Elsewhere, 12/28

The website for Hot Fuzz has just gone live. The Academy might as well put away their ballots now, this will be the movie of 2007.

Wired has a list of the best shoestring sci-fi of 2006.

Darwin’s Graveyards: …every contemporary ethical dispute is really a debate between Charles Darwin and Pope John Paul II, especially in his encyclicals Veritatis Splendor and Evangelium Vitae. One either regards man as a complicated bag of cells wrapped in skin, whose only law is the biological imperative of vitality, self-preservation, and procreation; or one sees man as created in the image and likeness of God, whose innate and divinely bestowed dignity absolutely forbids any metaphysically significant division in human society between fit and unfit, strong and weak, white and black, Aryan and Semite, Greek and Jew, adult and fetus, those new born and those near death.

Watch Chris Marker’s La Jetee (the inspiration for 12 Monkeys) via Google Video. Via

Bootie has a CD’s worth of the year’s best mashup tracks for your downloading pleasure. Make sure you grab the bonus tracks. “Super Freak” plus “Girls On Film”?!? Sounds good to me. Via

The Twilight Sad will be releasing a new album titled Fourteen Autumns And Fifteen Winters in March on FatCat Records. Two songs from the album can be heard on the band’s MySpace page.

Stereogum lists their most anticipated releases of 2007.

The Foxglove Hunt — a collaboration between Ronnie Martin (Joy Electric) and Rob Withem (Fine China) — have just posted a track to their MySpace page, and it’s chock full of 80s goodness.