I really can’t stand Hedi Slimane. He’s my age (50) yet his adolescent fascination with sweaty punk rock clubs with sweaty ultra-skinny teenagers appalls me. I don’t even belive those places exist anymore, and if they do they’re pathetic.

Cool, I fucking hated that idiocy too. I said so. So, tell me why they should not have booked fucking Kanye West when Ariana Grande dropped out (since they exploited her engagement to lanky freak Pete to an unseemly degree.) I think Kanye West is an asshole who brags how he doesn’t read, but ..

Anyone who made The Last Picture Show deserves a modicum of respect. It’s a cinematic and artistic gem. Too bad he kind of sucked at everything else in his life and was kind of obnoxious to everyone else Bogdanovich met in his life.   It’s wild that to this day he’s still feeding off Orson Welles’ bloated corpse. 

What’s funny to me now is I had a ridiculously good situation living in SF in the 2000s. A bedroom with high ceilings and a deck off it in a huge apartment a block from Alamo Square, with a huge downstairs kitchen and garden, invited by a childhood friend who got the rent controlled lease in the 90s. My rent was…

That Potterpoet sure seems like someone who knows comedy!

Seriously, if I were at a comedy club some late night, drunk with friends, and unexpectedly Louis CK came onstage, I would be Holy shit! and fascinated. Fuck yeah, I would stay to see what he says and does in a 15 minute set. It’s because it would be like seeing a hunted unicorn unexpectedly, one that happens to…

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Not kidding, there’s a Guardian article about the notorious 80s exploitation trash Faces of Death, and a young unknown Quentin who worked in a video store then . Possibly his first published quote. Cogent but banal. 

I can absolutely believe it. Wrote a chunk above about my reservations about Bogdanovich, though he made a few good films. I think my impressions were formed by Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, where he seemed simultaneously quite full of himself, and also parasitically attached to “has-beens” like Orson Welles in the 70s,…

That’s the thing about Peter Bogdanovich; That he was a superb champion of the film greats of yore long before it was fashionable, in the US at least. (In France there was a long body of work appreciating American film of the past that we had disposed of, Cahiers du Cinema etc, back to the 50s. Which probably…

I have never read such a wicked invocation of the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme music in my life. Liked, and flagged.

Dick was such a funny, strange out- of- left- field movie, I really loved it on cable back then. It had heart.  And Dick. 

Almost none of Kanye’s pro-MAGa speech was broadcast, because the show ended when it was supposed to. (So of course MAGA freaks screech about censorship because, idiots.) I respect if you didn’t like the cold opening sketch that everyone else appreciated, but it’s incorrect to say that SNL broadcast loathsome nutjob…

Nah, it was the right length for the amount of madness it had to cover, and it was very well done and funny. It was also the first sketch of the season after a long hiatus, so there was a lot of pent-up topicality to go over. There was something for everyone in this sketch, many characters to cover and gags to…

Holy shit, that was him?! Well I’ll be. Good episode.

Uh, tell it to Chelsea? She’s the one who thinks she’d be a good politician. Incorrectly- she shows no flair for it at all.

“Tent city” sounds too cute.  They’re internment camps for deliberately orphaned children. 

I’m not sure he didn’t have a hip flask he nipped from during breaks in the hearing. And another thing- if people suspect he still may have a severe drinking problem, his implication that he only drinks BEER is a way of minimizing it, as if beer’s not so bad. I’ve read people with drinking problems often do this. …

I was wondering, is his divorce final? And if so, was it final when he first started rutting with Guilfoul?  Family vales voters..well they probably won’t care because they’re monstrous hypocrites.  

A pretty famous case was the guy who died on Dick Cavett’s (taped) talk show in 1971. Ironically he was an organic foods guy who was telling people how to live to 100. It never aired, but Cavett says to this day 20 people a year tell him they remember that episode vividly.