For my Birthday...

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Please to be recommending the following:

1. A book.
2. A movie.
3. Someone I should follow (can be here or DW, on twitter, a blog I should add to my blogroll, etc).

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[ayun.livejournal.com]

1. The last novel I really enjoyed was Sharp Teeth by Toby Barlow. It's a blank verse novel about LA werewolves and a dogcatcher. You can get a sense of the author from his Book Notes post on Largehearted Boy:
http://www.largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2008/02/book_notes_toby.html

2. I saw The Brothers Bloom over the weekend - it's written and directed by Rian Johnson, who did Brick, that hyper-stylized high school noir a couple of years ago. This one is about con artists and the urge to create a narrative for your own life. Really great production design and costumes. Will make you want to construct a pinhole camera out of a watermelon and/or learn how to build explosives out of doll parts. It reminded me in some ways of The Lady Eve.

3. The last blog I added to my RSS feed was Zoo Borns - pictures of baby animals from zoos around the world. Total fluff: occasionally hilarious, reliably cute:
http://www.zooborns.com/zooborns/