08/28/2026 · 8:28 am
While taking stock of how totally insane I’ve become over the last 20 years, many cold hard truths came to light. It would be unfair to place the blame upon the city of Atlanta, tempting and convenient though that may be. No, I take full onus for my insanity and overall obsessive/compulsive misbehavior; for a gentleman such as myself, they are par for the course.
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Filed under Bad Influences, Faint Signals, Nostalgic Obsessions, Saturday Movie Matinee
Tagged as 1980s, 1990s, 1995, 2020s, Atlanta, Bands I Useta Like, Bumfights, comics, drugs, Francis Ford Coppola, Frank Zappa, George Lucas, Greg Irons, Jerry Garcia, John's Arm: Armageddon, Martin Scorsese, movies, Ridley Scott, Robin Williams, The Sopranos, zines
04/30/2016 · 7:42 pm
I have a confession to make. Though I consider myself quite the erudite film scholar, in many ways I have no cause to place myself above the average lumpen moviegoer.
- I confuse the name ZaSu Pitts with Zuzu Petals, a minor character from the execrable Andrew Dice Clay comedy The Adventures of Ford Fairlane.
- I am inexplicably incensed at the sight of the cover of the film Metropia, and Audrey Tautou’s picture on the front of Amélie. To date, I have not seen Amélie, even though it’s from a director I like, thanks to its coy, nauseatingly precious cover shot.
- I haven’t seen Precious, except on YouTube, because apparently I laugh at the wrong things.
- I can’t stand whispering in movies any more than I can in the theater. A notable exception would be 1982’s Poltergeist. M. Night Shyamalan has abused whispering so much his actors should be forced to use air horns.
- I’ve never seen Avatar. Any movie that uses a default computer font for its title isn’t worth a billion dollar budget, let alone my attention.
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Filed under Bad Influences, Faint Signals, Idiot's Delight, Movies You Missed, Nostalgic Obsessions, Saturday Movie Matinee, Worst Of All
Tagged as 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Angelo Badalamenti, Avatar, Back To The Future II, Christopher Nolan, Clue, corporate crap, Destino, Drew Barrymore, Ennio Morricone, Gaspar Noe, George Lucas, Han Solo, horror movies, Indiana Jones, Irreversible, Joe Pesci, Lars Von Trier, M. Night Shyamalan, Marion Cotillard, Martin Scorcese, movies, musicals, Nightmare on Elm Street 3, Peter Greenaway, Quentin Tarantino, Ridley Scott, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Star Wars, Transformers
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