Well have I got GOOD NEWS FOR YOU! I live like three minutes away from where the Golden Hinde (full-sized reproduction) is now docked by The Borough, and you can book a SLEEPOVER PARTY for you and up to twelve of your closest "mateys". AND YOU GET FREE HATS!!!

I used to live down the street from the guitarist from Chumbawamba. Nice guy. Used to play a lot at our local Irish pub. Came to our house party once. I have forgotten his name.

"Tideland" remains one of my all-time favourite films. I can't get enough distance from it to objectively think why people hated it so much, so I'm probably not the best person to defend it, other than to say that there aren't many films with a more cohesive overall vision and such an admirable commitment to it. …

That last bastion of cinematic discourse, the IMDB message boards, offered this fine analysis of the situation from a thoughtful young man who is in no way influenced by the manner in which his own gold-digging whore of a girlfriend used to push his buttons.

Some early Kashiwa Daisuke might be good for what ails you, although his later work is just as staggering as well he's struck out a long way beyond minimalist piano compositions. But April.#02 has some incredible examples, as does the April.#07 remix album. The track April.#19 can be heard here:
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Wow, what a terribly worded first paragraph. Maybe I need a remake, yeah?

I agree, a shitty remake doesn't retroactively trounce a brilliant film. And it will result in a cash-in but worthwhile DVD release of the original too, enabling people to go back and see how it should be done. But the big shame for people who come to a great film via a remake is that, as much as we watch films for…

Archer: "Oh my god, you killed a hooker!"
Cyril: "Callgirl! She was a callgirl!"
Archer: "No Cyril, when they're dead, they're just hookers!"

I bought tickets for me and my girlfriend to see Boris earlier this year, blithely assuming everyone, especially her, would understand the awesomeness. Luckily I brought earplugs, which she wincingly pushed into her ears throughout and watched the gig. When we got out, I was buzzing (though that may have been the…

I'll have to object to lumping Tideland in with The Brothers Grimm. Grimm is an unfortunate misstep where he took a job-for-hire that he thought he could imbue with some originality and class, only to be completely hamstrung and fucked over by the Weinstein boys. It exists as a stick that people who don't enjoy his…

Al Borland owns a skate shop in that one.

Piers fucking Morgan. Obnoxious, sycophantic, belligerent, entitled, self-serving, dishonest, sneaky, morally repugnant, narcissistic, squishy-faced little flesh-tube of vile excrement. Thank god your country has such lax gun laws, maybe he'll catch a stray. Any man who can look at this face:
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"Geez you gotta big pussy. Geez you gotta big pussy."

One of those 'trilogy' eps did have the classic line from Homer as Henry VIII:
"Get out of my dreams and into my wife!"
That's pretty damn good.

taalibba, Audition is one of the worst offenders, especially as the wonderfully restrained score throughout was something I really loved about the film. Pulse also had a slightly jarring end credits song, but Kurosawa Kiyoshi can be forgiven for getting Kazumasa Hashimoto to do his score for Tokyo Story, and the…

'Tis a fine idea indeed.