I only play in the most haunted venues possible

The way Ghetto Pat kept saying he was in the French 75 is how I feel when I tell people I used to play at The Shithole.

Paul Thomas Anderson finally made a Quentin Tarantino movie

Kind of a giant mess but I had fun

Doing the damn thing

Threw on The Searchers and am once again on my "Ethan is Debbie's father" truther bullshit.

Got a gig coming up and wondering if I could pull off a set of *just* folk songs that John Ford used to score his movies.

I have no notes for the One Battle After Another marketing strategy

Not my favorite film of the year but, Smashing Machine is well made and true to the narratively inert source material.

Screw The Rock, I’m starting Bas Rutten’s Oscar campaign

Now seated

Will have the definitive take on The Rock's Oscar chances in like 12 hours

TV shows used to have Brad Dourif raging at God’s silence in the face of death and disease.

It's 12:30 am and 90-something Willie Nelson is rocking on a song called "Everything Is Bullshit" Farm Aid rules

If you’re cold, Bob Dylan’s cold. Bring him inside.

Shouting “play Longest Days” at my TV and startling my dog, but I’m pretty sure Mellencamp will hear me

Broke: WWE is counterprogramming AEW. Woke: WWE and AEW are counterprogramming Farm Aid, heartless bastards.

The open mic, it calls to me

Dropping what I'm doing and turning on TCM because they're about to run a 1950s film strip about preparedness in the face of nuclear war.

John Ford on the American Civil War: Surprisingly complicated views John Ford on the Irish Civil War: Hilariously uncomplicated views Now Watching:

The torch has been passed to a new generation

Ready to take that *Bruce Springsteen voice* LOOOOOOOOONG WALK

Seated

If we’re doing American Years of Lead, then I’m gonna skip the violence and just get really into Italian Pop Music

EDDINGTON. Movie of the year

A movie so baked into the DNA of modern cinema that you get to have a quasi-religious experience seeing it for the first time.

Now seated 📽️35mm

Aronofsky’s still got it* *harrowing tales of addiction hidden in a semi-commercial wrapper

Caught Stealing is about a lot of things but above all it’s about the life-saving camaraderie of Mets fans

Austin Butler is our generation’s Jimmy Stewart

Now seated

Roger: It’s a drug company. We gotta take the business. Pete: The place was strange. They had a monkey watching the news, hooked up to a machine that measured h- Roger: Every pharmaceutical company has a room like that. Do you know how many angry monkeys it took to cure Polio?

Threw on 28 Years Later and that kid really is the spitting image of Scott Wolf. Movie is also very good but it's spooky (how much that kid looks like Scott Wolf)

In which John Ford invents the Coen Bros. movies.

Now watching

Did not know going in that this is basically about the failed uprisings and subsequent pogroms that led to my family fleeing to America, so *you’re welcome,* Cinema. Happy 100 years!

NW

Singing about Taylor Swift at today’s Paper Machete at the Green Mill. So see me now before the Swifties murder me and offer up my still-beating heart to their God.

A watched pot never boils

Lorne Michaels in front of a whiteboard that reads "IDEAS," circling "More Domingo?" over and over.

There’s a sad acoustic riff on The Bloodhound Gang’s “Bad Touch” on the new Hayley Williams album

Rewatching the greatest Clint Eastwood movie that Clint didn’t make (Chappaquiddick, 2017)

Been working on some new stuff recently and realized I use a v-iv-i blues turnaround the way Pharrell uses the four count at the top of a song.

Pete: I know I’m real, I think. Maybe that’s all that matters. The knowing. Ken: Pete, I’m certain that you’re as real as me or anyone else. [Ken notices a folder labeled “PETE, REALITY” and covers it] Pete: Thank you. [Pete leaves, Peggy enters] Peggy: Is he onto us? [Ken shakes his head]

Roger: A scavenger hunt! He doesn't understand that children can't vote...can they? Don: His numbers are certainly impressive. He's making noise. Pete: You ever wonder why we can't die? We shouldn't still be alive. Don: Not now, Campbell. Pete: Are...are we even real? [Roger shrugs]

Me: There’s no way a Spike Lee movie about Enron, with Terrence Blanchard doing Sketches of Spain on the score, can be bad. SHE HATE ME (2004):

Introducing the fiancé to Prometheus. Going to ease into the conversation about joining the cult of the Engineers

Friday night