In honor of John Waters’s b-day, here’s the recording I did of the audio portion of his visual art exhibit Indecent Exposure: on.soundcloud.com/Wc98rjp8uO9O...

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters I’m Not There An Angel at My Table

goofy-at-the-crucifixion-ass name @seantcollins.com

For the first and only time, thank you JD Vance

Watching the GOAT DB (David Byrne) on the Coachella replay right now, then tonight going to see the GOAT BD (Bob Dylan).

Devo @ Coachella any minute now www.youtube.com/live/HJVG2Ck...

yes hallelujah variety.com/2026/tv/glob...

A chicken in every pot, a Kiarostami shown in every school

One of the greats! Had the privilege of seeing him as the opener of a bill with Wilco, My Morning Jacket, and Dylan. Just picked up #6-8 from this list on used vinyl a few weeks ago. My dad happened to catch him at Amoeba during a business trip and got a signed copy of #10.

Happy 77th birthday to Richard Thompson, a dark eminence and songwriting hero whose mainline into the heights and depths of the human struggle has nourished us for more than five decades. Here's a career retrospective I wrote about him over at Stereogum some years back. stereogum.com/1826762/rich...

Always great to see someone (in this case, a cinephile GOAT) pick stellar movies that are not normally picked. youtu.be/_VIKYAIu23o?...

Peak Youtube youtu.be/FMNuWu4w18c?...

Meiko Kaji (梶芽衣子) was in the Criterion Closet! 📽️ #filmsky 🎥 #japanesefilm

No Kings but one

Padma, Bobby, the Rev… decent blunt rotation

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“We saw you from across the theater and really dig your vibe”

Soon I’ll be able to retire that cropped 4:3 bootleg DVD I bought years ago in NYC Chinatown.

Can Moby at least agree that @alyankovic.bsky.social’s “Yoda” is an unproblematic banger??

Piling on the Flea-preciation youtu.be/eyzEBjc-6DA?...

Release the Nipple Cut ™

youtu.be/uEzIZzZcOyc?... (does not contain Haley Joel Osment, whose clip was not a result of pulling the lever)

youtu.be/uEzIZzZcOyc?... (does not contain Haley Joel Osment, whose clip was not a result of pulling the lever)

Never clicked “play” faster youtu.be/9AOk8cSrZAY?...

Never clicked “play” faster youtu.be/9AOk8cSrZAY?...

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Three Men and a Baby (1987, dir. Leonard Nimoy)

That glare transcends pixels

Like all fellow GenX/millennial nerds, I hold BC as a cultural icon and rock-jawed hero. I’ve gotten to see him up close at a book signing and as emcee at a goofy pre-EVIL DEAD 2 trivia contest. It’s inevitable that he’ll stand up to this like he stood up to Deadites on screen.

In the midst of all *this*, I got a nice surprise in the mail: the crowdfunded ROBERT DOWNEY SR. READER courtesy @kierlajanisse.bsky.social and @spectacularoptical.bsky.social, plus the added gift of SATANIC PANIC!

Yeah, this is one that can always bust up my dad

Why? Because it has a football in the groin.

SEND HELP - a perfectly calibrated gross-out comedy two-hander from God’s gift to CGI, Sam Raimi. Delightful frump up of one of our most gorgeous and expressive actresses. The middle-to-late-aged crowd I saw it with appreciated every goopy gag.

SEND HELP - a perfectly calibrated gross-out comedy two-hander from God’s gift to CGI, Sam Raimi. Delightful frump up of one of our most gorgeous and expressive actresses. The middle-to-late-aged crowd I saw it with appreciated every goopy gag.

Dude has more eras than TSwift, so it’s “Eat It,” / “Amish Paradise” / “White & Nerdy.” But the first thing I think of is “Dare to Be Stupid.”

Now someone needs to make a 10-hour supercut of his movies and title it FREDERICK WISEMAN.

NYT Obituary. {Gift Article} Robert Duvall, a Chameleon of an Actor Onscreen and Onstage, Dies at 95 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/m...

Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/m...

Just as true now as when I said it: bsky.app/profile/adam...

The cool thing is you can look around and pick a subject you’re interested in (like, uh, a French cabaret, just as an example). My first was HIGH SCHOOL, a pretty typical starting point, but there’s an entire world out there that will unfortunately not be expanded.

Frederick Wiseman, the celebrated director of "Titicut Follies" and dozens of other documentaries whose in-depth, unadorned movies comprised a unique and revelatory history of American institutions, died Monday at age 96. https://to.pbs.org/3ZFuyLW

One of my first trips to OSU’s Wexner Center, nearly 20 years ago, was to see Frederick Wiseman talk about HIGH SCHOOL

Who’s the greatest living filmmaker now?? RIP Fred Wiseman