00s movies
Daniel Johnston Day
Yesterday I wore my Daniel Johnston t-shirt. No special reason; it was near the top of my t-shirt drawer. (T-shirt drawer #1, anyway. I have a lot of t-shirts.) I first learned of Daniel Johnston when I was a college DJ at Pittsburgh’s WRCT. The station had a recording of Daniel doing an impromptu over-the-phone […]
My Highly Subjective List of the Best Movies of 2009
I like going to the movies. I’m like Binx Bolling, but without the charming New Orleans accent. So as 2009 reaches the end of its reel, or, uh, one last delicious digitally-projected byte—oh shut up for god’s sake—I thought I’d run down the films I liked best. Now, as I’ve aged, I’ve become more suspicious […]
I Was Willing To Give Mel Gibson Another Chance
Really, I was. Sure, there had been the anti-semitism and sexism, the homophobia, The Passion of the Christ, that Apocalypto piece of crap, and that crazy beard. I haven’t seen a Mel Gibson movie since Signs in 2002, and I only remember that it was awful, and there were glasses of water all over the […]
Dashed-Off Comedy in Response to Actual News Item
Disney has acquired pic rights to a new rendition of ‘The Diary of Anne Frank,’ to be written and helmed by David Mamet. ANNE: The fuck.MARGOT: This thing we got here, this—ANNE: Fucking fuck.MARGOT: It’s not like we—we couldn’t.MUMMY: Shut it. Enough.ANNE: You miserable piece of—PETER: Who knows what might be. Life is—MUMMY: Goddamn enough.ANNE: […]
Another Week, Another Movie, Another Memory
I went to the movies again. I really like going to the movies. And this time, I recognized the name in the credits right away. So it was only a matter of figuring out which character in the film was portrayed by this person from my past. The movie: Milk. It is a wonderful piece […]
Thursday in the Dark With Jorge
I like going to the movies with my family, because for a change, it’s two hours of non-awkward silence. So this Thanksgiving, my parents, uncle, and I went to see Rachel Getting Married. It’s a heavy but very nice piece of work from Jonathan Demme, with solid performances all around. Yet for the entire film, […]
Two Unrelated Thoughts
1) Even though I’ve been single for a while, I’m kind of hoping I don’t have a girlfriend in the spring so I don’t have to see the Sex and the City movie. 2) If you can judge a man by the CVS Pharmacy ExtraCare coupons that are printed at the bottom of his receipt, […]
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