Mike Duquette

I don’t really share this but it’s got five figures of views, so I don’t know I need to

Alright, you freaks are making me drop the nuke.

Here is me in my senior year of high school as Bugs in a staged version of What’s Opera, Doc? that my chorus teacher was obsessed his whole career with doing.

Me in rabbit/Brunhilde drag. Hope this makes you smile, we need it today

This was a weird line of thinking when England screened a print of the original last year—that the cleanup efforts exposed how chintzy it looked, as if that matters to the most earnest and beloved fantasy film since The Wizard of Oz

Incredible to get one to uncloak and remove its mask—this photographer is a true warrior

Dizzy Nuzzi Lizza tizzy dizzoners lazy newsies

The real fun is going to begin when unknowing nerds clash with too-knowing nerds over whether this almost certainly digital exhibition will most resemble the original 35mm stereo mix, mono mix, or 70mm multi-channel mix

This is the much funnier version of trying to offset the Kimmel hiatus with news of a new Muppet Show pilot. Disney’s like “quick they hate that merger, let’s look nice!!!”

This still may be the case, as there were differences in transitions and even sound mixing even after the film was released, depending on if you saw it in stereo/mono/35/70mm

Hell, I'm listening to it now and it's still blowing my mind

BlueSky post from Mark Harris: "I think the Netflix deal is ultimately better for movies and for WB than a Paramount deal (which I 100% believe would end WB) or a Comcast deal (which would take the two best-functioning studios in Hollywood and reduce them to one). I'm open to arguments, but "None of the above" isn't one."

And fuck THIS shit too! This industry didn't see two massive strikes just to say "go with the flow, better things aren't possible." Dumb!

This all day/week/month/year. If I see you do this, your computer should be impounded

I wouldn't say "moral imperative" but if this studio is going to go ahead with another Gremlins movie, I'd love to see it be even more vituperative toward its studio's vertical integration than even the second film was in the Time Warner era. (My fear is a soft-focus The Gizmo Awakens, naturally)

No Jersey is one of my favorite bands near the area which I live and they worked hard on this album, which is crazy because it sounds effortlessly catchy. Feel-good music for feel-bad times. #BandcampFriday recommendation, easy

This is the only correct position on this WB-Netflix disaster; I've seen more mannered-doofus "well at least it's not Paramount" and IP-brained "Netflix owns Batman!" takes than I'd ever care to see. To which I say: "cut it out"

Ahhh jeez, what a great villain performance in MK. RIP

Welcome to Your Life A deeply personal memoir from founding member and primary songwriter Roland Orzabal of iconic English band Tears for Fears, known for their smash hits “Shou...

It’s been extremely underreported that TFF’s Roland Orzabal has a memoir coming out next year, by the way

100% correct! Five out of five one-fingered synth solos!

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Guy who’s only read about David Lynch movies: ah yes, just like that scene in Mulholland Doctor

And then the other is Anni-Frid Lyngstad, whose amazing post-ABBA solo album was released under the name Frida, which would have made them FABB

Marisa brings up a point here that I’d not really thought about: her book was supposed to be her AND Lizza’s book. We don’t know the terms of the advance retention (and may never), but it’s not hard to imagine, given the club nature of these a-holes, his little blogs are meant to juice her somehow

Nuzzi Achewood fandom confirmed???

A really funny rollout in Pee-wee’s Big Adventure is trying to wrap your head around if Pee-wee is a boy or a man, and then when Francis shows up, any concern for that goes immediately out the window

This shit is not only eugenicist but it's BORING AS HELL. You think my family expected two babies at once? That set the template for "cool unexpected life" that these freaks seem deathly allergic to

It's not just about leave but about what we are producing when we are working, says Toss Grumley.

It's not just about leave but about what we are producing when we are working, says Toss Grumley.

In Memoriam: Steve Cropper (1941-2025) - The Second Disc It's a sad fact that so much of America's musical infrastructure - the men and women whose session work powered thousands of pop chart hits and significant recordings - exists in near-obscurity. Consi...

wrote a little bit for The Colonel

This is why I will never understand production capitalism: it’s only a “money pit” to manufacture this stuff inasmuch as you have to pay factories to make those

From left, Steve Cropper (guitar), Dan Aykroyd/Elwood Blues (vocals/harmonica), Donald "Duck" Dunn (bass), John Belushi/Joliet Jake Blues (vocals) and Willie "Too Big" Hall (drums), part of The Blues Brothers as seen in the 1980 film of the same name

I've said before that Dan Aykroyd is the most benevolent example of making his autism everyone else's problem - and one of the greatest beneficiaries was Steve Cropper. God bless The Colonel and all The M.G.'s, now and forever

I don’t know if I self-identify as such but of the nearly dozen or so artist interviews I conducted this year, this was my favorite by far. Getting to interview one of my favorite underrated singer/songwriters was a real treat

Do you remember if it was edited out of the 45? Most places I’ve heard it lately use that edit