Not literally, of course. BUT! You guys. I have been to the EMP's new Can't Look Away: The Lure of Horror Film exhibit twice in the past 4 days and I think I'm in love. 

The ax from The Shining! Masks from An American Werewolf in London! A full-size Alien! Actual pages from Bram Stoker's Dracula! Guillermo del Toro's illustrated journal! Freddy's glove! Jason's mask! GROSS stuff from Hostel & Hostel 2! Tons of interview footage! A scream booth! Crazy shadow creature-making special F/X! An f'ing CRITTER!!! 

*whew* ok, okay, Amie. Remember to breathe. 

But seriously, like everything at the EMP, this exhibit is totally amazeballs. They blew this thing out with enough detail to keep both casual horror fans and diehard genre buffs happy, happy, and more happy. 

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Estonia was once part of the Soviet Republic, when such a thing existed. Its location in Northeastern Europe gave Estonian leaders a big problem during the Cold War: their people were able to access television programming from the western world (from neighbor Finland). Disco and Atomic War is a fascinating documentary about the Estonian and Soviet governments efforts to keep out western television out of Estonia – and equally great lengths the Estonian people go through to keep it in.

The film ends (spoiler!) with the collapse of the Soviet Union and while it would be a stretch to say it failed specifically because of the Moscow’s attempt to keep western television out, but the point remains: organizations that try to suppress basic human desires through force won’t win in the long run.

{Disco and Atomic War screens at SIFF on Thursday, June 3 at 7pm at SIFF Cinema, Monday, June 7 at 9:30pm at the Egyptian and Wednesday, June 9 at 7pm at the Kirkland Performance Center.}

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I'm sure that I'm probably one of the last people on earth to  blog about this, but I want to make sure EVERYONE sees it, because it's so damn cool.

Joss Whedon's musical masterpiece Dr. Horrible's Sing-ALong Blog reimagined as an 8-Bit game. Love, love, love and LOVE. Thank you, DoctorOctoroc - whoever you are. This makes me so happy I could burst!

To complement his re-imaging of the children’s classic Where the Wild Things Are (which I am so! excited! about!!!), Director Spike Jonze chose Karen O (from Yeah Yeah Yeahs – as if you didn’t already know that) to create the soundtrack. Ms. O promptly rose to the challenge, inviting many of her rockin’ friends to join in for this adventure.

From the Karen O and the Kids MySpace page:
To compose the music, O enlisted friends and fellow musicians she believed had a musical intuition that would bolster her intent to marry sound to vision. These include Tristan Bechet (Services), Tom Biller (co-producer with Karen O and member of Afternoons), Bradford Cox (Deerhunter), Brian Chase (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), Dean Fertita (Queens of the Stone Age, The Dead Weather, The Raconteurs), Aaron Hemphill (Liars), Greg Kurstin (The Bird and the Bee), Jack Lawrence (The Dead Weather, The Raconteurs, The Greenhornes), Oscar Michel (Gris Gris), Imaad Wasif (New Folk Implosion, Alaska), Nick Zinner, (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) and an untrained children’s choir.

Sounds fantastic, right? And if the pre-released single “All is Love” is any indication, I’m positive they’ve got a hit on their hands:

{The Where the Wild Things Are Motion Picture Soundtrack is available now. You can also buy and download from iTunes, or Amazon.com.}