Weekend Wrap

I read with horror the L.A. Times report of the latest desecration to be. I came to the story thinking that the worst I had to face is the Beatles as a video game. Little did I dream of the monstrous evil contained within the text waiting to sear my soul.

I was prepared to forgive Zemeckis an awful lot because of his involvement with Roger Rabbit but wanting to remake Yellow Submarine with his soulless non-animation motion capture technique is not one of the things I can forgive. This is no longer funny cartoon death, funny cartoon death. It is contract murder of art.



I spent the weekend rewiring all the game systems in my semi-portable game system transport unit. I got the Famicom (NES) and Super Marufuku units up and running. The only 2 systems still running out to coaxial. I replaced the Playstation with a mini unit I picked up at a yard sale. It has RCA connections. (My son can have his Playstation back but I am still holding a number of his other systems hostage) All in prep of my History of Videogames class coming up this week.

Saturday night the family went out to eat with Alma Martínez (Under Fire, Zoot Suit, Barbarosa, Born In East L.A., etc). Alma was the maid of honor at our wedding. We had lost touch due to a messy divorce since we had met through her husband. (He hit me with a ruler in an 8th grade art class - long strange story) It was so much fun to catch up with this great lady of film and theater. She has her Ph.D. now and is teaching as well as acting. She is going to be doing Zoot Suit in Mexico City this year. Luis Valdez will be directing.




This Friday I meet with Seth Estrada to film my section of his documentary on the life of his father. I have been thinking a lot about Ric so I will have everything at hand or mind. That way I will not have all the the should-of-saids after the fact.

Tonight is History of Animation at Cal State Fullerton.