I mean yeah, we live in a world where you can find punk songs in a Wendy’s commercial and buy Che Guevara shirts at Wal Mart.

I’m gonna cut him some slack since he set up and recorded the entire thing by himself. I did need subtitles for some of the songs though.

Performance art is a great description. It was very moving, especially the sequence where he turned 30 by himself in the pandemic, I could identify with that since I did the same thing. But also I laughed my ass off at half the songs. So it had a lot more going on than just a typical comedy special, but it definitely…

I agree with you, just cause he can play a convincing sex pest character doesn’t make him a sex pest. Like, I’m sure Mads Mikkelsen doesn’t actually eat people.

“I Have no Mouth and I Must Scream” isn’t absolutely terrifying but it is incredibly unsettling. Good blend of sci-fi and horror. Kind of serves as a precursor to some of the ideas in the “System Shock” series.

I loved that book, he really is great at getting you into the mindset of kids, especially the sensitive outcast type who aren’t really teens yet but have to face up to adult things like sex and violence (in addition to the otherworldly horror) that they don’t quite understand.

Haha yeah i had to sandwich it between a few books on my bookshelf and stay the hell away from hot tubs for a few weeks.

Hell yes, “The Jaunt” is probably my favorite short story of King’s though obviously he has hundreds and many of them are very very good. The Men in Low Yellow Coats and that one with the mill basement full of rats are probably the favorites off the top of my head.

High Rise was great. Also loved the adaptation with Hiddleston!

I like both the film and the book, but the director (and Bale of course) imbue Bateman with some kind of silly vacuousness where he tries so hard to cultivate an image that he’s a total A-game success and that just makes him more of a dork who coasts on his looks and the shallow success of his vaguely defined career.…

Child of God is pretty dark too. He has some other relatively lighthearted (comparatively of course) fare like the Border Trilogy.

That’s a great comparison.

I had to read “The Road” all in one sitting, not just because it was really compelling, but I knew that if I put it down, even for an hour, I’d lose the totally bleak atmosphere McCarthy meticulously constructed. Like, that one scene where the father is debating whether to starve or check out a basement for supplies,…

That’s why I love it. Blood Meridian is probably one of my favorite books out there, definitely my top McCarthy. I actually gave it to my friend as a wedding present, along with some vinyl. I was originally going to give him “Love in the Time of Cholera” but I realized the subject matter may not be the best for…

“2666" is one of my favorite books by one of my favorite authors. I also liked “Haunted” and that’s probably my favorite one by Palahniuk. “House of Leaves” is really creepy too.

If you’re not a fan of the director mentioned in the article, why not just ignore it? Instead of swooping in to drop a “Not a fan” bomb for no good reason. That’s not something a cool man, or guy, would do.

or vampires, if we’re lucky

But sadly, not Astro City. While Wes Anderson wouldn’t be my #1 guy to direct that, I think he’d actually do a wonderful job with the series. He’d be the best to nail the tone without getting too schmaltzy, but, other than a bit of stuff in “Grand Budapest” I’m not sure how he is with dark, overwhelming violence and…

Yeah, it is a damn shame that this isn’t his first, or even second round of transphobic comedy that netflix is A-Ok with him putting out. His previous netflix specials also had lengthy segments of anti-trans “jokes” which even though netflix has a whole “LGBTQ” section in its genre list, it didn’t prevent them from…

Same, it was a category on Jeopardy and the contestants seemed to get it, but I had no clue, until this explained it for me.