From the Desk of…
It’s too close to October for me to be working this hard. Just one week of not having to deal with something would be great. What’s in the news lately? CCAD is trying to unionize, so that’s pretty cool. Dudes continue to not rock as Justin Roiland, the Man of One Voice, and Russell Brand, who apparently has continued to work, have had articles outlining the claims of their accusers drop recently, which I won’t go into lurid detail in here. It can’t be a great feeling for any sort of defense team when the public consensus to hearing about your client’s sex crimes is “yeah. yeah, that tracks.”
It does track, though.
In what I can only describe as a bizarre PR stunt, accused abuser Jonathan Majors was caught on tape breaking up a fight between two high school girls. Good thing too, since the actor is set to return for Disney’s Marvel’s Loki Season 2, premiering on Disney+ Friday, October 6.
Body positivity win! The latest trend, large breasts, is rocking the fashion world, as fashionistas generally design clothes for clothes hangers and tarps for everyone else.
Wait, hold on, have I not even mentioned Boebert ripping fat clouds and giving her date a handy at Beetlejuice yet? Honestly, I thought this was America. If they’re gonna kick me out of the theater for vaping and getting handsy during the Beetlejuice musical, I will face the stage and walk backward into the lobby.
And a bunch of conservatives are mad about decorum. Who cares?
The Brain Dump
they should release a cell phone that doesn't take calls
i feel like chicken tonight
i'm the new coach of the blue jackets
just ended a meeting with "I was not raised with a healthy respect for copyright law"
I tell ya, I was getting in bed with my wife last night, she tells me she's on a sympathy strike for the auto workers. I ask her why, she says really relates with their unappreciated handling of small parts. No respect
Starting to think this stress stuff has a negative impact on brain goodness. Badness?
At the Movies
Let’s see what was on the screen this week.
The Toolbox Murders (1978), dir. Dennis Donnelly ⭐⭐⭐
If this had sustained the energy of the first act, it would probably be at least a four. Just lurid misogynistic violence against a backdrop of Easy Listening radio hits. Hardly even any dialogue, no real sense of characters. A mean opening, a cruel opening. I admire its purity. Then the film starts trying to have a plot and meaning and kinda falls apart... and I don't care for the third act, even if it does return to that initial cruelty because now it's trying to have sense rather than to be senseless and there's no interesting editing or juxtapositions. First half-hour though... the violent id of the slasher psyche made manifest on the screen.
The Munsters (2022), dir. Rob Zombie ⭐⭐⭐
sure. it's fine. honestly after all this work they should make a sequel that's actually an adaptation of the show. eddie doesn't even throw any tables in a mud puddle. honestly did kinda like the egregious visual style. the jokes... it's not like the original show was the height of wit either. so. whatever
Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island (1998), dir. Jim Stenstrum, Hiroshi Aoyama, Kazumi Fukushima ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ❤️
this is the closest western animation has ever come to ghibli food in a movie. every food item makes me hungry. "who opened a window" and "you ain't never caught that fish and you ain't never gonna did" are permanently in my brain. this is better than Paul Schrader's Cat People. it might be better than Tourneur's Cat People. god i want to eat the peppers so bad. morgan moonscar is a great pirate name
All that and a bunch of Jason on the Letterboxd.
One Picture
kids these days
In closing,
I’m so tired, and I have so many more emails to write. Until next time, give yourself a break. You deserve it.