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Tuesday, October 3, 2017

Monday, October 2, 2017

October 02, 2017 at 11:33PM

It's OK 2 Log-Off™
Tried watching Everybody Wants Some!! last night. The two exclamations in the official title should have been a red flag. I was cringing. This movie got decent to good reviews too!! (86% Fresh™) I turned it off, and I am unlikely to return. There isn't a (good) director out there who I am more conflicted over. Here is a rundown of Linklater's filmography ('impromptu-style'):

1988 It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books did not see
1990 Slacker i like slacker but come on it's not *that* good
1993 Dazed and Confused all-time classic that still holds up
1995 Before Sunrise did not see any of the 'before' movies (that's on me)
1996 SubUrbia did not see but should check it out (prob sux but maybe a sleeper?)
1998 The Newton Boys i know i saw this but can't recall much (good/bad, etc)
2001 Waking Life very good! see A Scanner Darkly below...
2001 Tape another "did not see" but this sounds like a weird one i need to check out
2003 School of Rock great + totally underrated (imo)
2004 Before Sunset see above: Before Sunrise
2005 Bad News Bears really really bad
2006 Fast Food Nation also really really bad, wtf
2006 A Scanner Darkly my fav movie of his by a mile; built on the style of Waking Life + a perfect book adaptation
2008 Me and Orson Welle did not see but look at this poster and how did the same guy just make A Scanner Darkly??
2011 Bernie not as bad as BNB and FFN but in the same vein (category) of badness
2013 Before Midnight see above: Before Sunrise
2014 Boyhood Yes look i enjoyed it but did not live up to the hype; the stunt was super cool but actually movie didn't live up the expectations it created
2016 Everybody Wants Some!! stopped watching after 15min.

So, discounting the trio of Before movies, which––tbh––are fairly well-liked it would appear, my blazing hot take on Richard Linklater is that he hit gold a few times (Dazed, Scanner) but both largely bombed with attempts at mainstream success (Bears, Bernie; School of Rock being the lone outlier) and let down with a few experiments wherein the idea is much cooler than the end product (Slacker, Boyhood).

This is all fine, of course. I guess I'm leveraging any umbrage here at those who seek to lump Linklater in with the best of his contemporaries (PTA, Coen bros, Wes Anderson, even Fincher who despite having his own misses is far better/more consistent imo). But, yeah, highly unlikely I get to finishing Everybody Wants Some!! to offer an 'official' review. Yuck.

Friday, September 29, 2017

September 29, 2017 at 06:53AM

I'm going to have the best day.

Thursday, September 28, 2017

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Tuesday, September 26, 2017


Nothing makes me happier than these fucking idiots who are boycotting the NFL now. Well, actually the people who went to the games and booed during the anthem because they were mad that the players they paid to see were silently kneeling. That makes me happier.
FIVE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE LAST TIME I SAW R. STEVIE MOORE LIVE IN CONCERT - WHAT I WROTE AT THE TIME »
For the second time in just over a year, Mr. R. Stevie Moore graced the second story stage of one of Philly's most marvelous venues, Johnny Brenda's. With a different drummer in tow he presented a shorter but much tighter set to a crowd that was maybe 50% larger than before. It wasn't a sellout but a nice draw for Moore, who's much more business after a year+ on the road (which is saying something cuz he's still majorly aloof).

Hey 👋 Joe

Friday, September 22, 2017

Thursday, September 21, 2017

Don't take anything for granted. You might be looking for a room to rent above a pizza place one day and the amount of dead roaches could fill a crunchy mattress. (We're living in a simulation; follow the blue skies toward hopefulness.)

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

"Six photos I took in/around Princeton, NJ, early evening, the 18th day in September, 2017"

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I will search for the best emoji until I die. The choices that go into creating our emoji language are as fascinating as they are arbitrary. Nothing screams our shared insignificance louder than these choices.

Tuesday, September 19, 2017