast at a French radio station in 1992 and features him playing an assortment of instruments including a toy piano and includes guest appearances from Domenique A, Bertrand Cantat of Noir Desir, Les Tetes Raides, The Married Monk and Neil Hannon of Divine Comedy. Great stuff.

Last week I went and saw La Clique at the Spiegeltent. I had an permanent erection for a day afterwards (apologies for the terrible mental image). It’s a great, great, funny, sexy show with a dozen or so fabulous acts all tumbling out one after the other. I’m not gay but - by god - David O’Mer in the bathtub is one of the most sensual things I have ever seen. The whole show is like stepping into Woody Allen's Orgasmatron.

BubbleGum Card courtesy of BubbleGumFink - this guy is amazing - go now and check out his blog.

Theatresports Semi Finals are on this weekend and we got a nice rave in the Age (I was in this History replay scene which was satisfying) and they used my image from the flyer - yay!

Tonight I'm off to see The Time Is Not Yet Ripe - a great new/old piece of theatre directed by Jane Woollard who I did the squid play with... here's the guff:

The Time Is Not Yet Ripe
by Louis Esson

15 - 25 November, Wed-Sat 8pm (except Fri 24th at 8:30pm)
Venue: Studio One at Northcote Town Hall, 189 High St, Northcote (enter via laneway off Westbourne Grove)

Bookings: 9481 9500 $20/$10 conc

See you.

What? A Webcomic?

- edited for spurious reasons -

Till next month then....

If you're quick...

You can catch me, Heidi and Ed trying to interview Josh Lawson on the TGYH download page. This was a fun sketch and Josh is a great improviser (soon to be seen in a new watery Aussie drama I believe).

Get a Life

A couple of weeks ago I bought a copy of Get a Life at the Brunswick St Bookstore and quickly devoured it's contents. I'll admit I'm a huge fan of the clear line school of storytelling that comes out of France and Belgium. It all started as a boy with a chap called Tintin of course, then many years later when I landed in Paris I picked up a copy of Soirs de Paris by Francois Avril and Philippe Petit Roulet I was hooked from that moment on. It has been hard to find English translations of Dupuy & Berberian's work (as well as Chaland, Clerc, Trondheim etc) but thanks to the talented folk at Drawn and Quarterly and Fantagraphics etc we are starting to see more and more fantastic bande dessinee come across our shores.

I emailed Dupy & Berbian many years ago with a really, really sloppy fan letter in the vain hope that they would forgive my terrible, mangled French (and eventual collapse back into English) they did - and not only that - Charles Berberian emailed back (even now that makes me excited in a fan boy way) he then went and had a look at my website (the one I had ages ago - before the one I now have which is in dire need of an overhaul and some new content). I was in heaven after that. I bought Barcelona Carnets when I was in Leuven alongside a whole bunch of wonderful work from all sorts of artists. One day I will go back to France and stalk everyone until they sign all my books - then I can die happy (in a Paris jail no doubt for stalking poor defenseless artists).