Bleary eyed, yes. Smeared on the Interstate, no. I made it back from Chicago last night to find a bloody huge stack of mail waiting for me (more on that later) and some interesting info …
Whilst in Chicago I spent the week with my friend Big Bald Dave who you may have noticed insulting Day-Vuhl around here lately. It’s okay. That’s how he shows affection. Big Bald Dave runs a little film / dvd / collectibles / comic review site over here that I like a bit. I like it enough, or at least I like Dave enough, that I wrote a few reviews for it while I was there. You can read my review of Ozu’s Floating Weeds here and ones I did of Panic Room and The Good the Bad and the Ugly here, though you’ll have to scroll down a bit for those. The things I did for Jeeves and Wooster and Bubba Ho-Tep have yet to appear. And yes I went on vacation and spent a solid day doing nothing but write DVD reviews. I’m a freak.
Anyway … the stuff that affects you … Big Bald Dave and I were talking about doing some things co-operatively between the two sites and what we came up with is this: Giving things away. For free. To you. He’s got some friends over at Sideshow Collectibles who are creators and purveyors of the absolute sweetest movie figures around and just as soon as Big Bald Dave pries something suitably impressive from their grasp (we’re hoping for some large scale Hellboy stuff) we’ll be hosting a wee contest to find it a caring home. So be watching …
Oh. The stack of mail. It included my very own copy of Old Boy which is currently in competition at Cannes. Mmm. If my digital camera hadn’t died on me I’d throw some pictures of it up here, but for now you’ll have to take my word when I say that this is one of the better packaging jobs I’ve ever seen. And this is the supposedly ‘bare bones’ edition. Those Koreans. They’re wacky.
