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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The lovely Karen Cirillo, formerly with Full Frame and now programming independently, has put together a fabulous fest of short docs, Doxita, that she is currently taking around the country.

Tonight is the NYC premiere of the the show at the IFC Center, 7:45 PM, and it includes some can’t-miss films! Enjoy and report back! The line-up:

Vángelo Monzón (Argentina/Sweden, Andréas Lennartsson, 8 min.) – A visit with Vángelo Monzón who’s been making bricks in Argentina since he was a boy.

Shit and Chicks (The Netherlands, Kees van der Geest, 10 min. ) – A portrait of a traditional method of feeding chickens in Ghana, done with gentle restraint.

El Cerco (Spain, Ricardo Íscar/Nacho Martín, 16 min.) – A breathtaking look at tuna fishing in the Mediterranean sea where the fight is a ritual of blood and death.

Cross your Eyes, Keep them Wide (USA, Ben Wu, 23 min.) – An invitation into the San Francisco “Creativity Explored,” a work space for artists with development disablilities.

The Guarantee (USA, Jesse Epstein, 10 min.) – Through animated drawings, a man tells how he considered plastic surgery for his ballet career.

Martin Thomas (UK/Wales, Dylan Wyn Thomas, 31 min.) – The sometimes painful yet ultimately joyous journey of one man’s quest to stop his stammer.

Reason #21 to be sad about not living on the East Coast any longer: Our fabulous Self-Reliant Filmmaker Paul Harrill’s new short, Quick Feet, Soft Hands, will be showing at the Maryland Film Festival after its Nashville premiere. It stars indie up-and-coming-Queen Greta Gerwig as “a young woman whose hopes of moving up are tied to Jim, a minor league baseball player. As Jim falls deeper into a batting slump, the couple must cope with the day-to-day realities of being young and poor. And they must confront the prospect that they may never make it to the big leagues.”

Best of luck to Paul and team, and if you are in the area or headed to the fest, check it out yo.

Quick Feet, Soft Hands – Trailer from Paul Harrill on Vimeo.