Are the Country Bears in your apartment? Are you sure???

I have been watching this video in my mind ever since I first heard Lightning Bolt.

And here it is, finally, on my computer. Kind of a relief, really.

It's Perfect! You see?

I must include a couple of recent items for everybody who doesn't keep up with animation-geek sites as much as I do.

Because, Mom and Dad, you guys will love this stuff too:

1. Tyger
2. Badgered
3. Claymation Hello Kitty (scroll down and click on the Hello Kitty picture)

Well here's something before you turn out the light and get some sleep... steaming piles of free cartoons and dulcet tones, completely sui generis, from Stéphane Ricard... courtesy of the good people at fousdanim.

You are probably shaking your fist at the tv a lot these days, not least 'cause this Da Vinci movie is being advertised, and you just want it to go away.

And you blame Audrey Tautou, at least a little. And then you blame Jean-Paul Jeunet, for making Audrey into someone who has to be in movies with Tom Hanks.

Hey! Stop harshing on JPJ!! Because Delicatessen is FINALLY OUT ON (English subtitled) DVD this month, after we waited 14 years. It's one of my favorite movies of all eternity. I am so happy, I could forgive the stupid Da vinci movie. Or, at least, forget it.

I went to Graceland 2 weeks ago and now all I can find online is monsters.

Not a problem, since there are useful resources like Monsterama that direct us to scans of monster stickers.

Look what Monsterama found for us!

More great reasons to stop making special effects with a computer and start making them in the garage. Now go!

I recently picked up a marvelous collection of Roman Kachanov's Cheburashka adventures, and the glowing, Rembrandt-like collected works of Yuri Norstein, both from russiananimation.


To top it off, I just finished re-watching Stanislav Sokolov's The Miracle Maker (an Easter tradition at my house... and when his Shema Israel [at right] gets distributed stateside, I'll jump on that too).
Yeah, I was feeling pretty good, cause I pretty much, y'know, figured I'd seen all the Russian animation ever made. Yep.


Then - BEHOLD! - a searchable database with a billion Russian animated movies on it. It never stops!!! Check it out!!!!

Easter Greetings from Das Brick! 

I have given up on finding one of my all-time favorite songs, namely "Cachita" by Lucho Azcarraga, online.

Taking matters into my own hands, I have uploaded it myself from my mom's autographed LP copy of Bailando en Panama.

Here it is, kids!