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"I've had a rough year, Dad."

Well guys, guess what. I'm deaf.

I used to think he was so pretentious, but it was The Five Obstructions that finally convinced me that everything Lars von Trier does, he does to amuse himself. He's hilarious. And The Five Obstructions is also hilarious, and amazing. Some of those short films Jorgen Leth makes are great, but then Lars is just like,

Also, I cannot believe Lars von Trier decided to end BOTH Dogville and Manderlay with David Bowie's "Young Americans." Critics hated that shit when Dogville first premiered, so he basically went, Fuck you, I'm tripling down. Because he had already doubled down by making more movies set in the United States despite

My mom let me watch the Oz DVDs when I was about 11-12 years old, and had already been showing me movies with full-frontal male nudity in them before them, as well as other demented shit like the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

I'm actually alright with and kind of into the style of both Dogville and Manderlay, but it's really the other ones that do it for me. Dancer In The Dark is just exceptional. Bjork is even better, I think, here than Emily Watson was in Breaking The Waves. I felt on the verge of a panic attack during the entire movie,

Holy smokes, man, I also tried to show my mom Enlightened, thinking that she might see something in that she responded to or whatever. And I guess she did. She quit halfway through the first season. I think she was offended I suggested it to her. I honestly thought it would bring us closer.

Beasts Of No Nation is really good, much better even than it needs to be. Abraham Attah is amazing (and I think deserves a Best Leading Actor nod) — he reminds me of Haley Joel Osment, although I still the BoJack Horseman joke that "there will never be another Haley Joel Osment." But it's Idris, baby. I absolutely

I want to live with Bryan Fuller so fucking badly. His sense of style indicates so clearly to me that he would be the greatest roommate imaginable.

Well you better get used to it, 'cause I'm gonna thank you every day.

Like I said, I genuinely think it's one of the all-time great TV series. I only came to it once it had already been cancelled, but I still love it unconditionally. I wasn't a fan of Laura Dern's prior to Enlightened, but her embodiment of Amy Jellicoe forced me to reconsider everything I thought about her, and

Jason Mantzoukas screaming "FUCK THIS PLACE!" at the top of the parking garage after he's fired from Aberdeen is the most Jason Mantzoukas moment ever.

The show it reminds me the most of is Enlightened, one of the all-time greats as far as I'm concerned, and one I definitely think you should check out after Transparent if you haven't already.

After watching those I kept wanting the movie to slow down and show me the detail of every vehicle and set. So much love into every aspect of it.

I'm always glad to hear that someone got high. Upvoted.

I have to wait until January 15. Fucking Mainers, don't they know a new Todd Haynes film exists?!

I'm without a Blu-ray player currently, so I also bought the DVD, and it's just awesome. I've watched it a bunch of times. It's a great hangout movie, too. There's not much dialogue, so if you have people over and want something on in the background that's easy to follow while still holding a conversation and while

The episode where Vito is trying to do some honest manual labor and his voiceover is counting away the day and focusing on how awesome that sandwich is going to be at lunch and then he checks his watch and it's only like 10:45.

I watched the second season of Transparent and thought it was really good and because I'm a white guy I'll stick to my wheelhouse and say that I thought Buzz was a really great character and I know that guy (he's just like my grandmother's partner) and I wasn't expecting to have any moment involving Josh be the most

Those Jaime chapters in A Storm Of Swords are probably second for me behind Cersei's from Feast. At one point he's describing the scene of Rickard Stark being burned alive while his son Brandon is struggling in a torture device and I just finished the chapter, closed the book, and went, What the fuck? Something about