I Am Link

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--- First off a Happy 43rd Birthday to Miss JK Rowling today! 43 stinking years old and richer than the Queen. Damn.

And since Jo's about the nicest mega-billionaire around, she's giving us a gift today: news that The Tales of Beedle the Bard, her companion piece to the Harry Potter series that up until now was only available in super-duper-extra-limited (as in there were seven freaking copies made) editions, is going to be released for all us Potter-philes to wait in line for hours for at the local Barnes & Noble and then snatch out of a wide-eyed child's hands at 12:01am on December 4th of this year. Yay! And all the cash goes to charity.

--- Such Swede Blood - STYD has word that the Swedish vampire flick Let the Right One In is actually going to get a release here in the States in October; I'm psyched because word-o-mouth on it has been excellent, and after this morning's shitty Meat Train news this makes the world seem less terrible.

--- Bunny Blowed Up Real Good - Rich at FourFour understands things. Deeply. Like why Neil Marshall's last flick Doomsday kicks so very very much ass.

--- The Crystal Lake Crowd - You know why the remake of Friday the 13th will probably suck, at least in comparison with the original? It won't have this group of characters as plotted out by Billy Loves Stu populating the area.They're positively Twin-Peaksian.

--- Don't! Stacie Ponder's latest column at AMC tackles a dream-list of double-features for the Drive-In, and is wonderful. Her final entry reminded me of Edgar Wright's wonderful fake-trailer from Grindhouse for "Don't!" So I'm posting that trailer, because I laugh and laugh whenever I see it. Ah laughter. It's like medicine!

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