What is your favorite fairy tale, and what version is it that is your favorite? No Disney stuff.

Very hard question. I think my favorite is Beauty and the Beast but my favorite version is the one that I see in my head.

But my favorite fairy tale character is the Big Bad Wolf.

Who do you want to be?

Movies to Watch in April

So March is about over. I saw Paul and liked it. It wasn't great but it was a decent and fun diversion. I might see Sucker Punch tomorrow but I think the reviews might make it a rental for me. There are lots of other films for me to see from this month but, seeing as we're heading into April, there are tons of movies to check out here too.

Paramount of these is Your Highness, with James Franco, Natalie Portman, and... Danny McBride? Seriously, this movie looks hillarious and there are very few comedies that look funny to me. A high fantasy adventure mixed with low-brow humor and pot jokes. It's a recipe for disaster but something tells me this is going to work.

Here are my other April Picks... with trailers!:

• Source Code (You've seen the ads so there's no need for the trailer link)
• Super
• Cat Run
• Dylan Dog (I also want to check out the obscure comic this is based on.)
• The Greatest Movie Ever Sold

And there's even more coming in May, but we don't need to have a whole blog post based on Thor, now do we?

The Oscars are tonight. I'm trying to avoid them. I'm sure King's Speech will win but I want anything else to win but it because King's Speech seems like the obvious winner. We'll see. Really, I'm trying to hold on to my self-made promise not to care about things like that. What does it matter what awards movie makers give to other movie makers? All I should care about are what movies I like. All you should care about are what movies you like. Screw Hollywood, Bollywood, the indie scene, whoever. Awards are meaningless. Celebrate the art that means something to you tonight.

So certain people will kill me for admitting that I'd never heard "Heads Will Roll" by the Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs before it was on the Glee Super Bowl episode. But, even though that ruins my cred, I think it's embarrassing that YYY fans are scoffing at all of the people who now like the song because they found it through Glee. When did being popular become bad? Why can't we be happy when people discover the things we love? Being first does NOT make you special. It just makes you first.

Now shut up and enjoy the music.

Whenever I see the mug shot of the Jared Loughner, the psycho-killer from Tuscon, I am, of course, freaked out by his expression. Maybe it wouldn't be so scary if we didn't know what he's done but I think he looks pretty crazy regardless. What really frightens me, however, is that he doesn't understand--he has no capacity to understand--what he's done.

Loughner was clearly mentally ill but he wasn't being treated for it. He should have been put into a psychiatric hospital before he could do something like this. Sure, he was kicked out of school but all that did was make the people in that environment feel safe. They didn't go far enough in making sure everyone was safe. I'm not faulting them. How many times have I seen someone who clearly had a problem and just shook my head with pity? Shaking our heads and sweeping madness under the rug isn't good enough. I suspect that a large part of the violence in our society stems from undiagnosed mental illness. We're putting people in jail or, worse, we're letting them roam the streets when they should be somewhere that will provide them with proper medical treatment.

Fitz and the Tantrums - MoneyGrabber

Happy New Year, everyone! To celebrate, here's a song from last year: Money Grabber by Fitz and the Tantrums. It's a huge throwback to soul music--a trend I hope keeps growing and evolving into a genuinely modern movement. While the sound is definitely from the sixties, the look of the band is sixties inspired eighties.