I finished Adolescence, it was good but not mind blowing. Solid acting and story. Gonna start watching season 4 of bron/ the bridge/ broen tonight. I may have seen it before but I’m not sure 
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After over a month on back order, it’s finally arrived:
Includes the original 2 seasons, the movie Fire Walk with Me, and the most recent Twin Peaks: The Return series, which I’ve never seen. It was the last full project Lynch completed.
The partner is off for a week with a friend for their shared 50th, so this will be my binge material.
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Kevin Smith’s Dogma returns to theaters June 5th!!
This will, in theory, be followed by a new blu ray/4K edition.
Yay!!
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That one aged surprisingly well.
Yeah, my husband and I grew up in Southern California, but raised our kids in the bay area and he’s a diehard Giants fan. We live back in SoCal now, but Giants and warriors are still his jam. Dodgers agreed to go to the White House so that’s another black mark against them.
A couple of weeks before Twin Peaks first aired, a friend who worked for ABC managed to snag a VHS copy of the pilot (complete with burned in time code). I had a 9" color tv at the time and a railroad apartment on W. 16th St., which I crammed about 20 people into for a screening. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that my idea of what television could be changed after watching that episode. Enjoy your re-watch (and watch - S3 is awesome)!
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I have a similar story about an advance copy of The Ring, on vhs from a friend working at the studio. Except picture a house on Martha’s Vineyard nestled among woods you had to walk through to get to the main road. And sunset turning into darkness while we watched it. And then had to go out through the trees in darkness for dinner. Not one person was not completely in terror. We held hands in single file to walk to the road in pin drop silence.
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My early access story is a little lighter. Back in 1995, I worked at ILM. As a result, we all knew people at other media companies and other showbiz types.
A tape began to circulate around the ecosphere. A weird cartoon made of cut up construction paper crudely animated into a group of foul mouthed pre-teens witnessing a battle between Jesus and Santa.
It was, of course, The Spirit of Christmas, a cheap little video Xmas card made by Trey Parker and Matt Stone for a Fox executive who had seen their earlier even more crudely animated version from 1992, Jesus vs Frosty. The tape got passed around with people gathering in production offices to see it over and over, people crying with laughter. “Dude! Don’t say ‘pig-fucker’ in front of Jesus!” It got SO much buzz they got a whole series of of it, thus was born South Park.
Everyone felt like they had stumbled onto the Beatles playing a basement club in Hamburg.
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Sad news. Val Kilmer has passed away. A memorial marathon is called for. I suggest Real Genius, Tombstone, The Doors, and Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang.
Non paywall link to NYT obit below
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Alan Rickman, George Carlin, and Chris Rock were the best parts of Dogma. I watched it on YouTube again the other day.
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No mention of Alanis Morisette? You better watch it again.
Alan Rickman in particular really stole the film with his sequence.
I know that for me, it was Dogma that made me think “well, of COURSE…” when they announced he would do the voice for Marvin in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
Ai! I and some friends went to see Blue Velvet at the 84th St. theater (I lived nearby), and one of us, on her way home, passed Dennis Hopper on the street and freaked out. He was carrying a set of encyclopedias, which is really neither here nor there, but it’s interesting.
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Boop.
We watched it last night. It was good, and Lithgow excellently loathsome.
But we couldn’t help but wonder… where’s the staff? How badly run was this home?
Terribly. Which I suppose is realistic in a way.
We’re two episodes into The Residence and enjoying it. KInd of Glass Onion-y (which is funny, 'cause that movie is name-checked in the first episode). Every so often I see flashes of Suzanne in Aduba’s performance. And I was driven crazy wondering where I’d seen Ken Marino before (Marry Me). Also, I think Randall Park could stand to get a little more range. He’s the same character in EVERYTHING.
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Ken M is also great in Party Down. Enjoying the Residence and looking forward to new episode of The Studio that drops today.
Just finished a wonderful new season of Great British Menu on hdclump.com and now watching the latest season of Junior British Bakers on same site. Comfort viewing as I recover from damn broken wrist.
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He was also one of the founding members of The State, a late 80’s MTV version of a Monty Python / Kids In the Hall sketch comedy troupe. Also featuring Thomas Lennon, David Wain, Michael Ian Black, Michael Showalter amd Kerri Kenni, Ben Garrett and a few others I’m forgetting.
They would go on to perform with one another in various combinations on shows like Stella and all of the Reno 911 incarnations.
You can currently see many of them on YouTube where Wain, Marino, and others are members of The Middle Aged Dad Jam Band, where they do surprisingly good covers of classic rock/pop tunes. Marino frequently sings lead.
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Not mentioning her was the nicest thing I could say about her performance. To be fair, though, I have never liked her since I realized she has no idea what irony is, yet wrote a huge hit song about it. Ironic, doncha think?
