Are you saying someone had to...carry you home?

Answering my own question, apparently James Gunn (or whoever manages his social media presence) is maintaining a soundtrack playlist on spotify, updated weekly with the songs from the newest episode:

Has anyone said if there’s going to be a soundtrack album? Because my god.  The Hellacopters!

The big square glasses and the weird wide-eyed stare make me think of Jeffrey Combs in Re-Animator, a film that I am very confident James Gunn has seen at least 50 times.

(Side note: it’s always worth reminding people that Blackstone is the shady private equity fund with dubious ethics and their fingerprints on a number of major financial disasters over the last 30 years. Blackrock however is primarily a manager of passive index funds and environmentally-focussed investment vehicles and…

Heh, fair.  :)

If you’re ever in Queens, several of Trumbull’s props including the miniature prop of the Tyrell Corporation pyramid can be seen at the Museum of the Moving Image. (But “miniature” is a weird word to use for something that’s 4 feet tall and six feet wide.)

So apparently James Gunn is one of the other five people on earth who saw and loved The Hidden.

Nah.  Opinions vary on O’Neal but Breihan and Dowd have always brought it.

Defector already does a little bit of pop culture writing; I’m really hoping that a few AVClub regulars end up there.

J/O media didn’t deserve you, Dowd.  Looking forward to finding out where you go next.

My 2022 resolution is to remove this zombie-ass site from my bookmarks in 2.5 months when everyone worth reading here is gone.

Welp, speaking of entitled scumbags, G/O Media has finally succeeded in driving a stake into the AV Club’s heart. If there’s a writer here who you like, they’re probably gone as of today:

As the estimable Ken White (aka Popehat) put it on twitter:

I think it was Liz Sandifer who dubbed this the Chris Clarement Effect: that weird moment when the thing you’re horny for just happens to fit into the zeitgeist in a way that is materially progressive despite that fact that your motivations are minimally 95% boner-related.

I don’t think you’re wrong about his personality but those are terrible examples. There are few jobs with less control over outcomes than “script doctor for hire.” He didn’t direct or edit those films and he wasn’t on the set. 

I guess the optimistic take here is that Harmon took several years to get to the point where he could own his own bullshit and give an unalloyed apology. Whedon really only started his reckoning relatively recently: he might yet get there. But based on this interview, I’m not expecting him to get there soon.

Step one: ask your publicist and your lawyer if you should consent to the interview.

Holy shit you’re right. Okay, I’m sold: that was 100% a Frankenhooker tribute and James Gunn is my fucking hero.

Kinda? IIRC Fleming described him as looking somewhat like Hoagy Carmichael, who was definitely a fairly good-looking dude in a 1940s kind of way. But he definitely wasn’t described as being Pierce Brosnan / Tim Dalton stop-you-in-your-tracks handsome.