I am seriously tempted to give myself an early birthday present. A mini-trip to NYC the weekend after next. Only problem is, on such short notice I’d likely have to fly solo. But I do have family to visit in Manhattan. And I haven’t been back in over five years. Geesh. NYC would be great at any time. So much to see and do, so many amazing vegan-friendly restaurants to eat at. But there is something behind this spontaneous fixation, other than my impending thirtieth. I can blame it on beinghunted. They posted a link, making me aware of the New York-Tokyo Film Festival. The bigger name highlights include the Wachowski Brothers, presenting the Animatrix shorts (my DVD is already in the mail). But I’m most interested in the other films. Especially “Electric Dragon 80,000V”. Here’s the blurb:
“FILM DESCRIPTION: One day while playing as a child on a power line tower, Dragon Eye Morrison receives a huge electrical shock. This ignites a long dormant pre-historic disposition for blind rage in his brain (aka his “dragon”). Doctors try in vain to suppress it with years of electroshock therapy. As an adult, Dragon Eye (Tadanobu Asano) finds solace in wildly playing his electric guitar. As his rage sends huge electrical charges out into the city, he shackles himself to bed each night to avoid decimating the city. Dragon Eye Morrison’s nemesis, Thunderbolt Buddha (Masatoshi Nagase), who, as a child, was electrocuted by a thunderbolt tracks down Morrison and challenges him to a high-voltage Tokyo rooftop showdown.”
Also, from a review:
“Words cannot begin to describe this film. A 55-minute hyperkinetic descent into electro-charged punk madness, set to an eardrum-shattering industrial punk/noise soundtrack, Electric Dragon 80,000 V transcends film to become an overwhelming, all-immersing experience. Just hope and pray that you still have all your brain cells after you emerge from it.”
How could I not want a piece of that? Now we’ll have to see if I can make this happen. Hmmm.