“But, apart from the traffic jam opening musical number, there’s nothing musically memorable about “Haw-Haw Land” at all”

this is a good band

I read Henry Rollins’ Get in the Van over the weekend. While I love Black Flag, I’m convinced that if I had ever toured with Mr. Rollins and co, I’d be dead about now. Some great photography with the entries though!

Because of the holidays I had time for only one movie night this week. I watched La Marquise d’O... with an assortment of leftover Christmas goodies. A few cookies, not frosted though, those all went almost immediately. Some delicious Lindt chocolates that I recovered from a jumble of wrapping paper. The last of the…

Easy: The album “Brutalism” by U.K. band IDLES. It is a pummeling, ferocious piece of 21st century punk rock that’s relevant socially and sonically. It’s the sound of Brexit, 45, narrowing job opportunities, rising rents, and growing millennial angst about it all rolled into one album.

Since I know a lot of readers enjoy the behind-the-scenes moments, here’s how this interview went down:

Predator again

Im spending Christmas with my husband and our little one before he flys back home to visit family. My husband not our little one. Shes staying here with me and were not going. Its okay tho! We have Christmas cake for tonite but I geuss were goign to watch Itte Q? Im not feeling particulerly Christmasy at the moment…

For fuck’s sake, I haven’t even managed to upgrade from my iPhone 4 to one of the ones they’re throttling....

Apple better fucking fix this or I am going to keep buying their products anyway.

I always liked the phrase “You couldn’t pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were printed on the sole.”

The Popularity Algorithm, or PopAg as the Kinjateers call it, is more complex than just number of stars and responses, it also take into account the average number of stars per comment for the user, the average time to heat a Hot Pocket in the 3rd floor small break room microwave, a hash consisting of the last time…

Stop making sense!

Guy Fieri, or Yugi Fire as he’s know in the underground scene, is a huge battle rapper. Probably the biggest one in the underground rap battle category of Chew and Spit (rapping while eating). I’ve seen him drop twenty verses while eating a reuben sandwich the size of his thigh. His sriracha freestyle is still the…

Yep, Kinja accepted me at first, then threw me out after a couple of weeks, so I gave up for a while. Now I’m trying again. Who knows what’s round the corner.

It really does! A breakable anything sitting too near the edge of a table adds considerable tension to a scene. In real life too. I’m glad to say the vase in this instance, despite being a precious antique, was a bit unsightly and the two characters invested in the vase had it coming. Also this vase was so thoroughly…

In the break room at Wizard College, all the professors do is complain about how the incoming students arrive without even the basics of an education.

1. Rohmer stated:
“So Contes Moraux doesn’t really mean that there’s a moral contained in them, even though there might be one and all the characters in these films act according to certain moral ideas that are fairly clearly worked out.”

I spent this week’s movie nights with the middle two of Eric Rohmer’s Moral Tales. I hadn’t known My Night at Maud’s was a Christmas story! Very good timing. And it was a particular pleasure after having just endured Frosty the Snowman. I love all the traditional Christmas TV specials, but Frosty has always annoyed…

Fuck those people. Step Brothers remains one of my favourite film experiences of the last decade simply because I had no expectations going in and found it such a nuts, hilariously entertaining movie that became a classic for me.