1000 adherents in the US? Make that 1001! Finally that “Keeping it Rael” tattoo on my lower arm I gave myself while drunk has meaning.

I revisited this week a tombstone that I had stumbled upon a year or so ago in the forest. I had started to wonder whether this old obelisk was real or whether I had dreamed it! That I was able to find it again was remarkable, it was well off the beaten path and I had last time made no note of waymarkers. I’ve decided…

This doesn’t really count as pop culture, but it was too cool not to share: we piled my kid into the car and drove out last night to watch the International Space Station soar overhead.  If you can get far enough from city lights to see it, it’s absolutely worth a trip.

My two movies this week were on a Christian theme: DeMille’s King of Kings and Bunuel’s Simon of the Desert. King of Kings was about what I expected, a series of Gospel tableaux. DeMille doesn’t get enough credit for his ability to fill a frame; the Crucifixion is one unforgetable image after another.

I don’t need a film to tell me that family’s a curse. We have reunions for that.

wait, would that be the “do we have a deal/ignorance is bliss” restaurant scene not with Neo, but with Agent Smith and Cypher...?

Cypher

Don’t forget The Tempest.

His name is Joey Pants.

I think it’s interesting that the character is named “Truman,” as in “true man.” Pretty cerebral stuff.

I’d love to see The Truman Show as a parable to reality TV,

Best line from his Wikipedia page:

I love mummy movies, so this week I watched two that I had never before seen: Curse of the Faceless Man and Eyes of the Mummy. As it turned out, neither movie had a mummy! I had been led to believe the faceless man was going to be an Etruscan mummy, but he was in fact a wad of hardened ash, or something like that. He…

I don’t want to live in a world where Elvis Costello opens for Blink-182. 

I know when I think of riots, the first two things that come to mind are Beck and Blink-182

When the average age of the performers is 50, you can assume that it’s going to be a quiet riot.

Different Class is such a great album. All time top ten material for sure. 

INT. STRADIVARI RESIDENCE, ITALY

But I’ve already gotten fat on Wahlburgers. TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT MARK!!!!!

Man, his Boston accent was a lot more pronounced then.