On The Road
Great way for daddy to score some strange and set up a secret, second family.

I wish it had just been "once"
Songs from the first Swell Season album, evidently used prior to that for the film "Beauty In Trouble," were used again for the "Once" soundtrack a few months later — and then at least a couple of those songs were recorded *again* a few months after that for the Frames album "The Cost." …

This inventory
reminds me of that twilighty show about that zone.

Some of you might have seen this outtake from the movie:

Best Hatecast yet
Brandon Haynes needs to be invited back. He and Amelie are hilarious together.

For what it's worth, I thought this was the most unsettlingly effective scene in the film:

I guess I should have checked to see if that scene was viewable online. I just saw the movie last night, and I agree, obviously, that it wasn't executed as effectively as it could have been.

When reading about it, I imagined that moment of the movie being unnervingly naturalistic in the way it was shot — like, there's a normal-looking fox in a handheld shot, but then it turns to the camera and says, "Chaos reigns!" — a bold little "What the fuck?" instant to signify that the film was heading into weirder…

I thought this movie looked a little promising, in a "Something Wicked This Way Comes"-meets-"Freaked" sort of way. I guess I'd be better off just re-reading SWTWC and re-watching "Freaked."

Keanu Reeves aside, I love Coppola's "Dracula." It's got Gary Oldman, Anthony Hopkins at his hammiest, Tom Waits, Richard E. Grant, a braless Winona Ryder's tits bouncing all over the place, a redheaded Sadie Frost getting fucked by a wolfman, Monica Bellucci, a terrific Wojciech Kilar score, wonderfully…

"Chaos reigns!" is now my stock answer to anyone who questions my behavior whenever I fuck something up or do something inexplicable.

Whoops — your last comment wasn't there, JERK, when I posted mine, but thanks for confirming my snark.

Sometimes I think she's hot, and sometimes I think she comes across as a female Matt Damon.

Sounds cool
I saw this at the bookstore last week and was intrigued by the title, but apparently not enough to actually pick it up and give it a look. Based on this review, however, it's probably something I'll wind up reading.

I have to admit, after listening to some tracks on the widget above, this album sounds better than I thought it would, based on the review and my preconceptions.

Denzel Washington and Tom Cruise were always snickering and elbowing each other when I talked about working summers as a fudge packer on Mackinac Island.

I'm just disgusted that Tom Cruise would knock that particular "life choice."

I'm a Michigander, so I appreciated reading that about Mackinac Island. "[A]nything that looks 'charming,' if you scratch the surface, there's going to be fudge."

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I'm just saying that I love the native music of Africa. "Graceland," for instance — so soulful. Those people always look so warm and happy!