"He and Chris Pontius were my favorites."

Blood! I went to boarding school and we used to spend Sundays playing multiplayer on our dorm's LAN connection. Good times. Lots of Evil Dead quotes in that game if I remember correctly. Pretty sure I sucked at it, as I did with every video game which is why I don't even bother anymore (I have a Wii if that tells you…

I sense that Simmons is someone who still has a lot of difficulty with the blank page and struggles to make something readable, whereas someone like Klosterman doesn't seem to have that. Of course, that may be the difference between having a regularly scheduled column (despite the fact that he often breaks it), versus…

As much as Carolla complains about the behind-the-scenes people at the radio show, they clearly knew what they were doing and could run the show like clockwork. The guys on the podcast are sort of learning as they go, which gives it an incomplete, and, at times, amateurish feel.

I know the site is supposed to have been designed by an Esquire designer, but it looks cheap and vaguely '90s and dare I say, blog-like. Don't you hire a big name designer to make sure it DOESN'T look like a WordPress template?

Do I smell a Son of Schizopolis?!

Sounds like he's backtracking a tad. He said he wished he hadn't made such a big deal of it, cause now he's wondering if he might some day come back. He said he really just needs an extended, open ended break and there's a possibility he might come back once he recharges his filmmaking batteries. Sounds like he's just…

I recall reading his original I Am Legend script way back in the early 00s and it was a lot better than the final product.

Henry V is one of the best Shakespeare adaptations adapted to film. I don't know how people could hate it.

What did you find sanctimonious about GBG?

Yeah, 13 is less rewatchable than 12 for me. It seems like the guys trying to make amends for 12, which is just a bad idea. The Casey Affleck subplot is pretty great, though.

It is a fun little movie, though some of the acting (the girlfriend) is kind of terrible.

I kinda liked it. It was self-indulgent as hell, but I found a lot of it entertaining. It actually seemed close to Schizopolis in spirit, except it did have a Hollywood a-hole thing going on that seemed very un-Soderbergh. The nods to French New Wave, the Miller's Crossing conversation, Topher Grace cameo, Catherine…

I will check out Eros. It used to play a lot on IFC, I think, but I never caught it. Yeah, the Soderbergh "should've been" projects keep piling up and making me sad. I remember Jules Asner in an interview mentioning a possible sequel to The Limey with Michael Caine and Stamp teaming up. I would kill to see that.

It's interesting that that book and The Underneath spelled the end of his screenwriting career (aside from adapting Solaris and his segment of Eros, which I've never seen). He really seemed to hate it, even though he was clearly a brilliant writer.

Well, there's also the fact that he shot it in his own house in his hometown of Baton Rouge with his own ex-wife (as they were either going through a divorce or had just recently divorced) playing his wife and his real daughter playing his daughter. I think Soderbergh wants us to know it's a meditation on his own life.

Why are you sorry?

Craig J Clark — Isn't he rewriting Mimic in the book too? Great book, by the way.

Anyone listen to the commentary between Soderbergh and himself? Brilliant stuff. Soderbergh will never be on Commentary Tracks of the Damned, he always has something interesting on them.

I think when you've been a struggling actor for a while, waiting to break out, it becomes hard to turn down huge starring roles that will put your name above the title. I don't quite give him a pass on those shitfests, but it's an understandable position to be in.