Lester Hobbs: Free Radical Hutner
Winston and I entered an online video contest sponsored by POM Wonderful, the makers of pomegranate based juices and teas. Our entry was about Lester Hobbs: a hard working though delusional bounty hunter who devotes himself to hunting down free radicals. We ended up in second place, won ourselves an iPod nano, and a whole bunch of tea. There are actually three versions of the video below: the original, longer version that we entered into the online contest; a shorter version that POM asked us to do so that they could play it as an ad in movie theaters; and the third version which POM hired us to reshoot using POM Juice instead of POM Tea. The “theatrical version” played in the Angelika Theater in New York, and the Laemmle Theaters in California.
Original Version:
Theatrical Version:
Juice Version:
Been listening to this one a lot, pretty much the whole way through.
This novel was published after the Chilean-Mexican author's death, and I'm not even sure if it was entirely finished or not. It is broken up into five parts which, while connected, stand pretty much on there own. I have not yet made it to the grim part about the murders of hundreds of women in Mexico, so I have so far found it enjoyable and even funny despite some dark underpinnings. It's had a ton of critical praise, and I like it much more than my last foray into the violent novel genre: Blood Meridian.