The Fighter
With that cast and pedigree, will Markie Mark finally lead a movie? Trailer looks good, and I will watch the fuck out of that one.

I am mostly with you, JVS, but I am not prepared to write off the sister as of yet. I do think the quality of the series will hinge on whether or not she is a successful character if she sticks around. The show has been slow playing the exposition so much that the the scenes with the scrabble, fixing the TV and the"…

@Stuntman

The asking myself part leads into the viscious self-loathing before the blackout.

Ha, once I started reading through the comments I thought, "Reading this surely requires some Elliott Smith" and put on Either/Or.

Bingo.

Damn, HDB, I feel like I have a sort of kinship with you now. I also put myself through wistful, whiskey evenings of depressing songs. Do you also pull the sit up straight, harshly wiping your face, asking "why the fuck am I doing this to myself" thing that I like to mix in?

Hmmm, good points all around.

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How the fuck is Tom Waits not in this meaningless club?

You know, I have not looked at that as anything further than Hank fucking with the fiance, but now, I would not be surprised by something out of left field like the guy in the attic being a new character* and being the one fucking with the fiance. It is strange to be throwing out conjectures on what would seem like…

I have been digging the show so far, but this episode really sold me. Like Noel, I am a sucker for detective stories (I am fucking jazzed that Dennis Lehane has a new Kenzie/Gennaro book coming out in Nov. Jazzed!) and this show is start to hit all the right sweet spots. Hank and Britt have good chemistry, and the…

That would be an especially great remake as long as Yow does his "bowl of cherries" or "tight and shiny."

I hear you, jerk. Superchunk is near and dear to me and one of the few bands I will get angry about. Seriously, how could someone hate Superchunk. It would be like hating puppies.

Out of curiousity, are the terms "high yella" and "redbone" a southern thing? I have heard those since I was a kid, and neither were considered derogatory, just descriptive. If so, I guess I will have learned something today as well.

I would get my shit pushed in in a NHL fanstasy league with how much I keep up with hockey.

Where you at, Jorge? There is avclub fantasy shit talking going on over at The League review.

That is one thing that the trailer is good for (beyond making me laugh at "From the mind of M. Night Shamylan") is it allows me to angrily point to the screen and scream, "that fucking guy is married to Christina Hendricks!"

Big Giant Asshole El Zilcho beat me 153.50 - 153.40
Holland Oates over wafflezombie 106 - 87
HipHopster over Beige Alert 189 - 142
scottb over Jonah 176 - 116
Smack over Oh The Possibilities 109 - 103
Dr. Wally Metropolisopolis over Jorge Von Salsa 123 - 77

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I disagree on the best games (AFC all the way!), but holy shit is their NFL broadcast just awful. That fucking football helmet wearing robot just sends me into a rage.