Sweet memories of Rob and co. beating the shit out of Tim Robbins.

Yup. "I don't know if I want to fuck him or fight him."

I vote Wesley, who then becomes an incredible character over the course of the series.And Lorne…just cause c'mon it's Lorne.

if there is any sole reason for justifying a suicide, it's writing a classy note like that. Damn.

Haven't seen The Indian Runner, but it's strongly based on "Highway Patrolman" apparently. And Badlands inspired the title song (such a good movie, damn).

I have the feeling reading this Dowd doesn't love Payne's other stuff, and I really do. Probably gonna see it anyways.

I love the use of "Tomorrow" in the montage, but it didn't make sense that Megan would encourage the use of it for a commercial that the kids today would love. Really? Cause ad firms in the 60s loved insane, avant-garde psychadelia, goes great with Alka-Seltzer ads.

Damn it, he gets results!

That might be one of the best analyses of the show I've ever read. Well done, sir.

Coppola later said he regretted casting Reeves and did so because he thought he needed a "hot" young star to open the movie.

I just watched it for the first time on Netflix Instant (the fact that some really great silent movies are showing up on there makes me feel pretty happy) with the original score re-enacted. I definitely am curious to re-watch it with weirder, different music. Not bad, but something like watching Citizen Kane's ending…

The Phantom of the Opera unmasking scene still scares the shit out of me every time I watch it - I never expect it to happen when she pulls it off every single time, and I think the way it was shot makes the timing really jarring and strange.

That book is so good. The descriptions of the town being slowly emptied one by one by the vampires is scary in a very fatalistic way.

Sherlock Jr.'s on Netflix, and it really is incredible, great action. It also has some surprising -for the time - themes about how we worship the movies and how they influence our actions.

I'm looking for the crest…

There's a good article to be written about how Against Me! wrote songs explicitly about being IN a punk band and trying to have revolutionary anarchistic principles, and being a more ethical, principled kind of band…and then basically became a really strong, solid rock band and nothing beyond that. I like the last two…

Based on Angels in America, Justin Kirk deserves way better.

Almost threw the computer out the window. I hope it gets cancelled out of pure spite for Sorkin and his liberal authoritarian ass (that and I like most of the actors and want them to do better things).

Can't wait to see the film. I have Fred Neil's beautiful version of "Farethewell" (whose entire first album deserves some kind of feature article on here), but I'd like to hear different versions.

Thanks to television for co-opting a mass movement that means a lot to me and pretending it's somehow affiliated to terrorism and indiscriminate violence. Yay, the mass media interpreting stuff it otherwise doesn't understand!