I've gone through different phases in my attitude towards OtW.  First, I was watching Brando, because when I was about 22, I thought he was the coolest man in history.  Then with a few years of maturation, I really hated the movie, because the idea that only a church can save us from corrupt unions is pretty…

Going to LA this weekend.  Number one on my tourist plans: Kubrick exhibit at LACMA.   Number two: L. Ron Hubbard Life Exhibition. 

Listen to music while you do it.  Then I don't mind so much.  I listened to the first MGMT album while shoveling on Friday (pretty good!) and the last M.I.A. album while shoveling on Sunday (she's done!).

Friday: Watched DRAG ME TO HELL.  It was so Sam Raimi that I was sort of surprised that he still existed. You'd think, with Spider-Man, that baseball movie, that heist movie, that western, that he'd given up on thinking that it was funny when a corpse vomited embalming fluid on a person when it was tipped out of a…

I sort of had the same experience when watching it, but, reading a bit about the screenplay, there's a Catholic theme running through it.  I usually miss most of Scorsese's films' meaning the first time I watch them, so I need someone to hold my hand as they walk me through what the meaning is. The commentary tracks…

I love Chaplin and picked up the Criterion Blu Ray last fall, and it is the first Criterion where I still am keeping my DVD.  Sure, the picture on the Blu Ray is much better, but the piano score on the MK2 DVD is a little more subdued, and the annoying house-creaking on the cabin-teetering scene! Who thought it was a…

Those are probably my two favorite Megadeth songs; love their placement on that album.

No picture of Glenn Danzig buying kitty litter? For SHAME!

Why did you change it? It was right the first time.

I thought it was where robots came from.

He's giving hope to all flash-in-the-pans for future earnings.  Keep that chin up, Psy! Who knows what Psy-licensed marvels 2033 will bring us!

Because, you know, gay people and all.

After the James Blunt fiasco, I just can't stomach any more musicians whose first names are James and last names begin with Bl-.  I'm sorry, but that's the way I feel.

I love that AV Club's current banner ad is for "Wac" lighting. I'm going to bypass the obvious pun, and marvel at the fact that they suckered some lighting company into paying for ads because suddenly the page views for an article about current lighting trends are zooming through the roof at this pop-culture website. …

If you've continuously been actively following his musical career through the decades, your more pressing decorating concern is sweeping the garbage out of the car you live in.

You can say the best thing he ever did musically would be Ice Ice Baby, but you'd be wrong.  It really is the "Ninja Rap", with "I Love You" taking a close second.

And… now you know… the whole story of the Big Butt Book.

Those are pretty inspired.  That is the section that gets me to laugh out loud more than any other.  In the beginning, they couldn't figure out how to close the show, and did June's Deep Thoughts or something and then the WTF moment, but finally settled on the Amazon reviews, which are often hilarious.

I didn't mind Feast of Crows.  I'm not in any hurry to get to the end of the series, with no timeline for the new one, so it didn't bother me.  I enjoyed Brienne's journey a lot, but there's no Tyrion (I was asking myself: "did he die and I missed a part?").

I just assumed the "Gareth" directing would be Gareth Evans, from "The Raid: Redemption".  I need a scene where Gozilla uses Mothra to break his fall after he jumps off of a building, or bangs Mechagodzilla's head multiple times down the side of a skyscraper.