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It is illogical, but I think the tone supports it. The initial premise of the remnants of civilization being a train is such bald allegory that I never viewed it as anything other than fantasy.

Under the Skin is really good. It feels pretty clear to me that it's all about male gaze, but there's plenty of other theories. My partner wrote what I think is a really interesting essay about what Under the Skin meant to them as a gender-queer person. It's spoiler heavy so I wouldn't reccomend reading it before watching it, but I think it's a really interesting way of looking at the movie. It isn't really that the plot is hard to follow, it's totally linear and stripped down. It's just got a different rhythm to it.

I saw this ad in front of a YouTube video. Basically the whole ad is in first person and at one point the protagonist gets knocked woozy from jumping from a high ledge, and sees that lady. Then his partner runs into view and says "We don't kiss goats" and the protagonist looks back and the girl is actually just a goat. Hilarious stuff.

Love the Koko discussion at the end, but it's worth noting that this isn't Koko's introduction to death. Koko has had pets, the first being Koko's pet kitten "All Ball" (so named by the gorilla because the cat had no tail), who was hit by a car and died. Koko's trainer, Dr. Francine Patterson, reported hearing Koko weep over her pet's death. It's weird. Koko the gorilla is weird.

I am the only person I know who really liked that Scarface sequel game. It was always hard for me to be motivated in these kinds of games (almost never caring about the story) but that gave me an actual motivation to make money: To decorate my mansion! It was this half-baked Sims-ish building editor, along with a way to call sweet vehicles right to your location at any time, that made me play the hell out of that over the course of several Blockbuster rentals.

Apeshit (adj.) ridiculously angry "He went apeshit."

That Nicki Minaj quote really loses something when you can't hear her say "I'm a human beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeinggggggg".

I don't mean to be a whistle blower or industry disrupter but pico de gallo is just tomatoes and red onions and cilantro and jalapenos and lime juice and salt and green onions and cracked pepper. Anyone can make it.

And The former being of the "charming slightly horror themed vintage cartoons" variety, the latter being of the "charming horror themed pop punk music video" variety. It is shockingly easy to imagine Jason Voorhees as a dorky kid lusting after the cool girl at school.

This sounds like the worst thing (can't bring myself to watch the trailer) but, other than the context of a world where mass shootings are now a bimonthly event, what makes this different from Postal? I know the Postal sequels are all wacky, but from what I've seen of the first game, it took itself relatively seriously.

Yeah, when Sean announced he would watch every single episode, I really felt for him. If he came in around season 5, he has no idea just how rough and just plain dull a lot of those pre-Clyde Bruckman episodes were.

Were you guys aware of the Twin Peaks visual soundtrack? It was a Japanese co-production (I assume?) issued on laserdisc at the show's peak. Jump to 5:10 to see in the credits that the camera man was none other than Hideo Kojima. Probably not THE Hideo Kojima, but still.

DONE.

Classic insane Fleischer animations fulla ghosts and spooks and what not.. The Cab Calloway walrus animation is phenomenal.

The first 25 minutes of Dracula are so goddamned beautiful.

Whereas you watch Peter Jackson's King Kong, or try to spot many people of color on his crew in the twenty million hours of Lord of the Rings special features, and you get the idea that he is actually just racist.

As per the discussion about on the title screens in Alien Isolation, the only similar thing in film I can think of is that up through the 70's a lot of movies (particularly b-movies) had their copyright info right on the title card. But I think the copyright info under the title actually looks pretty classy, if only because a lot of classic Hollywood films had it so there's that history. Trademarks don't have that kind of charm. And they've been in video games forever. The worst is in the middle of the Nightmare on Elm Street NES game, you can fall asleep and a screen will pop up announcing "Freddy's Coming!"

Holy cow. I had no idea there were so many Worms games.

Essential Halloween viewing, if you like cheesy television comedy from the 70's and/or The Wicked Witch of the West.

Mental illness, random chance, middle-class Catholic family, white skin, a suicide attempt and AFI's list of the 100 Funniest Movies.

There is so much swearing in this game! EDIT: Spoiler alert. Sorry Mington.

Whatever, Sean is the Paul of the group, but Remo is the dreamy brainy one. Congrats Ringo. Fuck Ringo.

House. House. Hausu. House.

A really formative moment for me was when I was 19 and saw All That Jazz. Seeing someone like Roy Scheider play Bob Fosse kind of felt like a Rosetta Stone for a lot of the gay/straight masculine/feminine binaries I found myself butting against. I sort of unlocked that I didn't have to feel guilty for not easily fitting into one category or another. I used to use bisexual, but queer is a better term. Technically I suppose "pansexual" is more specific but I never liked that term. It made my sex life sound way more decadent than it is. As for bisexuality/pansexuality/non-binary sexualities being diminished, I have talked to some people who have had bad experiences being a lot of straight but questioning people's test tube. Like "Oh, don't know if I'm straight or not, I should see if I have a relationship with the person in my sphere who is out, oops I don't like this farewell." Pure anecdotal evidence, but I've heard it from a fair number of people who have had that kind of bad experience, whether it was being lead on romantically for long periods of time or just a night of really awkward sex. I remember one guy I hooked up with in college telling me I was "one of the good ones", which I guess just meant I put out? Gay guys can be entitled pigs too. I think maybe also the focus recently has about integrating gay people into traditionally straight capitalist-driven institutions, like getting married and having children, while queer and trans (and non-monogamous) people often feel more like challenges to said institutions? Which is why the b and t in LGBT sometimes feel like they aren't pronounced? Trans-visibility seems to have increased in the past year or so but I've also only been dating my partner, who is gender non-conforming, for a year or so, so maybe that change is just in me? It can be hard to say, I guess. I'm kind of just rambling because I saw a clip from All That Jazz again recently and it made me think about that time in my life.

This was my go-to Nintendo Power VHS. I would watch and rewind and rewatch the little techno montage at the end over and over again.