“people would communicate by scratching symbols on a flattened piece of wood pulp and handing it to a “letter carrier,” who would take it across town or across the country, to be read days later”

So Yoko Ono was part of an artistic movement known as “Fluxus”? I guess I didn’t realize she was part of a specific movement with an actual name. But if I had I would have guessed it was something more like “Awfulcore”

I’m a simple man...I see bitching about Kinja and I upvote (or like...or recommend...whatever the hell you call it in this god forsaken platform).

I don’t think there are overlords so much as the last two dudes in the office who are busy jobhunting........

Blades of Glory is easily my second favorite Will Ferrell movie. I never quite got the appeal of Talladega, but I’ve watched Blades over and over and over...

I bow to no one in my love for The Other Guys. Somewhere along the way Step Brothers became the one most guys my age quote and it always kind of made me angry.

The Big Short is a great film, you seem to brush it off as a lesser effort. It has comedic moments but it isn’t strictly a comedy, it has more in common with Chinatown than Talladega Nights.

“The bishop wore assless chaps to the bat mitzvah... Bat Mitzva-ah.”

“ The human torch was denied a bank loan...The arsonist has oddly shaped feet...”

Didn’t really have the space to get into either of their other sides more deeply, and McKay’s seemed more relevant... but I can say I actually kind of hate Stranger than Fiction. No fault of Ferrell, or the other actors. I just found it so cutesy in its poor man’s Charlie Kaufman self-referentiality that I kinda…

I like this piece very much, even though I think that both McKay and Ferrell have indicated they have a lot of unseen range that we don’t really understand yet.  That said, I’m surprised you didn’t address Stranger than Fiction on that front?  For my money, it’s Ferrell’s best work outside the McKay films.

Surely he’d be a barntender

MennoNiteclub

You lost me at “Amish bartender”. 

I saw Neko Case. She was amazing.

Don’t forget Dial M for the Maltese Falcon and The Man Who Would Be Pyscho.

Great director Alfred Huston who directed classics like South by Southwest and Front Window. 

I thought the album was gonna come out during the holiday season, but I stand corrected. Looks like the unbelievers were right. Glad you took steps to fix this.

At the Gates was pretty damn good. Also Carcass, at least up till ‘Heartwork’, by far their best album. Although, I enjoyed ‘Swansong’ as a cynical but fun departure from their previous work.

Classic Ingrid Bergman.