#LastFourWatched Thanksgiving Edition

Finally.

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen. Heart/Kansas NIN/David Bowie Oingo Boingo Living Colour The Hives

Post a famous bathroom scene.

Made 3 quarts of Alton Brown's aged egg nog today, reminding me to recommend it to all of YOU. It's FANTASTIC! Last year we aged it for two months; this year it'll only get a month because we were late but it'll still be better than any other 'nog out there. altonbrown.com/recipes/aged...

Always enjoy deliveries from @mzspress.bsky.social and this one is extra festive! Gonna get a little tabletop tree specifically for the cryptids this year. 😁

River has decided she’s a lap dog.

Got something fun to look forward to during 2026! Thanks for doing the signed copies, JD—love the personal touch. @themountaingoats.bsky.social

Big night!

Back in, what, 89 or 90, I took my bff to her first concert—it was Weird Al—we last saw him together at Ravinia maybe six years ago, and we’ll see him again next year, the weekend after our birthday! (We have the same birthday.) Can’t wait, got lucky w seats for once, too.

Holy shit, you guys.

Banger typeface alert.

Always been more an Alien guy but Prey was so good I decided to use my day off today to go see Badlands and WAHOO what a great time! As usual MZS says it much better than I could, so please read this and if you like well-written sci-fi action, go see it in theaters while you still can. BIG fun!

Do you love Cryptids? Do you enjoy the holiday time of Crampus? Well I've the advent calendar for you! New to the store, 24 days of mystery & monsters! Unique miniature figures each day. So you can enjoy the darkest time of year! 😉🤭

Episode 1 of Death by Lightning was INSANE... I did NOT know the BONKERS story of Garfield's nomination, and all the actors are fantastic; lovely to see Deadwood great Paula Malcomson in there... But Macfadyen really does steal the show - his "crazy just below the surface" is spot-on perfect.

With the White Stripes’ induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this week, can we finally put the arguments about Meg White’s drumming to rest? She belongs there, and it’s way past time. Commentary ↓

This looks like one of those SNL bits where people in the foreground are oblivious to chaos happening in the background.

Reddit flair on everything

River, taken at 12:11 AM on November 5. Nothing but moonlight on her.

We’ve started letting River into the rest of the house and onto the sofa which she has taken to like a fish to water.

Spent two nights in the Park Hyatt on my first trip in ‘06 and again when Jen & I went a few years later. Recommend it—and this bar—to anyone that goes, the rare upscale experience that lives up to the hype. Have to go back now!

I would have bet money on Beagle & Bluetick Coon Hound. And would have lost that bet. Never would have guessed German Shepherd. We just don’t see it!

Donnie Darko was released 24 years ago today 🐰

Watched REDS again last night, and man, what a film, what a story, what a cast. In its day it was overshadowed by Chariots of Fire and I think other historical epics like Lawrence of Arabia get more attention but REDS is right up there, I tell you what. Fantastic.

Walking the dog earlier this evening in Elmwood Park.

"I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids."

River: “I has a leef.”

I kiss in my room to popular tunes. A real drowner.

Greatest city on this goddamn planet. ✊

found exactly the one use of “evil recoils in the presence of Christ” I am willing to sign off on, HOOOOOOOOLY SHIT Father Larry did not come here to fuck around

Yeah, nice essay here, highlighting the subtle but important way Sam Rockwell’s performance is so different from most other twin/double-roles from Dead Ringers to Sinners. Jen passed thru the room, noticed clips of Moon and insisted we need to watch it again soon. Don’t need to twist my arm!

FREDDIE: So Eddie, I’m putting together a playlist for the Audubon event. EDDIE: Who’s on it? FREDDIE: I got Geese. EDDIE: Goose? FREDDIE: No, Geese. EDDIE: More than one? FREDDIE: It’s just the one. Geese. EDDIE: I’m saying. Geese is more than Goose.

#LastFourWatched for #LetterboxdFriday

Me: What’cha got there, River? River: Nothiiiinnggg….

Geese, with their new album "Getting Killed," have achieved something miraculous for 2025: suggesting a future to look forward to, @skornhaber.bsky.social writes.

Update: still thinking about the cinematography of the last sequence in this film. Haunted, if you will. 🚗🚓🚕

River had her first visit to a dog park and first time in water this weekend! (Portage Park dog-friendly area)

Age yourself with a film you saw in cinemas as a kid. (Special Gen X Edition)

Geese, with their new album "Getting Killed," have achieved something miraculous for 2025: suggesting a future to look forward to, Spencer Kornhaber writes.

Me: I don't need to pay a mint to see a band I've seen several times, I won't feel fomo. Also Me: WAIT THEY PLAYED A SONG I LOVE? GODDAMN IT!

Oh man, I loaded into the Daft Punk experience in Fortnite and this is the first thing you see after an initial cinematic sequence... It took like one beat for me to register what it was and get choked up. 😢

One Battle After Another…. Damn, I say DAAAMNN! Really something else. INCREDIBLE that that film is coming out right now.

surrealism meets sci-fi 🪐

We had a tape of this (on Beta, of course) from Night Flight. I watched it repeatedly when I was like 8. Foundational experience for my love of surrealism and film in general.

Jesus, new Neko Case today as well? I’d missed that one. BANNER DAY!

Geese and Sloan releasing new stuff in the same day? Heaven help me!

One of the 45s we bought for party prizes for my 10th birthday party was Electric Avenue and it's the one I made sure I won myself, lol

Saw Dead Poets in the theater right around my 16th birthday, which, let me tell you, was *a moment.* Very nice piece which captures the magic of this singular film. Please do see it if you haven’t!

We just watched The Third Man last night and I’d forgotten just how incredible it is. The only other time I’ve seen it was just after a trip to Vienna in ‘09. Just the best.