Simpsons - Husbands and Knives

Why - WHY!!! - did they not devote the entire episode to Alan Moore vs. Comic Book Guy? Oh, what could have been...

Beowulf Movie

I'm curious to see this for two reasons, one being to see how a Neil Gaiman script translates to the screen, the other being the fact it's a non-cartoony CGI animated film. (By cartoony, I mean Pixar-ish.) The last non-cartoony CGI animated film I saw, Renaissance, suffered from a screenplay that was rather hackneyed, unfortunately. However, it had an impressively unique visual style, so the thought of something with an equally striking look, scripted by a writer with Gaiman's track record, is an enticing prospect.

Not that I find everything Neil does to be brilliant, but one thing you can say about him is he rarely falls victim to cliche (unless they're his own, but I like writers who invent their own cliches more than those who simply use the same ones that everybody else uses).

But... I'm still going into Beowulf with low expectations, animation-wise. While the stills look fine, from the trailers I've seen the animation comes across as a little stiff. I hope to be pleasantly surprised...

Warren Ellis's The 4am

Aside from being an accomplished writer, Warren Ellis apparently has good taste in music too. He's played 2 tracks from The Hungry Ghost CD in his music podcast The 4am this past month. "Heaven is a Dark Place" made it onto his Oct 25 show, and "This Cold Abyss" is the 2nd song on today's podcast.