NO HAY BANDA
There is no band!

NOOOOOPE!

Watched Tree of Life. See my thoughts on the thread below (basically I loved it). Gonna see Super 8 this week. Other than that just worked and listened to a lot of podcasts (thanks for turning me on to The Flop House, AV Club!)

@Pike: I saw Tree of Life this week as well, and while I agree that the first twenty minutes or so of the film were a bit choppy, I thought Malick did a fantastic job of bringing together the cosmic/religious themes of the film with the autobiographical themes of the film, he just made you wait until the very end.…

I can only hope that at one point in the film she kicks Judy Moody repeatedly in the face with her rollerskates, just like she did that one dude in Boogie Nights. The trailer for this dreck has been playing nonstop in the lobby of the theater I work at, and every time it comes on, I feel like part of my soul has had a…

Our Band Could Be Your Life
That book has been like the bible to me since High School, if the bible had 100% more stories about what an asshole J Mascis used to be.

Alligatowrs in the sewerssss

I concur, and it especially helps if you grew up in an upper middle class suburb of New Jersey (as I did). Their music can't help but remind me of the idle summer days of my youth.

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Find a part
For the Sun Studios tour guide girl from Pop Pilgrims, and you've got yourself a goddamn deal.

Seriously, if anyone on the staff has her number, like, I really have nothing keeping me in Hoboken at this point…

I caught it on demand like two weeks ago, and I agree wholeheartedly with Tobias' review. There were a few times that I got impatient with all the setup, but the last hour of the film makes all the waiting so worth it. It's impossible to convey the amount of ownage Miike stuffs into that last hour. Each moment is more…

Thriller wins it for me, on the basis of Wanna Be Startin' Something alone.

Damn
Either that was Robin Williams, or Werner Herzog let himself go.

I still haven't figured out what that endless panning back and forth over the Bruegel painting was supposed to mean, but it looked gorgeous, so whatever.

Hell yeah, Stalker is my favorite Tarkovsky film. The cinematography and the dialogue are both amazingly beautiful, the pacing is glacial but manages to keep you captivated, and the ending rivals even Solaris in terms of pure mindfuckery. This is the second time Criterion has put out Solaris, and we've also got…

Everyone knows that the government introduced crack and canceraids to the ghetto in the 80's.

MJ
Michael Jackson died in 2009, not 2010. Jus' sayin'.

I think Sudekis, Wiig, and Hader will definitely leave sooner rather than later, all three of them are becoming too big for the show (in a good way). Armisen…who knows, he does do Obama, but other than that he's kind of been phoning it in this season, for the most part. I give Keenan like, one more season at best, out…

Watched The Two Escobars Friday night, incredible. Watched 13 Assassins Saturday night, a bit slow-moving at first, but the epic battle at the end was excellent, and there were some very weird Takashi Miike touches thrown in all around to keep your attention. At two different points during the weekend, Jaws was on TV,…