Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog

And remember, when you've had a few - or many - belts, there is no such thing as an expensive cab ride. Cheers!

"Loneliness Remembers (What Happiness Forgets)" is my favorite collaboration between Dionne Warwick - a vocalist who makes the di...

The whole world doesn't get to be Martin Scorcese, Burt Bacharach, or Jude Law. Far too often they end up being the almost-made-its. The...

For the most part, I will be taking a break from this blog for awhile. There will, no doubt, be an item plugging the next film show, the KF...

Hot off following blazing retro-surf band The Phantom Jets at the Sacramento Horror Film Festival, the footage-obsessed rapscallions of the ...

Nice vocal work by songwriter Rufus Wainright , accompanied by Burt on the keyboards, on Kentucky Bluebird/Message To Martha . Too bad he d...

My day before the calcium lights in 2007, playing the "obnoxious villager heckler" in "Now I Lay Thee Down", a music vid...

Here's the wonderful main title segment for UPA's Ham and Hattie series, animated by the incomparable Rod Scribner with his customa...

For all you horror and B-movie fans up in Northern California. . . Cinema Insomnia's tribute to Bob Wilkins and John Stanley , wry host...

How many film artists can claim to be a child vaudeville star-producer-writer-director-actor-comedian-acrobat-editor-special effects designe...

Paul Terry was both an early animation innovator and the classic unrepentant robber-baron of cartoon history. He dangled a cut of the prof...

As I have not even unloaded the car on return from a wonderful road trip yet, I absolutely will be "Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog...

Before taking a hiatus for a road trip, I'm compelled to celebrate Burt Bacharach Day. . . it is, after all, the 20th of the month! Tri...

The studio of Ub Iwerks, the guy who animated the first Mickey Mouse cartoons and was certainly the fastest pencil in the west, created s...

First and foremost, there's the Van Beuren Studio. Animation fans say "God bless Amadee J. Van Beuren", who was the personific...

With George Shearing in Berlin, 1989.

The next question: what cartoon producer would be the Walt Disney of cult/psychotronic cartoons? It's tantamount to asking who's the...

The phrase “cult movies” is not meant to describe the entertainment preferences of Heaven's Gate "straight to Saturn" club mem...

Since there are so many truly outstanding animation blogs (my "links" section doesn't even get around to all of them), I have...