excited to discover that in the mid 2010s, seemingly in the spirit of 'whatever, we just need to get something to air' that fuels most daytime soaps, there was an episode of Doctors adapting 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad'

Family Watches In Silence As Dad Checks Out Waitress https://theonion.com/family-watches-in-silence-as-dad-checks-out-waitress-1819575716/

had no idea Azazel Jacobs is Ken Jacobs' son, did Ken Jacobs ever do an interview asking people not to call him a nepo baby

picked this up again last night at the end of Act 2 after a week and a half away from it

somehow this happened again, right after Spice Up Your Life

Ken Jacobs (1933-2025) A great artist, a wonderful teacher, & speaking personally, a close friend for over 50 years. Linking to a piece I wrote to mark his 80th birthday. www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/m...

lmao there's also a feature length doc on Friedkin that starts with him saying 'to me the two most interesting characters in the history of the world are Hitler and Jesus'

set photos here

a lot of people seem to be mistaking OBAA's politics for those of its characters, and while I do think it has a great deal of sympathy towards its characters' politics to a degree that's radical for Hollywood, if it was really as radical as that then Jonny Greenwood would not have a credit

delighted to report that the James Gray interview on the Criterion edition of Sorcerer features multiple Friedkin impressions

I'm man enough to admit I fucked it here

has it been long enough yet to talk openly about how upsetting Alana Haim's exit from One Battle After Another is

issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the media executive David Zaslav. you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to him"

the news here, to me, is that at any given time there could be upwards of 1,000 people attempting to climb Everest

additional Prêt-à-Porter credit of note: regular PTA collaborator Dylan Tichenor (Boogie Nights, Magnolia, TWBB, Phantom Thread) is credited as first assistant editor

if you don't already have a regular barber/hairdresser find one you like and stick with them - not just their shop, a specific person

This really sucks

if they think "dirty work" is good then wait until they hear literally any of their other songs

lmao the 'Thank you for your attention to this matter' sign-off

people sometimes get down on satire for being too indirect but there is no amount of obvious you can make a work of art where someone will not find a way to miss the point

a film that's so self-evidently a masterpiece it's hard to account for its initial reception

last time I watched Sorcerer I was recovering from wisdom tooth surgery and counting down the minutes until I could take more painkillers so I can confidently say I'm enjoying this rewatch more

has Sabrina Carpenter seen Pavements

the thing about going through the In Our Time archive is that older episodes are populated by guests who have since outed themselves as the worst people in public life but at least both Bragg and the panel flatly say 'you're wrong' to everything Melanie Phillips comes out with

every time I see a still of Dwayne Johnson in The Smashing Machine he looks more uncanny valley to me than the deageing in The Irishman

this one is hard to quantify because of labels releasing old sessions after contracts had expired etc. but as best as I can tell this would be hard to beat

weekend plans: ‘Can’ by Can and a few small beers [📹: @absoluteradio.bsky.social]

genuinely taken aback by how many people seem to think Junglepussy is a name PTA came up with. she's been around for a while! it's not the kind of name you forget after hearing it once!

listening to the Cameron Winter solo album again and this and the new Geese album dropping nine months apart is crazy

all i want is to lose everything to Jennifer Tilly at the poker table

I am now watching So I Married an Axe Murderer (on Criterion, as God intended) for the first time since I was a kid and it's probably best regarded as a time capsule at this point but it does at least have Phil Hartman being the funniest guy in the world for a couple minutes

this has gotta be the first one (of presumably many to come) where someone takes the Wes Anderson set right

really an extraordinary thing that Steve Coogan keeps finding new, still funny stuff to do with Partridge after 35 years

learning that Beyoncé once sang back-up for Matthew Marsden

Thank you Mortiis

have generally been underwhelmed by the revived Achewood but today's, in which Téodor reads a diary comic from 2008, has a potentially very useful panel

heads up that Alain Resnais' La guerre est finie leaves Criterion at the end of the month and makes for complementary viewing to One Battle After Another, Yves Montand as a communist Spanish civil war veteran still carrying out underground operations against Franco 30 years later

this feels like a handy paragraph to keep close this weekend www.stereogum.com/2325068/prem...

'nearly all 12 apostles' is taking me out

alright alright alright

I'm aware there's a contingent out there that insists Twin Plagues is still the best Wednesday album but I think for me to believe that I'd need to be much more into unadulterated shoegaze than I am

imagine if JCO got really into Radiohead because of this

semi-regular reminder that Anthony Jeselnik was an accountant on season two of Deadwood - not playing one on screen, he was literally in the show's accounting department

By far the best standup comedy one liner of this stupid decade

really feels like an underdiscussed aspect of the Geese album that it's produced by Kenny Beats under his government name, or maybe there's just not enough crossover in audience for people who like one to know the other

I am generally resistant to Ken Russell's Whole Deal (including, appropriately heretically, The Devils), but will concede that I had a better time with Altered States than any others of his I've seen, possibly because the Paddy Chayefsky of it all offsets his particularly grotty English prurience