Miss Twin Peaks?

*Scott Templeton writes in notebook*
"Heisenberg is my best friend."

Because movies and books are not the same thing. If you want the same story that King told, then read the book. Any adaptation is going to diverge from the book, if only for the sake of time. Kubrick has done this many times (almost all of his films are very loosely adapted from the books that he uses as source…

I think that one issue that comes up is that it's easier to sell something that can be described pithily than something that has to be experienced on its own merits. The whole conceptual art movement has made it so that the idea is more important than the product. Sometimes this makes for fascinating stuff, but more…

*puts up 'She Woman Man Haters Club' sign. Little Rascals theme plays backwards*

You can as long as you use it as part of a well regulated militia, according to the part of the amendment that's consistently ignored.

Most anywhere that you can post online has moderators. They will block people who post spam or certain cusswords or stuff that they consider to be "inappropriate". It's very rare that people can feel genuinely free to say whatever they want online. I understand that "policing speech" can be creepy and uncomfortable,…

I think it's the law that every working rock musician in England had to spend at least a week as a member of the Fall.

Alas, history does not always see things the way they really happened. For example, Clinton generally had higher approval ratings throughout his career than Reagan did, but no one seems to lionize Clinton the way that people lionize Ronnie.

If Kirk's farts are the carrier, we are all of us doomed. Doomed!

Tibia successful hiphop artist takes a lot of marketing skills.

Apparently, all they wanted was to record him saying "no," but he refused.

Pinche Guillermo

"I have a son?"

I've still watched the rest of the show, but I kind of wonder if the show would've been better if it ended with (SEMI-SPOILER) the reveal of Laura's killer. Lynch has said that he regrets bending to the network in making that reveal happen, but as problematic as the second season is throughout (franklinshepard is…

Still one of the best things I've ever seen at a live show was saxophone player James Carter doing a duet with a guy playing electric piano. They get to a quiet moment, and just at the least opportune moment, an audience member's cell phone goes off. James Carter looks out into the audience, turns the bell of his…

We figured the Russians had such success with their adventures in Afghanistan, why not get a piece of that action?

There's a story that he used to provide two auditions to directors who wanted to work with him, and depending on which one they chose, he either tried to do an actual performance, or decided to phone it in. I don't think that's true, because his later performances were almost universally phoned in.

I agree, but it's just not that compelling of a theme, compared to say, Mad Men's theme of self identity as something that's manufactured, or Breaking Bad's theme of a good man who becomes an evil one. Those themes resonate for people who aren't handsome ad execs or drug lords in a way that the theme of the evolution…

This kind of thing is common currency nowadays. Every contemporary politician entering the house, senate or presidency, whether Democrat or Republican, has to talk about the US as "the greatest nation on earth," or they will lose badly.