"I think I found a weakness!"  Sigh.  One of the best things about Brooks' story was acknowledging that the zombies had NO weaknesses.

I think zombie movies came about for supply reasons rather than demand—they're the easiest monster to do on screen.  No miniature work or effects necessary, just some makeup and a different way of moving, and bam!  There's your monster.  (Something acknowledged in Shaun of the Dead and The Walking Dead.)

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Well, he is a struggling black man trying to keep his dick hard in a harsh and cruel world.

So good.  I realized that not only was Said Taghmaoui playing a John Wayne character (avenging the death of his family) but he was playing him as John Wayne.

It's not, but it's interesting in its own right. Roeg's associative editing is a good way of adapting Conrad's narration into a film style, and it's wonderfully acted.

Get out of the car.

So the Community community is traveling from episode to episode now, yes?  Just checking because I want to start posting my wallflower Is Listening To. . . posts again.

Yes.  And I have been for a long time.

I didn't want it to be over.

I'm guessing his Beck/Randian belief in the Envy of the Successful.  (And I am a Mamet fan, and it's just fucking depressing seeing him his lose his mind over the last eight years or so.  As he would capitalize it, it's not that's he's become a Conservative, but that he's become a Moron.)

Jackie Treehorn draws a lotta water in this town, Wiseau. You don't draw shit.

I think the difference is that there are actors that can give great performances no matter what (Morgan Freeman and Jodie Foster jump to mind), but without a story, you're seeing the performance and the actor, not the character.  Terry Gross gave one of the greatest compliments an actor can receive to Walton Goggins,…

I don't wanna see this.  I'm obsidianate about that.

Here's a treat for you:  see if you can find the Glenn Gould conducts and plays Wagner CD.  It has Gould conducting the Siegfried Idyll (which is OK), but even better, it has three of Gould's own piano transcriptions of Wagner.  They are not note-by-note replications, but rethinking of Wagner for the piano.  You will…

It's. . .beautiful.  (Jon Hamm is just to the right of frame.)

The Blues Brothers is a musical, and that pretty much defines the purpose of plot in a musical.

OK. That's bad. Important safety tip.

What makes a man turn neutral, Kif?

George Crumb is a good place to start. Black Angels uses a great range of contemporary techniques—noise, quotation, instrumental effects—and it fucking owns all our asses. Ancient Voices of Children is quieter and better behaved, but just as experimental. Start with them and see where they take you.