Fair enough. English-language director.

Mmm, I think the run of Spider through Cosmopolis is all brilliant. It’s some of the post-body-horror stuff (Crash, Existenz, Dead Ringers) that I like less. DR and Crash I find ponderous, while Existenz is sophomoric. Like, if he had made Existenz after Scanners, I’d probably find it a much more interesting film from…

America’s finest director since the rise of “New Hollywood”. Anything from him is welcome in my eyemouths.

Oh how cleverly you turned the tables on me! It was a wonderful way to distract from you being completely wrong.

Well that’s patent nonsense. 

And I see no reason to believe that Jeff Bezos, the Newhouse family, or Kevin McClatchy are any better. Just savvier.

I think we have a bit of rose-colored classes when it comes to the integrity of the printed word

Smoked all my life and I ain’t dead yet.

“I’m full of shit. Please stop drawing attention to it!”

So you went from “ER and Clooney is sacrosanct to liberals” to “I have a funny feeling in my little toe that maybe if something were dug up on them, some people would maybe defend them”?

god peanut butter on a granny smith apple... i need a cold shower

GRANNY SMITH ARE DELICIOUS AND YOU CAN PRY THEM FROM MY COLD, DEAD, GRANNY HANDS

Red delicious are the “hot dog is a sandwich” of apples.

All of the actors are amazing, particularly the revelations of Pattinson and Gadon. The mise en scene is daringly heterogeneous but never feels disjointed, except insofar as it means to be. It’s like a fever dream of modern capitalism. The writing is really top notch (though a lot of that is the source material). That…

He is my favorite director, except that Maps to the Stars sucked butt.

Cosmopolis is an unheralded masterpiece.

That is the correct answer. “This question is stupid but I’m polite.”

in my defense, I moved today

There are wireless headphones that don’t need to be charged?

I’m not lying to you about listening to music. I’m lying to you about listening to a podcast. Regardless, stop trying to strike up a conversation with me.