"the truth is …"
On the one hand, he makes an obsequious effort to say how grateful he was to get any kind of acting work during the lowly early years of his career. But, on the other hand, he doesn't want to talk about those roles, since that would be self-promotion (?), preferring instead to help promote "Rescue…

Maybe he can bump it up to an even thirty.

you're glib
Wow — the crazy, made-up Jens Hannemann actually sounds less bizarrely confrontational than Tom Cruise during that Matt Lauer interview a couple of years ago.

I was going to make a joke …
about Uwe Boll directing "GoBots: The Movie," bypassing CGI for special effects utilizing the actual toys, but somebody sort of already thought of it (minus the Uwe):

Seriously, wouldn't a "half-finished record" from more than a decade ago, some tracks from 14 or 15 years ago, and then "a little bit of new stuff" be more appropriate as something like a bonus disc to a newly remastered "Loveless"?

kevin shields + "three-quarters done" = infinity
Kevin Shields, "three-quarters done," and "going to come out this year" do not mix.

See what happened? Because the photo was not hateworthy enough, the hate ricocheted off of Carrey and hit me. (Gosh, I hope I spelled "ricocheted" right.)

hateworthy?
Sorry, but I don't think this photo is worthy of that much hate. There have been plenty of times when I've wanted to repeatedly slam Carrey's head in a door, but my loathing of him abated a bit after "Eternal Sunshine." Also, my favorite jacket, originally my dad's from the '60s, looks a lot like the one…

I agree that "The Secret History" would make a great film.

"conscience," I meant

Good for Radiohead. I like their music, and I'm not complaining about them.

who would pay for mp3's, anyhow?
I attended a public speaking of singer-songwriter Freedy Johnston a few weeks ago, and he made a good point about pay-what-you-want-for-it music only being released by successful, wealthy musicians who have the luxury of making some sort of "statement," as opposed to ones working to…

comments: the book
Hokey smoke, look at all these comments. Admittedly, there's a lot of "this is a book I like [which, therefore, should be a movie everyone would like]" posts (come on, some of these would be horrible movies), but it's a good thing to see so many people engaged in a discussion about books.

my off-the-top-of-my-head addition to the list
"Time and Again" by Jack Finney. Another "beloved" book whose movie adaptation has been long-rumored but has not materialized. Maybe Robert Redford will make it someday, which has been speculated about for decades. When I first read the book as a kid, I envisioned the…

Really? If they feel forced to pump a dry well for a once-a-year Halloween free-for-all, I can only imagine the complaints they harbor for the regular episodes with relatively straight storylines, never-aging characters with unchanging jobs, and the same setting and relationship dynamics. Maybe it's time to pack the…

I somehow posted this response in the wrong place, but what the hell.

A good illustration of the difference between "The Simpsons" and "The Family Guy" might be found in the shows' respective gags involving Stephen Hawking, if anyone remembers them.

I regrettably stopped caring about "The Simpsons" at least a dozen years ago, but the "Treehouse of Horror" Halloween episodes have always been my favorite — mostly because they seem to have been the writers' and animators' favorite episodes to create. After 18 years, comprising many adults' entire television-viewing…

more interviews with writers, of the less-book-club-ish variety
This is definitely not the most fascinating or expansive A.V. Club interview, but I have to say that Tasha (to me, at least) is better than anyone at drawing out things of underlying interest in an interviewee's answers, picking up on little revelations,…

Dude, I didn't miss anything. I watched the movie in its entirety, and I even cite specific examples (below) about the shoddy filmmaking. I fast-forwarded through non-expository, non-atmosphere-building scenes like chairs scooting across kitchen floors, which I remembered clearly from childhood viewings, things that…