This gen x kid rocked this not at all dorky zip code lunch box in the mid 70s.

Typing this from Burls, it's true that the vibe of the city has shifted in the last 20 yrs in ways locals notice & don't like, but it's a shift happening in LOTS of small towns. Also true that like many lib cities, it's hard to get ppl to agree to the low income housing that will help the problem.

Streets of Fire is such an odd duck of a movie. Absolutely iconic visuals (and Willem Dafoe!) but Michel Pare can’t really carry it. Good double feature with The Warriors (also Walter Hill). Miracle Mile is great.

Maybe the specific details matter less than the big fact that she dies. Like, if Bones had saved her, they’d have had to kill her to save the timeline? So the deets in the obit are fluid, or something. Spock knew them, but they didn’t actually matter.

letterboxd.com/ThinkThing/

FYI your post made me dust off my Letterboxd and I think I'm going to actually start using it, so thanks!

Safe. Not a Todd Haynes fan -- though I haven't seen it since it was in cinemas. I just remember it feeling like they ran out of money and just stopped making it, rather than writing an ending. It had a creepy, cold, Kubricky vibe, but no. 🤷‍♀️

It's a very good list. My immediate thought was that it's missing Stephen Soderbergh's Schizopolis. There appears to only be one film on there I actively dislike and a few I haven't seen. Squee!

What heady time to be alive. Truly the peak of American culture, right there. Honestly, this was an outstanding burg.

I love that Spin Doctors song!

That maturity and realism was in the DNA of the original show too, evident in many episodes, just masked by campy f/x. Agreed TMP gets a bad rap. It’s too long, but a solid Trek film - one of the best in the franchise. 🖖

lol, and also ew.

I have a cat that likes to jump up on the counter next to the toilet and rub its face against my torso as I stand and do my business. No boundaries at all.

Cat.