"Beautiful People, Ugly Choices"
What is that, the title of a high school ethics class essay?

Shameful
I just defriended someone on Facebook after reading her post:

Really? I th0ught it was atrocious. I actually remember very little about it, except how much I disliked it.

Add me to the list of readers mildly clamoring for HK write-ups.

Sounds like he's poised to become the next Judd Apatow
I hope he can withstand the hipster backlash, all alone with his millions of dollars.

maybe I should revisit this
Scott, after only one viewing myself, if I had to write a description of the movie, I would write exactly what you would have written in 1997 (except less eloquently). I'm tempted to rewatch this, but Robert Blake gave me nightmares, and I'm 30 years old.

My earliest musical memory is my mom driving our Trans Am (ahh, the early 80s!) and 4 radio stations were playing cuts form Thriller at the same time. Since then, enough things have changed to make this kind of ubiquity essentially impossible, and I'm glad for that (for many reasons).

[swallows, whispers meaningfully] That's the problem.

I give your reviews an A!

baby wanna smoke?
Christ, are those Mommy & Me cigarette ads for real? Who was the genius who thought that pictures of babies would sell smokes? Although, maybe it makes more sense to use pics of babies to sell cigarettes to women than using pictures of burly men to sell cigs to men.

I had heard a bit of the premise, but I was also 100% impressed. "I've got all five senses and a good night's sleep, which puts me six up on the lot of you." It's a testament to Gordon-Levitt that he can really sell a line like this, delivered to a bunch of menacing potheads. Can't decide if I want to see it again, or…

I think it's important to note that Walt is also plain sick of Hank's bluster about death - Hank does nothing but brag to Walt Jr. about how various criminals have been killed,but only Walt knows how torn up Hank was by the Tortuga incident. Hank has been scared by some terrifying shit, but he jokes about it at…

Tracy Jordan would say that regrets are for horseshoes and handbags.

The music choices throughout the film are great, but I always thought that hearing CCR sing "Lookin' Out My Back Door" after the Dude's *thorough* medical exam was exceptionally awesome.

Yeah, he probably cried at the end of 1 when Teri died, and he broke down and cried at the end of 3 when his addiction was getting to him. And I think he cried when he got kicked out of Audrey Raines' house by her dad.

Once Clay Aiken was cast in "Spamalot"…
I knew it was only a matter of time before you showed up.

So which is worse at this point: Surviving Suburbia's "Hero", or NBC's "Heroes"?

I love that Walt is sinking lower and lower (alienating his family, running out of money, dying, telling Jesse to "take care of" problems), while Jesse is on his way up. He's got a new place (soon to be decorated Asian-style, yo) and rules about keeping it clean, a cute landlord, a business plan, and cash to spare.

I liked the grill resolution. Not every episode has to start with some hugely portentous omen of things to come.

Yeah, I didn't get AMC in HD until the beginning of this season. The difference is astonishing.