In 1985's Brazil, gov't kidnaps an innocent man from his family due to "administrative error" and refuses to make it right to avoid looking weak. This is how the film gets us to side with radicals. But when almost the same thing happens in reality, we're expected to sit tight / trust the process.

I've been rewatching SGC2C episodes since George Lowe's passing and he makes me laugh so, so hard. I'm the most casual Phish phan possible but this mashup (phashup?) just sort of happened. Co-dedicating to Harris Wittels. #spaceghost

And because you asked (you didn't), here's a bit of students talking about hot pants and bellbottoms with backwards funk wailing in the background. (I think this is an effect of 4-track tape on a 2-track player?) Anyway this is my obsession now.

A lil Scrooged piece for the late great David Johansen. Always found it fascinating how he blew punk wide open and then somehow conquered the mainstream with... a novelty salsa alter-ego? Not to mention becoming one of the most outrageously eccentric character actors along the way.

I like the idea of a TV series based on 1975's Night Moves where the big denoument every week is another bleak reminder of the hopelessness of human existence, and everyone is tired and sighing the whole time.

Anyway, Gene Hackman was the greatest ever and I love him.

Everybody's talking up Sean Baker's record-breaking 4 Oscars but nobody mentions he's also the first director to log both the Golden Harvest classic Eastern Condors and the notorious video nasty Night Train Murders on Letterboxd in the week leading up to his win.

RIP to the forever underrated master filmmaker George Armitage. He's in that rarefied air with Elaine May of people with a supernatural sense for writing and directing comedy in their own unique (and superior) way. Here's a Miami Blues drawing from a couple years back.

Everything is very bad except that our favorite child and professional perfect lil angel Lucy turned 20 today. Last year we were told she likely didn't have long left, but she's exceeded all expectations and raises the spirits of the whole house. She is the best.

The Brutalist (2024)

Jules Feiffer 1929-2025. A huge inspiration. Not pictured but one of my favorites: Kill My Mother, his first "proper" graphic novel, which he published at age 85(!!)

Guess I'm on this thing now, probably for the same reasons you are! Here's a recent repost from That Other Place.