I’ll take as much as I can get, whenever they give it to me. Curb Your Enthusiasm once went 6 years between seasons.

I randomly discovered a Squarepusher remix of one of the songs from that album today.

Who minds anything being open, as long as employees aren’t forced to work? My family would frequently go to a movie after dinner on Christmas when I was young.

Discovering that Taco Bell will be closed just prematurely ruined my Christmas.

Derrick Henry is tough. He was in the MVP conversation as a running back. They should’ve named him and then just named the injury replacement.

10 of my favorites that aren’t listed (I’m leaving out some really good ambient/instrumental stuff this year but The Antlers is probably my favorite overall and Parannoul is my favorite new artist/discovery):

Original song is often an odd award but when one contributes a song that plays over the closing credits, I think that is more about marketing than something that should be considered for an award related to the creative product itself. At best, it’s music inspired by the film that was added. They certainly wouldn’t be…

Ha ha. Pretty sure we’re able to distinguish between an affected reliance on anachronisms and historical norms but thanks for the heads-up.

Better stay away from The French Dispatch.

I assume that he’s never venturing into what has become a business that he doesn’t own or control (complete with sponsorship from a competing alcohol brand) but I think the plausible answers to this hypothetical scenario are Nas or Kanye (as he opined about on Drink Champs). Nas can’t match the number of hits but can…

I thought It’s a Sin was pretty bad—I understand the importance of Russell T. Davies but I find the work of his that I’ve seen sometimes interesting but not good. I just got Apple+ and only watched Ted Lasso this week so I haven’t been tracking the sentiment around S2 vs. S1 but for something I had heard about so inces…

He was good on Rick Rubin’s podcast recently (sometime this year or maybe last).

I would want two thing out of a reunion like this, one of which I apparently won’t have and one of which I can’t: Maggie Smith and Alan Rickman.

I forgot about The Father and didn’t think of Nomadland or Minari as 2021 films based on my recollection of the Oscars (apparently critics think the same), but you’re right. To the extent that I care about awards, it would be nice if the relied on a calendar based on widespread US releases (for the US-based awards) rat…

Yeah, it just didn’t work for me and took me several tries to get through it. I loved FMF and was probably expecting too much and something different. If the order had been reversed maybe it would’ve landed differently. I’m a big stop motion fan so I was in partially for just the craft and production design but I…

From this list, I saw only Summer of Soul and The French Dispatch (I’m sure I’m forgetting some but I can only think of a half-dozen new releases that I saw that aren’t on this list: Dune, King Richard, The Many Saints of Newark, The Guilty, Luca, Barb and Star..., ; I assume I’ll see most in the first few months next…

It may be mostly but it’s definitely not just them. There is certainly a conspiratorial far Left that meets the end of the far Right spectrum on some issues like this and, judging by the comment sections of IG profiles of a variety of famous people I casually follow, the “I’m doing my own research” and “Big Pharma…

he’s never been to Asia

A tangentially related plug for the newish Trader Joe’s hazelnut spread-filled Bambas. I’m glad they only come in mini-bags.

What’s that van-looking van in the rear right corner? Very boxy in a promising way.