Linda Diaz with “Green Tea Ice Cream” … great stuff, beautiful voice and there’s something special about her person, makes me hopeful for America with young people like her around:
Movies Watched -- Under the Silver Lake (2019)
139 minute running time so 40 to 50 minutes too long … a W.D.By movie, probably a trust fund kid, this was just crap. I gave it 20 minutes and went to fast forward. It’s like someone really dumb is trying to make a David Lymch movie. Who finances this garbage and how does it end up being in my queue?!? (which means someone recommended it) … tell the truth, call it crap, one star, don’t waste your time.
The first thing I ever masturbated to was probably a rerun of Charles in Charge.
Don't Fear For Your Love
Sunken with “Over the Days” … I dig it. Listening through the last 50 recommendations from the Chairman, you can see why the algo suggests the songs it does….
Movies Watched -- Mother (2009)
In Korean. 129 minute running time so at least half an hour too long. Wasn’t interested. Retarded Korean kid and his mother … he’s accused of murder but of course didn’t do it and his mother seeks justice for him .. I didn’t like anything about this and it was so so long. One star. Miss it.
Korea is messed up
Movies Watched -- The Breakfast Club (1985)
92 minute running time but felt like an eternity … who wants to see obnoxious Judd Nelson and these other kids stuck in detention for a day? … Ally Sheedy is kind of cute, but not when she’s playing a psycho … hated this, no idea why it’s considered seminal (like Fast Times truly was). One star. Give it a miss.
Paul Attanasio gets it right, including: “Taking place almost entirely in one room, ‘The Breakfast Club’ is the kind of movie -- and the kind of play -- that's hardly seen anymore. And good riddance.“
Molly getting negged by Judd
Sequential Rear Turn Signals for the Me-adder
I replaced the bulbs in the rear turn signals of the Me-adder with an LED strip that flashes sequentially … they were made by MX5things … I think it looks pretty neat … the running car sounds like a lawnmower in the video for some reason. :-)
Movies Watched -- Madeline's Madeline (2018)
93 minute running time … didn’t make it very far in before going to fast forward … about a beautiful teenage mulatto named Madeline who is all screwed up as is her white mom (black dad never appears of course) … they live in New York City … Madeline is part of an improv theater group run by Jackie Sharp, who is also screwed up … it’s acting about acting and pits one manipulative woman against another manipulative woman … I guess if you’re a theater kid, this movie would be enjoyable, but if you’re not a theater kid, you’re just going to hate this. One star, avoid.
You know how you're really good at getting, like, emotional on cue?
All These Men I'm So Much Better Than
The beautiful and talented Olivia Dean explaining the declining birthrate. Clean edit: “Girl you look so gosh-darn good tonight … Can do whatever whenever the heck I want.”
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Movies Watched -- The Extra Man (2010)
108 minute running time but felt like an eternity … I got on a Jonathan Ames kick since I liked You Were Never Really Here (both book and movie) and his book, A Man Named Doll, so I got every other book he ever wrote and all the TV shows and this movie (based on the book of the same name) … I think Ames was sexually abused as a child and he has written a million weird, sort of sick stories about his sex life as an adult … Jonathan Ames is a sexual obsessive and this gets boring and repetitive after awhile … anyway the movie only touched on cross dressing and transexuality a bit, but Ames is very interested in these themes and I’m not. Anyway, one star, give it a miss.
Rex Reed: “The film knocks itself unconscious trying to be whimsical and offbeat, but is so contrived that it is as embarrassing as it is unfunny.”
Stephen Whitty: “If overloading an already interesting object with superfluous ornament is ‘gilding the lily,’ ‘The Extra Man’ not only gilds the flower, but then glues on sequins and forces it into cha-cha heels.”
Cameo by the sex-obsessed Jonathan Ames