Yeah, I'm going to have to see this. The description reads like my Tinder profile: gay, moody, and vague.

Debbie does seem savvy and strategic, and she's definitely getting some kind of edit. I'm just not sure what kind of edit it is, considering that she's also still incredibly weird. When she laughs she reminds me of a female Harry Shearer in a too-revealing one-piece bathing suit. ::shudders:: She's got a lot of good…

Well, sure, that's what he would say at this point…

Love the Bowie-produced solo stuff from the 70s, but I've never really gotten into The Stooges. I'm not sure why. I really, really tried with Raw Power, both the Bowie mix and the Iggy mix, and while I can see the appeal (and understand why Iggy wanted the alternate mix released) it just doesn't do it for me.

Now that I'm over my initial nerd rage I might check it out. I just wish I could go into it without any reservations. That said, without the Cloverfield name thrown in there, the movie might not be getting any attention at all.

I had the exact reverse experience with Fight Club. Saw the movie, loved it; read the book, really, really preferred it to the film. Now, I think part of what happened is by the time I read the book I'd kind of soured on the whole Palahniuk phenomenon, especially since I had repeatedly met the particular strain of guy…

Huh. That's actually a really interesting observation. I feel like the movie almost has a 50s aspect to it, despite being set in the 1990s. The image of Buffy riding around on the back of Pike's motorcycle; Pike being kind of the stereotypical James Dean-style greaser; the leather jacket/prom dress combo… a lot of it…

Good call on Manhunter. Hannibal (the show) pretty much makes most of the Harris adaptations irrelevant, Silence of the Lambs excepted. Honestly, I'd much rather watch the show than read the novels again. Harris's novels can get a little lost in their own grotesquerie (especially in Hannibal) and the show really…

Some very, very preliminary thoughts that I'm just getting around to putting into words now, almost a week after the premiere aired:

I know that the monster isn't named Cloverfield. But it's not a huge stretch to think that when people see that Cloverfield is somehow related to a new film, that there's going to be some relation to the previous film, outside of it just being generally based in a sci-fi universe.

Alecia was in an impossible situation. Every time she tried to do something for her tribe, they shrugged it off as a misguided attempt on her part to curry favor with the rest of them. Which, hey, it might of been, but also, hey, she made you guys a fire, so enjoy your non-toxic water and cooked rice! So when she…

I mean, I'm annoyed just reading about it, sitting here at work, for free. I'd be at least 15 times more annoyed if I'd paid money and scheduled actual free time to watch it.

I saw the original when it came out and kind of dug it. But I guess I got swept up in the whole viral marketing campaign more than anything else. I'm a sucker for that sort of thing, being old enough to fondly remember all the fun marketing misinformation around Blair Witch. It just seems ridiculous to me that there's…

I guess you could maybe kinda sorta draw a parallel but that doesn't sound like what's actually going on here. This is just trading on name recognition to boost interest in a totally unrelated project.

No, I know. But when you say "Cloverfield", people are going to think of the monster, regardless of what it's actually called. The whole thing just reeks of reverse-engineered marketing, and I'm really glad I read the spoilers, because now I can give this one a hard pass in the theaters.

Well, that's misleading. It's like calling something "Dracula Returns" and then having the big twist be that it's all about the Wolfman. Fans of the original Cloverfield are going to be mighty cheesed.

The scapegoating in question usually has the added layer of assigning blame anywhere but on the people assigning the blame.

To me this wasn't as bad as that challenge a few years back where Russell dropped and had that "empty stare" look on his face that basically read like he was dead. They were definitely right to pull Caleb from the game, but outside of the creative commercial placement, his condition wasn't as outwardly scary to me.

It's weird, when I think about "Live from New York" I don't think about it as a great book about television. I guess that's partly because SNL isn't "TV" in the same way as a serialized drama or a sitcom is. It's live, and it's ramshackle by necessity, and while there's definitely a lot of craft that goes into putting…

Digital music can never recreate building a collection of CDs, or vinyl, or even cassette tapes. That whole, admittedly very pretentious, process of curating a music collection if pretty much lost as soon as your music is all just files on a hard drive. Sure, some/most people don't care about that sort of thing; I…