Good morning everyone! You know how I am always talking about what would happen “In Our Comic Book World”? This video, shot by my niece, is an example of the sorts of nerd things that occur in my friends and my every day lives. Sadly this was based on a true story…

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I was recently recommended the 1966 Czech film Sedmikrásky or Daisies, by a lovely lady and what a fantastic recommendation it was! Vera Chytilová’s famously banned film is about two sisters who one day decide that since the world is bad, they should become bad too. They engage in a number of conscience-free high jinks ranging from fake dinner dates with sugar daddies to setting their apartment on fire. There is plenty of food gluttony in this film. Those bitches are HONGRY! Visually stunning and fucking weird as fuck are two of my favorite ingredients for foreign cinema. On top of that I felt like I was on drugs! This was one of those films I couldn’t stop screencapping because every scene looked like celluloid dessert, so allow me to now force feed your eyes. Open wide!

Since we always gotta talk about FASHIONZ up in here, I just have to say that the girls looked cute in every scene. 1966 will of course bring some cute dresses. This movie makes me want to wear a daisy crown.

Naturally by the end of the film I was left trying to analyze everything: the girls being portrayed as robotic dolls in the beginning, their constant fixation with scissors and cutting things paperdoll-style throughout the film, the basic theme of female rebellion and then up until the very end when they are outfitted in pieces of paper [what does that symbolize?!] during their attempt to clean up the destruction of the dining hall, a scene which was voiced-over by some spooky OCD-type whispering, followed by their meeting with fate. However, the lack of plot and character exploration along with the faux-high feeling it produced just made me do an F U middle-finger-80′s style at the television and just sit back and enjoy the imagery. The end scene in the banquet hall also reminded me of something that would happen IN OUR COMIC BOOK WORLD by the way.

Anybody else loved this movie as much as I did? How are Vera Chytilová’s other films? Anything as good as Daisies to recommend to your dear friend Miss Marie?

My friend Tricia gave me this Japanese Cat Fight Pose book she found at Wacko because the girl on the right supposedly looked like me. Scary because from certain angles she does and I had to do a double take!

Of course IN OUR COMIC BOOK WORLD, this really would be true, except I would be wearing a better outfit, like my corn suit.

I was recommended a film by a friend the other day called Jeux d’enfants. The American title is Love Me If You Dare. It stars my new favorite French actress Marion Cotillard, who is up [and should win] for Best Actress in La Vie En Rose, which I saw recently. She is as adorable and lovely to watch as Audrey Tatou, but edgier. IN OUR COMIC BOOK WORLD, If I had little cartoon consciences on my shoulders I would want the angel to be Audrey and the devil to be Marion telling me what to do…

Jeux d’ enfants tells the tale of Julien and Sophie, who as children begin a mischievous game of dares that escalates into a sadistic competition as adults. Their conjoined insanity and obsession with the game seems to prevent them from pursuing a normal relationship with each other even though those crazies are meant to be. This anti-love story will either charm or frustrate you, but if you are like me and love watching sexy French people, gorgeous imagery-ridden, fucked up movies then this should be right up your alley. I’m always head over heels for a lot of color and Jeux d’enfants is filled with many beautiful scenes. Sophie is usually shown wearing the color red or hints of it and the scene where she is standing on train tracks, blindfolded in a poofy red dress is naturally a favorite. So, Cap Ou Pas Cap? ["Are you game or not?"]

[Also the mancandy is very tasty. I'll take two of those, mum.]

One of my best friend Reyna and my favorite games to play is called “In Our Comic Book World” which is much like the game of “What If?” but with us saying “Imagine if _______ happened….well in our Comic Book World it would.” Of course it’s always some ridiculous cartoon-plot fantasy and one day when I learn how to draw I will make a comic book featuring of all of our dreams.

In the meantime, I like it when I see weird coincidences like this that make me think we might not really be far from a comic book world after all: