edward j rathke

This is the perfect intersection of america’s obsession with nostalgia and extreme grittiness.

It’s the best fifteen minutes of your day.

Morphing time!

The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness is an absolute must watch for fans of animation, anime, Studio Ghibli, or people who just want to watch a genius at work and at play.

He has a grim outlook on life and the future, and especially about the future of art, but he’s almost always laughing in this documentary. His interactions with other geniuses like Isao Takahata and Hideaki Anno are well worth the time here. Especially everything with Anno, who reminds me way too much of Kyle Muntz.

But, yes, check this out.

No seriously.

Read a Seidlinger novel and then read this silent interview with Shia LaBeouf. Read My Pet Serial Killer and then watch the video above.

It’s weird.

I mean, just read this:

At one point, LaBeouf says that he – as an only child – longed for the kind of family he saw in Home Alone; that online connections cannot replace physical presence, that he approaches social media as a game like Tetris. I’m tipsy on a train when I read this email; I pay £4 for an hour of wi-fi because I can’t wait to reply. I write, “But I’m not a ghost… there’s one of us on either side of the exchange. There’s scope for interpretation and response. That’s more variables than Tetris, no? It’s human.”

He writes back super fast. “I actually totally agree with you, it’s all about finding the humanity of the networks… Fuck Tetris. We make new games together.”