peak mischievousness

Saw One Battle After Another yesterday (in glorious 70mm at the gorgeous Oriental Theatre in Milwaukee.) Mind still abuzz. The acting. An angry call versus a calm, casual evacuation. Lockjaw’s walk. The humor. Two kids on a radio. The hilly chase. The hope. Can’t wait to see it again.

Mulholland Drive Using this gif because it feels like I’m gonna see him two more times for doing bad by saying this movie, which is one of the greatest of all time, is not the girl.

All these malignant bigots about. These indignant cowards, these insecure losers. You get to walk this earth with the divine Sade and this is how you choose to be?!

tfw all the pigs are all lined up

One of my favorite things about Alien: Earth is that it gets you saying shit like, “If I don’t see that little eyeball monster commandeer a xenomorph I’m gonna be so upset!”

I just wanna take this moment to say thank you to everyone responsible for dips. I’m talking guacamole. I’m talking hummus. I’m talking salsa, spinach artichoke, and tzatziki. Your contributions have enriched my life and have a special place in my heart (my stomach). Bless you, oh noble dipmeisters.

once again thinking about how goddamn good and beautiful Strange Days is

My family still teases me about this but I bawled when Goose died in Top Gun. (I was 7 & Goose was the movie’s heart, the true Top Gun, so they can never embarrass me!) Didn’t realize it then, being devastated & all, but it was huge re: empathy & (paraphrasing Ebert) the movies’ power to generate it

Sorry, what did you say? I was deep in Slimer lore.

How about this: Repost with a movie you love that you didn't expect to love at all

Me seeing Eyes Wide Shut is joining the Criterion Collection

After reading, like, three pieces on BWDR I gladly subscribed. The reward was a bounty of hundreds of issues. Was as pumped as Lynch on the set of Twin Peaks: The Return where he’s like, “Look at how beautiful those curtains look! So beautiful!” Easily some of the best movie writing out there.

*Paul Rudd Cinco Identity Generator 2.5 voice* NUDE Threats from the Soul

Revisiting some early-00s classics

“Do we like Damien? We like Damien, don’t we? It’s all for him, we do it all for him. We just want him to look at us. We treat him well, sometimes he’s not very nice to us, but it is for him, it’s really all for Damien.”

I went to a party last Saturday night / I didn't get laid, so now I’m far-right, uh-huh / Can the left reach me?

Brewers manager Pat Murphy has a pocket pancake

Yesterday I got one of those memory foam pillows that remembers your dreams. This morning, to receive the night’s chronicle, I did as instructed and pressed the foam’s locus against a sheet of paper. The text read, “Some things—like your dreams—are best forgotten.” Then the pillow melted.

In a night of pure magic with the incomparable @thejoedante.bsky.social and some gremlin friends, we had the best time at our sold out screening of GREMLINS 2 on 35mm (big shout out to our projectionists who helped make the night so unforgettable)

In 20 years Danny McBride and Walton Goggins should do Lonesome Dove

Like two scoops of mint chocolate chip ice cream on a waffle cone, a Butlerian Jihad would be real sweet right about now

Fuck it, I’m eating fried chicken after midnight. I’ve been a mogwai long enough. It’s time to gremlin.

[menacingly] The Vengabus is coming

For sale: debut novel by last year’s voice of a generation, never read.

My Song of the Summer contenders (in alphabetical order): Sabrina Carpenter: Manchild Guerilla Toss: Red Flag to Angry Bull Haim: All over me Orcutt Shelley Miller: A Star Is Born Pulp: Spike Island Addison Rae: Fame is a Gun Stereolab: Melodie Is a Wound Wednesday: Wound Up Here (By Holdin On)

Very bummed to learn—only took 10 months!—that the “Diet Pepsi” lyrics are not “My lips reflect off his Costco chain”

What actor's expression in a movie will stay with you for the rest of your life?

Show me the fever Into the fire Taking it higher and higher Nothing to fear It's only desire Taking you higher and higher

If I were God, I would simply populate reality with a sublime set of objective facts and immutable truths that I would then catastrophically obscure by locking all instruments of observation inside a box of consciousness whose only outward lens is a continually mutating veil of hypersubjectivity.

For some reason I find myself thinking about Mussolini being arrested and shot, his corpse kicked, spat on, and then hung upside down and stoned

Reading Lonesome Dove. 48 chapters in and loving it so far. Po Campo just ambled up six pages ago to steal the scene. He’s now made a claim that, considering his introduction, was so unexpected and so deranged that I maybe laughed the hardest I’ve ever laughed reading a book.

Saturday I smoked a little thai stick & rewatched the Big Lebowski. (Treat for attending No Kings.) Picked up on how often the Dude is repeating others’ phrases. The aggression bit from Bush always stuck out but he also repeats Walter, Maude, etc. The Dude’s too lazy for his own vocab. Great writing

Favorite things about the No Kings event I attended today—beyond how many people showed up in little Oshkosh, WI and the anti-authoritarian, communal spirit—were the Andor references (“I have friends everywhere”) and the four signs reading “Oligargle Deez Nuts”

As lines of dialogue delivered by actors on television shows go, "Everyday takes figurin' out all over again how to fuckin' live" is way up there

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I’ve only listened once but I think the new Stereolab could save us stereolab.bandcamp.com/album/instan...

We were wrong. They told us to “Avoid the Noid” and we did and look where that got us. It didn’t have to be this way. It could all be so beautiful had we but embraced the Noid. Noid, if you read this, we beg for the chance to atone for our sins. We know now all you wanted was what we all want: love.

Revisiting pertinent materials before making my first vehicle purchase in 25 years

Who else is whipping out their big ole worm on a Friday night?

A modest NBA postseason proposal: 1-seed gets a bye; 7 vs 8 play-in to face 2-seed; non-playoff teams go at it in the Draft Cup, winner gets 1st pick.

I think this ad is supposed to make me wanna drink Michelob Ultra, not write deeply erotic fan fiction about Willem Dafoe and Catherine O’Hara, but the heart wants what the heart wants