I will never forget the first time I saw the Coen Bros. film Fargo. I hated it. And you will probably recall, perhaps from your own experience with the film, just how much seemingly everybody loved it. Well, maybe not everybody, but everybody in the kind of circles that contain folks who like Coen Bros. … Continue reading
I’m sure many of you fellow bloggers and writers out there run into this problem all the time – sometimes there are days, weeks, years when you just can’t come up with something to write about for your blog, web site, class paper, next novel, grandmother, final dying words. One of these has descended upon … Continue reading
Recently, my girlfriend and I over-indulged on cheap booze and bowel-rattling snacks while recoiling in horror as scantily-clad men and women bounced on trampolines and mattresses under a massive tent in a dirty parking lot. No, it wasn’t another family bris..it was a performance by the famed Cirque du Soleil! As any wise crackhead will … Continue reading
BLADE RUNNER (1982) Director: Ridley Watched the Final Cut version, which I greatly prefer to the others. I like all the different versions, though. Midwest bumpkin note: I had no idea that the Bradbury Building was an actual place. I thought that Ridley was tipping the hat to Ray. One of many things I learned … Continue reading
Fact: the rate at which our access to and handling of information is speeding up exponentially. Of course, right? And Fact: The previous, if accepted as fact can be seen as having changed the way we consume and process the aforementioned information, particularly the information we call ‘stories’. Bear with me here, it might get … Continue reading
From a very early age I used to love to write stories. They started off a short stories with illustrations (which I suck at) and as a teenager became full blown novels. By my teens I had convinced myself that I was to become a novelist, I had all these ideas and was convinced that … Continue reading
On average I watch about five hours worth of TV a week, distributed across a select few shows. This isn’t a value judgement on my part (one of the of the reasons I limit my exposure to TV so much is that I used to find myself losing entire nights where I’d watch trashy TV)it’s … Continue reading
In this edition of The Neurotic Monologues: Whining, videos, music, stupid micro reviews, and more whining. All unnecessarily numbered to pretend there’s a logical order to this mess of a blog. 1 . Back from the dead… This is the part you can skip, the whining part. I’ve been working on a video project for … Continue reading
Clint Eastwood: Badass man of action and American Icon since 1964. Exploitation: Material that is mostly known for being gratuitous and violent. Usually relegated to films that contain copious amounts of nudity and violence. A few weeks ago, I was on The B-Action Thread (I spend a shitload of my time on the CHUD boards … Continue reading
I was excited to get back out to the theater for family movie afternoon. We bought matinee tickets to How to Train Your Dragon, 2 adults and 1 child. Total $21.00. Kind of expensive, but we don’t go to the movies very often, so I had a budget of $40 for the outing. It wasn’t … Continue reading