Red Bull: The cornerstone of every nutritious breakfast.

[Raises coffee mug. Smiles.]

Sobriety will do that to a man.

What was that anecdote about Bill Murray calling him up when he accepted the Hunter Thompson role? Something about being careful to avoid playing Hunter Thompson the rest of his life? Bill Murray is a wise man.

KINO has been superseded by Mosfilm, whom are releasing their stuff on YouTube. I don't know how many times I've cued up the Mosfilm YouTube channel version of Hari cutting off her dress in the yellow backlight … Good god does "Solaris" have heart-stopping cinematography.

Shit, it's hard enough to get a transfer from any format to universal digital release, legal or not. I've been searching for a copy of "Vortex", by Scott B and Beth B, for years, to no avail. Email after email has led me from archive to archive to promises that they'll release some other film via Umatic transfer …

Yeah, my mom-'n-dad family learned about it through someone sending us the news article. Whole 'lotta Schadenfreude in the Kissinger household that night.

Lisa needs — YOUR I.P. ADDRESS HAS BEEN LOGGED BY THE FBI.

Oh my god. I saw a 35mm projection of "Stalker" at the Harvard Film Archives … I have the Kino release, and there's a lot to be desired. The sequence with the sand piles and the open pipe to Writer's nowhere especially. Knyazhinsky's work is woefully underrepresented on the Kino disc, especially in his landscapes of…

There is a bounty of palm trees and wistfully beautiful decaying plantations.

I can estimate their richness by the size of their house, and the size of their vacation house.

Oh, come on. Are you really, by that logic, questioning the canonical status of "Serenity" because the Serenity set is noticeably different, and Mal wears a different outfit?

You know, whatever your feelings toward Tatooine, they're building a practical set instead of green-screening it. Take your victories where you can.

Ah, shit … You're right! And in the alternate cut even Jabba finds Han there.

Couldn't have said it better myself. Like "Stalker", it's a breathless experience that changes you in ways you can't describe.

Ho!

Well, Fort Thomas is a short drive from Cincinnati, which is a really cute little city with affordable housing as long as you aren't terrified of living next to those Scary Black People.

You just have to stick your cock in the vending machine.

In my earlier corporate years, I go short-listed for Cinemax's Secretary of Slit. I regret turning down that offer.

Counterpoint: Randroid uncle lives in Kentucky.