New book from the library!

This thread is so funny because so many people are saying Bob Dylan. I mean I get it. He doesn’t talk to the audience and his rearranges his songs constantly. But if you can get on his wavelength he’s fantastic.

I’m watching Widow’s Bay which is good, but every time a character smokes a little notification pops up saying “smoking causes cancer.” Is this a new thing that TV is doing? I’ve never seen it before.

I’ve ran a small blog for over twenty years. This stuff is so depressing and dystopian. My hit count is already small. This will probably kill it.

It has been a pretty good couple of days. #lastfourwatched

Neil Young & Crazy Horse performing "Cortez the Killer on this day in 2024. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTR4...

Man, Dylan really has played for everyone.

The Music Never Stopped - Chicago, IL (05/13/77) www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgRj...

Grateful Mostly Dead

Film #158 Point Break (1991) Hadn't seen this since I was a teenager. My main point of reference for it these days is Hot Fuzz. Danny Butterman was right though, this movie rips.

Film #157 Against All Odds (1984) Pretty good neonoir remake of Against All Odds. Not nearly as great as the original, but Bridges is great in this.

Film #156 Out of the Past (1947) What a great freaking movie. Gets better everytime I see it.

Film #155 Drop (2026) A pretty fun, but silly thriller. themidnightcafe.org/2026/05/01/t...

Film #154 Down River (2025) There is a lot of potential in this low budget mystery, but it never quite get there. themidnightcafe.org/2026/05/01/m...

Film #153 Die My Love (2025) Jennifer Lawrence is terrific. cinemasentries.com/die-my-love-...

Film #152 Dust Bunny (2025) cinemasentries.com/dust-bunny-4...

Film #151 Sleeping Dogs (2024) I love the idea of a former detective being pulled back into a case his Alzheimer's has made him forget. But this film doesn't seem to know what to do with it.

Film #150 Doctor Who: Revenge of the Cybermen Famous for being the only Cyberman story of Tom Baker's tenure, and the only one of the 1970s, actually. Also for not being great.

Film #149 My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? (2009) Great performances. Weird movie. Definitely not my favorite Herzog. But like all his films, well worth watching.

Film #148 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) I know it is problematic on a few fronts, but man this film is so much fun.

Film #147 Mrs. Pollifax - Spy (1971) Rosalind Russell stars and wrote this espionage thriller which would be her last theatrical film before her death. It isn't nearly as fun as it ought to be, Russell takes everything far too seriously.

Film #146 Evil Dead Trap (1988) I would have loved this movie as a teenager. themidnightcafe.org/2026/04/24/t...

Film #145 Nightfall (1956) themidnightcafe.org/2026/04/25/n...

The Friday Night Horror Movie was Twins of Evil (1971) themidnightcafe.org/2026/05/08/t...

Breakheart Pass was actually watched by me several years ago, but I apprently didn't log it, so I did this evening. Eye of the Devil was a pretty good 1960s horror with Deborah Kerr and David Niven. Twins of Evil is trashy horror from Hammer Studios Born to Kill is a weird noir. #lastfourwatched

Love that peacock dress Hedy Lamarr is wearing.

Went a little crazy at the library today. Got all these for $8!

Bob Dylan at Bournemouth, 1997

Just finished Mudtown a Welch crime series. Pretty good. Not amazing and it fumbles the end a bit, but I'm hoping there is a season two.

This makes me laugh so hard.

Film #144 Cherry 2000 (1987) For a movie about a dude hiring Melanie Griffith as a super-tracker wandering through a post-apocalyptic desert to find his sex-bot, this thing is remarkably dull.

Film #143 Doctor Who: Colony In Space Jon Pertwee and Katy Manning battle the Master over a Doomsday weapon.

Film #142 So Young, So Lovely, So Vicious…(1975) Better than you expect it to be. cinemasentries.com/so-young-so-...

Film #142 Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025) Mostly enjoyed this goofy, time-bending sci-fi adventure. cinemasentries.com/good-luck-ha...

Someone on Reddit mentioned that Joanna Page, my beloved Taskmaster contestant was the porn stand-in girl with Martin Freeman on Love, Actually and I couldn't be more chuffed.

Absolutely stunning Wilco show tonight in Bentonville.

Film #141 Doctor Who: Horns of Nimon I've been trying to fill in the gaps of classic Who stories that I haven't seen. This one is pretty fun with a horned monster and The Master returning.

Film #140 Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice (2026) Loved the concept. Didn't love the execution.

Film #139 Dead Bang (1989) Don Johnson battling white supremacists in John Frankenheimer's pretty great action flick.

Film #138 The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai in the 8th Dimension (1984) I can't believe they made this film. I talk about it in my latest Five Cool Things. cinemasentries.com/five-cool-th...

Film #137 Q The Winged Serpent (1982) themidnightcafe.org/2026/04/18/t...

Rewatch of a terrific noir. Ridiculous, but fun little thriller. Weirdly pieced together myster. Surprisingly fun monster movie.

The Wire Deadwood The Sopranos The Simpson’s: Seasons 1-10 Battlestar Galactica Doctor Who Cheers Twin Peaks Mad Men Buffy the Vampire Slayer Breaking Bad Lost up until the last season Taskmaster Community seasons 1-3 Arrested Development seasons 1-3

I want Joanna Page to have a podcast where she just tells rambly stories.

That's a creepy poster for A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

Seated for the free Gillian Welch/dave Rawlings concert in Tulsa!

10/7/99 Warfield, San Francisco archive.org/details/paf1... 10/08/99 Warfield, San Francisco archive.org/details/paf1... 10/09/99 Warfield, San Francisco archive.org/details/paf1... 10/21/99 Fillmore, Denver archive.org/details/paf1... 10/22/99 Fillmore, Denver archive.org/details/paf1...

Grateful Dead performing "Morning Dew" in NYC on this day in 1971 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt8r...

Jackson Browne performing "Doctor My Eyes>Just My Imagination" on this day in 2009. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyvQ...

Bob Dylan performing "A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall" on this day in 1992 in Seattle. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWdD...