Decades ago I went into a mom & pop video store hoping to rent a VHS tape of HOW TO GET AHEAD IN ADVERTISING. The owner shook his head and said, in a strong New York accent (I live in CA): "No, that's a gahbage movie. I won't have that movie in my store."

Ryan Coogler week continues: in SINNERS (2025) Coogler concocts a singular brew of magic, music and vampires, in a tale set in the depression-era South. Here's our discussion. #YabtM 🎥 🧛‍♂️ #filmsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcuS...

Following his 2013 debut feature FRUITVALE STATION, Oakland CA director Ryan Coogler revitalized the ROCKY franchise with the stirring CREED (2015). Here's our discussion. #YabtM 🎥 #filmsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=ript...

The music the Italian rock band Goblin wrote for George Romero’s DAWN OF THE DEAD

Yes! It’s one of the reasons I love that movie.

Momentum is building! In Virginia, Spanberger maintains a solid lead; in New Jersey, Sherrill is getting a boost from Governor Shapiro; and in NYC, Mamdani continues to outperform Cuomo. Add that to national polling showing Trump flailing, and there was plenty to celebrate last week.

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

I think about this in how the guy who ran MySpace sold his company and then traveled the world doing photography, while the guy who runs Facebook never let it go and has gone out of his way to destroy democracy in order to gain more power.

Before it slips too far into the past: here are some of the bands we saw at San Rafael's #PorchFest last month. Great event. Live music on a gorgeous fall day. Food trucks. And lots of #dogs !
#liveMusic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IanZQGHgExI

The unboxing video I want

DS9 came next, Janeway is in Voyager

Women spearheaded the letter writing campaign that saved the original series from cancellation. Women started the first conventions.

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I understand why they had to stop him but I don’t agree with imprisoning him in the phantom zone

Before it slips too far into the past: here are some of the bands we saw at San Rafael's #PorchFest last month. Great event. Live music on a gorgeous fall day. Food trucks. And lots of #dogs !
#liveMusic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IanZQGHgExI

I say it here and it comes out there

Doing my bit to fuck with AI

I'm unreasonably upset at this flattening of Garak into Fashion Lizard,he was the Enigmatic Fashion Lizard and this cannot be erased

Maybe not my favorite but there’s a scene in BARFLY where Mickey Rourke answers a knock at the door of his apartment and he’s absolutely blasting John Adams’ Shaker Loops on his stereo

What's your favorite use of pre-existing classical music in a movie not directed by Stanley Kubrick?

Mine is probably "Hall of the Mountain King" from Fritz Lang's M, the main melody of which is whistled by the killer.

Runner up: Howard Hanson's Symphony No. 2 ("Romantic") at the end of Alien

Ryan Coogler week continues: in SINNERS (2025) Coogler concocts a singular brew of magic, music and vampires, in a tale set in the depression-era South. Here's our discussion. #YabtM 🎥 #CineMastodon #film #movies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcuSchNzTCU

Ryan Coogler week continues: in SINNERS (2025) Coogler concocts a singular brew of magic, music and vampires, in a tale set in the depression-era South. Here's our discussion. #YabtM 🎥 🧛‍♂️ #filmsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcuS...

Cuomo and Adams can never take this away from us