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David Lynch has unfinished business.

David Lynch has unfinished business.

You've got Moshe Kasher all over this article but no love for The Champs! (It's the weekly podcast he does with Neal Brennan.  Every week they interview a different black person.  Occasionally an Asian.) To me, most of the big-name podcasts can get too cutesy or self-involved or in-jokey or repetitive — this is one of…

I will pay somebody to make that "John Scurti as a crime-solving chef" idea. I don't even remotely have that kind of money, but I will find it — that's how good an idea it is.

"The Farm" was also the working title of The Shield. I would watch the fuck out of a show where Dwight Schrute leads a strike team against meth dealers, gangbangers, or I guess woodland creatures.

Prediction: In five years, people will be as embarassed about THE ARTIST winning Best Picture as they were about CRASH.

It took this long for the show to click into place for me (it's always possible that I am an idiot), but this is the episode where I realized how much I like it. It was impossibly dense at the outset but sticking with it has finally paid off.  Tonight I actually understood where everybody was coming from!  I love John…

Great topic. I once made a list of the ten worst movie dates I've ever had — http://bit.ly/e2XeaD — but if I had to narrow that group down to just one, it'd definitely be the first and the worst, 1995's ROB ROY, with Liam Neeson and Jessica Lange, which had been heavily advertised at the time as a sweeping historical…

Saw Van Halen on Thursday at MSG. It was like a really loud reality show with the best possible music. Kool & The Gang (!) opened for them and they were great.

FYI, Milch is Jewish. Bar-mitzvahed and everything. http://www.jewishjournal.co… That's not to negate your observation of the religious overtones of his work; in fact it only makes it that much more intriguing.

Becki Newton is lovely, but also the least convincing actor-playing-a-stripper since Natalie Portman in CLOSER. Or else Bobby Moynahan on SNL.

Those dudes both look like Mel Brooks.

God really does attack her with a shark in that movie. I'm sorry, but it's impossible to resist sharing my piece on SOUL SURFER at a time like this: http://demonsresume.wordpre… This world is in need of more discussion concerning the connection between spirituality and tiger sharks.

I like The Champs.  I can't be the only one who listens to The Champs.  http://thechamps.libsyn.com/

I really liked DEAR CREATURE by Jonathan Case. http://www.dearcreature.com/ It's like a sweeter, weirder version of an old Universal horror movie.

Had to watch this episode for work. Luckily I didn't have to write about it, or I would have said that it was a direct swipe from both the John Waters episode of The Simpsons, and the David Duchovny situation on The Larry Sanders Show, subtracting all jokes and adding in a healthy heap of racism.  I'm not surprised…

Such an interesting conversation.  My own theory is it has to do with anger (as evidenced in the work, not the person) — I think that many of the great horror movies are powered by some kind of righteous anger at what's happening in the society of the day.  The more politically aggrieved the filmmaker, the more…

I've watched half these movies this month — http://demonsresume.wordpre… — and now I have to go watch the rest he mentioned.  Great suggestions.

Finally, something that cretin and I have in common. There's always hope!