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hollywood handbook and adam pally record a few real nice bump's -a haiku

Hey ya'll1st time, long time. What's the deal with GOJIRA RECORDS? are the boyzzz super into metal? Because that would be super cool if they were! Do they know that GOJIRA means Godzilla and that's Monster like a skellington but lots larger like over 3 skellingtons. Even if you stood them heads on heads. The GOJIRA monster is bigger. Great Shows. Makes me laugh ALL the times. MWah!

The Boys and BANG RODGMAN have a little fun making a Choose Your Own Adventure episode.

Well, time for my monthly Tombstone viewing.

From the diary of Velma Dinkley: "Later that night we followed the trail of clues to the old, abandoned salmon fishery. There, hiding behind a stack of empty fish barrels, we found who Mayor Moomoo believed to be our perpetrator (the simplicity of his detective work is so adorable, someday he will be all mine)...Mr Adam Scott! Something wasn't right. Why would someone with that level of starpower leave a trail of clues on a podcast forum? And although the Morrissey t-shirt displayed outstanding attention to detail, it was clearly not the same shirt Adam's uncle bought him in 1985. I reached out and peeled away a cheap, party supply store mask to reveal...Jude Law!!?? Looking back on previous forum comments, it couldn't have been more obvious. Well, I'm off to bed. Can't wait to pick up my new, unscratched trifocals in the morning."

something is fishy here ok that's better, I stepped out of the salmon fishery At least that's what I want you to think...I"m on to you "Mayo Moo" like a burger with mayonnaise on it, hold the burger. Tasty. In a place that may or may not smell like a salmon fishery, I will be waiting, bee repellent in hand, writing 0 star reviews for The Young Pope

OH SNAP, AMBIEN SLEEPWALKING COMA HAS FUCKED ME AGAIN. Better let the rest of mommy's little blackout friend sleep in the dog house tonight. DVR, your sentence has been reprieved by Governor MooMoo with a last second call to the gas chamber that showed up fully installed and in working order in my basement one night (gophers that refused to make funny faces while holding a golf ball were the test subjects, not people, I may be a sick fuck but not a twisted sicko) after what I'm guessing was an Ambien sleepwalking coma but I don't have any tools, technical know-how or a truck that can haul 7,000 tons of death machinery, much less the ability to transport and install it within an 10 hour window. I've never got a bill or weird charges on my bus pass, just a letter from England saying "I'm going to kill you in this very soon, "this" being the gas chamber that I paid to have installed during one of your weekly walking coma adventures and "kill" meaning murder you by strapping you into it and "you" meaning you and "soon" meaning within a fortnight." Sincerely Yours, Signed By Your Future Murderer, J. Law. So random, do you think it has anything to do with the gas chamber? Best I could come up with is this Jlaw feller must be inviting me to play Fortnite. Oooohh maybe it's J-Lo spelled in an ethnically mysterious to me way. Playing Fortnite with J-Lo, that'd be dope, right Mayor? is

Given I'm the person who didn't like Schindler's List (partially, though large partially), to well, we'll just say I'm sympathetic to the cartoonish villain (which is different than just plain evil) complaint in the Mamet take (not because Mamet expressed it - I don't have a strong take on him other than, hey, he sure took a hard right turn this past decade). So, this does not bode well for me liking this film. *: Admittedly, my take on Schindler's List is based on my multi-decade old memory of it. However, one thing I wanted to throw out there, in terms of movies being dated (or of it's time). Gah, I'm realizing all examples I'm thinking of are movies that I want to see, but I haven't (one I even own). John Cassavetes (white male) made Shadows in 1959 (this is the one I own, and I think it's the only one in the Criterion John Cassavetes collection I haven't watched yet). Shirley Clarke (white female) made The Cool World in 1963 and the experimental documentary, A Portrait of Jason in 1967 (same year as In the Heat of the Night), about Jason Holliday, a gay, black hustler. Btw, wiki entry on The Cool World: From her wiki page: Without having seen these other movies, I'll just take a guess that they probably age better than In the Heat of the Night (despite coming out before it) - I guess I'll make it my new year's resolution to see those three movies and see if I'm wrong. The Help was nominated for Best Picture, I believe. And Green Book... exists. I haven't seen either of these movies either, but I know people complain about their depictions of race. But, "of its time" for In the Heat of the Night might simply be, a larger percentage of movie going audiences... this would have been progressive for them (and focus on being one of the good ones - in the case of African Americans, kind of a model minority, and in the case of whites - not a potential recruit of the KKK. My multi-decade old memory of Look Who's Coming to Dinner had a bit that explicitly had at least the first half in a scene), where-as now, it's still of this time. There's just a larger audience now than then who sees the problems with this simplicity of this approach - no idea what the comparative ratios are in middle america. I'd be curious. It makes me think of the discussion around Demy's Philadelphia, when he passed away. I heard one conversation on a podcast where one person said, "while it might seem a little milque-toast now, it must have seemed amazingly revolutionary back in the 90s." And the gay person in the conversation responded, "well, to the gay community back in the 90s, it wasn't that great then either." And the conversation basically got onto the topic of Demy, didn't make Philadelphia for the gay community he offended with having a trans-serial killer in his BP winning film, The Silence of the Lambs, he made it as an apology for the gay community by making a pro-gay movie that targeted the middle america that would have taken away negative stereo-types of trans-people from The Silence of the Lambs. (disclaimer - I still have never seen Philadelphia) This was a topic I meant to eventually to get to in the Schindler's List conversation. So, let's take that premise for Philadelphia. While that makes the film relevant, would that relevancy then make the film, good? And should it in the sense of being placed on this list? If so, should a movie like Hotel Rwanda belong on the list as well (since it covered the Rwandan genocide, which Americans probably knew less about than the Holocaust)? Well, if you, the reader of this post were constructing the list. I think the one unifying thing I'm feeling about the AFI list is that it's movies that are culturally iconic in the American psyche, in which case, "They Call me MISTER Tibbs" doesn't seem out of place. Hotel Rwanda would because no one remembers that movie exists. And maybe to Philadelphia, if the poll was done close enough to when Demy died and there were a lot of retrospectives on him. For my perspective, while the cultural climate a movie was made in does affect how I view it and how bold or retrograde its decisions are, I find myself going "no" on the movies that I don't think are great movies, while still being able to acknowledge, they might fulfill a relevant purpose (of shifting the goal posts of what is acceptable and isn't acceptable. sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly). And I guess if I see those three movies I mentioned before and find them much better, I would probably find the AFI list more interesting and "better" if it included such movies. But "independent" isn't what the AFI seems to go for.

I had not heard! Or maybe I did. Maybe I did. In which case, I think that indicates how much thought I've given it. Not having cable (effectively being a cord-cutter since the year 2002), it's surprisingly easy to avoid acknowledging or even being aware of the existence of movies. If it gets good reviews, it'll stand a good chance to get on my radar (possibly preceded by getting someone interesting attached to it - e.g. the Suspiria remake). I'm mostly content with how this works for me and it might be rationalizing, but it seems like a good way to approach these things (at least for me).

I mean, the way I'm picturing it is there's no commitment. Just do it as you can. Certainly not to get in the way of HDTGM, Unspooled, Musical Mondays at all. No coordination, or rules. I enjoyed having Holiday movies to fill my time/mood in December and wanted to carry that on. Anyway I'll start a thread tomorrow if we do want to share any thoughts on films watched.

Right, that's what I think dates the commentary in this movie. I realize that at the time releasing a movie written and directed by people of color was virtually impossible in the American studio system, so this was the best you could get in 1967. But as I noted before: compare this to something like Do the Right Thing and the difference in approach is stark. In In the Heat of the Night, there is one black character who must stand in for all black people, surrounded by white characters who run the gamut; the movie's heart is in the right place, but it's definitely centralizing the white experience. In DTRT, there are multiple black characters coming from multiple perspectives to go along with a few white characters; to me there is a lot more to get out of this more decentralized perspective. And then given the racial commentary we saw just this past year out of filmmakers of color: Black Panter, BlacKKKlansman, Blindspotting, Sorry To Bother You, If Beale Street Could Talk . . . well, In the Heat of the Night feels quaint by comparison. Again, not bad, but quaint.

I'm 100% in agreement with Paul and Amy on this one. I think while it was an important film in 1967, it doesn't play to me today as a great film. I think it's on the borderline of top 100 and ultimately doesn't deserve to be on it, and I agree that at the very least, Beverly Hills Cop worked better as a police procedural. (Also, Foley has a reasonable explanation for why he didn't reveal he was a cop until later, since he's in LA to do police work. If Tibbs actually wanted to make that train, he could have flashed his badge a bit sooner and likely made it on time. But that might be a Titanic "the door was big enough for two" type of complaint, in that the badge was flashed at the right time for the plot to advance.) And the race stuff plays completely different to me today, too. Like Green Book, In the Heat of the Night is a film directed by a white male, off a screenplay written by a white male based on a story told by a white male. And like Green Book, I really felt like In the Heat of the Night seems today like it was made for white people to watch and congratulate themselves on not being racist. Now, Green Book is a bad movie (I think we can mostly agree on that), and In the Heat of the Night is nowhere near as toothless in its commentary, nor does it self-congratulate on its progressiveness as much as Green Book does, but I really resent it for pulling its punch a bit by having Tibbs momentarily obsessed with finding the most racist guy guilty, giving racist white dudes some "both sides" ammo. Anyway, all would be forgivable if this was a great movie, but I just don't think it is. Like Paul and Amy said, it feels like it's trying to figure out how to a great movie, but it's just not quite there. Paul and Amy were spot-on with their analysis of the music fills as feeling like 70s TV, and of Delores' monologue as being super absurd. But the best I can say about it is that it's not unenjoyable, and that Sidney Poitier is fucking awesome in it.

I still think they should go through that full 400-film AFI ballot from which the top-100 were chosen, but yea some international stuff would be quite welcome on my end

Is there no Pro Version forum? I have so many questions about that contract negotiation. The Boys have taken shots at Earwolf before but this seemed genuinely confrontational.

Hayes' joke that Bane was born in a dark roast got stepped on, but it was magic to me.

side note: the "sexual healing" smooth jazz cover during the drunk driving ad this week made me laugh very hard

dr. gameshow's last episode was yesterday and it's all your fault for not listening to it.

Man Sean offering the company lawyer this work in conjunction with his own lawyer not wanting to be a part of his clients contract negotiations I'm floored. Tom Scharpling should hang up his hat because this is the Best Show

They should just dock greedy Colin’s pay and give more money to the boys and forum posters

I'm assuming the change of font on the earwolf 'site is a secret xmas pres from the boys and boys... ... .. . thenk you

Talk about a great Christmas surprise seeing this in my Youtube feed.

From the same year, a news segment on VR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGEdWjLfeXY "The kids that use our system say, 'I'm not going back to flatscreen after this!'" A few years later into the 1990s, there was Nintendo's infamous Virtual Boy:

Now hearing the podcast and realizing just how molesty the movie was, I'm super glad June didn't participate in this one.

Yes, playing Fortine with J-Lo would be dope. As dope as playing any video game with J-Lo. Perhaps Link to the Past on Snes? As for everything else you said? I've never owned a D-V-R, as I "live" in Wisconsin. Best wishes, J. Law, I mean, Mayor/Governor Bizby Moomoo