In January 2018 I watched 'The Last Five Years' for @projectingfilm.bsky.social and Mike Denniston's 'The Grand Gesture' podcast, and ended up writing a parody of one of the songs. Today I recorded a lipsync video of it. This one's for the Jamie haters out there! youtu.be/1VeS_k3Izjo
It's been so fun to see listeners' reactions, you definitely don't want to miss this season!
Pretty cool that Main Character Syndrome is named after me!
The potholes are real - we know. (I drove into a shockingly deep one a few days ago in the dark - I get it!).
The City is working hard to patch but that’s not much consolation if you’ve popped a tire! Check out these resources if you’re looking for help. Link to the referenced map in the comments.
So that's how my grandfather kept me from getting arrested. On another note, I was told later that it took two tow trucks to get the Olds out. It was mostly fine, except its muffler fell off a week later. (11/11)
And my granddad said, "You can see that there's snow on top of the guard rail." She said "Oh, OK," and handed me my license back without running it. I retrieved my permission slip, my grandfather took me to school, and I was able to go to the special lunch. (10/11)
and asked me for my license and registration. My mother's words from that morning ringing in my ears, I said (truthfully), "Sure, here you go, but I have to tell you, the guard rail was already flat when I went over it." And she said, "OK, but how can I know that?" (9/11)
But then I realized I had left the permission slip I needed to go to the lunch in the car. So, granddad drove me back to the scene of the accident, where a cop was surveying the situation. She said, "I have to give you a ticket due to the excessive damage to the guard rail," (8/11)
I swerved and slid and eventually ended up driving over a guard rail and down an embankment. Fortunately, I wasn't injured. I flagged down a passing car, which took me to a pay phone where I could call my grandfarther to come get me. (7/11)
I drove to school, & the roads were kind of slick as it had snowed the previous night. & I was running late, & I was driving faster than I should, & the Olds didn't handle snow well. At a certain point I realized I was starting to slide and in danger of drifting into oncoming traffic. (6/11)
The morning of the lunch, my mother told me, "I'm mailing your ticket in today, but it's overdue, so just be careful this week, because if you get pulled over, you could be arrested." This was the most blatant piece of real life foreshadowing I've ever experienced. (5/11)
Unrelatedly, a while later I was invited to go to a statewide lunch for principals, where each principal could invite one of their students. (4/11)
My parents replaced the van with a 1960s Delta 88 Oldsmobile that my dad bought from one of his coworkers. It was an extremely powerful car with extremely bad handling. I do not recommend this as a good car for a high schooler who has already demonstrated poor driving skills. (3/11)
When I was a high school senior, I got into an accident where I made an illegal left turn in my parents' 1979 Chevy van and was hit by a couple driving a 1978 Chevy van in the other lane. Both vans were totaled and I got a ticket. (2/11)
I've been thinking about the time my grandfather kept me from getting arrested when I was in high school. This requires a little background. (1/11)
An icon that Softie made of a cartoon me smiling and holding a shiny green heart.
I think Dr Strangelove was kind of a different movie before the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Lovely chest patch!
And, when I watched Glass Onion, it was remarkable how it had unintentionally become a period piece between filming and release. It was so obviously written between the time COVID hit big in the US and before the first vaccines became available.
I watched through all of Taskmaster recently and when I hit the first series where there was no studio audience and all the contestants were spaced apart it was like ... whoof, right, yeah.
Have you done ZARDOZ?
You can't say I don't keep my promise. Last year I vowed if I hit 1,000 subscribers at The Film Maven I'd review MEGALOPOLIS. It's less a review and more an examination of Coppola's legacy, and how this movie feels like a quilt stitched from decades of twee ideas.
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I saw this in the theater with my niece (who is generally a fan of late stage Coppola), and in the car afterwards we drove silently for a few minutes and then both started spontaneously laughing. She said, “I didn’t know what to expect, but it wasn’t THAT.”
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I guess 'dad' and 'father' are pretty obscure.
I had two grandfathers and wanted to indicated which one I was talking about. If you looked at the entire thread, you might have noticed that I also posted about my mother's father.
I am not taking applications for freelance copy editors at this time.
My mother’s father was an engineer at General Electric and worked on some sort of classified government project that he wasn’t allowed to tell his family about.
My dad’s father was a lawyer & his crowning achievement was being part of France’s legal team in their lawsuit against AMOCO for the AMOCO Cadiz oil spill. He had a thank-you note from France on his fridge for many years.
I liked that, as an epistolary novel, you would sometimes get someone writing to a new character saying, "So, to bring you up to speed, here's all of the correspondence from the first part of the book." It's like when Kermit and Fozzy give a copy of the script to the Electric Mayhem.
