Especially since he’s the perfect all-too-slick pol in Bullitt.

This got an out-loud chuckle of recollection from me.

Fun surprise—it looks like the AVC has finally caved and search is just a Google search now!

When they rediscover his tomb 3000 years from now they’re going to think he was our Disco Pharaoh.

Very cool history of someone whose name I wasn’t familiar with but whose influence I’ve heard lots of, IV. I think for a lot of us into electronic music it started with some slightly weird dance music, that stray Eno album in our Dad’s collection, or something a bit outré, but it’s interesting to hear electronic…

Looks up clip

I remember 2010 as having the best characterization of any of Clarke’s novels, too (though I’m well overdue for a re-read).

While 2001 is a up there as a cinematic GOAT and 2010 doesn’t really approach it on that level, it really does hold its own in a way that deserves better than the typical “Yeah, surprisingly not bad.” It has a stellar cast (including the ageless Keir Dullea), excellent design (really does a good job of bridging the…

Kind of seems like it might have worked better as a 45-min IMAX movie you’d see at the museum

I can see where Esther’s going criticizing the “travelogue” aspect, but honestly a big-screen tour of the Tian Shan or Altai sounds pretty appealing, cheesy score be damned.

IV doing books is one of the things that keeps me visiting this site.

I don’t know if we had a wormhole on this, but it has come up in the comments before as one of the leading contenders for “wikipedia article that best fills the overlap of depressing and horrifying.”

So not a Lem adaptation?

Trump/Breitbart/&c. is also very concerned with America as “a nation”—i.e. someplace like a European country where there is a definite ethnic identity everything’s built around. It’s worth noting that social democrats in Europe end up in trouble because of their anti-racism, which became a liability once significant…

With the price of beef going through the fucking roof, that’s a deal!

WAT on that music video. My Dad’s a huge Lou Reed fan, so my first thought was how odd it was to here the Sam & Dave filtered through Mistrial, though then I realized, “Wait, Mistrial is just generic eighties rock production, isn’t it?” It Is.

In the eighties my dad went to an army function where former officers talked about their lives after the military and opportunities affords. Dad thought he gave one of the best speeches there, but then the man after him opened with, said matter-of-factly and with a completely straight, even stern, face:

Successfully reversing Orson Welles’s less successful strategy of appearing in American commercials to finance his European films

And he’s been doing this for years!

I can’t remember what it was for, but my absolute favorite Dutch tram stop ad had hristopher Walken working at a sewing machine, intensely staring forward at you, the waiting passenger.