RIP Roger Ebert

Didn't always agree with the man, but he was a strong, wonderful person and I'm sad to see him go. One of two icons from my home town. I grew up watching these guys and they were the first adults I saw take film as seriously as I did. Of course back then I disagreed with most of what they said and just watched the show for the movie clips - I thought movies with Arnold were great and these guys' criticisms of them were ridiculous.

Boy did I learn.

Rest in Peace to You, Mr. Ebert. Reunited with Your friend I'd like to think there's some hearty discussion going on somewhere in the After-Realms.

American Psycho + Huey Lewis + Weird Al = ...

American Psycho with Huey Lewis and Weird Al from Huey Lewis      

... smiles.

It's apparently the 30th Anniversary of "Sports" - not the pastime, the album. I love that album, just like I love Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho. Not super crazy about the film, not because I think it's bad but I'm just so attached to what the book does to the reader - really, really puts them in Patrick Bateman's head (a fucked up place to be) and by nature a film has trouble doing that to the same degree a book - especially a book written by Bret Easton Ellis - can. But I always loved this scene and this is just fantastic.

And then there's Weird Al, who is all kinds of awesome, even if I really only listen from a distance. But the man's a comedy music institution.

The Besnard Lakes - People of the Sticks

This band... my god. Until In Excess, Imperceptible UFO came out Tuesday. I'm a douche and still haven't had a chance to buy what should have been a "day of" pilgrimage to the record store for me.

Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives

When we went to see Drive two years or so ago it was at my friend Shailesh's recommendation. Shailesh knew I would skip it if he didn't say something. Turns out my wife and I loved it. As we left the theatre that night I kept saying, "Nicolas Winding Refn - where have I heard that name before?" I imdb'd him and realized he was responsible for the film Bronson, which I'd seen a year and some change previously and fallen for so hard that I immediately went out and tried to buy a copy of the DVD the day after the viewing. It'd been a while since a movie like that had come along at that time.

Now this.

"Wanna fight?" - Awesome.

Ataque de Pánico!!! (Evil Dead)

You know, I just put two and two together for the first time. I remember when this short went viral about three years ago - I loved it and the story that followed about how Raimi supposedly flew the creator up to LA from his native Uruguay and put him to work for Ghost House made me even more happy. It reinforced what a great person and outside-the-box filmmaker Raimi is. Flash forward a couple years and Ataque de Pánico! has been off my radar long enough for it never to have dawned on me that this was the same guy directing the Evil Dead remake.

Now I'm even more excited and honestly, I didn't think that was possible.

Death Grips - Full Set

Pitchfork posted this earier.

Evil Dead Talk w/ Fede Alvarez & Jane Levy

Bought my tickets last night for Evil Dead on Friday. I CAN'T WAIT!!! I'm posting this from work - if you watch this you're seeing it before me as my hands are freezing from liquid nitrogen vapor and I've no speakers on this computer. There may be spoilers as far as the franchise. thanks to the always awesome bloodydisgusting for posting this.