watched a WWII-era Clampett Daffy where he tries to dodge the draft and ends up literally in Hell, still being pursued by the man from the draft board

you know my ass is seated rn for a screening of Jay Kelly that ends two and a half hours before I need to be at a wedding

flicking channels and found Heat right at the Moby needle drop, you can't just drop that on me man, not without three hours to emotionally prepare

Specifically Trump is an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical guy. Not Sondheim.

I don't make the Daughters of Darkness comparison lightly btw, this must, surely, have been deliberate

loved The Ice Tower, several leagues less obtuse than Earwig but equally enveloping ambience, like if Berberian Sound Studio took Daughters of Darkness and Rivette's Duelle rather than giallo as its points of reference

watched the first ever Pepe Le Pew cartoon, in which the cat he mistakes for a skunk and attempts to romance is male, and where the final reveal is that Pepe is in an abusive marriage and is putting on the French accent, which is certainly psychologically richer than most Pepe Le Pew cartoons

Raja Gosnell, future director of Big Momma's House and Beverly Hills Chihuahua, is credited as assistant editor on this (and Quintet, and Health, and Popeye)

lmao he's still got it! stereogum.com/2480444/bob-...

watching Altman's A Perfect Couple and remain firm in my conviction that post-Henson Muppets addition Bobo the Bear was based on Paul Dooley

Clickhole should post here as often as The Onion does, I keep forgetting to check it

HOLY SHIT

one common tic that absolutely does my head in is voters saying 'as a Brit, I've never heard of this band/didn't realise they were so big/don't care.' this isn't a nationality thing! this is a you thing! the internet has been widely accessible for 30 years, you can listen to anything!

it's so clearly the entry-level popular one that it almost feels like it now gets overlooked by serious Neil fans but hey you know what's a really good album is Harvest

Pras Michel of the Fugees has been sentenced to 14 years in prison

they played The Lemonheads at the pool (!)

Incredible work from the big man here

carve out some time and read this

brief confusion thinking that Masters of Cinema was releasing the Robin Williams Jakob the Liar but of course it's the East German original

think this is the first actual piece of PTA merch I've ever owned

gone at this Breihan description of Luther Vandross performing at the 2001 Michael Jackson TV special stereogum.com/2145029/the-...

if I searched for 'hutsie putsie hole detail deposit' on my work laptop I feel like I'd be fired

Coppola Sinners-posting

first setlist of the first mbv tour in seven years is in www.setlist.fm/setlist/my-b...

@scottaukerman.bsky.social #UTAfam

Horrible Couple Really Wants Wedding To Reflect Their Personalities https://theonion.com/horrible-couple-really-wants-wedding-to-reflect-their-p-1819573697/

Bluesky is not helping its reputation as a platform for weird nerds with no swag when a plurality of its users come out of the woodwork to hate the Beastie Boys

have been drafting this year's one of these and MJ Lenderman shows up on three separate tracks by three separate acts, a member of his touring band shows up on another track, another member of his touring band has a production credit on another track, it's Lenderman's world and we all live in it

A couple times a year, I use raves from trusted critics to catch up on great films I've missed. Today's batch comes courtesy of @justincchang.bsky.social, @alisonwillmore.bsky.social, @samadams.bsky.social, Jeannette Catsoulis and my pal @kphipps3000.bsky.social. thereveal.film/catching-up-...

genuinely taken aback by how many voters throughout Kent's Best Album of 1989 tournament have adopted the tone of disapproving 80s parents regarding Beastie Boys, who I was under the impression were one of the most 'well we can all agree on this' musical acts of the past 40 years

not entirely sure the 'we have receipts on Farage being a massive racist since he was a kid' line of attack is gonna work lads given that that seems to be the main reason why the people who like him like him

Navy Blue's The Sword & The Soaring really delivers on the promise of its title within its first ten seconds by putting the sound of a sword being unsheathed over the sound of air whooshing past

American Conservatives: KILL EVERY FOREIGNER NOW American Liberals: We love our slaves💕

couldn't open my window earlier because the lock was too stiff, remembered I had a can of WD-40 in the cupboard that's been there for years unused, fixed instantly. been going round spraying stuff all day since - door to the flat, door to the close, hinges, nothing is safe, actual magic

they're playing Scotland the Brave and Bits & Pieces at the pool

had an ankle injury so haven't been to the pool in over a month but going back tonight for the first time since the twin 'unfortunate incidents', please pray that my resistance to e. coli is strong

oh hell yeah didn't realise we were getting this so soon

listening almost exclusively to Comedy Bang Bang and its affiliates has really put me in a bubble regarding what other people mean when they say they enjoy listening to podcasts

a friend pointed out that this looks like an Adam Sandler character which has prompted the realisation that Sandler is now older than Gould was when he started guest starring in Friends

Quintet is to Robert Altman as A Song of Stone is to Iain Banks (po-faced big swings at post-apocalyptic nightmare that don't play to their creators' strengths and result in total slogs that I wish I liked more)

Eric Bachmann has announced his first Crooked Fingers album in 15 years, 'Swet Deth,' featuring Sharon Van Etten, Matt Berninger, and more; hear him team with Mac McCaughan on lead single "Cold Waves"

Cinematrix gave me a 'TRY AGAIN' for putting Stereo as a Cronenberg film made between 1965 and 2000, and to Cinematrix in turn I say 'TRY AGAIN'

[yelling out at an incredibly rare rep screening of the director's cut of Margaret] more like Kenneth Longer-than!

'I have a few' 'a few what?' 'few large dogs'

I missed Bob Dylan for this (well technically it was because of this that I tried to get a ticket for last night which Ticketmaster then fucked at the last hurdle leaving me without) so am relieved to see that Bob played essentially the same set as in Edinburgh last year, both last night and tonight

the people here who are closest to my age are here with their children

UK dates please

delighted to note that the Criterion edition will be porting over this commentary track