Our Lady of Perpetual Hell

Man, if these things weren’t twice as expensive as they should be, I’d buy almost every design!

How could I choose just one?!

I couldn’t!!

R.I.P., Lee Hazlewood. Lissen to his cool, creepy version of his song that made Nancy Sinatra famous…

Further proof you mustn’t run with scissors.

Incidentally, a while back (quite a while back, actually!), I mentioned a little film by documentarian Les Blank, called Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe. This is actually connected to my earlier post today, in that Herzog promised to eat said shoe if Errol Morris ever finished a film. He meant the dare as an encouragement to Morris, and it worked: Morris finished Gates of Heaven (see clip in previous post). And Herzog ate his shoe. With garlic and onions.

As Grrrlz Movie Night awaits the arrival of The Thin Blue Line at the top of my ZipList (at the request of one of the Grrrlz who’s never seen it), online I found posted a good documentary overview about its maker, Errol Morris…

(Note that it may take longer than usual for this post to completely load. It’s just because it’s so loaded with goodies, and is totally worth the wait!)

I have seen most of his films and I think they are either hit or miss… “misses” being Vernon, Florida and Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (both of which I think are partially successful but ultimately unsatisfying because they feel a little scattered to me… and, damn, I wish he’d tackled the original subject matter he’d had in mind for Vernon, Florida!), and “hits” being Gates of Heaven (here’s a clip…)

and The Thin Blue Line (which you can watch in a series of 10-minute segments posted online…)

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Part 7
Part 8
Part 9
Part 10

and Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter (which you can watch here…)

and The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (which someone has posted here…)

and, to a somewhat lesser extent, A Brief History of Time (which is more about Hawking than his book, and which you can watch right here…)

…just some interesting diversions for a rainy day on a long weekend.