Matt Prigge

Fond memories of watching Ken Jacob’s’ Star Spangled to Death over a winter break, watching it in fits when I could, lugging the discs around like Charlie Brown in that special where has to read War and Peace. RIP to one of the masters

Watching The Great Waldo Pepper, which isn’t great though it’s much better than its non-reputation, but it has *genuinely* jaw-dropping aerial footage with Redford and Bo Svenson cruising around in vintage aircraft while endangering their lives to entertain. Impressive!

How did I not know that there’s a 1985 TV movie called John & Yoko in which Peter Capaldi plays George Harrison

Watching The Way We Were for the first time and Young James Woods as a Marxist student protester who gets cucked at a university dance by Redford is simply beautiful stuff

I met Robert Redford twice. Once I was thrown into a room with him and Cate Blanchett, and when they both turned to look at me for my first question I somehow managed to speak. I have nothing original to say about him except he was incredibly kind and lovely and rest in peace man

From Hyde and Go Tweet, in which the usually more conservative Friz Freleng briefly leans into Tex Avery/Bob Clampett territory

Things funnier than the “Surrender Dorothy” story from Martin Scorsese and Joseph Minion’s After Hours:

I had one of my shittest ever summers — underwent emergency spinal surgery, doctors forbade me from cycling and even fucking swimming, was in lots of orthopedic pain, foot and leg torn up by an uncomfortable brace — but it did end with me seeing Oasis, and goddamn

I’m “only” between 15 and 20, though possibly more

Post by @playmixt 💬 0  🔁 1  ❤️ 6 · Preposterous list of Oasis songs which use the words "sun," "shine," "shining," and/or "soul" · Use of the words 'sun, shine, shining, sunshine and 'soul' in Oasis songs, 1994-2008…

Still trying to score cheapish Oasis tickets for this weekend. In the meantime enjoying this presumably complete list of songs of theirs that feature “sun,” “shine," "shining," and/or "soul" www.tumblr.com/playmixt/978...

Sold!

One of the tightest sections of my bookshelves, all heaters

YouTube video by Peatonito Peatón Listen, Robert Moses! (By Bob Dylan and Jane Jacobs)

Per J. Hoberman’s Everything is Now, I’ve learned that city activist Jane Jacobs wrote this song with Bob Dylan to protest Robert Moses’ thankfully aborted highway that would have destroyed the Village — a detail not included in The Power Broker m.youtube.com/watch?v=9c09...

I almost cried when after an hour of digital Highest 2 Lowest abruptly switched to 16

Been informed that I’m not allowed to get on my beloved bicycle till at least the end of August because of my Emergency Spinal Surgery from earlier this summer, but when I finally do, after two maddening months, I’ll look like this

An excellent frame from Naked Gun 2 1/2

Finally some good news: I wrote an essay about Neil Jordan for his once-hated, actually interesting escaped con priest movie We’re No Angels for its new blu-ray release by Cinématographe

Good movie

Do you mean the dolly around Valli as Jourdan enters the courtroom behind her?

I’ve never seen Andy Tennant’s Hitch!

Crossing off my biggest unseen Hitch. Hitch and most everyone had a miserable time making it, Gregory Peck said it was the only picture he made that he’d like to have seen burned, its rep has long been that it’s the rare boring Hitchcock. How bad could it be?

After my spinal surgery I was given a bland hospital cane, and I need to upgrade. Suggestions are welcome, but for now here is my fancy cane mood board

Thanks, Michael! WHERE’S MY CANE?!

Me with my post-emergency spinal surgery cane

Thank you!!

“Got emergency surgery the first day of paid vacation at the full-time job I’m happy I got a few months ago” is a pretty tidy summation of what a surreally mixed bag/even stevens year this has been for me

Beyond relieved someone who wasn’t me in the post-surgery recovery room* asked one of the hospital staff if they enjoyed The Pitt. (They did)

* I’m fine, mostly

Listen to me from a few years back revealing my horrible secret that I know way too much about Michael Winner (and some about Charles Bronson)

This is almost certainly wrong

I’ve been to a neurologist!