For the content-hungry

Last night we saw The Corpse Bride. It is really enjoyable. Fascinating to look at. The Danny Elfman songs are good. The narrative is also pretty good.

Here is the NY Times review of Corpse Bride. (A neat feature on the making of Corpse Bride is here The IMDB site is here. And here is the "official" movie site.

There are also a lot of web tie-ins for Corpse Bride marketing:
Sept23.com
Bony Mail
Ask the Dead

And here is the review of Thumbsucker, which I would like to see. And a review of Everything Is illuminated, which I will probably see.

Here is a review of the new Zadie Smith.


The NY Times Magazine has its first "funny pages" up with Chris Ware and others.

Elizabeth Elleson was disgusted by The Wind Up Bird Chronicle, and wants Austin schools to keep it out of the classroom

Choreographer Alicia Sanchez has some kind of dance thing that she claims is inspired by Paul Auster's The Red Notebook

In the guardian: an article about Vashti Bunyan

and
an interview with Antony
a look at John Peel's collection of 7 inches

Kristin Hersh is covering the Pixies, and Frank Black is covering Iggy Pop on some new compilation

The NY Times reviews the new pornographers' CMJ set.