This weekend, I’ll participate in The World’s Largest Trivia ContestTM. I’m a little preoccupied with preparations for that, including some significant travel. To provide some sense of the madness of minutiae that dominates my mind this week, I’ll share some … Continue reading Trivia Answer of the Day: Mind Your Knickers
Twenty-eighth in a series. (Due credit.) Continue reading Like a Jesus of the moon, like a Jesus of the planets and the stars
Jon Lamb one of the warmest, funniest, most talented people I know. His cinematic efforts are without compare, and he proved to me ages ago that’s he’s the guy who should be stitching together montages for the Academy Awards. He’s unwitting contributed to the One for Friday undertaking once before so he was a natural choice for guest star week. The ingenuity on his entry exceeded my lofty expectations. In gratitude, I’d like to take this opportunity to ask anyone with a MP3 copy of “Bandit Ball,” the song Jerry Reed wrote and recorded for the USFL team the Tampa … Continue reading A Week of Fridays: “CB Savages, Part 1 and 2”
Twenty-seventh in a series. (Due credit.) Continue reading Everybody liked Jesus, everybody wanted to hang out with him
The Lovely Bones (Peter Jackson, 2009). So poorly conceived that it borders on tragic. Jackson and his regular collaborators adapt Alice Sebold’s acclaimed and beloved 2002 novel about a murdered teenage girl, demonstrating such a bizarre lack of empathy that whole film takes on an off-putting robotic sheen. The movie is senseless in every definition of the word, over-directed and utterly tone-deaf. The actors all seem to have stumbled in from other movies with Susan Sarandon and Stanley Tucci approaching satire in their broadly drawn roles, Rachel Weisz looking bored and Mark Wahlberg thoroughly perplexed. It is cluttered with garish … Continue reading Banksy, Jackson, Parker, Scorsese, Wright
I think it’s embarrassing that Hollywood is looking to children’s toys and games for inspiration, but I now think I’d be okay if French cinema followed suit. (Due credit: I discovered this thanks to a Tweet that justified my Twitter account all by its lonesome.) Continue reading It’s not quite the way to say your goodbyes, it’s not quite the way to behave
Happy Thanksgiving! (Due credit: There’s more where that came from.) Continue reading Now the world don’t move to the beat of just one drum(stick)
Some nights I just need a little Mr. Show. Continue reading Who’s your friend when things get rough?
Today you will want to look elsewhere for a conglomeration of my words. Continue reading Away up on a hill there’d be so much to kill
Coffee for Two 