“You always have the option to change the road you travel every day
Even if the road is the same you can see different things
Isn’t this enough to live?
Or rather, may not be enough?”

The Sky Crawlers (Sukai Kurora, 2008) “is set in an alternate history where, although the world is at peace, in order to ease the tension of a populace accustomed to war and aggression, private corporations contract fighter pilots to stage combat operations against each other for show.”.

Music by Kenji Kawai. Listen: Main Theme (ending).

Above: screenshot from the official trailer, detail.

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“Total upload views: 51,977,386” (Youtube channel, October 17, 2010) The Guild: “A comedy web series about the offline lives of online gamers. Created by and starring: Felicia Day.”.

Above: Felicia Day, from her photoset on Flickr.

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“What you see is what you hear (no lip-syncing for instruments or voice). If you hear it, at some point you see it (no hidden sounds).”.

Pomplamoose. Indie.
Listen and see: Jungle Animal and September.

Above: Nataly Dawn in Telephone (from: Tribute to Famous People), detail.

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“My girlfriend has left me. After four years together, she has left me. It happens, I know. It happens to us all, and my turn has come. This time however I’ve made up my mind. I’m going to throw everything out and start afresh. My second-hand life is for sale; I’m starting a new one. Come and buy. I’m selling up to free myself of all ties.”. (Matteo Caccia)

I break an unwritten rule, presenting something in Italian. It’s worth it.

Vendo Tutto (Everything for Sale): a radio program written and hosted by Matteo Caccia on Radio 24.

You can listen the podcast and the archive of the previous episodes. The sale, real, was on Ebay.
The signature tune is: Ten Millions Slaves by Otis Taylor.

Above: Matteo Caccia, photo from his page on Ebay, detail.

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The National. Indie/Rock/Alternative.

See and listen: Bloodbuzz Ohio.
From High Violet, released on May 11, 2010.

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“I love acting. It is so much more real than life.”

(Oscar Wilde, Reality Is Unrealistic)

“Tropes are devices and conventions that a writer can reasonably rely on as being present in the audience members’ minds and expectations. On the whole, tropes are not clichés.

Tropes transcend television. They exist in life. Since a lot of art, especially the popular arts, does its best to reflect life, tropes are likely to show up everywhere.”.

TV Tropes: “a catalog of the tricks of the trade for writing fiction.”.

	“I collect mug shots. Nobody famous.”. (Mark Michaelson)
“This man shows me how close I am to nobody. Nobody famous, nobody seen, nobody heard, nobody wanted. And somehow, I come away feeling a little more human.”. (Mark Madeo)

Least Wanted. By Mark Michaelson. On Flickr.

Top, left: Untitled (1952), detail.
Bottom, right: Clarine (1949).

The Album Leaf. Alternative/Indie/Electronica.

On MySpace, listen: Stand Still (from A Chorus of Storytellers, 2010).

On PureVolume, listen: The Outer Banks (from In a Safe Place, 2004).

“Created out of a love for posters, modernism and television.”.

The TV shows poster series by Albert Exergian.

Also available for sale at Blanka.

“Just north of where I grew up there was an awesome bay on Lake Superior called Batchawana Bay. You could walk out for what felt like a mile and the water would still only be up to your knees. The water was warm and the sand was perfect. I miss that place.”. (Graham Annable)

Grickle. Illustrations and animations by Graham Annable.

Above: We Sing The Forest Electric, animation, headline.

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