Musicals and Mexicans
It's a half-hearted stab at trying to get back in the swing of updating this thing, but I found this short list of films recommended by filmmaker Richard Linklater to be a pleasantly distracting diversion from the day's pressures and put-ons.
Bitchinville
Back in the early '80s, during a long, hot summer in Redlands, CA, my brother Matt and his friend Michael Keys and I made an entire town out of orange crates and pallets. We called the town we built Bitchinville, because, to a gang of Led Zeppelin-listenin' Star Wars and Dungeons and Dragons geeks like us, it was the most bitchin' place on Earth.
Today, my brother lives in Norway and Mike Keys is dead, but Bitchinville's memory lives on...
