Last night I watched

the forgotten Pixar movie, A Bug's Life. Oh holy crap. Hadn't seen it since it came out in theaters years ago, and it really satnds up with the rest of the Pixar ouvre. These guys (and girls) can do no wrong. Its a bit formulaic, sure: you get a oft-forgotten world (i.e. Toys, Bugs, Monsters, Fish) populated with real characters, not one dimensional trick ponies like Madagascar or Ice Age. Flik, and Dot, and Princesss whatever her name was (Julia Louis Dreyfuss, perfectly cast) and all the others are deeply emotionally complicated characters that rival anything on "adult" film or TV. The world is also always so real, so well designed, so textured, so full of life and hustle and bustle. The amount of leaf drawings and sculptures the Pixar team must have done for that one... it boggles the mind. People complain that they're too cute, but these are children's movies. And I'd argue that they're smart and clever enough that the cuteness has enough insight in it to keep me, at the very least, entertained and not oversugared. David Hyde Pierce plays a walking stick who complained of being constantly typecast as, well, a stick. The queen had this adorable little animal that apparently has a symbiotic relationship with ants, and the whole thing was loosely based on the food cycle. Less than two months 'til Cars. Check the trailer... they stepped it up again.


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My blog's not

looking so hot. I should really start writing in it more. Then I won't feel like as much of an ass when I tell people I have a blog. Peter Shippy told me today I could be in a blog, I feel like that's a face-for-radio type compliment, but whatever. I didn't tell him about this little operation. Maybe once it's a little more.... fleshed out.

I can't believe I wrote a blog post about blogging. sick