the suburban house
I've only seen a few eps of the Sopranos, way back when the word was spreading, and folks were beginning to have Soprano-night parties, and it never really took hold in me. (Perhaps its the whole in media res problem, when by rights I probably should have started at the beginning.)
But I love…

An old friend of mine — father of 3 — turned me on to CK about a year ago, a time in my life when I truly felt like everyone before me had always omitted the difficulties of being a parent/father by providing such social niceties as "You'll be an excellent father", "Everything changes when you become a parent", and,…

2nded @Space Pope. I'd much rather have someone adapting Lewis's Christian works than any of the drivel derived from modern day religious practices. Lewis was a wonderful, thinking Christian — a kind of person much lacking in the modern era. (If not lacking, then at least with less mass media time, anyway.) He was…

To jump off Tortuga's point above: "Costs of his solutions create far too many problems for him to possibly think or reason his way out of." There's a metaphor here for blindly applied science, or technological progress in general — solve one problem; create more — dating all the way back to making weapons and…

good Teardrop
He is not perhaps the image I had in mind for Teardrop — I had always pictured a heavier, more lived-in kinda fellow — but I have to say, knowing that Hawkes is playing him totally suits me. Gaunt, wiry, unpredictable, but somehow still warm and caring, in his own way — good choice.

I'm going to counter: Cache is the only Haeneke I've seen — and it bored me to death. Yes, there was tension — almost entirely undeserved, as nothing really happened in that film that I can remember — other than being incredibly unsatisfied with the non-ending, and disappointed that I spent so much time hoping for a…

audible "spoilers"
This isn't about the episode so much, but a small anecdote about me watching the show.
I work in a library where I use the wireless network to download Breaking Bad eps quicker than I could at home. Usually, I also end up watching the show, speakers plugged in, before we open the building.
Today,…

All I could think as I went through reading the original entry and most of the post was "Two minute hate." A two minute hate that goes on for days.
That plus the idea that a couple bonds over stuff they don't like — which I recall as some offhanded dialogue in a rom-com I saw recently.

Shit yeah — DH has been high picked in death pools everywhere this year.
Oddly enough, so was Gary Coleman.

Coraline is a recent example of movies I found that turned out better than the book. I think it is the creepiness alluded to above — on the page, I found the story to be a slight variant of girl-goes-on-quest-and-discovers-there's-no-place-like-home. In the film, all that menace is fully realized — both the allure…

I loved that line — delivered so well, and Kyle was still completely clueless. For a 2nd, I even thought she was stutter-thinking out loud — or my playback had a glitch. But as written, it was . . . awesome.

I scrolled a little to see if anyone else had a similar POV re: Billy Crystal & Whoopi, and I'm happy to find good company. I've watched many of these award ceremonies — as an aside, they were rarely funny — and I'm still reeling that folks felt Billy Crystal deserved an award for anything — least of all being funny.…

I'm in definite agreement here. I loved Los Angeles SOOO much I actually went to a store on Tuesday psyched to get Cosmogramma — a rare occurrence for me (and probably many people in the days of digital content delivery.)
It is probably too soon too tell, but after several spins, I love the album so much already that…

Dead right you are. Just because I can make meals at home doesn't mean I don't want to go out to eat now and them. Theaters are the same way.
And until my children learn to behave themselves in public, I think I would love to use first-run streaming to help keep them from bothering other people in a public space.

Aimee Mann is definitely one of my "comfort" artists, too. My music player records verify — regardless of year, she's been in my top 10 for years now. And I absolutely LOVE Forgotten Arm. Sure, Lost In Space/Whatever/I'm With Stupid have more novel production, but the songwriting in Forgotten Arm is classic. Like…

OK, that awful post above is an example of what small children can do to one: I can't write coherent paragraphs any more. The four arduous years were due to my two sons who have actively upped their Oedipal urges by driving their father to an early grave. Hopefully, this will make more sense now.
BTW, I LOVE Louis…

no babysitting money to be wasted on this
After four arduous years — and counting — the thought of watching clips of babies selected for their emotional impact on the viewer makes me want to hurl. Small, pre-verbal, pre-walking children are just as much horrible as they are cute, and I would love to see a…

I very much agree with you here — sound is often way more interesting/important to me that picture quality — with one happy caveat: I've been getting more legal TV shows and movies as downloads (not streaming), and I am surprised at the sound quality. I can hook them up to 5.1 speaker systems, and I'm really…

Aarga warga worked really well for me — and provided endless amusement — when I connected it to the sound that Pac-Man makes.

the myths of everything
I was given RW a few months ago after chatting up Cloud Atlas with another big fan of the book. He told me about the connection to RW, and gave me a copy to read. So I was rather ready for the idea of faulty myths, about people making up stories they need to get on with their lives — or to…