A Town Called Panic
This was a great recommendation from a friend, and my son's first foray into subtitled movies. A Town Called Panic (Pannique au Village) is a truly bizarre stop-motion animation adventure featuring 3 cheap plastic toys (Horse, Cowboy, and Indian) as the main protagonists. The first plot point involves dealing with 50 million bricks by accident and it just gets weirder from there, including a trip to the earth's core, a donkey drummer, and a giant robot penguin. The film's creators clearly had a blast thinking like kids and just letting their imaginations stretch. Currently streaming on Netflix.
This was a great recommendation from a friend, and my son's first foray into subtitled movies. A Town Called Panic (Pannique au Village) is a truly bizarre stop-motion animation adventure featuring 3 cheap plastic toys (Horse, Cowboy, and Indian) as the main protagonists. The first plot point involves dealing with 50 million bricks by accident and it just gets weirder from there, including a trip to the earth's core, a donkey drummer, and a giant robot penguin. The film's creators clearly had a blast thinking like kids and just letting their imaginations stretch. Currently streaming on Netflix.
Scapegoat Wax
Hey, remember Jet Set Radio Future? Probably not: it was a video game about inline-skating graffiti artists that I only know because it came bundled with my Xbox about 12 years ago. It was a pretty fun game with a soundtrack that is now the stuff of legend in videogame hipster lore. A tune by hop-hop duo "Scapegoat Wax" surfaced on the radio recently and I looked them up on good old Spotify. Turns out they did a song from JSRF (Aisle 10) that I really dug. Their album Okeeblow isn't an all-time great by any stretch but there are some really solid tracks in this eclectic mix of rap, funk, and acoustic pop. "Aisle 10," "Freeway," and "Eardrum" are among the highlights
Hey, remember Jet Set Radio Future? Probably not: it was a video game about inline-skating graffiti artists that I only know because it came bundled with my Xbox about 12 years ago. It was a pretty fun game with a soundtrack that is now the stuff of legend in videogame hipster lore. A tune by hop-hop duo "Scapegoat Wax" surfaced on the radio recently and I looked them up on good old Spotify. Turns out they did a song from JSRF (Aisle 10) that I really dug. Their album Okeeblow isn't an all-time great by any stretch but there are some really solid tracks in this eclectic mix of rap, funk, and acoustic pop. "Aisle 10," "Freeway," and "Eardrum" are among the highlights
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