Michael Bay's Days of Heaven - and Hell!

I used to live around the corner from from that block, and remember Mac's, Tommy's, the Grog Shop, and that run-down "lots of shitty department store stuff for a buck or two" place fondly. In a way, Peckar's writing really came into sharper focus if you knew Cleveland, and specifically Cleveland Heights at all. No one…

Alternately all consumers of pop culture could die young to keep from seeing, hearing, and reading such.

Welllllll… as long as they don't TALK about infidelity, or make it part of the Urban Intellectual's Burden along with fear of death and aging, love of WWII-era jazz, and a mixed reliance on and loathing of religion.

The Missus Rickster is not a fan of the big Albini beat in general — Big Black, Shellac, or In Utero — but she fell hard for the Albini re-recording of Cheap Trick in Color, exclaiming "Why aren't they on the radio all the time?" But I don't get her fixation on Young Beautiful Men Who Died Young… enough with the Nick…

To continue to derail this thread and shamelessly name drop — I have so few instances in which I can do so — but since her name keeps coming up, Chan Marshall really IS shy. Used to know her when she was cashier at Fellini's Pizza and must have spent weeks trying to convince her to sing in my band. Very nice, cool…

I really want to like her music ;cos she seems like a nice person but I was lucky (?) enough to see her on the first date of her first tour for her first CD, at a big club in Asheville. And damn yes, I know that woulda made a fine firstie. Anyway, I went because a friend told me she was getting a lot of buzz and lots…

Anyone else feel like Barney Miller was kind of the urban descendent of the Andy Griffith Show? Largely set in the station, relying more on the audience's familiarity with flawed but sympathetic characters, low-key dialog, and comedy from situations rather than from jokes? I mean AG was at times probably the most…

I was waiting for your Bai Ling comment, Mister L. It does seem as if playing an unhinged hooker would be not too terrible a stretch for her. I did once read her blog, and she seemed like a really cool, thoughtful, weird person who'd do the nasty in ways that would leave you shaking.

Other pointless "reimaginings" of simple playthings
Tetris: When Blocks Fall

They'll all be blockbusters.

This is a sad sad thing to contemplate
but maybe this does in fact signal the End of Days.

I think if you deal with the "I only fuck when I'm so drunk I don't care if I knock her up" issue, then the herpes issue will seem pretty minor. If you really love her, wrapping your junk when there's an outbreak is a pretty small sacrifice. You two might wanna work out though why you have this tangled mess of…

I'm being a bit tongue-in-cheek. I jut gets hints of the predictable backlash that comes with commercial success and familiarity. Jesus Hisself Christ could return and the douchelencia would be bitching about how these miracles don't have the freshness of the ones in the Bible, and the whole idea of the Second Coming…

"Very different"?
I like Radiohead a lot and understand that if I had any artistic cred I'd hate them. I'm curious though what "very different" will mean. I think they've done a fine job throughout their career of balancing different with a consistent feel from release to release. Even OK Computer was sort of a…

I think Apple is about to run out of the "at least they're not as bad as Microsoft" fuel they've had. I used to be a fan but with their attitudes toward Flash, advertising, and Lala I'm now a grudging user. And as a shitty musician who puts our mediocre self-produced music, Lala actually gave me a tiny trickle of…

I may be giving Spielberg too much credit but I think AIs end was a total kick-in-the-teeth downer — and good — precisely because of it's saccharine nature. It was so clearly a hollow, staged, lifeless simulation of happiness, long after it mattered, that it carried more impact.

It's a plane watching movie, yes. Saw it in December I guess, and it's interesting enough to half-watch, and you feel no guilt for wasting time or money to see it. It did have some good bits, but seemed to last longer than the nine-hour flight itself.

I think the closest thing to The Andy Griffith Show in tone and setting might have been Barney Miller. A cop show about everything except doing what TV cops do.

That was a nice piece of writing there. I'm not a superfan, but agree that it had, when it was on, a delicacy in timing, dialogue, and acting that may not ever have been surpassed in any TV show. It's said that a key to making a fantasy world believable is to always respect that world's internal rules, and while the…