New Zealand is droning! And it’s not just the Dead C and those nutty Flying Nun guys, but a VLF buzz not to dissimilar from the Taos Hum that was bothering everyone years back.
Winston Moseley was denied parole early this year. I know I know, who cares. What made this story interesting was that forty-two years ago Moseley killed Kitty Genovese – still the go-to person for urban apathy horror. I had no idea the guy was still alive, it’s like flipping through the news pages and reading a current story about Bruno Hauptmann or Charles Starkweather. Digging around a bit, I see that Charles Sobhraj, Caril Fugate, the Onion Field killers, the Manson Family and Sirhan Sirhan are all still alive too.
Hmmm. I’ve got the makings of a 2007 dead pool list here where if someone on it dies I won’t feel bad at all. Also, predictably there’s a special section of the Kew Gardens history website devoted to Kitty Genovese.
Speaking of crime, Court TV has been on a roll lately and I’m happy that they’re running a new series of Masterminds. I was worried when the network was swallowed into the Turner empire with *sigh* an edict of “a broader program mix to bring in younger viewers,” but I’m looking forward to this counterpart to Oxygen’s awesome Snapped:
CourtTV’s planned new series each have something of a crime theme, including “Til Death Do Us Part,” an offbeat look at marriages that end when one spouse kills the other, hosted by filmmaker John Waters.
Lastly, like everyone else who read the Wired article on Darren Aronofsky’s The Fountain, I’m guardedly optimistic about it and hope that it does not suck. No matter how the movie turns out, I can’t wait to see the microzoom art of Chris & Peter Parks at full Arclight Cinema resolution.