Hell, why not Deconstructing Harry? Or The Purple Rose of Cairo? Or Zelig?

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
It's fairly obvious that Anderson is saying something about film in Zissou since it's about a filmmaker and occasionally emulates his staged-documentary style. But Anderson is also analyzing the mentality of artists in general, chasing after their most elusive and destructive ideas…

Substitute any Godard film for Breathless, or just go with the original. They're all essays, and the best of them- Breathless, Band of Outsiders, Contempt, Masculin Feminin- are far more entertaining than that word would suggest.

"The End" is terrible. All the psychic kid even does is talk about Mulder's feelings for Scully and Fowley (one of the series' worst characters). But season 6's end-of-the-mythology 2-parter was just horribly written. It's depressing to even sit through.

Fantastic episode. I'm assuming our Observers are the First People, or their descendants. After all, didn't the pulse-emitting device buried deep underground remind anything of that egg thing from season 1?

I know it took some shit here, but "Runaway" was one of the best songs I've heard all year, and the trend only continues here.

Does Anybody Remember Dharma and Greg?
They did a gimmick episode of that show the night the Seinfeld finale aired in which the main characters decided to have sex in public because everyone else was watching Seinfeld. Do TV shows do this regularly? Can anybody remember any other episodes built around other shows that…

Albums?
1. Low
2. Station to Station
3. Ziggy Stardust
4. "Heroes"
5. Scary Monsters/Aladdin Sane/Young Americans

Scary Monsters isn't probably in my top 5 Bowie albums, but "Teenage Wildlife is great, and "Ashes to Ashes" may be Bowie's best single.

Station to Station is second in my personal estimation only to Low among Bowie's albums. In my opinion, its tremendous beauty is matched by its anxiety and menace. It is at once melodic and dissonant, soulful and alien. It's one of Bowie's most cohesive albums, and certainly one of his most brilliant.

"Heroes" is a fine start, despite the back half, because the first half merges the high romance of Young Americans and Station to Station with the camp of Ziggy and Aladdin Sane. The back half at least shows that there's more to Bowie than just camp and brilliant songwriting- he wanted to explore the outermost edges…

"Queen Bitch" may just be Bowie's best song overall. Listening to that song for the first time is like emerging from a sensory deprivation tank.

The Age of Adz is a fascinating but idiosyncratic album. Illinois, Michigan, Seven Swans… Each of these records is an examination of an idea or object outside of Stevens. He ruminates on the object, and the work records his impressions. The Age of Adz is all self-examination, a recorded identity crisis. It's no less…

The AVCC Twitter is just a nonstop jokathon occasionally interrupted by substantive conversation and parties/hookups.

I'd like to hear Clay Aiken's "Venus in Furs."

Where the hell do you live, DBag? I spent a week in NYC last month and kept wondering if you were any of the people on the trains staring morosely into their mobile devises with their earbuds in.

Weekend Plans?
The Shining's at the arthouse at midnight, and Creepshow tomorrow, but my big event coming up is Deerhunter in Nashville on Wednesday. How about everyone else who doesn't want to think about the story above?

It wasn't so much rape as unconsensual artificial insemination, though. Still disturbing, but a bit less so, and the character responsible is killed in the middle of the episode. Aside from the creepiness of the content, though, it does approach some interesting ideas in an interesting way and is brilliantly made.

The show occasionally flirts with religious notions of evil, but has trouble reconciling them with both the premise of the series and the formula of the show. If Satan exists, it is fundamentally unbeatable by an army, let alone two people with a pistol each. Thus, these episodes typically end badly for our agents and…

With Avengers and League, he could do two weeks of Connery humiliating himself. It would pair well with Zardoz.