Interestint, I’ll have too see if I land there next time I watch it. My memory of the final third centers on that last scene, which is fucking killer.

It’s a really well done, imaginative movie. It did strike me as pretty of its time dealing with the racial elements. Black characters tend to be types, functional to the plot but not fleshed out, and acting as a sort hive mind at the end when they all parade out in tribute to someone who is, by that point, an…

Love it. And I shouldn’t be ageist. Even if it’s too much for my five year old, I’m all for exposing kids to stuff that’s just a bit above their level. Stuff they can grow into. My appreciation of The Godfather was pretty superficial when I saw it at 12, but you follow those threads and appreciate the art more for…

But I’m at work and have very important clients...ah fuck it, you’re right, I have FICTIONAL REBELLION TO FOMENT!  

I’m not reading anything until I catch up, but I gotta sing the praises of this show. Finally a Star Wars story that is not based on nostalgia, that justifies itself by itself as opposed to in reference to something else, is specifically for grown ups (not that older kids can’t get it but, you know, not marketed to…

It’s true.  It seems like they didn’t do much in general. Maybe figuring better to distract with some natural aging than distract with the uncanny valley?  

Well, I guess if you’re trying to convey a character trait through wardrobe, the line between overt and stereotypical is a bit blurry. You’re trying to communicate something through a recognizable visual code.  I’m just wondering if that’s what they’re doing.  But yes, it could just be the setting.  It’s time to shut…

I don’t know what river pho is, but if you’re implying these decisions would have been better made over a nice warm bowl of pho, I can’t disagree. 

It seems like there’s some hope here. They did a good job de-aging James Earl Jones’s voice in Obi-Wan Kenobi, so it’s at least doable. And the thing with The Irishman is there were no stunts. They weren’t gonna hire a body double to have DeNiro walk around a gas station or whatever. With Indy, stunts are guaranteed…

I think it’s actually as cohesive as anything they ever did, it’s just meant to represent the fragmentation going on at the time, in society, in the band, in music and culture, etc.  I read it as being about reaching for identity in the midst of entropy.  Which is, maybe not coincidentally, also what I thought The…

Am I a terribly bad human being in that I’m noticing Daniel Craig’s wardrobe seems a bit more overtly gay? I approve of the gayness of course. Not that gayness requires my approval. I just notice that after making that aspect of the character public and canonical, there’s maybe a subtle lean into it with the clothes. …

I’m just gonna say that Mads Mikkelsen as an evil Stanley Kubrick would have been amazing and leave it at that.  

He’s a gem. An unpretentious, unassuming guy who is just very, very good at his job. He also made a big old guest star-centered album that somehow didn’t come off as self-congratulatory or aggressively irrelevant. That’s an accomplishment in itself. I’m still trying to figure out if Kathleen Hanna’s voice mail was…

So much Springsteen. I’m sitting here working at 1:00 AM on a Friday night. The fact that I’m listening to Tom Joad and Western Stars makes it seem not that bad.

Twitter dying?  Alas, the world is not that good.  

That’s existed in limited circles of cool since the 70s.  And, you know, it’s fine, they weren’t infallible.  But a contrarian point isn’t right just because it’s contrarian.  Their hold on the culture has been resilient enough to foster contrarianism because they were really were that good.  

I love Mike Watt. 

DAD?!?

Jerry Seinfeld has gently said his piece on the matter—by saying very little at all.

Living well is the best revenge.