From the Desk of…
Well, it’s cold again. Hopefully as cold as the hell that will follow Larry Householder for the rest of his godforsaken life, but we’ll see what the jury thinks. It was a Certified Brain Genious move for him to take the stand and then commit perjury almost immediately. Ann Fisher is retiring from WOSU, which means I should get a radio show. I promise I’ll be good; you can trust me with unfettered access to the airwaves. Our great state’s leaders have come together on a bipartisan plan to force children back into the mines let kids work later hours. Our two parties may not agree on much, but they do agree on this: it’s never too early to start being exploited by capitalists. Another Norfolk Southern train derailed near Springfield, but it hasn’t done anything exciting yet. Rumblings out of the Biden White House indicate a coming reversal on immigration issues, particularly bringing back family detention at the border, but remember… if you don’t like it, vote. Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives. Let’s get to the brain garbage.
The Brain Dump
if buildings wanted me to stop crashing into them, they'd stop jumping out into the road when I'm on my phone
when people complain about modern movies and say stuff like "they don't make them like they used to," they are specifically meaning the 1990 film Tremors
one TV show that's good is The X-Files
there should be a restaurant where you can get a normal B.L.T.
kids today love downloading App's, to they're phone . . when they could be downloading Apes. to their Home
I was about to go off on a riff about how the next frontier is exploiting the labor of great apes, but then I remembered what all the palm oil industry is doing to the orangutans of Borneo and Sumatra. The lucky ones, anyway. You don’t want to know what they’re doing to the unlucky ones. And let’s not talk about the rampant abuses of migrant workers on the palm oil plantations…
At the Movies
My only regret about seeing RRR is that somehow (I know how) my parking wasn’t validated, and that’s a long movie.
The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988), dir. Wes Craven ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Not without issues and still a bit too Hollywood Voodoo for me, but much better than I remembered, and an interesting look at Wes's racial lenses developing post-Nightmare. Also an interesting look at making a pre-Romero zombie flick (White Zombie, I Walked with a Zombie, etc.) in a post-Romero landscape. Also also William Newman in a wordless cameo!
The Wolfman (2010), dir. Joe Johnston ⭐⭐⭐
This is a better remake of Curse of the Werewolf than it is The Wolf Man. I could've made a much better version than this. Universal should put me in charge of its Dark Universe. Shame about the CGI. Del Toro is good though! Also when you make Wolfman one word, I have to say it with a short vowel sound. Like his name is John Wolfmin
RRR (2022), dir. S.S. Rajamouli ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐❤️
listen. maybe it's the pre-show margs I had. maybe it's my intense loathing of colonialism and the British in general. maybe it's my love of maximalism and artifice. but that was one of the greatest movies I have ever seen. I laughed, I cried, I lost ten pounds. also this is the greatest Metal Gear Solid movie anyone will ever make. no I will not explain further.
I should look for tickets but I’m so booked already that it might just be home cinema for me until the next dispatch.
One Picture
Who doesn’t?
In closing,
Happy International Women’s Day to all who observe it. For me, every day is International Women’s Day, but if it takes a calendar reminder for y’all… that’s on you.
it is international woman's day and that woman is kamala harris