Damn. Depeche Mode was a guilty pleasure of mine as a teenager. I say guilty pleasure, because I was in my hardcore punk phase then and listening to anything that didn’t sound like it was recorded inside a 7-Up can was “selling out”. Also I kinda looked a bit like Dave Gahan back then and I’d get goofed on for that (I…

Are school shootings in America even news any more?

Uh-oh, are my pogs worthless now?

They should just drop the pretense and have Boeing or Halliburton sponsor it.

Haha! I kinda like that about the podcast though. It makes it feel like its made in his garage....wait.

I heard Alf is back, but now in NFT form

That’s cool. Makes sense he’d pop up as a background singer on a TV on the Radio album.

Damn. Bowie’s death is the first celebrity death that really affected me. Even if he never made another album again, it sucks we no longer have him around to hear his opinions on art or him being excited about discovering some new band/artist he just saw or heard and how “you really have to check them out”. I thought…

Jon Stewart’s comparison of Carlin and Vonnegut was one I never thought of before, but a very good one.

I feel like new George Miller and new Cronenberg is an embarrassment of riches. Now we need that David Lynch official Wysteria announcement.

Working with Mike Nesmith (RIP) must have been quite a drawing card for a bunch of quirky actors (Tracey Walter would later figure majorly in the Nesmith-produced Repo Man).

He’s out of prison, but his smugness is a lifetime sentence.

Actually, I’m not entirely sure Lars could outdrum Will Ferrell.

I WISH gas was only $4 a gallon here in Los Angeles.

No one does wrinkled charm better than Jeff Bridges. Glad he’s in better health these days.

Timerider is some goofy fun:

I remember as a kid seeing Timerider: The Adventure Of Lyle Swan and Remo Williams in the theater. People can shit on those movies all they want, but I still love them. There is something charming about them (although there are a couple of things in Remo that makes me cringe now).

I think you’d dig this book then. People seem to REALLY hate Brutalism and I don’t understand why. Brutalism gets this bad reputation of being “humorless”, but that book has some buildings in there that are downright playful. There are also some books on just spomeniks out there that the Brutalist books can’t cover…

I don’t need some new Doreen firing squirrel shaped energy blasts out of her wrist-squirrels.

Well, NONE of the Marvel movies have been an exact translation. Comics and movies are two entirely different mediums and what an audience will accept for one, they won’t always accept for the other - for whatever reason.