We need more videos of babies wearing glasses for the first time. Love those.

I just watched Spring Night Summer Night again (for a 10th time?), because I'm doing the intro at our fest on Friday, and that movie is a goddamn miracle. This image looks more like a still from a 1928 Fox production than 1967 Appalachian Ohio.

This is a fun listen

Time to check in on Debra Messing’s instagram

It's days like this when I regret losing my faith in the eternal suffering of others.

The film festival I direct begins in two days. 😬 filmfestknox.com

AI is super helpful: "Mark Moseley's longest field goal was a 54-yard kick in 1977 against the Philadelphia Eagles. He also made a 57-yard field goal in 1986."

Laura Dern is now three years older than Diane Ladd was in 1990, when Wild at Heart was released.

A film that you’ve seen more than seven times, in a GIF.

Revisiting novels I haven’t read since college, and holy shit this is great. My mind drifted while reading one of those wonderfully complex Mrs. Ramsay sentences, and when I went back to find the subject (waves) the rest of the sentence fell into place and I was shook.

Reeeeally sucks that my kids have outgrown trick or treating

Fun fact, I met Joanna a few weeks after she PA'd on this film, much of which was shot in Alabama. She doesn't have anything good to say about the lead cast except for Erika Eleniak and Raymond Cruz. We still regularly quote: "Gunfire!" "Them's party poppers!"

One of the most important lessons I've ever learned from a movie is the moment near the end of The Weather Underground, when Mark Rudd, who looks genuinely haunted by the past, says something along the lines of, "We discovered that people only accept violence when it is sanctioned by the state."

This year at Film Fest Knox, we're presenting a rare program of films by Peter Bundy, who in the late-'70s and '80s was a recognized figure in the American structural film movement, before moving onto a second career in forestry. Read about him here. www.filmfestknox.com/peter-bundy/

This is always the first one that comes to mind.

Just blocked an ad as “inappropriate“ because it featured a comedian who did that show in Riyadh. #virtuesignal

Dee and Roger

Did anyone else know Jordan Peterson went to Russia in 2020 to treat a Benzo addiction and has been in ICU for weeks with a nasty case of SIRS, or that his daughter chalks it up to spiritual warfare? Life really does come at you fast.

No kidding, this is pure cinema. All-time great monologue.

No kidding, this is pure cinema. All-time great monologue.

I was just served a Kristi Noem DHS ad that was 100% indistinguishable from the ads in Starship Troopers.

This seems about right

If you're a terrible person (like me) who still uses Spotify and if you want to spend 37 hours experiencing my musical taste based on eight "This is ..." playlists ... open.spotify.com/playlist/32N...

Define your musical taste in 8 artists. Steve Reich Gang of Four Little Feat Bill Evans Tool Aretha Franklin Wye Oak Abul Mogard I thought about this for as long as it took to type, with maybe a slight pause before Wye Oak because pop-adjacent woman singer/songwriter is a big category of my taste.

I had no idea Petzold was named the President of the Viennale last year. Does anyone love movies as much as that guy?

Looks like I'll finally get to see a Dry Cleaning club show in February. Best new band of the decade? At the least, they're one of the few bands who scratch the Gang of Four itch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJIC...

I'm thinking about doing that middle-aged man thing where you get really into WWII or Rome or whatever but instead do the Spanish Civil War and Francoism.

FB informs me it's been nine years since I chatted with and photographed these two dashing young men.

Imagine making direct eye contact with Rhian Teasdale. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbSH...

Leni Riefenstahl is extremely useful as an example of how little scrutiny fascist aesthetics can bear. It’s all fundamentally the same lazy dopamine triggers of recognition as any pop culture nostalgia, just showing you conservative-coded shit and saying “only 1890s kids understand”

I've taken a new, more aggressive approach to blocking on social media. Health, wellness, finance, self-help influencer? Blocked. Person I would find annoying if they were seated near me at dinner? Blocked. Everyone associated with that Riyadh comedy show? Blocked. Marie Kondo but the internet.

Reposting because even if I'm the only person who thinks so, this is very funny. Imagine trying to make conversation with Bradley Cooper and not staring at his hair.

Same energy

Went for a 5-mile walk on the beach today, and every single dude I passed had the same beard, the same baseball hat, the same sunglasses, and the same bicep tattoo. It's like everyone in South Alabama went to a MAGA store and bought the ICE costume.

I'm at the beach in Alabama, and if my only source of information were local TV news, I would 100% be a fascist.

TIL Nick Saban was at Kent State with the guys from Devo.

Post a poster you have hanging on your wall

I'm proud to be presenting a rare screening of regional experimental filmmaker Peter Bundy, whose work in the late-'70s and early-'80s somehow reminds me of both Peter Hutton and Ross McElwee. They're now available on 16mm and digital transfer from Walker Art Center. Good stuff!

The FILM FEST KNOX program is live. :) www.filmfestknox.com

Normally I would never suggest engaging with Klein at all, but what is apparent here is that he is spinning out because his imagined idea of America butts up against Coates' sober and historically grounded view of it. You're watching an avatar of the privileged pundit class fall apart in real time

Last night my mother told me that when she was doing her surgical rotation in nursing school, she was slow in responding to a doctor during an amputation, so he threw the patient's leg at her. "I thought I was going to be written up, but the doctor got in trouble." I'm 53 and just heard this story.

Nate Silver predicting Adams was going to be the future of the Democratic Party was such an instant classic. Babe Ruth pointing to left field and then somehow braining the ump with his bat.

I *think* I just locked our festival program.

Joanna and I were together for 17 years before we became parents. Now that our kids have reached the age where they basically ignore us, we’re reverting to our old relationship dynamics, and it’s kind of awesome.

The two greatest jangly records of all time (this is not up for debate) have been rereleased.

In the fifth episode of The Pitt, the surgeon who drops in from time to time to be the arrogant surgeon character makes a power-move comment, and they cut to Noah Wylie, who gives her that silent, contemptuous stfu look we've all made in a hundred meetings but rarely see on TV. A+ reaction shot.

A perk of my job is I get to interview elderly people about their lives and careers. It's good for the soul.

Signaling my virtue

Fighting fascism by watching ESPN's broadcast of the Miami/UF game via an illegal stream.