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How about a nice ROUND-UP?

Here is a quick round-up of what my 23 heroes are currently hard at work on. You may be interested in some of them. I’m excited, of course, for their projects to come to light. It’s what I live for, people!

• Thom Yorke is touring Europe with Atoms For Peace.
• Steve Carell is promoting THE INCREDIBLE BURT WONDERSTONE, out this Friday, and he is filming ANCHORMAN: THE LEGEND CONTINUES.
• John Steinbeck, unfortunately, is no longer doing anything.
• Bill Maher is busy hosting and writing for his weekly political program on HBO, Real Time, usually doing stand-up on weekends.
• Sarah Silverman is working on a new comedy web series called Jash.
• David Lynch is currently working on a script for a new feature film that will star Laura Dern.
• Amy Goodman is busy reporting the news five days a week for Democracy Now!.
• Tom Waits is doing god-knows-what, hopefully writing new songs, possibly preparing for Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming animation, PINOCCHIO.
• Fyodor Dostoevsky, too, I’m afraid, is long dead; Walt Disney, William Faulkner, George Carlin, and James Joyce, are no longer with us either.
• Ricky Gervais is working on the new Muppet movie, called THE MUPPETS…AGAIN!, which is set to premiere March 21, 2014, in just over a year.
• Jerry Seinfeld is touring occasionally (I’m seeing him on Friday!) and working on the second series of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, which is set to premiere in the next couple months.
• Stephen Colbert is working on the Colbert Report, which he hosts four nights a week.
• Will Ferrell is hard at work filming ANCHORMAN: THE LEGEND CONTINUES and will begin work on his new television series The Spoils of Babylon in the coming weeks.
• Rainn Wilson is currently filming the one-hour series finale of The Office, which airs May 16, 2013.
• Christopher Nolan is putting the finishing touches with Zack Snyder on MAN OF STEEL, which he produced and which premieres June 14, 2013. He is likely already at work on his new film, INTERSTELLAR, which just got an official release date of November 7, 2014.
• J. K. Rowling is working with the BBC to bring her latest novel, The Casual Vacancy, to the small screen; she is likely at work on writing a second adult novel.
• George R. R. Martin is very hard at work, among other things, writing his upcoming epic, The Winds of Winter, volume six of his medieval saga A Song of Ice and Fire.
• Kristen Wiig is filming ANCHORMAN: THE LEGEND CONTINUES with Carell and Ferrell.
• Paul Thomas Anderson is working on his next film, an adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice, set for release in 2014.

There you have it!

There they are again! In case you didn’t notice, I enjoy making these collages.

"We seek to estimate the future and its bearing on our existence, as well as dwelling fondly on the past or indulging in escapist dreams."

Walt Disney

This is Walt Disney’s “The Old Mill” (1937), as briefly featured in California Adventure’s “World of Color” show, which I’ve now seen four times and know and love.

This short won an Academy Award for its revolutionary breakthroughs in sound, animation technique, and color, not to mention its unique story and theme.

It’s worth watching, if only for its historical value in—and contributions to—the art of animation; though I must say: it is quite the entertaining piece of history. Watch!

Walt Disney, a hero of mine, and Salvador Dalí, one of my favorite artists, met in 1945 to work on a project, a collaboration. The project, called Destino, was scrapped after Dalí spent eight months storyboarding with Walt’s studio artist, John Hench. Nearly sixty years later, Roy Disney came across an 18-second short and Dalí’s storyboards and decided to revive the project. The video is about seven minutes of genius: it provides us with a front-row seat to Dalí’s world. Enjoy, for I certainly did.

some of my heroes…

happy birthday, walter elias disney!! thanks for all the nostalgic childhood memories. the movies, the cartoons, the theme parks—everything you touched turned to magic.

just spent the last… uhh, hour and a half maybe on making this. these are my major/minor heroes that have in one way or another made me who i am today. they ARE in order (read like a book).

my peeps

thom yorke,
steve carell,
john steinbeck
bill maher,
tom waits,
walt disney,
stephen colbert,
will ferrell,
jerry seinfeld,
tom hardy,
rainn wilson,
seth macfarlane,
kristen wiig,
jk rowling,
glenn miller,
noami klein,
jonny greenwood,
colin greenwood,
ed o’brien,
philip selway,
amy goodman

I think there are plenty more that I could think of, but for the most part, I wouldn’t be here today without these wonderfully talented people and their work. less dramatic: I wouldn’t be the person I am today (not even close) without them. so this is an informal, yet sincere thanks to them for the ecstasy, elation, and pure joy they have each provided me with in some way or other over the past three years or so (some for more time, some for less).

"The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique."

Walt Disney