West With The Night by Beryl Markam. I read a lot but somehow never got around to this. Markam was an English woman living in Kenya in the ‘20s and ‘30s, then British East Africa. It’s a autobiography of her childhood there, becoming a pilot and eventually flying the Atlantic, the first to do that solo east to west.…
Itchy and Scratchy: The Movie - the novel by Norman Mailer just isn’t nearly as good as the movie.
Insecure all day.
Seconds (1966) is one of the most disturbing films I’ve ever seen. The best description I’ve heard of it is, imagine if the Twilight Zone made a feature length episode, and this is what you’d get. It’s alienating and paranoid and disturbing and the ending is a gut punch.
Agree. Never skip the Hawks. Regardless of its quality as an adaptation (it’s barely an adaptation), it’s still a well-crafted sci-fi/horror film, not to mention the first film to use the theremin in its score.
A few years ago (while I was on the job hunt that netted me the disastrous Defy Media job), I had an interview with some sort of vague web company that was, for some inexplicable reason, held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills. I decided to wear my (only) suit to the interview, found a parking spot around the…
I expected to see Ex Machina about halfway through the list. When it still hadn’t shown up by the time I reached the top 5, I thought “Wow, is Ex Machina gonna be in the top 5? Bold move AVClub.”
A7x is the best thrash metal band ever, possibly the greatest metal band of all time! Everything they put out is just amazing! People say that there are better bands out there, but that’s not true (except Metallica!) I think they’re way better than that crappy old school stuff like Testiment or Megadeath or whatever
Well, she starts of strong. “Don’t be twats” is just universally advisable, regardless of context.
I was going to criticize your quick diagnosis of insanity but your name indicates you are doubly qualified to make it.
The sea knows what it did.
When I first saw The Apprentice: Celebrity Edition, I thought it was the lousiest, worst, most ridiculous “reality show” I had ever seen. It was a bunch of washed up losers getting yelled at by a fraud who declared bankruptcy multiple times. Everybody on the show was so unlikeable. Not a single positive comment for…
Politics Corner - Health Coverage update. I haven’t discussed this since McCain’s dramatic thumbs down killed skinny repeal in the middle of the night. The Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson monstrosity was revealed (mostly) in full. Yesterday. Their plan, which is not impossible, is to ram it through this month. It would…
“Dick move.”
One of my favourite jokes from this episode (and a nice reflection on how smart this show is) is The Terror making a reference to something that was previously only briefly mentioned in a background newscast: “And then I started killing all the bees.”
Just finding articles is a giant pain. I miss having the newswire box.
I just want to take a second to appreciate the black vice principal's casual racism. It's a thing that I've seen happen frequently in real life, and I totally get Issa's reaction because I've done the same thing. And then I felt ashamed of myself. This show is actually making me feel things!
