News flash: It is harder to write about Alligator and The Howling than I thought. Plus, with the Secaucus 7 DVD having Sayles commentary, I know I’ll be watching that twice before writing about it. (Thoughts on that one so far: Lawrence Kasdan is so unbelievably full of shit when he says he hadn’t seen … Continue reading
Over the next few weeks, I’ll be doing a little critical analysis, as well as my own personal retrospective, on the films of Steven Spielberg. Granted, I won’t do all of them. I’ve done one for Ain’t It Cool News for E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (you can read that one here) and although Spielberg is probably … Continue reading
I’ll be honest: Monster movies have never really been my thing. I enjoy them from time to time, but I don’t have the love for them — or for horror in general — that most geeks do. So I was pretty surprised to find that I really enjoyed both Alligator and The Howling, two creature … Continue reading
Before I compose an ill-advised, trouser-tearing mash note to the twenty-one-year-old offspring of B.J. McKay, I’d like to acknowledge the blogging retirement of Mark Lisanti, whose trenchant wit made Defamer a daily must-read. Lisanti’s prolificacy was impressive enough; short of slapping at the keyboard indiscriminately (aka “The Updike Method”), several thousand words a day is … Continue reading
Mastering Bation. First of all, enjoy my GRAY TEXT today…I gave a lady some shit yesterday for saying she was going to “jerk off” that evening. As a man I don’t ask for much but I do ask that we are allowed to keep “jerking off” all to ourselves. There are plenty of wonderful terms … Continue reading
HBO is showing The Wiz in pretty heavy rotation, and they put it on the On-Demand Channel. I found myself drawn to the movie today as an adult in a different way from how I was drawn to it as a kid, when it was in regular rotation on Channel 11 – this is a … Continue reading
Been a while since I’ve written one of these; I kind of feel like I should make them count, so I really don’t post unless I have something to say. There are many things I want to talk about — how Zac Efron gets a bad rap and The Wire are two recent ideas –but … Continue reading
A countess pulls her third runaway bride routine, to the embarrassment of her would-be husband, who promises to tame her with his caveman tactics. The Countess, Helene Mara (Jeanette MacDonald) decides to go to Monte Carlo to break the bank. Jack Buchanan, who killed it as Jeffery Cordova in The Band Wagon (one of the … Continue reading
Fashion Tips. I am a rugged cunt. I know this. People tell me this. I’m a tough. A suburban rogue. Nails. Balls deep in everything I do. Once, I was a dapper motherfucker. Now, I can get by with my charm and my Creature from the Black Lagoon sweatshirt. But not everyone is as lucky. … Continue reading
I’ve come to realize I tend to do about a dozen things total. You could break up my week into percentages. I work at least 40 a week, I sleep about 49 hours a week. I’m on a computer/writing about 40 hours a week, I watch movies about 30-40 hours a week (there’s overlap with … Continue reading