All I Want

My sister asked me what I want for my birthday. I replied: 1) I'm not having one this year—I've had quite a few already and don't feel the need for another one anytime soon; and 2) I really do have everything I personally need; anything else would be frivolous. However, even with those completely logical, sound excuses, she still wanted a list. So I gave her one (in no particular order):

1. World peace.
2. Accessible clean water for everyone, everywhere.
3. The abolishment of leishmaniasis.
4. Universal healthcare.
5. For Sarah Palin, Dick Cheney and anyone else I don’t like to mysteriously vaporize.
6. Psychotherapy for a year.
7. A one-year trip around the world (which would be the best psychotherapy).
8. A spell to make my cats not poop anymore (or to make them go in the toilet).
9. A really awesome guy who thinks I’m the bee’s knees and will never change his mind.
10. 26-hour days.
11. A kool new job (but I prefer the trip).
12. The ability to be invisible.
13. A Nobel prize for surgery.

But I'm still not having a birthday this year.

Stop-motion Awesomeness: “Lucía, Luis y el Lobo”

Here are two stop-motion animated films by Niles Atallah, Joaquin Cociña and Cristóbal León. These are the koolest little films I've seen in ages, dark and eery with raspily-whispered narration. Check out the artists' website, Diluvio Gallery.

Lucía, Luis y el Lobo (Lucía, Luis and the Wolf)

Lucía (2007) 3:49 min
Lucía remembers the summer in which she fell in love with Luis. The furniture whithin a bedroom is shaken and destroyed, meanwhile the charcoal Lucía appears and vanishes on the walls.



Luis (2008) 3:50 min (warning: possibly offensive language)
Luis talks about his life in the forest and his relationship with Lucía. He appears in charcoal on the walls of a room filled with broken objects that constantly shift around. Little by little the room clears up as the objects return to their proper places.



Grazie, Dudecraft and Wooster Collective!