Matthew Dessem

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I’m the enchanting wizard of rhythm. I came here to tell you about the rhythms of the universe.

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A passion for frisbee.

A random frame from that random frames from Homestar Runner Twitter account that has a perfect joke.

Last night we watched “The Specialist” and although it is a terrible movie, it’s another example of bog-standard ‘90s cinematography playing as a visual feast simply because nobody really uses these colors anymore.

You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.

Followed it up with Rollerball, for an accidental Houston Sucks double feature. A great looking movie, which not incidentally looks like it was composed for movie screens.

Saw Reality Bites for the first time last night, and that era where cinematographers ruthlessly protected the image for pan & scan home video is hilarious in widescreen. All these carefully composed 1.33:1 frames with an ocean of blank space on the side. That said, it played on TV forever, so…

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Dr. Erik Klemetti Gonzalez

People got really pissed off when The Beatles licensed “Revolution” to Nike, while ignoring the fact that the band’s whole musical project was just a means of funding their true passion: marketing and selling the EMITEX record cleaning cloth.

Don’t blame me, I voted for General Aldo!

He dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite.

Imagine the version of “Blood Meridian“ Cormac McCarthy would have written if Harper & Brothers had published an unexpurgated edition of Samuel Chamberlaine’s memoir.

Continuity error in Firestarter (1984): When Rainbird first visits Charlie, she is playing the ColecoVision version of “Slither!” Despite the fact that “Slither!” is a high resolution video cartridge that plays like the real arcade game, Rainbird is able to engage Charlie in conversation.

I mean, take a look at these guys: Mayor George Cryer, Kent Parrot, Cryer’s campaign manager and the de facto mayor, and crime boss Charles Crawford. Where’s their limited series?

We don’t need a prequel to Chinatown, but I’d love more stuff set in Los Angeles in the 1920s. Millions of movies and TV shows about the city in the 30s and 40s, but the 20s were more interesting: bootleggers and gangsters openly controlled the city through puppet mayor George Cryer.

Discovered a folder on my desktop called “Posters,” which I do not remember ever creating or saving anything in. (Actually, I remembered while attaching the images: According to an ad in Army Man, you could write in and order a taped-from-TV VHS copy of a selection of movies, these included.)

Saw a headline referring to “Possession” as an “80s horror movie,” which is true! But to me the phrase evokes “Gore-Met Zombie Chef From Hell” more than “Possession.” The unsettling reflection-free mirrors in the Café Einstein scene alone are way more elegant than the median 80s horror movie.

If you died tomorrow, could you honestly say you have led the kind of life that would inspire a two page newspaper spread of ominous photos?

I was inventing a noiseless, completely silent drape runner! And do you know how it works? Do you know what makes it work?

I see lots of people complaining about journalism's collapse, and even more complaining about paywalls, but no one pursuing alternative pricing strategies. For years I've been saying news organizations should model themselves after the summer 1875 run of the Pulaski Citizen, but will anyone listen?

Saw a logo at the end of Ronin last night I never noticed before, I guess DTS had a matrixed surround format during the transition to digital audio.

It really does work on just about anybody. Anybody who reads it, Max. But why would anybody read it? Why would anybody read a scum website like Twitter.com?

Don’t forget the raw charisma of Boss Crump!

Google appears to have rolled back its new AI Overviews — a generative AI feature — after the technology produced a litany of untruths and errors, including recommending glue as part of a pizza recipe and suggesting that people ingest rocks for nutrients.

Google Rolls Back A.I. Search Feature After Flubs and Flawswww.nytimes.com Google appears to have turned off its new A.I. Overviews for a number of searches as it works to minimize errors.

Taking a moment to remember CGA palette 1 today.

Whenever an album on Apple Music has obviously ahistorical album art, a phony Jan. 1 release date, and no copyright or record label information at all, you’re always in for a treat.

One other thought on One False Move: Michael Beach’s character is a terrifying villain precisely because he never gives speeches or acts charming or crazy or does any of the usual villain stuff. He’s a quiet and unassuming guy who might start stabbing people at any moment.

Looks like the Mad Max saga was originally produced as a three-part theatrical epic at the Theatre Royale in Sydney way back in 1833.

Alito’s response to Durbin is surprisingly collegial!

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Jack Feerick

Oh, I know! So far I haven’t been drafted into any rap battles though.

Did anyone find out what Clifton Brown or Rita L. Atkinson et al. think about all this?