Looking forward to Green Lantern animated feature

Henry Ford Museum Pics

Over Christmas, we went to the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. Lots of nifty stuff. Here's the bus Rosa Parks sat in the front of. Someone in Birmingham must have been a GL fan.


Cool old Harley:


Here's a poem about Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion House:

Theremin Interview; Alex Gross's Green Lantern; TM:SNC Quote

Items:

• Recently we watched the Criterion version of the 1945 Hitchcock classic Spellbound, a film that made use of the Theremin. Here's one of the DVD extras, an episode of the Fishko Files in which WNYC radio host Sara Fishko takes a Theremin lesson.
• Do yourself a favor and check out the work of Alex Gross. I saw a copy of his new book today, and it was far out! Here's a painting of an old photograph he saw of a guy who kind of looked like the original Green Lantern. A little artistic license, and voilà!

• A real good music film -- Thelonious Monk: Straight No Chaser. Monk is one of my three favorite jazz musicians (the other two being Duke Ellington and Dave Brubeck). Interesting side note -- TM:SNC is the film that (as far as I know) has the first use of the phrase "You'll flip. I mean flip for real." later adapted and immortalized in The Usual Suspects as follows: Fenster - "I said he'll flip you." Cop - "He'll what?" Fenster - "Flip you. Flip ya for real." Monk actually used the phrase (at 01:07:38) after Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter gave him an expensive magic marker, and he was commenting on the illegibility of his autographs: "Get somebody that can decipher that for you, you know, and say what it means... and get what it means... you know. It'll upset you. You'll flip. I mean flip for real." (I just updated the Wikipedia page on Unusual Suspects to make that clarification.)