For some reason, I’ve taken to naming my link round-ups with whatever is going on in my life. Sometimes it means something but today it doesn’t. Just thought I’d share Here’s what is cool from my inbox:

- The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose is now available on DVD. If you haven’t seen it, do. It’s about a band of quirky musicians who seem to have learned a lot about life in their decades of playing together.

- This week on P.O.V., a very important film by a wonderful filmmaker, Roger Weisberg’s Critical Condition. “Critical Condition puts a human face on the nation’s growing health care crisis by capturing the harrowing struggles of four critically ill Americans who discover that being uninsured can cost them their jobs, health, home, savings, and even their lives.”

- Byron Hurt, the maker of the wonderful Beyond Beats and Rhymes, is working on a new project about black masculinity. In anticipation of the release of his new short called Barack & Curtis, a comparison of two well-known black men (Curtis is Curtis Jackson aka 50 Cent, and I presume you know who Barack is?), Hurt has been posting clips of material that didn’t make it into the short as a lead-up. Good sh*t!

- I like weird stuff like this: “V2 Cinema presents the short documentary feature BACK TO ROOM 666 (aka DE VOLTA AO QUARTO 666), starring director Wim Wenders, on www.v2cinema.com. Directed by Gustavo Spolidoro, the movie updates the scenary of Wenders’ Room 666 (1982), now with the German filmmaker as the interviewee. The video is the third of five shorts from online series Boundaries of Thought: THINK TANK(AKA Fronteiras do Pensamento: ENSAIOS VISUAIS).”

- My friends Robert and Almudena (pictured above) won an Emmy! Big hugs and congrats to you both on such a fine job. It is well-deserved. If you haven’t seen Made in L.A., now is the time.

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Shake Hands With the Devil, Peter Raymont’s haunting story of UN General Romeo Dallaire’s return to Rwanda 10 years after he led a peace-keeping force there during the genocide, and God Sleeps in Rwanda by Kimberlee Acquaro and Stacy Sherman, the story of women rebuilding their lives and country in the genocide’s aftermath, were co-presented with the Emmy Award for Best Documentary by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences at yesterday’s News & Documentary Awards presentation. Raymont’s film was broadcast on The Documentary Channel and the Acquarno/Sherman film appeared on Cinemax Reel Life. See the full list of award winners. PBS was the clear network winner with a whopping 9 awards for shows produced for public television.

I’d be curious, if any of my readers were at the ceremony, to hear what the comments were about co-honoring these films about the Rwandan genocide?