Stalker (1979)
I won’t pretend to fully understand it–to try would take me probably 100 watches–but I loved every frame. For nostalgic purposes, I may not ever call a movie other than Star Wars my “favorite,” but this might be the greatest film I’ve ever seen.
Guess who still hasn’t filled out scholarship applications
Is it the application that frustrates you, or the stress if going to college and not knowing what you want out of it yet?
Yes.
Isn’t there a My Little Pony team in the NFL? Wait, sorry, they’re called the Colts.
*rimshot*
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I don’t think I’ve had a soda in weeks. Now that I’m thinking about that fact, I want a Coke.
I took a long nap this afternoon and had several different dreams that faded in and out, but I remember only a few moments of one with any clarity. I was aimlessly roaming around what seemed like a college campus, and I came across my brother and father having an argument. They were well into it by the time I found them. I asked what they were arguing about.
DAD: “We’re preparing for your death.”
Apparently, they were planning to kill me, and were quite happy about it. My brother splashed bleach in my eyes and I ran away.
DAD: “Don’t you want to die? You talk about it a lot. Are you too cowardly?”
I didn’t have an answer. I looked back at his face, and the scene dissolved into the image of my bedroom ceiling fan, but there were several lights in it instead of one, and they were arranged in a way that resembled my father’s face.
Must be some weird Canadian metric thing.
Nope, it’s also a southern US “Bible Belt” thing, unfortunately.
Evening for me. The water could be the exact same temperature, but it will always feel colder in the morning because I spend all night wrapped in blankets and things.
Kurt Busiek, the writer of Superman: Secret Identity will be writing a Batman story on the same premise. I’m excited.
Finished Ready Player One for the podcast “book club” 372 Pages We’ll Never Get Back (from a couple of the RiffTrax guys). Holy shit, that book is the absolute worst. Badly written, poorly plotted, the main character has no redeeming qualities and spends 371 pages bragging about how much stuff he has memorized.
As a gamer, I was intrigued by this book so I bought the audiobook from Audible. I couldn’t even get past the first few chapters. Somewhere early on, the main character thinks about how smart he is for realizing there is no God, then almost immediately afterward he goes back to watching episodes of Family Ties and thinks about how pointless life is.
So… Rick and Morty?
Blade Runner 2049
I’m still wrapping my head around it. I’m very happy I got to see it on the big screen before it was too late.
Spoiler
Blade Runner 2049
Finally.
about time, you know, the film ‘bombed at the box office’ because of you!
It’s all part of my sinister plot to have liked the movie before it was cool (aka before the home media release makes it attain cult-classic status similar to how the original did).
Blade Runner 2049
Finally.
So I failed a calculus test yesterday. It’s just one test, and I can retake it too, so it shouldn’t be a big deal. Well I almost immediately sprung into a suicidal mood. I began thinking that I’m going to stay behind in the class and fail everything after this and get depressed about that that I start failing my other classes and kill myself by next semester.
Grade for the test retake came in. I got a C. Still not good, but at least I passed this time.
I thought the current comics were canon, except for things like the Star Trek/Green Lantern crossovers.
TV’s Fink is a Newt.
Is it not supposed to look like that? It’s been a while since I logged in on my computer.
I was really hoping they’d go the Indy route and make it Han Solo and the ______.
That’s the title for the sequels and later home video releases.
Sure. I didn’t say “Go the Raiders route”, I said “go the Indy route”, referring to the series.
EDIT: Wait, are you suggesting there will be more young Han movies that use this naming convention and that when the Blu-ray of this one comes out it will be retitled Han Solo and Solo: a Star Wars Story?
I was just making a dumb joke, but sure, whatever flies your Falcon.
All this talk of non-canon reminds me that I need to get the second collected volume of the newspaper comics at some point.
I was really hoping they’d go the Indy route and make it Han Solo and the ______.
That’s the title for the sequels and later home video releases.
black book of gommunism
The venn diagram of people upset that Criterion is releasing The Breakfast Club and people that have forgotten they once made a DVD of Michael Bay’s Armageddon is a circle.
Are they somehow being forced to buy it?
IIRC, there was a simliar uproar when Armageddon and The Rock both got lavish Criterion Laserdisc editions. Some things never change. 😉
Must. Have. Every. Numbered. Spine.
It was kinda brilliant to announce it, get people mad, and announce a flash sale while everyone’s talking about Criterion already. It’s shame Dr. Strangelove sold out as soon as I heard about the sale, but I did get Tarkovsky’s Stalker.
I sense fan-censor-edits coming.
Leaked image of Lobot in Solo.
The venn diagram of people upset that Criterion is releasing The Breakfast Club and people that have forgotten they once made a DVD of Michael Bay’s Armageddon is a circle.
