“I honestly think social media makes those issues look more widespread than they generally are”

I honestly think social media makes those issues look more widespread than they generally are. A Twitter riot is what, a few hundred people out of 330 million?  But tweets and ugly statements made elsewhere are featured on the news as representative of massive swaths of our population.  Layer on top the not…

This site has spent the last, three months, I wanna say? The last three months blowing smoke up Macdonald’s ass and painting him as some sort of iconoclastic comedic genius, a sort of Jim Jarmusch of the open mic night. “Norm says this,” “Norm says that,” “Hey, everyone, let’s get Norm’s somewhat skewed but always…

I’ve avoided Good Will Hunting on general principle because the character’s name is Will Hunting and the name of the movie presents itself as a clever play on that, turning it into a commonly used phrase.. But no one, ever, has said “Goodwill Hunting.” That is not a thing people say.

I don’t know but I’ll never bank at Fifth-Third Bank or eat at Ruth’s Chris Steak House. Whoever named these hates joy.

I actually stumbled on a video of a Diarrhea Planet performance, once, and their sound was not at all what I expected, and definitely in line with a type of music I really like. And yet...Diarrhea Planet. 

I’m a little surprised that nobody has mentioned Picaresque which, to me, is their magnum opus. The only song on there that I think is underwhelming is The Sporting Life but the highs throughout the rest of the album are so high (Eli, The Barrow Boy, The Bagman’s Gambit, The Engine Driver and The Mariner’s Revenge…

I’m not a Sam Harris, nor a Jordan Peterson fan boy. Especially with Peterson, I think he’s alarmist and often times makes insane conclusions not connected to reality.

“After all, he did basically ruin her career during the 2004 Super Bowl Halftime Show when he ripped off a part of her dress...”

Thank you! My husband got so annoyed when I said it was Amelie meets Free Willy.

Uncanny Valley? I don’t think that word means what you think it means.

His directorial style tends to be more zoom in than zoom in.

So the only options for people working in an industry with abuse issues is to leave the industry entirely or start their own multi-million dollar company from scratch, and absolutely anything else is just an empty PR move worthy of snark?

Personally, I see nothing but negativity when someone does this publicly against another person who they then worked together successfully with.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: David Cross is basically Larry the Cable Guy for the corduroy-jacket-with-elbow-patches, latte-sipping set.

Creed 2: Spuise Control

I like Alamo Drafthouse, love Something Weird Video and believe the world needs more fests like this so I worry that I might get prejudiced about news items like this. Thanks for this Katie. I really appreciate the cleared-eyed analysis from somebody who was there.

I started typing out a list and I kept having to change it. Too hard to make a comparison, but I can say Royal Tenenbaums is my favorite, and Moonrise Kingdom is my least.

Where do you start? Do you really not know? Heh. What am I missing here? Try season1, episode 1.