It’s a very small town. I lived there for years, 1500 people and maybe 3 stop signs. There are 3 pie places. Julian Cafe is the best and I will fight you, Mom’s supporters. Julian Pie Company is fine. Cinnamon ice cream makes up for just okay pie.
I’m very near Julian. Some stuff fell off shelves and I spilled my coffee, but otherwise not too bad. We had a smaller one last night too.
Lol those extra ai fingers in the thumbnail
I hope he doesn’t live long enough to regret it.
I met Maurice LeMarche at comic con way back in maybe 2002 or so at the Futurama panel and got him to record the Brain’s “Yes!” And also “Oh, what luck! I’ve got a French fry caught in my beard!” as Orson Welles from the Critic onto my Palm Pilot, lol. Used them as ringtones for years. Very nice guy.
Alaska’s a long way from where penguins come from, isn’t it?
All art is political.
Two things can be true
This is genuinely upsetting. Bravo.
I can’t even keep up with the movies and TV shows I want to watch.
Mullholland Drive is fucking fantastic and I almost put it on the list over Blue Velvet. I’m sure this will forever be debated by film nerds as long film nerds continue to exist. There’s something about that heightened, unreal 80’s vibe in Blue Velvet, plus what a fuckin’ cast. I also like the “dark side of a quaint small town” theme, which reminds me of his work in Twin Peaks a bit, where Mullholland Drive feels more like he’s expressing more a criticism(?) of the place Hollywood occupies in the cultural consciousness. I’m a sucker for a suburban dystopia, it feels more relatable. Ultimately though, Mullholland Drive feels like a second take on the same kind of ideas, and it’s glossier and more plotty, but I personally I like the smaller, more raw version. Lynch was a master of the medium and almost all of his films are either outright masterpieces or at least incredibly artistic curiosities.
And Airplane!
My top 3 best (but not favorite) movies:
This is hard. In the discussion:
Good call on your picks, all three masterpieces, and two of the three your friend picked definitely qualify. Shawshank is a fine movie but doesn’t belong among the greatest films ever made, imo. I think it just played on TV constantly in the late 90s and early 00s so people have affection for it.
I am about 40 years old, for context.
Heat is a good pull, Michael Mann honks.
It’s not my job to know what the powers he has are. That’s why I’m not in his position. It’s well within my rights to demand my government do it’s damn job. If him keeping his job means nothing, why do we care in the first place?
I dunno but one would hope he’d take advantage of this decision as effectively as he can, given that his office fights corruption and is threatened by said corruption. It’d be nice for something to matter.
Okay Dellinger, you better fucking do something about all this corruption then.
My friend’s uncle was a cop, I met him when we went on a boat trip. As a way to convey how great being a cop was, he told me how on his first day he told his supervisor he wanted to arrest someone, so they found a homeless person, beat them, and arrested them. He laughed and laughed at this. I was appalled, and told him so. He laughed harder and called me a pussy.
He’s a judge now.
A gold dome would be terrible protection.