I like that they specifically had her as the most stoned because she ate the most cookies, and Bob was the closest to lucid.

I like how we got to see the songs from Tina's play rearranged at the end to capture their intended rock-opera goodness.

Got around to Arrival. It was good. Not quite as great as I'd been led to expect, it has a few of the things in modern "thoughtful" sci-fi films that kinda bug me- the visuals are minimalist and cold to the point of being kind of dull, everything is connected in that Modern Screenwriting 101 kinda way, I dunno I felt…

I like that the "skullcrawlers" are apparently based on the design of that weird lizard monster that briefly menaces Jack when he's hiding on the cliff face in the original. Nice callback.

Ash just believes in the puppet. The rest of the scenario strikes him as odd but he's willing to go with the puppet.

Got back from a big screen showing of Flash Gordon. That helped. Some people like dark stuff when they're feeling low, me, I'm a softie. Of course right now even the basics of dramatic conflict kinda rub at me, but the distractions help.

I think it's good to have the opposition visible at the very least. Not a sufficient step but a necessary one.

"Everything I touch turns to flies!"

Well, yeah, but the movies and the fuzzy slippers and so on are part of the process. I admire the hell out of the fact that there are already folks taking to the streets in protest and following the news enough to see exactly what we're dealing with and trying to figure out what the left needs to do, I'm just not…

There's outrage and there's crippling sadness. I need to get rid of the latter before I'm of any use to anyone.

I picked up Sleeping Dogs during a sale, still haven't gotten around to that. Or maybe I'll look at something a little more fantasy or sci-fi. I dunno. It's hard to clear my head.

I know stuff like this is naive and it's not pop culture it's people's lives and I get that.

I'm sold. I knew about the pastiche elements but if this legitimately has some substance to it that's so much the better. (Not that I'm opposed to a pure style exercise.)

4K is a good standard for theater screenings, but yeah, it's gonna have a time catching on in the home market. I'm not sure our Internet infrastructure is up to streaming 4k-level video on the reg either.

People talk about how it's childish to try and escape the real world but maybe if we dump enough into game technology we can actually create a separate universe every bit as real as this one but without a bunch of fucking racist morons.

Take care.

I'm trying not to be a wreck because I have a job interview tomorrow. I'm going to take what pleasures I can.

Great work by her tonight. They're handling this plot with surprising deftness for a show that's anything but subtle.

What have you done to the Solange album?

Apparently after Jaws came out and they were discussing sequels, Spielberg was interested in making a "sequel" that would just be a movie about the Indianapolis and that time waiting in the water. The studio balked, sadly (though of course that meant Spielberg was free to do Close Encounters so I guess that works out.)