i need a good comedy. or three or four or five. or a very funny series.

things i think are funny

the lair of the white worm
repo man
the office (brit, haven't seen american yet)
kingpin
huckabees
freeway
pee wee's big adventure

so please suggest some very funny movies and tvs for me. thanks.

It's okay that you all missed my birthday. Really, it is. It meant nothing to me to stand there in the dark at the Hexagon, a darkness intermittently illuminated by the glow of my cell phone as I received your texts telling me you wouldn't be making it ( Read more... )

For my birthday, I bought myself an iPod nano. It turns out it's not compatible with my OS. Compatibility was a big reason for buying an iPod in the first place. Since I run a Mac and everything. So I tried it on AJ's computer, because she had a newer OS. And we ran some software updates. And it totally crashed. And now I have that hanging over my ( Read more... )

so we're celebrating my birthday at Strut and Shock's cd release party at the Hexagon bar, this Saturday the 28th. Black Audience, The Chambermaids and France Has the Bomb support. You should show your appreciation by coming down and listening to the show and maybe even buying the CD.

I saw the amazingly frightening and totally cool The Signal in Brooklyn Center last night. The first third of it was the scariest horror film I've ever seen in the theater. The rest of it was interesting enough to keep it four stars, and the only drawback was that each writer/director was essentially working in the same thematic universe, so even ( Read more... )

today i drove a woman who wanted quiet.

it was quiet in my car. no fans, no radio, no talking, just the sound of the road.

and as i looked at the trees and pavement and colors without words, i reached a kind of bottom, and i realized: i could live here.

I'm almost through Even Dwarfs Started Small (sic) and really enjoying it. I took Frederic to the dog park and met a nursing student whose name I didn't catch. A mother with an adolescent daughter was mired in puns and homonyms. I used to say to Shakespeare, a pun is half a joke. He said we weren't friends anymore ( Read more... )

SPOILERS

This film is inextricable from its use of time. The sustained shot upon the uncomprehending but curious face of János Valuska moves us past bathos, past pathos, to a blend of the two that sees in the face of actor Lars Rudolph evidence of a capricious and malevolent power that nevertheless existsUpon review, it seems inconsequential ( Read more... )

a lot of people tittered during Werckmeister Harmonies at the walker, which is typical. I loved the film even more the second time around - and I might even post a long review here ( Read more... )

i'm seeing werckmeister harmonies in the theater for the first time tonight ( Read more... )