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This is amazing news, I thought LAST SUMMER was lost to history.

Markwayne Mullin is the name of a guy who cooks meth in a remote cabin in the backwoods of Kentucky.

The Widow and the Firebrand: How Candace Owens Turned a Conservative Succession Into a Crusade Against Erika Kirk With her new multi-part series 'Bride of Charlie,' Owens has trained her sights on the Turning Point USA CEO and exposed a fault line running through the heart of the American right.

hugely disappointed in candace owens for calling her erika kirk documentary "bride of charlie" instead of "bride of chucky." www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

Was intensely moved by this really thoughtful, wonderful piece by @abebeame.bsky.social for @defector.com . Reminded me of one of my favorite @sasimons.bsky.social quote: "The realm of obscurity is not marginal; it’s where almost everything happens." If you have some time, can't recommend enough.

Reed's death was also quite spectacular--guy went out swinging.

Steve Lawrence pulling Phyllis Diller and Liberace in a rickshaw in NYC in 1965, as one does.

for World Book Day

His biography is unreal. Hard not to think about any of those things while watching a film with him in it. It doesn't help, in this film, that he was 54 at the time and Carol Lynley, who plays his wife, was 25.

Gig Young is a fine actor, especially in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? and Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, but he's noticeably slurring his words in this film, which tells me he was probably drinking quite a bit, though no slurring from Reed, who was also known to like a drink or 12.

This is all I’ve wanted to see from a Democrat since Jan 2025. You can see the exact microsecond in Kristi Noem’s eyes when she realizes fascism inevitably eats its servants.

Read Scott's terrific rundown, then watch some shorts RIGHT NOW:

-The Devil Is Busy and Armed with Only a Camera are on HBO.
-All the Empty Rooms and The Singers are on Netflix.
-Retirement Plan, Butterfly, and Two People Exchanging Saliva are on YouTube.
-Jane Austen Period Drama is on Kanopy.

I used to measure rodent penises

I was there.

Chris Martin from the band Kinski is the guy in the kitchen.

Thanksgiving, sometime between 1988-1992. Kels is holding something. This was the pre-cellphone era, so maybe a book, tape, or video.

Kels, me, and an unknown gentleman. Photo by Tom Azure.

I hadn't seen him in years, but I have nothing but fond memories of my former Cellophane Square colleague, Kels Koch. His obituary is not quite like most others. Be forewarned that the way he died is especially depressing--beyond the fact that the world is a lesser place without him in it.

Lotsa lens flare with Scott looking boss. Original Facebook comment: Action shot of Scott McCaughey and Linda Pitmon of Filthy Friends at Bumbershoot (Bill Rieflin plays drums on their Kill Rock Stars debut).

Yes! I got an action shot of her at Bumbershoot 2017.

Wow. You'll have a great trip!

Hong Sang-soo's newest feature WHAT DOES THAT NATURE SAY TO YOU starts its run at Northwest Film Forum THIS WEEKEND! The prolific master of South Korean cinema returns with a tale of an artist seeking his place among others in the world while seeking personal fulfillment in a world of consumerism.

Whoa.

Dad's dad was a member of the IRA, fought in the Easter Rebellion, was involved with an assassination, left Ireland without telling a soul (not even his fiancée), worked on an Argentinian fishing boat, came through Ellis Island, and became a CPA. And a gunrunner for the IRA.

Mom's dad: who knows.

Great free jazz score from Basil Kirchin.

Oliver Reed as a smalltown tough guy. Not bad American accent.

Now watching David Greene's 1967 The Shuttered Room starring some guy--seriously, Oliver Reed and Gig Young in the same film is almost too much for one screen to handle.

Sirāt A winner of the 2025 Cannes Competition Jury Prize, Sirât is at once a visceral and metaphysical excursion, in which a man desperately searches for his missing daughter amid a roving raver…

Highly recommend Sirât, which opens in Seattle March 5. Tried to see it at NYFF, but the screening was sold out (saw Late Fame instead). In retrospect, I should've waited in line, because I got into every other sold-out screening. The film was made for the big screen, and the score is fantastic.

Strongly agree with that last part.

I saw this today and it blew me away. Definitely best to see in the cinema, and to go in as blind as possible.

Neguse demolishes Noem (2/2)

I Saw the TV Glow (2024) Introduced to a mysterious late-night TV show—a vision of a secret, supernatural world beneath the suburbs—teenage Owen’s reality begins to crack.

Oh, I Saw the TV Glow is on Tubi now. tubitv.com/movies/10005...

I made certain to mention the Band on the Run album cover in this review of Anton Corbijn's great Aubrey Powell/Hipgnosis documentary. Powell appears, via voiceover, in the McCartney documentary, which concentrates mostly on Wings.

Love that my editor chose another Wings cover for the review.

I've been humming Wings songs for days!