"peasant magic"

The Last Seduction
Waterworld
Outbreak
Nixon

Cool, will give that Stanislaw Lem one a go, even after all that bullshit he pulled on Game Of Thrones this week.

a surprisingly sensible and coherent response for a Monday morning

meta-spamming

This sounds great. I recently read Bolano's Woes Of The True Policemen and the best section by far was the synopses of Arcimboldi's various novels. Even the ones where I was thinking "fuck me this novel sounds retarded." Much like the Ansky/Twilight section in 2666, which was compelling despite (or because of) the…

who wouldn't run up and hug 1980s Rae Dawn Chong?

The Searchers is a great fuckin' film. That's all I have to say.

actors have been known to pretend to be something they're not (though I agree our Jase might not have the skills to pay the bills)

watchoo talkin' bout Alfred?

but he took a precision driving course

thought the description of Mike as "a Fozzie Bear that's been ripped apart and used to smuggle heroin" was the best of the bunch myself

Midnight Caller

it's impossible to think of anyone else as Tony, although Gandolfini could transcend the role in smaller things he did afterwards or during (The Mexican, In The Loop, that rom-com with the hotness JLD)

Oh don't get me wrong I loved it at the time (which is to say slightly behind the times but a little ahead of the bandwagon which kicked in around season 4) and it mostly stands up today. Plus I would generally agree with the politics/worldview/etc of David Simon. But it did veer off into sermonizing at times. The…

The Wire says them with all the subtlety of a kick in the groin

"it's a fuckin' comedy"

the guy who played Jackie Aprile senior was in the running, never heard about Goodman but that would've been interesting though at this point I can't imagine anyone else as Tony

the fact he calls himself Timothy and not Tim is pretty phantastic as well

I looked it up on youtube and lasted about 45 seconds on the trailer I'm afraid