Watching "Too Cute" clips on youtube is my new thing for slow work days.

You gave up pretty early.  Did it start with Explorers?

DIANE:  Last night I was up until two in the morning finishing off Kierkegaard.

WHAT THE… (VOMITS)

Apparently that tour inspired the musical bookending of Se7en, with "Closer" over the main title and "The Heart's Filthy Lesson" over the closing credits.  Admittedly "Filthy Lesson" does sound like Bowie trying to adapt a 90s dirty-and-decadent style, but it's the perfect exit music for the movie.

SCHOOL TIES…yo

Special consultant ElDan?

Surely the J/O gesture would be most appropriate here.

I didn't think it was very good, but it wasn't quite the awful trainwreck I was expecting.  The lecture that end was didactic but sensitively handled.  They emphasized, for example, that the bike man wasn't gay (which as an association that some people STILL cling to).

I thought Under Fire was a great American movie from '83, although it does get a little "creative" with recent history of the time.

The otherwise bubbly audience does get uncomfortable when the guy offers them wine.

But those are all special.

"it will not be the continued indulgence of a narcissist whose every scattershot idea receives ridiculously disproportionate attention due to his fame."

Torture does funny things to people.

There's no way this would have been done in '83, as the pain from Lennon's death was still fresh, but now I kind of want to hear a barked "Imagine."

I was scared the first time I had sex.  I was all alone!

Well this got dark awfully quick.

Obviously influenced by the classic "Watch This:  The Fourth Man."

I can't stand her music either, but after reading about her early years, I have to conclude she was WAY smarter than I was as a teenager (and probably today).

The style of the first paragraph does evoke what it would be like to hear Verhoeven himself describing the movie.