Thursday night, I went to a free outdoor screening of Airplane! in Central Park with some friends. It had been a while since I'd seen it, and it's definitely something that you can watch repeatedly and discover something new each time (I'd forgotten about the "I take my coffee black. Like my men." line— the way she…

Friday night, I watched the S2 finale of "True Detective". I enjoyed this season, for the most part, although a lot of it felt overly familiar (I hadn't initially made the connection between Farrell's downfall and the ending of Heat, but someone else on here pointed it out and now I can't un-see it). I don't know if…

Whenever I hear someone say "That was intense", in my head, I always respond, "The life of a repo man is always intense!"
The one I use most often in real life is probably "elephant's nest," from the Andy Griffith show. (The full line is, "Andy's room is no place to bring a new bride! It's like an elephant's nest!")

Upvoted for 'The Rutles'. A favorite around our place is "Women. They always … get in the way." (Somehow I don't think Mick was stretching his acting muscles with that one.)

i figured you would be, but I like to err on the side of caution. Except when it comes to party likker and freeze-dried fruit…

Have you heard of Unknown Hinson? He has a song called "Hippie Girl" that's roughly in that wheelhouse. His other songs are pretty great, too. (Cool story bro: He autographed a poster for my dad once.)

I'm going to do something a bit different for this one. Sometimes, when I'm listening to music on shuffle, two songs will follow each other that go so perfectly together I think, "Those belong on a playlist together," and then I build one. That happened this morning, and the result is the best one I've made in a…

Friday, I went to see the Amy Winehouse documentary. It's a superb piece of work.It never feels exploitative (and in fact, is a pretty resounding indictment of paparazzi culture in general), but it definitely shows the gravity and tragedy of what happened to her, while also illustrating just how immense her talent…

Super late, but this one has been making me giggle for days:
Q: Where are lesbian tortoises found?
A: The Galpalagos Islands

He's such a goofball. I think if he and I had been in high school together, we would have been friends. I'm definitely looking forward to this album, and I hope one of these days I can see him performing.

I'm sure no one's still reading these, but I just had to add this. It's not necessarily the same name, but similar— Repo Man, the 1980s punk/cult movie starring Emilio Estevez and Harry Dean Stanton, vs. Repo! The Genetic Opera and Repo Men, which are both movies about a dystopian society that harvests people's…

Gosh, it's been a while since I've done one of these. The past few weeks I was wrapped up in trying to find a new apartment (actually had to crash with a friend for about a week while everything got settled), but I've moved in and so far, everything is pretty great. I've already had more and better quality…

My pop-culture weekend started on Wednesday— my best friend and I saw Rhett Miller (front man of The Old 97's) playing a solo show. We've seen him a number of times over the past few years, and he always puts on a great show even without the band behind him. If I were a man, and my hair was as buoyant and luxurious as…

I would like to think that few movies are truly unforgivable, but that one comes close. (When the best actor in a movie is a horse, you have a problem.)

I love the book (clearly), and I strongly recommend it. The storyline of the movie is so far removed from the source material that it's almost unrecognizable (first and foremost, the book has nothing to do with Satan). Whoever adapted it, in addition to a number of other mistakes, completely missed the difference…

An adaptation of Mark Helprin's Winter's Tale directed by Martin Scorsese (who was originally attached to the project but then dropped out). The Colin Farrell/Russell Crowe version was a huge disappointment— they changed so much of the storyline that it was barely recognizable, and made it into even more of an overt…

Hmm, it has been a while, so I can't give it as deep an analysis as I'd like to. I do remember getting a sense of "the more things change, the more they stay the same"— to put it another way, "even under Communism, greed and opportunism continue to exist" (this seems like a foregone conclusion, but one has to put in…

On Friday, I finished reading Pale Fire. It was very hard for me to get into for quite a while, but once I figured out *the big secret* (which is maybe obvious from the beginning and I'm just a dolt for not picking up on it sooner), it kind of unlocked the whole thing for me emotionally. The last fifteen pages or so…

I caught The Twelve Chairs on TCM last year. It's a wonderful little movie— tonally, a lot darker (or just more "restrained") than Spaceballs or Blazing Saddles, but still hilarious. It's worth hunting for.

I have a fairly long (45-minute) commute back and forth from work on the subway, so that's where most of my reading takes place. I also really enjoy an hour or so of reading before bed— possibly it's just confirmation bias, but it seems like I sleep better if I turn off my devices and settle in with a paper book or…