Of these, that Night Court bass line goes hard.

But gotta give it up for Parks & Recreation’s chipper, patriotic little tune, a real mood-setter for the show’s vibe.

There are a ton of legitimately great turns of phrase and cultural references all over their debut album. They’re not great in the misogyny and homophobia departments (very common problem for rappers of the time), but creative and with a good flow.

Perhaps the only rap song to use Harvey Keitel’s name and make it sound like a threat

Goose is the jam band (a genre I cannot abide), Geese is the one with the consensus best album of last year that my old ass finds unlistenable.

“I’m not bequeathing it to you” to Loggia is a great line reading.

As is Loggia’s bloodthirsty pep talk followed by “let us pray”

And also, while we’re at it, if he was a desk jockey since the shooting, why was he out in a squad car anyway?

And the villain only dies when the wife removes her watch, the symbol of her career and independence, and she reverts to her married name when introduced to said cop.

(And I hate all that, message-wise, and it’s still maybe my favorite movie because the craft is so good)

Donald Glover with the pizzas in the “Remedial Chaos” episode of community is shorthand for an out-of-control situation/news day

I’ve been seeing this one a lot more lately than I ever had before

“You do not, at any point, ‘gotta hand it to’”

“This whole thing smacks of gender” is a personal favorite

Wow, I had forgotten about the Debra Messing of it all in that Jesus movie

I don’t think I saw Do The Right Thing so far, definitely recommend—funny, heartbreaking, infuriating, sadly still as relevant as in 1989. And the cinematography makes you feel the heat of a summer day.

Also, Die Hard was a reset of the action genre and laid a template for action going forward.

that’s who the real Undecideds are

it’s not some mythical being who is exactly half Democrat + half Republican who can only be reached by achieving Peak Centrism

it’s someone so checked out from reality that People Magazine is how they’re going to find out that ICE is just executing bystanders now

Feels like it’s not gonna be enough to shut down my work tomorrow, but deep enough to force me to do enough work today to dig out to have to go. Just an unfortunate middle zone there.

Ross jokes in the pilot it’s been a long time since he’s been dating anyone but Carol and says “Do the words ‘Billy, Don’t Be a Hero’ mean anything to you?” like he was somehow a ladies’ man as a child in the seventies.

Some characteristics of the GoodFella:

• v/o narration
• "how the sausage gets made"
• disreputable, often criminal, demimonde
• violence/sense of physical-moral urgency
• brisk editing
• multiple time frames
• big needledrops
• black humor
• coke

Not every GoodFella displays every characteristic