I was very disappointed
When I saw that Midnight Madness was out on DVD. To me that movie should only exist on ragged VHS taped off of HBO sometime in the early eighties.

True Story
This year a few friends and I formed a trombone/ukelele/upright bass power trio called (somewhat deliberately poorly) Grape Victim. We were originally called Statutory Ape, but it was a song by someone I don't know, so we changed it. Although my favorite of our name choices was Robby Robotic and the…

Crap!!!!
what I meant to say was I liked this movie when I was 6. I'm pretty sure I watched this movie at least two or three times, which means I made my parents sit through it to or three times, which they probably weren't too happy about. Anyway I'm sure that if I saw it now I would dislike it heavily.

I liked this movie…

I liked this movie…

1984 is awesome
And so is Free Radicals. 1984 is some of the coolest disco-funk a skinny white man ever made, though to be fair I've never listened to that album in it's entirety. And Free Radicals is one of my favorite songs from my favorite Flaming Lips album. Yep, I said it. And I'll also say that I didn't like The…

Being Martian
I used to tell my people I was from Mars when I was a kid. As I understand it, adopting a fantastical identity as such is common for children who are adopted, as I was, orphaned or abandoned. Perhaps they do just play it for novelty in the film, but it is a real phenomenon.

Time Travelingness
There is a simple(-ish) explanation for the whole time travel thing, which I believe I got from an interview with Terry Gilliam discussing 12 Monkeys. Basically, in the 12 Monkeys and Heroes version of time travel, the past is not predetermined. Hiro was and has always been the Takeso Kensei of…

You gotta be fucking kidding me.

XTC
Anyone who's heard their cover of All Along the Watchtower would know that not every cover of that song is a cover of the Hendrix version. Their version is just insane and doesn't sound much like any other version of the song. Andy Partridge kind of mumbles the words and the music is just a bass line and…

Hmm…
I was sure that this week's Hiro plotline would convince you of it's potential. I really liked the added depth of Hiro's writings to Ando from the past and, for me, it's a welcome break from the heavy stuff. To use examples from two different trilogies, it's like the Back to the Future Part III to the rest of the…

Cromulent
So who is this porn star anyway? Not that I want to look her up or anything, of course not, not at all, no way. I'm just, y'know, curious, in that not curious at all way. Totally. Tell us already!

So why does it seem…
…like all these TV Club blogs are written by people who don't like the show they are watching. I thought this week's episode was a marked improvement over the premiere (which I also loved, though) and don't understand the heavy criticism. Sean talks about storylines being predictable, but we are…

HIMYM
Hooray for T.V. Club! And Hooray for How I Met Your Mother being included in the list. Not enough people at all know about this great show that's singlehandedly saving the three-camera sitcom. But I didnt see it in the list of who's writing about the shows. I hope that's just a slip-up and not a sign that you…

HIMYM
Hooray for T.V. Club! And Hooray for How I Met Your Mother being included in the list. Not enough people at all know about this great show that's singlehandedly saving the three-camera sitcom. But I didnt see it in the list of who's writing about the shows. I hope that's just a slip-up and not a sign that you…

cool guy
I haven't encountered Garlin much - Curb an old HBO special and Conan once, I think - but he always seemed like funny and cool guy, and this interview just confirms that ten times over. I'm now going to rush out to see his movie (also because Sarah Silverman is in her bra in the trailer).

I Saw this in theaters…
…and I laughed. A lot. So did most everyone else in the mostly-full theater, to my recollection. Of course, I was 14 at the time, as was the rest of the audience most likely. What I remember most about the film is that there was a scene in the trailer and a lot of the tv ads of a huge boat…