An original song at least, and only one, and the movie continues beyond it.

I should have added that Captain Bogg & Salty, like TMBG, were an equally functional adult rock band doing the exact same material. They'd fill 21+ venues, perform more hardcore and less gentle, but they were excellent musicians with really strong material and the pirate element made it fun.

It's a counter argument but Moana barely belongs in the article. It's damn near flawless. A movie that ends with Moana crossing the ocean to We Know The Way has nothing to apologize for about its musical elements.

Back in 2004 I was in LA with a free evening to visit a friend I'd been sort of hot for. She suggested seeing a movie at the new ArcLight with its prestige seating and bar service. Excellent! But she'd already seen Sideways, the one decent movie on offer, and was interested in Polar Express since a friend had worked…

The songwriters for Disney's "Jake And The Never Land Pirates" had an earlier incarnation as Portland (of course) pirate rock band "Captain Bogg & Salty" that produced an amazing run of albums. They were officially kids records and tracks like "Buccaneering Bunny Rabbits" are unapologetically cute, but the songwriting…

Trader Joe's has a "Triple Ginger Brew" available only in winter, limited batches. Great body and only $2.99 for a 500ml swing top bottle. Last year's got pulled off the shelves because a few bottles exploded from fermentation, which was a damn waste.

There was a fairly brilliant "hipster artisanal tap water" video last year on Vimeo. Surely not the same people?

Yaayyyy Jeffrey! Patrick Stewart got us into the theater but it was a very rewatchable movie with so many great beats and vignettes and so much damn heart.

The forced Inhumans promotion hasn't made me embrace their weird and unsympathetic royal family characters, but it's been easyto embrace great characters who just happen to be Inhuman: Kamala Khan, MCU Daisy Johnson, Moon Girl. It's a convenient plot mechanism with less baggage than the X-gene. Still I'd have been…

This is impressive for the slow motion lip synching at the end. I don't know if they've done that before, but it means Alia's acting in sync with sped up chipmunk Lin-Manuel.

Trump won because the other side was focused on preventing the Lesser Evil. All it takes for a Greater Evil to succeed is for good men to rail on about superdelegates.

SNL basically learned the wrong lessons from that era. They had a cast and writers who were skilled at recurring characters, but with later casts just focused on "recurring characters" regardless of whether the material was any good. Oh here's that thing that's funny because I recognize it and know where it's going!

I love that Half-Blood Prince uses the series' last bit of breathing room to just let the actors play off each other. Harry and Ron, Harry and Dumbledore, Ron and Hermione etc all play naturally and the humor is genuine. The acromantula funeral brings everything to a ridiculous pause and the actors are loving it,…

The recent Random Roles with Amy Hill sent me down a wormhole of Cat In The Hat and Love Guru and whatever the heck happened to Mike Myers. It's astonishing to read that Myers tried to keep Dana Carvey out of the Wayne's World movie because he was afraid Carvey would upstage him and eclipse his movie career. Whatever…

Since Chris Kimball left they no longer have the letter from Vermont. They didn't hire a replacement bucolic yarn spinner.

The only part of Westworld I've been genuinely hooked on is Evan Rachel Wood's performances, and if I watch the whole series it will be for her. I'm more engaged with where she takes Dolores than with how the story pans out.

I still want to know if the robo-cows at Dolores' ranch lactate, and what's in the milk those hosts were drinking, does it taste authentic and can it go bad and what does the park do with it all.

In the previous episode Teddy shot Wyatt's crew point blank and they weren't affected. So they could be guests, or they could be hosts immune to the park's fake bullets who can only be taken out with real ones.

I want a cut of this movie where Jack Burton periodically shows up and gets immediately knocked out.

In the right hands Emperor Norton inspires marvelous fiction and theater, with Gaiman being the most accessible work. Something I'd love to see is a fictional encounter between Norton and his contemporary Maximilian, the last Emperor of Mexico. Two tragic and amiable figures oddly graceful in misfortune.
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