I’ll be honest, the primary reason I’m gonna try reading this for the first time is that chapter near the end about The Shire getting murked

Tom Stall?? Did you just make that up?

Joey Cusack

Woohooooo Katie Wilson!!

Among other things, Pynchon is so great at chapter openings/ scene setting

Not liking snow is one of my big bah, humbug positions

At the dentist. My no cavity streak has officially come to an end. It was a good run

I started reading Inherent Vice

I have to say I like this iteration of The Seahawks where they blow opponents out week after week.

You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like

Anyone notice that Howard Hawks movies have reoccurring themes, motifs, and character types?

Finished Shadow Ticket. On the whole I liked the Milwaukee heavy first half more than the European second half but it’s a lot of fun and also full of impending doom. The bittersweet ending is great.

I’m watching The Big Sleep for the first time in a while, which is wonderful, particularly because Bogart gets to be a silly goose. His disguise when he goes to the bookstore is so funny

The Billy Bob Thornton T Mobile ad and the Luke Wilson AT&T ads are not only both western themed but involve the respective actors walking down a road in a open landscape

Train Dreams: gorgeous gorgeous landscapes. Beautiful forests, trees, rocks, skies, sunsets

Honestly too wild and all over the map to sum up in a post. I’ll just say I liked the movie the best when it was a Sierra Madre/Wages of Fear riff with Gary Cooper and Ward Bond as down and out oil men in South America. The Barbara Stanwyck noir love triangle is less successful

Let’s see what this guy is all about

Honestly too wild and all over the map to sum up in a post. I’ll just say I liked the movie the best when it was a Sierra Madre/Wages of Fear riff with Gary Cooper and Ward Bond as down and out oil men in South America. The Barbara Stanwyck noir love triangle is less successful

Getting in the Train Dreams zone (PNW westerns)

Has Mel Brooks ever talked about why he stopped directing movies when he did? He’s obviously kept very busy but I’m curious why he stopped directing stuff

Let’s do this

I love that the original Dawn of the Deaf takes place not during the initial outbreak or the post apocalyptic aftermath but during that limbo period where society is slowly breaking down

Mr Trump sir if you continue to defy this court order we will be forced to send you a strongly worded letter

Rest in piss sir

Honey Bragg has endorsed Cuomo

“And did you, sir—and I remind you that you are under oath—say ‘see you in hell, candy boys?’”

I’ve said before I’ll say again, Ken Foree in Dawn of the Dead is just the coolest

They call me Saul the way I bellow

I’ve reached a part in Shadow Ticket where…I don’t really give a shit about what’s happening. I will weather the storm though

Alright enough movies for a while I need to lock in and #read

Oh, the Jays lost?

Oh, the Jays lost?

Didn’t watch a lot of movies this month so I’ve only got a top 3 first views: 7 Women (a major work, probably the best new to me film I’ve seen since Canyon Passage back in 2021) Running on Empty Ghosts of Mars

I thought this was excellent—a strange, multifaceted gangster western romance. Loved the foggy, cynical atmosphere. Can’t think of many westerns where fog is such a prominent aspect.

Brian Donlevy just looks like a guy who would tie a women up on train tracks

Dogfight just got added to the Criterion Channel. The only movie I can think of that uses Seattle as a stand in for San Francisco It’s also lovely

Who up shadowing their ticket?

lol go away

I didn’t start logging films on LB until like late 2019. No activity for the og Halloween, which means I haven’t watched it in at least 6 years? Gotta fix that

Man, The Crazies (1973) is wild. It’s a scathing Vietnam film of course but it’s also just simply about the US military occupying an American town and citizens fighting back. I think Dawn of the Dead and Day are better but what a bold film

Tonight’s Halloween movies: (I might move Shivers to tomorrow or something if I run out of energy)

Between Shadow Ticket and Humboldt’s Gift, I’m getting a heavy dose of Great Lakes Midwest in my current reading

Didn’t watch a lot of movies this month so I’ve only got a top 3 first views: 7 Women (a major work, probably the best new to me film I’ve seen since Canyon Passage back in 2021) Running on Empty Ghosts of Mars

Nouvelle Vague (2025): when it’s actually focusing on the nuts and bolts of the production it can be mildly charming—brief amusing moments of the cast/crew hanging out on set. But the pre production and post sections are awful and overall the film feels too hollow and mechanical

Time to find out how nouvelle this vague really is

Got another book

In case you’re looking for any last minute songs to add to the Halloween party playlist m.youtube.com/watch?v=d0QL...