Rewatched this myself this morning. Great indictment of American exceptionalism. Michael Ritchie is definitely one of the great under-heralded voices of New Hollywood.

I think the planter was bugged...

Ornamental performs "Kissing Grass" live at the @recordcratesunited.bsky.social Garden Party, 28 June 2025.
youtu.be/L-a1Y1ixqm4

Heat Manager performs "Palm Springs" live at the @recordcratesunited.bsky.social Garden Party, 28 June 2025.
youtu.be/P8pJZSGr8Mo

I was among those who bought On The Shore purely on the strength of its cover; it immediately became one of my favorite albums and was, in my twenties, my true gateway into late 60s/early 70s folk rock (Fairport had failed to grab me as a teen, the lysergic heft of Trees was more to taste).

Every time I develop and scan Tri-X shot on my Hasselblad, I think the same thing: I need to shoot more Tri-X on my Hasselblad.

Great record. I wish I could have made it out for the NY gig.

Jennifer Coolidge saying, "I think he's Swedish," got me.

It's pretty apparent they're not giving PTA as free a hand as he's had in years past.

Probably been a quarter century since I last saw it, but I loved that film in high school. Still one of the first ones I think of when Kilmer's name comes up.

I don't want to sound cynical, and I certainly will take any Trump resistance I can get, but this is first and foremost Booker starting his 2028 campaign.

Not that tour, but caught both films at IFC in 2013. We spoke afterwards about Stanley Kubrick, Andre Breton, Charles Manson, Tom Phillips, and, if memory serves, Neil Postman. Wild films; erudite man.