I'd honestly rate it above any Tarantino film
I'd honestly rate it above any Tarantino film
I went over on a day-trip for the Christmas market once and yeah, it is like a fucking fairy-tale.
"I know I shouldn't… But I will."
Yeah, I remember being kinda detached and rolling my eyes at much of the film but that bit still hit me like a train.
You shot me in the bollocks, Tim.
For more indie cred than the guy from Portlandia could bring, here's S-K doing a version with Calvin Johnson from Beat Happening:
Yeah, I enjoy the show but the internal investigations sub-plot really got annoying fast.
Wait, how is The Hunger Games "rabidly loony right-wing"?!
Didn't he write Dial H For Hero after DC's big reboot a couple of years back?
They've got a fresh sound! It'll play well at this comment section.
Summer Camp did a pretty good cover.
Oddly, American Gods is the only of his books I've loved. The rest are really hit and miss.
The Pale King is very much an unfinished novel (obviously because of its circumstances) but I also feel like if it had been finished it would have hands-down been his best work. There is some amazing writing in there, it just ends before the disparate plot threads that are set up get anywhere (yes, yes, it's a DFW…
I abandoned it in pretty much the same place a year and a half ago, and only picked it up again when the TV show started and it's now one of my favourite books. I think long (and especially ones written in an odd style) books need you to be in a certain state of mind to get through, but often when you do it is very…
The Rome chapter towards the end is just brutal. It's the point where the comedy is dropped and the true, unobscured horror of what is going on is revealed. The book was already a contender for favourite for seeming like MASH written by the Goons, but I feel that chapter is where you go 'Holy shit!'
Well, they haven't got Nabin in house to throw it at these days…
He needs another Wes Anderson film
Something like this?
Kind of like what Phil Ochs was singing about in the 60s:
Wow, that's a lot more nuanced that I would have expected from them!