Bill Plympton's The Tune, an off-beat animated romantic comedy, is now available on iTunes for download!
The Tune is Bill Plympton's first feature-length extravaganza was nominated for a Sundance Grand Jury Prize. It tells the story of Del, a struggling songwriter who must come up with the perfect ditty for slimeball media mogul Mr. Mega, or run the risk of losing his job and his girlfriend Didi.(Hey, JT, if you're reading this, this one by Plympton is for you.)
And while I was researching about toons and animation for work, I stumbled upon this 1985 Betty Boop and Felix comic strip:
Makes sense to me, but the bare fact is that as long as there's oil, there's going to be war.
And where there's oil, there's fried chicken (well, that was an exceptionally bad segue). I had Popeye's fried chicken last night and had to ponder over whether Popeye the Sailor Man is Greek or not (because he likes spinach and has a sweetheart named Olive Oyl). Thanks to my (Greek) boyfriend who insists this idea.
We also tried to watch Charlie Chaplin's Limelight but didn't get the chance to, which means you have to keep coming back here until I finally see it and can talk about it. Until then, watch Chaplin's Modern Times, the truth in jest film about the proletariats' plight as working class marionettes or, as JT puts it more appropriately, "cogs in the corporate wheel."
Oh, and that picture above is The Tramp's portrait I sketched a while ago.
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