… how come you ended up watching Red Tails?

I had no idea about your dad.  I'm sorry you'd been having such a tough time and I'm glad you made the choice to get out of there.

No worries, I did get to see it.  I had a great time!

Wow, congrats, I'm excited for you and best of luck with your job!

Yes, it's still on Netflix as far as I know!  I keep meaning to go for it but then I get distracted by shit like, ohh, all-free Criterion stuff on Hulu.  Heh.

Oh my god, best of luck in your new job!

Oh my god.  I'm gone one week and all of a sudden you're going to the theater with your grandma.  Um, nothing happened to your grandpa, right?

Thank you for that old J-pop channel!

Holy shit.  I saw it this weekend and I was surrounded by loads of grandmas and grandpas at the screening and I had a ball.  When [REDACTED] happened, the whole fucking room gasped!  It was fucking awesome.  Also, I loved [REDACTED], [REDACTED], and when [UM, REDACTED SOME MORE].

For weeks I'd been planning to see No and I felt compelled to go opening weekend to, y'know, vote for it with my money, basically, right?  I kept telling myself it was important for me to show up and see the movie, to show the film industry that small and foreign movies like that need support, that they deserve to be…

Ooh, thanks for talking about the Sembène movies.  They just updated the They Shoot Pictures 1000 list and even though most of the list leans American and W. European, it's cool that some of his stuff made the list, too!  Can't wait to check them out.

Yah, one of the nicest things about Solange is that she seems to have a wider musical vocabulary.  The results of the songwriting aren't always perfect, but her batting average is getting better with every release.

Aw, that's too bad.  I'm going to pretend it was Solange who declined to be included in the doc.

I actually consider that the greatest tragedy in Beyoncé's career.  I see someone who was so determined to make it to the top that she was willing to do anything to get there—including having as little personality as possible.  I think being such a blank canvas helps her fans impose whatever personality they want on…

Wait, Solange wasn't in this at all??

That whole "Losing You" vid is awesome, I love it so much.  It makes me wish I was young and beautiful and happy.

Look at Claire trying to get a blurb on the DVD cover, ha!

Wow.  I've absolutely made the Mussolini analogy when explaining Pinochet, too.  Like your friend, my dad also thinks that Pinochet was good for Chile*, he thinks that Chile was primitive and going nowhere until Pinochet showed "tough love" and got the country to get its shit together.  I don't agree with my dad on…

I'm jealous!  I don't have any close guy friends… the closest thing I have to male friends might be other AV Club commenters!  As much as I love my lady friends, I feel like I'm missing out on a lot by not having more dudes in my life.

Oh cool.  Thank god Bush's song isn't as creepy as "O Willow Waly."  Man oh man that song keeps running through my head.