I just want to make a quick pass at an old movie I caught again late last night, Crow: City of Angels. While many people seem to enjoy the first Crow more, I much prefer the...well, it's not a sequel, per se, but rather an extension of the setting, or a retelling of an archetypical story, in a sense. It has a relatively tight narrative and attention to semantic details (how can you beat a background grafitti of the symbol of "om"?), and with plenty of references to multiple mythologies to boot. To me it's an ideal urban folk or fairytale, with all of the dark elan and atmosphere a real fairytale should provide.

Another random thought - I think wire is an interesting medium for craft, on the basis that it's very adaptable - it can act as everything from a medium for sculpture to taking on the properties of rope, or string. I love how it has a memory for shape imparted to it, but at the same time can be called upon to take on tension against itself, as in ropes in a net, for example.

Also, an interesting column on writing in regards to the interwebnet

and a random quote that makes a quite interesting distinction, though I'll counter the vitriol towards Myspace by saying that it works quite well as a medium for keeping in touch with people, which the other two are really not able to do as well at all -
"So there is immediately a different mindset. MySpace is more about the person than what the person has to say. While Xanga and Blogger are predominately freelance soapboxes for trails of (un)conventional thought and opinions, MySpace serves as a catalyst to senseless long-distance relationships and incoherent babble by the masses."