Doctor Sanchez

The thing that’s most off-putting about the first season of The Simpsons is not that it’s bad, it’s just that it doesn’t feel like The Simpsons. The character designs hadn’t settled in yet and the voices (okay, mostly Homer, but that’s a big one) are miles away from where they would be by season 2. 

I’ll vouch for Sicario as well. I think it’s one of the best movies of the last 10 years. 

>Have people really forgotten

Whenever John McCain dies, there’s gonna be a lot of shit about him being a pragmatist and whatever, and some of it’ll even be true.

I’m an unabashed Fat Elvis apologist, and though he doesn’t even crack my top ten in terms of bands or artists, if I could time travel to see anyone perform live, it’d be him, jumpsuited up in Vegas. There are a lot of recordinfs of those shows, and some nights he’s too wired, and some nights he’s not wired enough,…

I love Pink Floyd, lukewarm on The Who (if you average out the highs and lows), and how much I like Fleetwood Mac is directly proportional to the degree that Lindsey Buckingham is put front-and-center and everyone else just gets out of his way. 

I’ve never killed a Saturday night at the movies. When it comes to Sunday afternoons, though, I’m Ted Bundy. 

Stubs Stubs a Go Go!

I mentioned a couple weeks ago that I watched Generation Kill. Reading interviews with David Simon, he grouped the book it was based on in with two others—Dispatches by Michael Herr and Martyrs’ Day by Michael Kelly—as being among the best war books he had read.

More Picard? Yes. 

I think that ratings (or viewer retention) is irrelevant to how the show is structured. Hell, even Netflix cancels shows, and those are specifically engineered for streaming and dumped in batches for binge watching. 

Don’t get your news from a troll.

I like Fargo. I like Chris Rock. I like this news. 

Because people are allowed to disagree on things and if you want to hire only people who have never said or done anything objectionable, you’re shit out of luck because Mr. Rogers is dead. 

I always found Dave Letterman’s contempt to be genuine and refreshing, so I was immune to Jimmy Fallon’s fleeting charms. It’s nice to see the world catching up to me, for once, instead of the other way around. 

I would say it was very much built for streaming culture, even though the streaming sites weren’t around when LOST hit. Netflix delivery and DVD box sets (and The Pirate Bay) performed pretty much the same function and LOST was very much geared for that sort of viewing. Pretty much everyone I know got into the show…

I can deal with the gaps. Peep Show and Curb Your Enthusiasm have made me wait a long time, more than once. (Then again, continuity isn’t really critical to either of them.)

I’m one of the horrible people who fell out of love with this show the more ambitious and byzantine its plotting became. Some day I’ll get caught up, but I can’t imagine anything will approach my affection for the first two seasons.

God, that is a really dire looking slate of movies. I’m sure I’ll see a few of these, BlacKkKlansman is the only one that I actually *want* to see.