* Remember when TV on the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe drew a picture of David Bowie for my David Bowie sketchbook? The Yellow Bird Project is now using it as a t-shirt design to raise money for Haiti relief. I’m very excited about this and am grateful and glad to have been a part of it. Buy one!
* I was sad to hear about the death of Corey Haim. Prior to the release of Crank: High Voltage, the only film of his I’d seen all the way through was The Lost Boys. (Blown Away I tended to fastforward to the good parts back in middle school.) But The Lost Boys is obviously a marvelous movie, and watching it recently, one of my favorite parts was Haim’s one-of-a-kind performance as some kind of junior-high dandy.
* Todd VanDerWerff liked last night’s Lost more than I did. He makes a decent case.
* As a big fan of both Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ghostface Killah, I’m please to be able to say this: Ta-Nehisi Coates on Ghostface Killah.
That shirt thing…I am in fucking awe and bow down. Are they gonna give you a box of freebies?
You really need to see Lucas. One of the best high school movie ever made. It is a feel-good comedy, but it contains much more realism about being a geek in high school than almost any other movie I can think of. It was also the debut of Winona Ryder and has a cast full of actors who later went on to have pretty lengthy careers, mainly as character actors. Ignore whatever the case or description makes it sound like and just watch it.
I saw Lucas recently and I was surprised by how much Haim’s performance actually anchored the movie. It was a Ronnie Howard-level kid performance.