Oh man, I'm terrified of mirrors because of that Star Trek episode where Troi sees herself inside-out, which I saw when I was five or something. I don't think they show it, but that only made it that much worse.

It's fun looking back on your childhood wondering how you could ever have missed the significance of a train going into a tunnel.

@teadoust

Longtemps je me suis couche a wtf is French lol

Must have been a damn good-looking 19-year-old to interest a 27-year-old man.

How does a person watch High Fidelity and not notice how dickish is the guy who walks out on his ex-girlfriend as she's in the middle of a sentence?

@idiotking about the one-liners

I saw it, but it's just the reflection of her hand on the wheel. Once I saw it as her hand, I couldn't make myself see the kid again.

I hate to parrot the Pitchfork line on a particular album, but in this case it's true: American Water is one of the greatest driving albums of all time.

I always liked the one in From Russia with Love. It's so unambitious compared to nuking Fort Knox.

But it's a pretty good movie all the way through. Slow and taking place in an American West that looks an awful lot like the Spanish North, sure, but still good.

I know, right?

The Orphanage was a little too similar to The Turn of the Screw for me to get into it. Obviously, the plots are different, but the two share that fundamental question of whether the protagonist is going insane or not.

Banksy: pretty good political cartoonist.

Not denying the mellifluousness of Irish folk music, but that scene in Miller's Crossing took me the hell out of the movie (only for what followed to immerse me again). Did he even reload once? And why the hell is some old '30s car exploding? Why such an over-the-top scene in a movie that, while fantastic in parts,…

Even though it's clear by the end that John Gardner has a moral axe to grind, I thought Grendel was a pretty good book in this vein.

I thought the movie was hilarious and I'm not even Jewish, never mind Midwestern, so I'd recommend it.

But they have, upthread …

This is how I found out about Sirk. The rest of this guy's columns are pretty good, too, though they're rare.

Ah, cool. I get the feeling this gimmick in particular will either die out or turn into a meme, like when you let someone eat it or