God's Lonely Man

I wonder if we're far enough away from TAXI DRIVER for most of the teens who go to see this to not get it. And if they don't get it, will it be funny at all? This performance seems to embrace a cruelty Rogen has only hinted at before. This looks like a bold step for him, and if they get it right it could be quite interesting. Also, it has Danny McBride in a hairnet telling him to suck a gun like a dick.

Also a young'n and I were talking about the twin volcano movies in 1997 and the twin asteroid movies the next year. How do these things happen? There were supposed to be two Frida Kahlo movies also, the other one was going to star Jennifer Lopez.

I'm hoping OBSERVE AND REPORT is the DEEP IMPACT of Mall-Cop-with-Delusions films. Though I've enjoyed ARMAGEDDON a lot the three times I've watched it since January. VHS forever.

Grammy

Nothing else besides the Grammys makes it quite so obvious how awesome it must be to be famous, and just to rub shoulders with these people and still be as big a dick as you want. Which is not to say it's an aspiration, though there is no one sitting sweeter than Dave Grohl at the moment.

I was spaced out like a motherfucker watching it, and was told I should keep paying attention to things like Al Green and Justin Timberlake (good time) and Jonas Brothers and Stevie Wonder (abortion). If you ever want a typification of how far our culture has fallen listen to some of the music Little Stevie Wonder was making when he was Joe Jonas' age.

There were no huge moments for me, though before this show somehow the song American Boy had completely passed me by, and it's only through divine intervention that I'd already heard of Adele from watching a random episode of Secret Diary of a Call Girl rather than reading the rest of Medea.

Apparently Blink 182 is back. I take it the government could not countenance a bailout for Angels & Airwaves of +44. We're all making sacrifices.

Rourke is the Darkness, Kicking the Ass of the Darkness

My obsessive admiration for this man is becoming unhealthy. But I don't even think someone who got their ass kicked by him outside a bar in 1989 could not be moved by this. And the idea of Mickey and Richard Harris talking in heaven makes me want to believe in heaven. I mean it's not like I don't believe in hell.

Directed by Fred Durst

Yes, that Fred Durst.

Comment du Jour (the most prominent I'll ever be)

Whitmore was Here

I do feel bad about using this clip, but his work in the "Greatest Movie Ever Made" is the only thing I really know and certainly cherish. I'm shamefully unfamiliar with his earlier work in ASPHALT JUNGLE which I hear is amazing or in THEM which is about giant ants, so I already know it's amazing. He had a great voice, the way he read this letter was heartbreaking. Oh shit there's also this:



I've changed my mind about old people not being allowed to vote. They're the only ones who should.

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

For some reason I feel like this moment didn't get its proper due, maybe because of the whole offense sells tickets defense wins championships nature of this country, but videos like this make me think that people did appreciate its epic quality even if it was overshadowed. Its poor quality and one of the few not removed for terms of use violation. I assume the NFL has hoarded all copies and that they now belong to James Harrison. But the music is so appropriate, even if at first I thought it was Vangelis' Blade Runner score, and that made this video maker my favorite esoteric football fan ever.

Maybe I'm just bitter because I missed the fucking fourth quarter.

Huge Man

Chesley Sullenberger, the captain of the Hudson River School of Aviation, recently asked for an extension on an overdue library book that sank with his airplane. I would probably not want to date this guys daughter, but he is a huge man.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/4527418/Transcript-reveals-calm-manner-of-Hudson-River-plane-crash-pilot.html

Smooth as ice. Tom Cruise is not the man to play him, there is only one person who could convey his steeliness: Dolph Lundgren. If we crash, we crash.

I'm Just a Little Person

Pay your taxes, deadbeat.

Chicago's Jesus, Crucified for No Fucking Reason