While I respect Charles Martinet’s craft, I equally respect the casting director’s instinct: receiving a tape of a man screaming nonsense in an Italian accent and going “this is our vision for eternity”
Had a dream that Pitchfork was relentlessly hyping a turntable act who looked like an adult-sized baby. His name was DJ Babyboy and the album title was ‘Not Beating the Babyboy Allegations’
Crypt Keeper: my favorite band is the Talking SEVERED Heads, with the album Remain in FRIGHT
Crypt Keeper’s lawyer: look, she’s going to get a lot in this divorce if you don’t focus
You don’t have to RT him, reply to him, argue with him, or point out the lies and errors. He is irrelevant. The work to unite and move forward continues and that doesn’t include him.
@thatsajellyfish
So much good stuff in this particular sequence! David Tomlinson rhythmically asking “What’s all this?” and his silent tongue-clucking and eye-popping when his son tries to join the sweeps out the door
Better sound, better storage capacity, easier to transport and keep in smaller living spaces, less expensive on the primary market, convertible to digital files, probably a smaller amount of plastic/fossil fuel consumption. I will argue this every day until I’m dead
Really moving words from
@WolfVanHalen
on grief. The hole our loved ones leave doesn’t get smaller so much as the life and love around it hopefully gets bigger
The replies to this are so often “Word is $140” that this guy was like “well Harvard gives it to you for free.” That’s nice—say, how much do you think it costs to go to Harvard a year
Five years ago
@netflix
premiered The Characters, a collection of original comedy from up-and-comers like Kate Berlant + Tim Robinson. My favorite episode is
@bejohnce
's because it's the only one to co-star someone I married
Joe Rogan has signed a new $250 million partnership deal with Spotify for his controversial podcast “The Joe Rogan Experience,” which will now be available on other audio platforms and not just exclusive to Spotify.
Any potential Frasier reboot has quite the task of retconning the movie where Frasier was killed by Optimus Prime for running Blackwater but against Transformers
the idea of my mom, a special education teacher for 20+ years, risking death by helping children with special needs makes me want to break that podium (and other things) in half
So sorry to do this on your timeline. But I need a full-time job. I write and edit really well and did so in the music business for 15 years until I got laid off in December. I have infant twin daughters and scarcely enough to provide. If no miracle, a steady pay would help.
In honor of Prince's birthday/the first day of
@PaisleyPark
Celebration (enjoy it, those of you who go - changed my life) and because I'll never not be a big ol' reissue dork, here's a thread of all the posthumous catalogue titles that have come our way in the last seven years
I will never be an Oscars person but I’m now very curious who the lead actor of Judas and the Black Messiah is, if the two main guys in it are supporting actors
Hate to keep hammering this but imagine you have the privilege of explaining Prince's musical gifts to someone who doesn't know and instead go for "smh kids"
Yeah, you're right, I talk too much. I also listen too much. I could be a cold-hearted cynic like you...but I don't like to hurt people's feelings. Well, you think what you want about me; I'm not changing. I…I smoke too tough. My swag too different. My bitch is too bad.
Dakota Johnson says "it’s really f*cking bleak in this industry. It is majorly disheartening."
“The people who run streaming platforms don’t trust creative people or artists to know what’s going to work, and that is just going to make us implode. It’s really heartbreaking. It’s
uproarious ad copy. The comic company owned by the big entertainment company that's made nearly 30 movies or shows based on these comics in the last 13 years is "having a moment"
“Trump might go to jail for paying hush money. No amount of money could hush me up about how much I miss you, girl” -free text to send someone if you’re an idiot
Steven had done the same when Star Wars overtook Jaws' record, and would do so again in 1997 when the special edition of Star Wars briefly took E.T.'s crown before Titanic outpaced them both (art on right, of course, by
@DrewStruzan
)
#EverydayET
Joe Biden: "I call on President Trump to go on national television now to fulfill his oath and defend and Constitution and demand an end to this siege."
Stuart Adamson, frontman of
@BigCountryUK
, would be 64 today. Nine years ago I wrote about their greatest song, which stopped me from making the choice he made
the only good legacy sequel idea I've ever had was this: 30-40 years on, the sons of Richard Dreyfuss in Close Encounters deal with the fucked up repercussions of their dad straight up disappearing
absolutely true story: Nicole and I matched on OKCupid (99%, bragging) and accommodated our first date around a show she was doing with
@bejohnce
. I reverse engineered that info to find more about her including this video. She's even funnier in person 6 years later!!!
@ejdickson
We recently put her on for our three-month-old daughters—probably too early yet but I dig what she’s doing. Reminds me of Mister Rogers for the very young. Love that she triggered a man literally named “Boring”
@TrevorLess
My OKC opener was “you have to defuse a bomb in the city with a karaoke song, what do you pick” and somehow that got me a wife and, by extension, two kids
Massive anniversary in film music history! On March 5, 1977, at Anvil Studios in Denham, England, John Williams and The
@londonsymphony
convened for the first day of scoring sessions for
@starwars
! Great record keeping means we know what was recorded when... 🧵🎶
Disney's Tiki Room was once retooled to feature existing characters, As I left the show, the Iago animatronic (voiced by Gilbert of course) yelled "REAL smart walking under a bird, kid. good thing you're wearing a hat." I was wearing a hat - my 12-year-old mind was blown. RIP
And I said
What about
Breakfast At Tiffany’s
She said I think I
Remember the film
And as I recall I think
It had a guy who was Japanese
And I said well um
It’s sort of not quite
And then I went on he was
Uh played by a white guy
And she said well that’s
A weird thing we got
It’s the cruddy coexistence of collectibility and scarcity that continues to sadden me. Even as a noted box set/physical media stan, the goal should be accessible art. But the second these labels invest in pressing plants that bubble will explode
I'd settle for "going out and seeing my friends and family without the fear of all of us contracting a dangerous disease" but sure, nerds gotta have their things too
@depechejoe
Not nearly the same thing, but the vagaries of copyrights and packaging similarly made me laugh in a Target this weekend, seeing Eternals figures packaged as “Marvel’s (Name)”
Putting aside the fact that How I Met Your Mother - a show I watched every episode of and forgot nearly everything about - does not need a spinoff to "honor the original," the press release can't even properly quote one of the series' catchphrases
sure sex is cool but have you ever done a joke where you suggest your partner hurt you during sex and they say something pithy about emotions or pop culture that "hurts" you on another level are we through the looking glass yet Alexa play Despacito and send tweet
Happy birthday to
#Prince
, who changed millions of lives, especially mine.
I was honored to contribute a guide to the songs on the new album ‘Originals’ for
@citypagesmusic
💜
I’m missing the live cast but I’m being told that I UHHHHH JUST GOT THANKED ON STAGE??????
@aniistoll
and Meg and
@alyankovic
I love you guys so much and literally burst into tears in the middle of a gala when I saw that you won
They say having a child is an act of radical optimism. For now, maybe this is the next best thing.
Please say hello to Ravioli Spiezio-Duquette - my new favorite nonhuman. 🍝🐈⬛
So the Jimmy Buffett cameo in Jurassic World is a clear link to producer Frank Marshall (who produced the MARGARITAVILLE musical as well as many Spielberg classics), but I guess it goes deeper than that—I’ve NEVER seen this clip