Oh my fuck yes.

I was at a fish boil in Sturgeon Bay and the hotel guitarist did the whole song. It was about as perfect a Door County moment as you could ask for.

All spoiler warnings should be written by Rebecca Martinson and read out loud by Michael Shannon, yeah.

(sigh)

(hands over ears) BLABLABLABLABLABLABLA

Diamonds, Harry?
Diamonds.

@avclub-9bd49c93a34e2aa722142ca8820954d1:disqus :  it was pretty much that kind of cognitive dissonance.  We're all fucked, and soon, but not right now, so there's beer.  It was also the kind of disaster that wouldn't happen over years like climate change has been happening, but would be quick.  (Cormac McCarthy got…

Dammit @avclub-cfe912f5cb3aa572bd1c9ae2a9b82207:disqus , your continued existence harasses my lack of fashion sense!  WHEN WILL THIS TYRANNY END?!

By Brakhage, v. 1 and 2.

David Spade is embarrassed to be seen with you, Fieri.  Really can't go much lower.

This comment by @avclub-79f37254d46ff0eb4aef4db413a7aec6:disqus can never be repeated often enough: http://www.avclub.com/artic… and it sounds like Martin is one more example of what she's talking about.

@avclub-410987637793620466d1b0732bd7ed6d:disqus :  it's way more devastating than that.

@avclub-7e1ce4ce3124fd9ecc13a151afcff11b:disqus :  another one that well and truly fucked me up was Special Bulletin, still the best thing Ed Zwick ever did.  I couldn't get any distance on it, just kept thinking "this shit is actually happening."

It's not a nitpick; the last pages of the novel

Yeah, there are exactly zero uses of slo-mo in The Shield; violence on this show is quick and absolute.

I've noticed that it makes a huge difference psychologically whether or not someone came of age in the Cold War.  Even people five years younger than me (I was born in 1968) don't feel it the same way.  We really did grow up with the idea that the whole world could flat-out end, and end easily.  (Apparently, there was…

Yeah, I wanted to write more about the Dutch interrogations.  One thing you see is that his interrogation of Fets is so effective, he gets so far inside his head, that once Dutch convinces Fets that he'll never change, he can't unconvince him.

There's a James Ellroy line that always makes me think of Shawn Ryan and The Shield.  It's from his introduction to "Dick Contino's Blues"; he talks about meeting Contino (an accordionist and ever-so-briefly, a 1950s teen idol) and what Contino told him:  you have to be open to what the audience wants, and when you…

I'll check that out.  I don't have a problem with composers redoing scores; classical composers reuse their material all the time, and scores give composers the opportunity to redo things until they get it right, or at least right for the movie.

The first two.  There were gyms like that in 1980s LA; there may still well be.  I've learned that it's just about impossible to make anything up about West Los Angeles.  ("Eastern European guy comes to LA, invests $6 million to make a crappy movie, puts up his ugly-ass face on a 100-ft sign advertising it and it…