Jackson could do an origin story of Smeagol/Gollum that would actually be interesting. Of course it would be fan fiction.

20? I didn't even know there that many movies made this year.

Looks like a Cenobite, not a punk rocker.

"Must Be Serious TV."

Laughing on Thursdays feels so retro and uncool, like a relic of the Clinton administration and the dotcom bubble. It's too early to be nostalgic for that shit. I do not laugh on Thurdays.

David Crosby was an early adopter of coke. He talks about it a lot. At the dawn of the 70's coke was mysterious enough that dealers could get away with telling customers that it was non-addictive. Everybody believed it for a while. Crosby, David Bowie and Tony Visconti were snorting massive amounts before they…

From his Wikipedia entry:

This quote about the leftist holdouts who walled themselves up in Berkeley in the early 70's stuck with me enough that I've never forgotten it:
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". . . there were enough of them so that among themselves they created a time-warp, an enchanted-village effect in which much of what constitutes time seemed frozen in…

This period at the tail end of the hippie days has always fascinated me. I've watched that 2002 Weather Underground documentary probably at least 30 times and always try to crawl into the world these people lived in at that time. I would have liked to have experienced the last gasps of the 60's counterculture in…

Drat. I was about to paste that in.

My theory is the Monkees were actually the Beatles and they thought it would be fun to have a TV show in which they impersonate actors impersonating a pre-fab imitation of themselves.

I trust the Kurgan, in this and all other things.

The Illuminati! Those bastards!

Where I was from there was a ton of buzz about the release of Check Your Head. CYH didn't at all seem like an unlikely success to me because everyone I knew thought Paul's Boutique should have been a big hit. The narrative now is that CYH was this unlikely hit that came out of nowhere, but I don't believe that…

Everybody I knew thought Paul's Boutique was awesome even before Check Your Head came out. I don't think I ran with an exceptionally hip crowd either. PB didn't feel like some sort of well-kept secret known only to the hippest of the hip. My memory is that PB was generally acknowledged as an excellent record that…

Martin Scorsese made Raging Bull right after kicking his cocaine habit. In fact, he did it specifically as part of the recovery process. Later on came Goodfellas. These are good movies, made by an ex-druggie.

I wouldn't want to be around this guy when he figures out that religion is fake.

Fun fact: On February 16th next year, the amount of time that has passed since the premiere of the first Star Wars movie will be equal to the amount of time that passed between the Star Wars premiere and Hitler's invasion of Poland on September 1st, 1939.

Dazed And Confused is a fun one to look at. The plot takes place on one day — May 28th, 1976. The movie's premier date was September 24, 1993. So on its premiere day Dazed And Confused was a nostalgic look back at the olden days of 17.34 years(6,328 days) ago. Flashing forward 6,328 days from September 24, 1993…

I like to think of an alternate past in which the first Star Wars and the seventh Wizard Of Oz sequel ran concurrently at the same cineplex in 1977.