by Splinky

Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation - 9/8/01

This was truely a mix of tasteless humor and sick dementia that shouldn't be missed. From claymation to computer animation, this was an hour of the worst of high school classroom doodlers everywhere. The makers are insane, a few of the cartoons are really sexually explicit, and some of the topics covered are cringe-worthy to say the least. Highlights include an electric wire and bird bit, Don Hertzfeldt's rejected Family Learning Channel segments, Hangnail, and Coco the Pimp Junkie puppet bit. Stinky Monkey and Wheelchair Rebecca weren't bad either, and the opening bit with Spike shooting an automatic rifle off at various Pokemon statuary, jars of pickles, and a dancing Santa doll is fantastic. You bastards need help. The last 20 minutes gets very demented and sexually nasty, especially Clayboy and Motermouth & Mute. Anyway, this is something I took my mother with me to see, but she's open-minded with a bad enough sense of humor to enjoy most of it. So if you go, take someone with a strong stomach. But don't miss it. Go EVERY YEAR. You'll regret it, but come out a better  for it. I've been going since I was 7 and I turned out just fine after all.

Blood, The Last Vampire [anime] - 9/9/01

An excellent addition to nonsensical japanimation movies with fragmented plotlines from the people who brought us the Masterpiece "Ghost in the Shell". But those are the best kinds. The animation itself was a beautiful realistic mix between hand drawn cells and computer animations [not something you see every day after all], the characters are memorable in a "What the HELL" type of way, and the associations is completely off the wall. A vampire, the LAST original vampire is hunting these tainted lesser blood-lusting beasts that feast and hybernate apparently. The catch is, this japanese vampire is working for an American CIA-esque organization...in Japan. The agents are right out of Hawaii 5-0, badass, and so nonchalant about the massive carnage around them, it makes you wonder how they act at home.
Go see it. Or buy it, it's on sale at select entertainment stores.