Sinatra's Christmas is like..Christmas Eve, your dad drank a little bit and he got quiet, but it's in the past and processed as nostalgia. So it melds perfectly with your memories and you remember it warmly.

"Just..tell them you were getting high."
Those drug commercials were golden. Grandmother sitting alone at dinner because you forgot about her. Little brother sitting alone after baseball practice because you forgot about him. Child teetering dangerously close to the edge of the pool because you're the babysitter and…

But this is pure satire. It's pretty hard to fuck that up.

How much did you have to pay for that?

Silent Hill?

Lou is a pragmatist. Bear is a behemoth of a man. Lou knew he wouldn't have another chance.

til 1 with a deck of 51.

I've only used it in very..extreme..cases. And I have definitely seen some of those in my life.

Everybody hates Yoko, even if they say otherwise. We need to tag AIMINGFORYOKO in this bit. Is there any possible way to do that?

Like..casually threaten you and be super vague and then when you get upset and run she chases you through the woods, catches you, and snaps your neck? Mark Wahlberg style?

“The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific
Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of facts. They shoot for the baroque.” Philip K. Dick

My reaction..as I sat in my underwear on the couch..alone in the dark:
Martin Freeman's voice comes to life. I scream. "Shut your fucking mouth." Pause the show. The singing begins as I march to the kitchen for something to drink. "Bilbo BILBO Bilbo Baggins..the bravest little hobbit of them all.."

A failure as a film? Or a failure at adapting Pynchon to the screen?
The latter is practically impossible. If PTA can't do it, absolutely no one can.

When and where?

He really let himself go. He ain't even old timey.

"The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" is a book title. I didn't even know they turned it into a movie.

Homer Stokes.

her friend from the truck stop.

*Makes the sex gesture from Idiocracy with his fingers*

I was eight years old..and this would come on at like..2:00am. I would stay awake with my friend and then we would sneak out to the living room TV to watch this. I have no idea how much that warped my mind.