"...and I feel fine..."

I'm off to the doctor's office in a scant few minutes after finishing breakfast.

I got a fish yesterday at the pet store; a mostly-blue-but-also-a-little-bit-red-on-the-tips-of-the-fins male betta [Siamese Fighting Fish]. He's not dead yet (after being taken twice on the train and flipping himself into the sink when I tried to put him into his new home) but he's not moving around a lot, either. Is this normal for such fish?

I shall name him Mr. Earbrass. Not too pretentious, for a fish, yet very slightly dignified.

Czech Animation Question

So, I was reading volume 1 of the collection of Grant Morrison's Vertigo remake of Doom Patrol this evening.

And I read the little letter from Morrison at the end, wherein he recommended a Czech filmmaker named Jan Svankmajer. So I went and looked Svankmajer up in the glorious thing that is the Internet Movie Database. And found a filmography which looks truly amazing. If you've ever seen that style of animation and film that comes from Russia and Poland and that area of the world, you'll remember it and know what I'm talking about. And if you haven't, it's about time.

So, besides his adaptation of Castle of Ontranto ("As the moving tape on a reel to reel recorder is shown, the theorist tells of receiving a postcard of the ruins of a Czechoslovakian castle which he maintains is the one referenced in the Italian story"), and Alice in Wonderland, what else should we put onto the Netflix queue?

I wish I could see his film in production...the credits list the actors as playing characters named "The Marquis" and "Mad Psychiatrist."

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Going back to doctor's in two weeks or so for bloodwork.