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Speed Racer is a sight for sore eyes.Lilly and Lana Wachowski’s 2008 follow-up to The Matrix trilogy feels like an anticipatory antidote to a decade-plus of same-y superhero blockbusters kicked off by two of that year’s other major releases, The Dark Knight and Iron Man.Where the former was dour and the latter was merely workmanlike, Speed Racer feels like an explosion in a Skittles ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » COMICS after Jack T. Chick. originally published in Mutant #6 by Atomic Books. The Hideous Dropping Off of the Veil. script: Sean T. Collins. art: Julia Gfrörer. based on “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe. available for purchase from Julia Gfrörer. The Deep Ones. story: Sean T. Collins & Julia Gfrörer. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » CUT TO BLACK EPISODE 004! In the new episode of our new podcast, Gretchen Felker-Martin and I discuss Michael Sheen’s extraordinary performance as the deeply troubled sportscaster Caspian Wint in the HBO mockumentary 7 Days in Hell as we attempt to answer the eternal question: Comedy—threat or menace?. Tags: 7 days in hell, cut to black, gretchen felker-martin, michael sheen, podcast ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “MARE OF EASTTOWN” THOUGHTS Mare of Easttown may ultimately go down in history, for me anyway, as “the one where Kate Winslet did a Philly accent,” the same way that a previous prestige-procedural like the acclaimed The Night Of is “the one where John Turturro puts ointment on his feet.”Deliberately de-glamorizing character bits like those will do that sometimes. (Her work has been excellent throughout regardles ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD “You shoulda let ’em win a little,” Judge Payton tells the man named Mingo after their poker game with the local worthies has concluded in The Underground Railroad Episode 9. “Wouldn’t hurt not to parade around how as-good-as-white-men you are every chance youget.”
ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Of course, that kind of underground railroad is a fantasy, and that’s the simple genius of novelist Colson Whitehead’s original idea.Why not take the reality and make it a fantasy?Why not concretize the journey of slaves to freedom by creating a locomotive that literally operates underground? ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “THE FALCON AND THE WINTER At a certain point, it starts to feel like the plot holes outnumber the plot threads. One minute, Bucky’s so concerned about Baron Zemo’s hatred for the Avengers that he won’t even allow Sam to speak to him; the next, he’s breaking Zemo out of jail and presenting a team-up with him to Sam as a fait accompli.Sharon Carter has been on the run for the better part of a decade for a crime ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Well, that was a relief. Clocking in at just over 16 minutes, not counting the closing credits—that’s slightly longer than an installment of, like, Teen Titans Go! or Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!—The Underground Railroad Episode 7 rockets right by, taking us from tragedy to triumph in record time. Titled “Chapter 7: Fanny Briggs” after its main character, whom we’ve already ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » SUBURRA The most endearing thing about Suburra is how endearing Aureliano Adami and Spadino Anacleti find each other.Despite starting the series at odds, despite all the twists and turns in their personal and professional relationship since then, you always get the sense that these two dudes fundamentally enjoy each other’s company, even at times when they enjoy very little else. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Throughout it all, Barry Jenkins’s camera makes slow pilgrimages from one end of a given scene to the next, like it too has been enlisted in Ridgeway’s grim procession. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLYHORRORTHE THIRD DAYTVVULTUREUNCATEGORIZEDNOCOMMENTS
Speed Racer is a sight for sore eyes.Lilly and Lana Wachowski’s 2008 follow-up to The Matrix trilogy feels like an anticipatory antidote to a decade-plus of same-y superhero blockbusters kicked off by two of that year’s other major releases, The Dark Knight and Iron Man.Where the former was dour and the latter was merely workmanlike, Speed Racer feels like an explosion in a Skittles ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » COMICS after Jack T. Chick. originally published in Mutant #6 by Atomic Books. The Hideous Dropping Off of the Veil. script: Sean T. Collins. art: Julia Gfrörer. based on “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe. available for purchase from Julia Gfrörer. The Deep Ones. story: Sean T. Collins & Julia Gfrörer. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » CUT TO BLACK EPISODE 004! In the new episode of our new podcast, Gretchen Felker-Martin and I discuss Michael Sheen’s extraordinary performance as the deeply troubled sportscaster Caspian Wint in the HBO mockumentary 7 Days in Hell as we attempt to answer the eternal question: Comedy—threat or menace?. Tags: 7 days in hell, cut to black, gretchen felker-martin, michael sheen, podcast ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “MARE OF EASTTOWN” THOUGHTS Mare of Easttown may ultimately go down in history, for me anyway, as “the one where Kate Winslet did a Philly accent,” the same way that a previous prestige-procedural like the acclaimed The Night Of is “the one where John Turturro puts ointment on his feet.”Deliberately de-glamorizing character bits like those will do that sometimes. (Her work has been excellent throughout regardles ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD “You shoulda let ’em win a little,” Judge Payton tells the man named Mingo after their poker game with the local worthies has concluded in The Underground Railroad Episode 9. “Wouldn’t hurt not to parade around how as-good-as-white-men you are every chance youget.”
ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Of course, that kind of underground railroad is a fantasy, and that’s the simple genius of novelist Colson Whitehead’s original idea.Why not take the reality and make it a fantasy?Why not concretize the journey of slaves to freedom by creating a locomotive that literally operates underground? ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “THE FALCON AND THE WINTER At a certain point, it starts to feel like the plot holes outnumber the plot threads. One minute, Bucky’s so concerned about Baron Zemo’s hatred for the Avengers that he won’t even allow Sam to speak to him; the next, he’s breaking Zemo out of jail and presenting a team-up with him to Sam as a fait accompli.Sharon Carter has been on the run for the better part of a decade for a crime ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Well, that was a relief. Clocking in at just over 16 minutes, not counting the closing credits—that’s slightly longer than an installment of, like, Teen Titans Go! or Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!—The Underground Railroad Episode 7 rockets right by, taking us from tragedy to triumph in record time. Titled “Chapter 7: Fanny Briggs” after its main character, whom we’ve already ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » SUBURRA The most endearing thing about Suburra is how endearing Aureliano Adami and Spadino Anacleti find each other.Despite starting the series at odds, despite all the twists and turns in their personal and professional relationship since then, you always get the sense that these two dudes fundamentally enjoy each other’s company, even at times when they enjoy very little else. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Throughout it all, Barry Jenkins’s camera makes slow pilgrimages from one end of a given scene to the next, like it too has been enlisted in Ridgeway’s grim procession. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » COMICS after Jack T. Chick. originally published in Mutant #6 by Atomic Books. The Hideous Dropping Off of the Veil. script: Sean T. Collins. art: Julia Gfrörer. based on “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe. available for purchase from Julia Gfrörer. The Deep Ones. story: Sean T. Collins & Julia Gfrörer. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Well, that was a relief. Clocking in at just over 16 minutes, not counting the closing credits—that’s slightly longer than an installment of, like, Teen Titans Go! or Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!—The Underground Railroad Episode 7 rockets right by, taking us from tragedy to triumph in record time. Titled “Chapter 7: Fanny Briggs” after its main character, whom we’ve already COMMENTS ON: “MARE OF EASTTOWN” THOUGHTS, SEASON ONE By Sean T. Collins Comments on: “Mare of Easttown” thoughts, Season One, Episode Seven: “Sacrament” ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » ELIZABETH The life of Dr. Elizabeth Clay in Road House can be divided into five phases. She meets our hero, Dalton, when he’s admitted to the hospital where she works for the treatment of a knife wound he incurs on early in his tenure at the Double Deuce. After telling him the cut will require nine staples, she rattles off a list of previous injuries ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » NARCOS: MEXICO I’ve heard Narcos and Narcos: Mexico described as the platonic ideal of a Netflix show: eminently bingeable, instantly forgettable. I don’t know if that’s entirely fair, particularly (as I’ve said before) for the Wagner Moura/Pablo Escobar seasons. But here we are at the end of a season that I enjoyed watching from start to finish, but would be hard pressed to, like, recommend to ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » HOLY SHIT Hank mutters an awestruck “Holy shit.” “Exactly right,” Wade replies, as if his name were in fact Holy Shit. In the middle of it all there’s Cody, who whether by the rasp of his voice or the scent of his musk recognizes who the mysterious stranger is and fills in Jack and the assembled gawkers accordingly. “Gentlemen,” he says ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » FRANK TILGHMAN One of the several hypotheticals Pain Don’t Hurt has entertained at length is my belief that Frank Tilghman is the Emperor Palpatine figure of the story, the secret puppet master behind Brad Wesley who engineered the conflict with Dalton and brought it to a head by orchestrating the murder of Wesley and his associates when they were no longer of any use. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » THE BOILED LEATHER AUDIO HOUR Gretchen Felker-Martin and I reunite for a second two-hour deep dive into television’s storied recent past! This time, the Original Bad Boy and the Filthcore Queen tackle shows they didn’t touch on before or only touched on briefly. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » HALT AND CATCH FIRE David Lynch, who as the co-creator, co-writer, and director of Twin Peaks is currently airing the best show in the history of television, says “Cinema is sound and picture, flowing together in time.”. By that metric, the opening sequence for this week’s Halt and Catch Fire (“Miscellaneous”) is the definition of cinema. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » HER Her is a movie in which a nebbishy dotcom writer named Theodore Twombly dates Amy Adams, Rooney Mara, and Olivia Wilde and falls in love with a computer voiced by Scarlett Johansson. I promise you, I fucking promise you, no matter how many five-star reviews and best-of-the-year lists you come across: Whatever picture you have in your head of what such a film will feel like, that picture is ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLYHORRORTHE THIRD DAYTVVULTUREUNCATEGORIZEDNOCOMMENTS
Speed Racer is a sight for sore eyes.Lilly and Lana Wachowski’s 2008 follow-up to The Matrix trilogy feels like an anticipatory antidote to a decade-plus of same-y superhero blockbusters kicked off by two of that year’s other major releases, The Dark Knight and Iron Man.Where the former was dour and the latter was merely workmanlike, Speed Racer feels like an explosion in a Skittles ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » COMICS after Jack T. Chick. originally published in Mutant #6 by Atomic Books. The Hideous Dropping Off of the Veil. script: Sean T. Collins. art: Julia Gfrörer. based on “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe. available for purchase from Julia Gfrörer. The Deep Ones. story: Sean T. Collins & Julia Gfrörer. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » CUT TO BLACK EPISODE 004! In the new episode of our new podcast, Gretchen Felker-Martin and I discuss Michael Sheen’s extraordinary performance as the deeply troubled sportscaster Caspian Wint in the HBO mockumentary 7 Days in Hell as we attempt to answer the eternal question: Comedy—threat or menace?. Tags: 7 days in hell, cut to black, gretchen felker-martin, michael sheen, podcast ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “MARE OF EASTTOWN” THOUGHTS Mare of Easttown may ultimately go down in history, for me anyway, as “the one where Kate Winslet did a Philly accent,” the same way that a previous prestige-procedural like the acclaimed The Night Of is “the one where John Turturro puts ointment on his feet.”Deliberately de-glamorizing character bits like those will do that sometimes. (Her work has been excellent throughout regardles ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD “You shoulda let ’em win a little,” Judge Payton tells the man named Mingo after their poker game with the local worthies has concluded in The Underground Railroad Episode 9. “Wouldn’t hurt not to parade around how as-good-as-white-men you are every chance youget.”
ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Of course, that kind of underground railroad is a fantasy, and that’s the simple genius of novelist Colson Whitehead’s original idea.Why not take the reality and make it a fantasy?Why not concretize the journey of slaves to freedom by creating a locomotive that literally operates underground? ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “THE FALCON AND THE WINTER At a certain point, it starts to feel like the plot holes outnumber the plot threads. One minute, Bucky’s so concerned about Baron Zemo’s hatred for the Avengers that he won’t even allow Sam to speak to him; the next, he’s breaking Zemo out of jail and presenting a team-up with him to Sam as a fait accompli.Sharon Carter has been on the run for the better part of a decade for a crime ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Well, that was a relief. Clocking in at just over 16 minutes, not counting the closing credits—that’s slightly longer than an installment of, like, Teen Titans Go! or Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!—The Underground Railroad Episode 7 rockets right by, taking us from tragedy to triumph in record time. Titled “Chapter 7: Fanny Briggs” after its main character, whom we’ve already ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » SUBURRA The most endearing thing about Suburra is how endearing Aureliano Adami and Spadino Anacleti find each other.Despite starting the series at odds, despite all the twists and turns in their personal and professional relationship since then, you always get the sense that these two dudes fundamentally enjoy each other’s company, even at times when they enjoy very little else. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Throughout it all, Barry Jenkins’s camera makes slow pilgrimages from one end of a given scene to the next, like it too has been enlisted in Ridgeway’s grim procession. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLYHORRORTHE THIRD DAYTVVULTUREUNCATEGORIZEDNOCOMMENTS
Speed Racer is a sight for sore eyes.Lilly and Lana Wachowski’s 2008 follow-up to The Matrix trilogy feels like an anticipatory antidote to a decade-plus of same-y superhero blockbusters kicked off by two of that year’s other major releases, The Dark Knight and Iron Man.Where the former was dour and the latter was merely workmanlike, Speed Racer feels like an explosion in a Skittles ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » COMICS after Jack T. Chick. originally published in Mutant #6 by Atomic Books. The Hideous Dropping Off of the Veil. script: Sean T. Collins. art: Julia Gfrörer. based on “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe. available for purchase from Julia Gfrörer. The Deep Ones. story: Sean T. Collins & Julia Gfrörer. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » CUT TO BLACK EPISODE 004! In the new episode of our new podcast, Gretchen Felker-Martin and I discuss Michael Sheen’s extraordinary performance as the deeply troubled sportscaster Caspian Wint in the HBO mockumentary 7 Days in Hell as we attempt to answer the eternal question: Comedy—threat or menace?. Tags: 7 days in hell, cut to black, gretchen felker-martin, michael sheen, podcast ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “MARE OF EASTTOWN” THOUGHTS Mare of Easttown may ultimately go down in history, for me anyway, as “the one where Kate Winslet did a Philly accent,” the same way that a previous prestige-procedural like the acclaimed The Night Of is “the one where John Turturro puts ointment on his feet.”Deliberately de-glamorizing character bits like those will do that sometimes. (Her work has been excellent throughout regardles ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD “You shoulda let ’em win a little,” Judge Payton tells the man named Mingo after their poker game with the local worthies has concluded in The Underground Railroad Episode 9. “Wouldn’t hurt not to parade around how as-good-as-white-men you are every chance youget.”
ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Of course, that kind of underground railroad is a fantasy, and that’s the simple genius of novelist Colson Whitehead’s original idea.Why not take the reality and make it a fantasy?Why not concretize the journey of slaves to freedom by creating a locomotive that literally operates underground? ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “THE FALCON AND THE WINTER At a certain point, it starts to feel like the plot holes outnumber the plot threads. One minute, Bucky’s so concerned about Baron Zemo’s hatred for the Avengers that he won’t even allow Sam to speak to him; the next, he’s breaking Zemo out of jail and presenting a team-up with him to Sam as a fait accompli.Sharon Carter has been on the run for the better part of a decade for a crime ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Well, that was a relief. Clocking in at just over 16 minutes, not counting the closing credits—that’s slightly longer than an installment of, like, Teen Titans Go! or Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!—The Underground Railroad Episode 7 rockets right by, taking us from tragedy to triumph in record time. Titled “Chapter 7: Fanny Briggs” after its main character, whom we’ve already ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » SUBURRA The most endearing thing about Suburra is how endearing Aureliano Adami and Spadino Anacleti find each other.Despite starting the series at odds, despite all the twists and turns in their personal and professional relationship since then, you always get the sense that these two dudes fundamentally enjoy each other’s company, even at times when they enjoy very little else. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Throughout it all, Barry Jenkins’s camera makes slow pilgrimages from one end of a given scene to the next, like it too has been enlisted in Ridgeway’s grim procession. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » COMICS after Jack T. Chick. originally published in Mutant #6 by Atomic Books. The Hideous Dropping Off of the Veil. script: Sean T. Collins. art: Julia Gfrörer. based on “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe. available for purchase from Julia Gfrörer. The Deep Ones. story: Sean T. Collins & Julia Gfrörer. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Well, that was a relief. Clocking in at just over 16 minutes, not counting the closing credits—that’s slightly longer than an installment of, like, Teen Titans Go! or Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!—The Underground Railroad Episode 7 rockets right by, taking us from tragedy to triumph in record time. Titled “Chapter 7: Fanny Briggs” after its main character, whom we’ve already COMMENTS ON: “MARE OF EASTTOWN” THOUGHTS, SEASON ONE By Sean T. Collins Comments on: “Mare of Easttown” thoughts, Season One, Episode Seven: “Sacrament” ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » ELIZABETH The life of Dr. Elizabeth Clay in Road House can be divided into five phases. She meets our hero, Dalton, when he’s admitted to the hospital where she works for the treatment of a knife wound he incurs on early in his tenure at the Double Deuce. After telling him the cut will require nine staples, she rattles off a list of previous injuries ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » NARCOS: MEXICO I’ve heard Narcos and Narcos: Mexico described as the platonic ideal of a Netflix show: eminently bingeable, instantly forgettable. I don’t know if that’s entirely fair, particularly (as I’ve said before) for the Wagner Moura/Pablo Escobar seasons. But here we are at the end of a season that I enjoyed watching from start to finish, but would be hard pressed to, like, recommend to ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » HOLY SHIT Hank mutters an awestruck “Holy shit.” “Exactly right,” Wade replies, as if his name were in fact Holy Shit. In the middle of it all there’s Cody, who whether by the rasp of his voice or the scent of his musk recognizes who the mysterious stranger is and fills in Jack and the assembled gawkers accordingly. “Gentlemen,” he says ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » FRANK TILGHMAN One of the several hypotheticals Pain Don’t Hurt has entertained at length is my belief that Frank Tilghman is the Emperor Palpatine figure of the story, the secret puppet master behind Brad Wesley who engineered the conflict with Dalton and brought it to a head by orchestrating the murder of Wesley and his associates when they were no longer of any use. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » THE BOILED LEATHER AUDIO HOUR Gretchen Felker-Martin and I reunite for a second two-hour deep dive into television’s storied recent past! This time, the Original Bad Boy and the Filthcore Queen tackle shows they didn’t touch on before or only touched on briefly. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » HALT AND CATCH FIRE David Lynch, who as the co-creator, co-writer, and director of Twin Peaks is currently airing the best show in the history of television, says “Cinema is sound and picture, flowing together in time.”. By that metric, the opening sequence for this week’s Halt and Catch Fire (“Miscellaneous”) is the definition of cinema. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » HER Her is a movie in which a nebbishy dotcom writer named Theodore Twombly dates Amy Adams, Rooney Mara, and Olivia Wilde and falls in love with a computer voiced by Scarlett Johansson. I promise you, I fucking promise you, no matter how many five-star reviews and best-of-the-year lists you come across: Whatever picture you have in your head of what such a film will feel like, that picture is ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLYHORRORTHE THIRD DAYTVVULTUREUNCATEGORIZEDNOCOMMENTS
Speed Racer is a sight for sore eyes.Lilly and Lana Wachowski’s 2008 follow-up to The Matrix trilogy feels like an anticipatory antidote to a decade-plus of same-y superhero blockbusters kicked off by two of that year’s other major releases, The Dark Knight and Iron Man.Where the former was dour and the latter was merely workmanlike, Speed Racer feels like an explosion in a Skittles ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » COMICS after Jack T. Chick. originally published in Mutant #6 by Atomic Books. The Hideous Dropping Off of the Veil. script: Sean T. Collins. art: Julia Gfrörer. based on “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe. available for purchase from Julia Gfrörer. The Deep Ones. story: Sean T. Collins & Julia Gfrörer. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » CUT TO BLACK EPISODE 004! In the new episode of our new podcast, Gretchen Felker-Martin and I discuss Michael Sheen’s extraordinary performance as the deeply troubled sportscaster Caspian Wint in the HBO mockumentary 7 Days in Hell as we attempt to answer the eternal question: Comedy—threat or menace?. Tags: 7 days in hell, cut to black, gretchen felker-martin, michael sheen, podcast ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Of course, that kind of underground railroad is a fantasy, and that’s the simple genius of novelist Colson Whitehead’s original idea.Why not take the reality and make it a fantasy?Why not concretize the journey of slaves to freedom by creating a locomotive that literally operates underground? ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD “You shoulda let ’em win a little,” Judge Payton tells the man named Mingo after their poker game with the local worthies has concluded in The Underground Railroad Episode 9. “Wouldn’t hurt not to parade around how as-good-as-white-men you are every chance youget.”
ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “THE FALCON AND THE WINTER At a certain point, it starts to feel like the plot holes outnumber the plot threads. One minute, Bucky’s so concerned about Baron Zemo’s hatred for the Avengers that he won’t even allow Sam to speak to him; the next, he’s breaking Zemo out of jail and presenting a team-up with him to Sam as a fait accompli.Sharon Carter has been on the run for the better part of a decade for a crime ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » CATEGORY » PAIN DON’T HURT Road House is the story of one bouncer’s quest to free a small town from the iron fist of the guy who is on the verge of opening the area’s first JC Penney. Over half a dozen men will die for this. Tags: ben gazzara, brad wesley, road house. Posted in Pain Don't Hurt | Comments Off on 002. Brad. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » DESTRUCTOR For the first time in many moons, a new set of Destructor pages is up at the online home of my science-fantasy webcomic. These will be my longtime friend and collaborator Matt Wiegle’s final Destructor pages for a while; we hope to bring in a new artist to keep the saga careening forward to its retrospectively inevitable destination. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » NARCOS: MEXICO I’ve heard Narcos and Narcos: Mexico described as the platonic ideal of a Netflix show: eminently bingeable, instantly forgettable. I don’t know if that’s entirely fair, particularly (as I’ve said before) for the Wagner Moura/Pablo Escobar seasons. But here we are at the end of a season that I enjoyed watching from start to finish, but would be hard pressed to, like, recommend to ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » HOLY SHIT Hank mutters an awestruck “Holy shit.” “Exactly right,” Wade replies, as if his name were in fact Holy Shit. In the middle of it all there’s Cody, who whether by the rasp of his voice or the scent of his musk recognizes who the mysterious stranger is and fills in Jack and the assembled gawkers accordingly. “Gentlemen,” he says ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLYHORRORTHE THIRD DAYTVVULTUREUNCATEGORIZEDNOCOMMENTS
Speed Racer is a sight for sore eyes.Lilly and Lana Wachowski’s 2008 follow-up to The Matrix trilogy feels like an anticipatory antidote to a decade-plus of same-y superhero blockbusters kicked off by two of that year’s other major releases, The Dark Knight and Iron Man.Where the former was dour and the latter was merely workmanlike, Speed Racer feels like an explosion in a Skittles ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » COMICS after Jack T. Chick. originally published in Mutant #6 by Atomic Books. The Hideous Dropping Off of the Veil. script: Sean T. Collins. art: Julia Gfrörer. based on “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe. available for purchase from Julia Gfrörer. The Deep Ones. story: Sean T. Collins & Julia Gfrörer. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » CUT TO BLACK EPISODE 004! In the new episode of our new podcast, Gretchen Felker-Martin and I discuss Michael Sheen’s extraordinary performance as the deeply troubled sportscaster Caspian Wint in the HBO mockumentary 7 Days in Hell as we attempt to answer the eternal question: Comedy—threat or menace?. Tags: 7 days in hell, cut to black, gretchen felker-martin, michael sheen, podcast ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Of course, that kind of underground railroad is a fantasy, and that’s the simple genius of novelist Colson Whitehead’s original idea.Why not take the reality and make it a fantasy?Why not concretize the journey of slaves to freedom by creating a locomotive that literally operates underground? ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD “You shoulda let ’em win a little,” Judge Payton tells the man named Mingo after their poker game with the local worthies has concluded in The Underground Railroad Episode 9. “Wouldn’t hurt not to parade around how as-good-as-white-men you are every chance youget.”
ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “THE FALCON AND THE WINTER At a certain point, it starts to feel like the plot holes outnumber the plot threads. One minute, Bucky’s so concerned about Baron Zemo’s hatred for the Avengers that he won’t even allow Sam to speak to him; the next, he’s breaking Zemo out of jail and presenting a team-up with him to Sam as a fait accompli.Sharon Carter has been on the run for the better part of a decade for a crime ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » CATEGORY » PAIN DON’T HURT Road House is the story of one bouncer’s quest to free a small town from the iron fist of the guy who is on the verge of opening the area’s first JC Penney. Over half a dozen men will die for this. Tags: ben gazzara, brad wesley, road house. Posted in Pain Don't Hurt | Comments Off on 002. Brad. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » DESTRUCTOR For the first time in many moons, a new set of Destructor pages is up at the online home of my science-fantasy webcomic. These will be my longtime friend and collaborator Matt Wiegle’s final Destructor pages for a while; we hope to bring in a new artist to keep the saga careening forward to its retrospectively inevitable destination. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » NARCOS: MEXICO I’ve heard Narcos and Narcos: Mexico described as the platonic ideal of a Netflix show: eminently bingeable, instantly forgettable. I don’t know if that’s entirely fair, particularly (as I’ve said before) for the Wagner Moura/Pablo Escobar seasons. But here we are at the end of a season that I enjoyed watching from start to finish, but would be hard pressed to, like, recommend to ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » HOLY SHIT Hank mutters an awestruck “Holy shit.” “Exactly right,” Wade replies, as if his name were in fact Holy Shit. In the middle of it all there’s Cody, who whether by the rasp of his voice or the scent of his musk recognizes who the mysterious stranger is and fills in Jack and the assembled gawkers accordingly. “Gentlemen,” he says ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » CUT TO BLACK EPISODE 004! In the new episode of our new podcast, Gretchen Felker-Martin and I discuss Michael Sheen’s extraordinary performance as the deeply troubled sportscaster Caspian Wint in the HBO mockumentary 7 Days in Hell as we attempt to answer the eternal question: Comedy—threat or menace?. Tags: 7 days in hell, cut to black, gretchen felker-martin, michael sheen, podcast ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Well, that was a relief. Clocking in at just over 16 minutes, not counting the closing credits—that’s slightly longer than an installment of, like, Teen Titans Go! or Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!—The Underground Railroad Episode 7 rockets right by, taking us from tragedy to triumph in record time. Titled “Chapter 7: Fanny Briggs” after its main character, whom we’ve already ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Throughout it all, Barry Jenkins’s camera makes slow pilgrimages from one end of a given scene to the next, like it too has been enlisted in Ridgeway’s grim procession. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » MUSIC The horror-movie atmospherics of Quake are the closest reference point for Watchmen’s first and strongest track, “How the West Was Really Won.” The show’s unofficial theme music—it recurs repeatedly in the series’ most frightful moments, including the ripped-from-the-comic image of a gigantic alien squid in the ruins of Manhattan—it’s the sound of Reznor and Ross going full ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » O’CONNOR The goons roll up to Brad Wesley’s mansion. Among them are Pat McGurn, Tinker, and O’Connor, the three men defeated by Dalton and his bouncers at the Double Deuce the previous night. Ketchum and Karpis, who are never referred to by name in the film, arrive separately in the monster truck. Wesley and his right-hand man Jimmyexit his mansion
ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » FANTASY When I picture the deaths of Daenerys Targaryen’s dragons, the first word that comes to mind is obscene. The dragons are technical filmmaking achievements of a scale and quality never before seen on television. They are emblems of high-fantasy spectacle with real awe and real bite, in a field now dominated by literally and figuratively bloodless blockbusters. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “THE FALCON AND THE WINTER There’s one episode left in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and given the way Sam was eyeing the contents of the high-tech Wakandan briefcase Bucky delivered to him, it seems safe to assume the Falcon—whose wings got torn off by Walker, if you’re in the symbolism market—is about to don the stars and stripes himself.I’d guess some sort of reckoning with Sharon is in the offing, as ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » 005. “YOU’RE GONNA BE MY 005. “You’re gonna be my regular Saturday night thing, baby!”. This is Steve. (The one on the left.) Steve is a bit of an anomaly in the world of Road House, a bit of an enigma. He’s one of four people abruptly fired from the Double Deuce by Dalton when he assumes control of “all bar business” (per Tilghman) as the joint’s cooler. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » FRANK TILGHMAN One of the several hypotheticals Pain Don’t Hurt has entertained at length is my belief that Frank Tilghman is the Emperor Palpatine figure of the story, the secret puppet master behind Brad Wesley who engineered the conflict with Dalton and brought it to a head by orchestrating the murder of Wesley and his associates when they were no longer of any use. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » YOUNGER One thing I never noticed before starting this project, one thing I never noticed before tonight in fact, one thing I never noticed despite watching Road House dozens of times over the course of nearly fifteen years, is that when Brad Wesley’s goofiest goons, Tinker and O’Connor, come to the Double Deuce with Wesley’s nephew Pat McGurn to force Frank Tilghman to overrule Dalton’s ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLYHORRORTHE THIRD DAYTVVULTUREUNCATEGORIZEDNOCOMMENTS
Speed Racer is a sight for sore eyes.Lilly and Lana Wachowski’s 2008 follow-up to The Matrix trilogy feels like an anticipatory antidote to a decade-plus of same-y superhero blockbusters kicked off by two of that year’s other major releases, The Dark Knight and Iron Man.Where the former was dour and the latter was merely workmanlike, Speed Racer feels like an explosion in a Skittles ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » COMICS Mirror Mirror 2 editors: Sean T. Collins & Julia Gfrörer contributors: Lala Albert / Clive Barker / Heather Benjamin / Sean Christensen / Nicole Claveloux / Sean T. Collins / Al Columbia / Dame Darcy / Noel Freibert / Renee French / Meaghan Garvey / Julia Gfrörer / Simon Hanselmann / Hellen Jo / Aidan Koch / Laura Lannes / Céline Loup / Uno Moralez / Mou / Claude Paradin / Chloe Piene ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “THE FALCON AND THE WINTER At a certain point, it starts to feel like the plot holes outnumber the plot threads. One minute, Bucky’s so concerned about Baron Zemo’s hatred for the Avengers that he won’t even allow Sam to speak to him; the next, he’s breaking Zemo out of jail and presenting a team-up with him to Sam as a fait accompli.Sharon Carter has been on the run for the better part of a decade for a crime ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Of course, that kind of underground railroad is a fantasy, and that’s the simple genius of novelist Colson Whitehead’s original idea.Why not take the reality and make it a fantasy?Why not concretize the journey of slaves to freedom by creating a locomotive that literally operates underground? ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD “You shoulda let ’em win a little,” Judge Payton tells the man named Mingo after their poker game with the local worthies has concluded in The Underground Railroad Episode 9. “Wouldn’t hurt not to parade around how as-good-as-white-men you are every chance youget.”
ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » CATEGORY » PAIN DON’T HURT Road House is a film about a very famous bouncer. Not the most famous bouncer; that man is a supporting character. And not technically a “bouncer” either; our hero, played by Patrick Swayze, beautiful and terrible as the dawn, is a cooler, which is to say the Head Bouncer In Charge. But his job is basically bouncing, and he’s so good at it that he’s become famous for it. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » NARCOS: MEXICO I’ve heard Narcos and Narcos: Mexico described as the platonic ideal of a Netflix show: eminently bingeable, instantly forgettable. I don’t know if that’s entirely fair, particularly (as I’ve said before) for the Wagner Moura/Pablo Escobar seasons. But here we are at the end of a season that I enjoyed watching from start to finish, but would be hard pressed to, like, recommend to ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » DESTRUCTOR For the first time in many moons, a new set of Destructor pages is up at the online home of my science-fantasy webcomic. These will be my longtime friend and collaborator Matt Wiegle’s final Destructor pages for a while; we hope to bring in a new artist to keep the saga careening forward to its retrospectively inevitable destination. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » STEVE This is Steve. (The one on the left.) Steve is a bit of an anomaly in the world of Road House, a bit of an enigma.He’s one of four people abruptly fired from the Double Deuce by Dalton when he assumes control of “all bar business” (per Tilghman) as the joint’s cooler. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » HOLY SHIT The staff of the Double Deuce react to the Coming of Wade in a variety of ways. Tilghman leers, of course. The Nameless Bartender’s eyes get a little wide, his mouth goes a little slack. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLYHORRORTHE THIRD DAYTVVULTUREUNCATEGORIZEDNOCOMMENTS
Speed Racer is a sight for sore eyes.Lilly and Lana Wachowski’s 2008 follow-up to The Matrix trilogy feels like an anticipatory antidote to a decade-plus of same-y superhero blockbusters kicked off by two of that year’s other major releases, The Dark Knight and Iron Man.Where the former was dour and the latter was merely workmanlike, Speed Racer feels like an explosion in a Skittles ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » COMICS after Jack T. Chick. originally published in Mutant #6 by Atomic Books. The Hideous Dropping Off of the Veil. script: Sean T. Collins. art: Julia Gfrörer. based on “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe. available for purchase from Julia Gfrörer. The Deep Ones. story: Sean T. Collins & Julia Gfrörer. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Of course, that kind of underground railroad is a fantasy, and that’s the simple genius of novelist Colson Whitehead’s original idea.Why not take the reality and make it a fantasy?Why not concretize the journey of slaves to freedom by creating a locomotive that literally operates underground? ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD “You shoulda let ’em win a little,” Judge Payton tells the man named Mingo after their poker game with the local worthies has concluded in The Underground Railroad Episode 9. “Wouldn’t hurt not to parade around how as-good-as-white-men you are every chance youget.”
ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “THE FALCON AND THE WINTER At a certain point, it starts to feel like the plot holes outnumber the plot threads. One minute, Bucky’s so concerned about Baron Zemo’s hatred for the Avengers that he won’t even allow Sam to speak to him; the next, he’s breaking Zemo out of jail and presenting a team-up with him to Sam as a fait accompli.Sharon Carter has been on the run for the better part of a decade for a crime ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » CATEGORY » PAIN DON’T HURT Road House is the story of one bouncer’s quest to free a small town from the iron fist of the guy who is on the verge of opening the area’s first JC Penney. Over half a dozen men will die for this. Tags: ben gazzara, brad wesley, road house. Posted in Pain Don't Hurt | Comments Off on 002. Brad. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Throughout it all, Barry Jenkins’s camera makes slow pilgrimages from one end of a given scene to the next, like it too has been enlisted in Ridgeway’s grim procession. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » DESTRUCTOR For the first time in many moons, a new set of Destructor pages is up at the online home of my science-fantasy webcomic. These will be my longtime friend and collaborator Matt Wiegle’s final Destructor pages for a while; we hope to bring in a new artist to keep the saga careening forward to its retrospectively inevitable destination. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » NARCOS: MEXICO I’ve heard Narcos and Narcos: Mexico described as the platonic ideal of a Netflix show: eminently bingeable, instantly forgettable. I don’t know if that’s entirely fair, particularly (as I’ve said before) for the Wagner Moura/Pablo Escobar seasons. But here we are at the end of a season that I enjoyed watching from start to finish, but would be hard pressed to, like, recommend to ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » HOLY SHIT Hank mutters an awestruck “Holy shit.” “Exactly right,” Wade replies, as if his name were in fact Holy Shit. In the middle of it all there’s Cody, who whether by the rasp of his voice or the scent of his musk recognizes who the mysterious stranger is and fills in Jack and the assembled gawkers accordingly. “Gentlemen,” he says ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “MARE OF EASTTOWN” THOUGHTS Mare of Easttown may ultimately go down in history, for me anyway, as “the one where Kate Winslet did a Philly accent,” the same way that a previous prestige-procedural like the acclaimed The Night Of is “the one where John Turturro puts ointment on his feet.”Deliberately de-glamorizing character bits like those will do that sometimes. (Her work has been excellent throughout regardles ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Well, that was a relief. Clocking in at just over 16 minutes, not counting the closing credits—that’s slightly longer than an installment of, like, Teen Titans Go! or Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!—The Underground Railroad Episode 7 rockets right by, taking us from tragedy to triumph in record time. Titled “Chapter 7: Fanny Briggs” after its main character, whom we’ve already ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Throughout it all, Barry Jenkins’s camera makes slow pilgrimages from one end of a given scene to the next, like it too has been enlisted in Ridgeway’s grim procession. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » MUSIC The horror-movie atmospherics of Quake are the closest reference point for Watchmen’s first and strongest track, “How the West Was Really Won.” The show’s unofficial theme music—it recurs repeatedly in the series’ most frightful moments, including the ripped-from-the-comic image of a gigantic alien squid in the ruins of Manhattan—it’s the sound of Reznor and Ross going full ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » HALT AND CATCH FIRE Underdog TV: Better Call Saul, The Americans, & Halt and Catch Fire Your illustrious co-hosts are back on the television beat for a full episode on three underwatched shows very close to our collective heart: Breaking Bad prequel Better Call Saul, Cold War spy thriller The Americans, and tech-industry drama Halt and Catch Fire.Those capsule descriptions are entirely inadequate for capturing ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » FANTASY When I picture the deaths of Daenerys Targaryen’s dragons, the first word that comes to mind is obscene. The dragons are technical filmmaking achievements of a scale and quality never before seen on television. They are emblems of high-fantasy spectacle with real awe and real bite, in a field now dominated by literally and figuratively bloodless blockbusters. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » O’CONNOR Morgan was an important man, in the same sense that Brad Wesley’s grandfather was an important man: “He was an asshole.” Or as Carrie Ann put it, “Morgan was born an asshole and just grew bigger.” Here was a guy who was so temperamentally unsuited to the trade of bouncing that his presence actually made the old, hellhole version of the Double Deuce worse than it would have been had ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » “THE FALCON AND THE WINTER There’s one episode left in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and given the way Sam was eyeing the contents of the high-tech Wakandan briefcase Bucky delivered to him, it seems safe to assume the Falcon—whose wings got torn off by Walker, if you’re in the symbolism market—is about to don the stars and stripes himself.I’d guess some sort of reckoning with Sharon is in the offing, as ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » FRANK TILGHMAN One of the several hypotheticals Pain Don’t Hurt has entertained at length is my belief that Frank Tilghman is the Emperor Palpatine figure of the story, the secret puppet master behind Brad Wesley who engineered the conflict with Dalton and brought it to a head by orchestrating the murder of Wesley and his associates when they were no longer of any use. ATTENTIONDEFICITDISORDERLY » TAG » YOUNGER One thing I never noticed before starting this project, one thing I never noticed before tonight in fact, one thing I never noticed despite watching Road House dozens of times over the course of nearly fifteen years, is that when Brad Wesley’s goofiest goons, Tinker and O’Connor, come to the Double Deuce with Wesley’s nephew Pat McGurn to force Frank Tilghman to overrule Dalton’sSkip to content
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PAIN DON’T HURT
January 1, 2019January 1, 2019Sean Collins
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“WATCHMEN” THOUGHTS, SEASON ONE, EPISODE TWO: “MARTIAL FEATS OF COMANCHE HORSEMANSHIP”October 28, 2019
Sean Collins 0 comment > There’s a going on here, and it’s been a while since I’ve > watched a show that seems so full of conflicting ideas it might > burst at the seams. It’s a good feeling. I reviewed last night’s episode of _Watchmen_ for Decider.Uncategorized
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301. ANOTHER LEAP
October 28, 2019
Sean Collins 0 comment We’re several exchanges of kicks, strikes, and wrestling holds deep into Dalton and Jimmy’s vicious fight at a small beach on the shore of the mysterious body of water separating Emmett’s ranch from Wesley’s mansion when Dalton takes to the skies once again. He winds up delivering a knee to Jimmy’s midsection, which takes his opponent down. This gives Dalton his first chance to really lay a beating on the guy, albeit briefly as they’re very evenly matched. But in a film with approximately half a hundred fight scenes, what we’re watching Dalton do stands out. Balletic leaps through the air were not part of his arsenal at any point inside or outside the Double Deuce, which is where all of his fights had been contained until now. So in part we’re seeing him respond to the environment, which has no walls or ceiling or furniture for him to navigate—just the branches of the trees. Small wonder Dalton’s offense becomes a more soaring thing, a thing of beauty. But one other point worth considering is his motive for the fight. Dalton is off the clock right now, after all. And he’s not defending liquor shipments, or simply performing his routine job of keeping riffraff out of the bar where he works. He’s just seen his friend Emmett nearly get blown to bits by a cackling ghoul in head-to-toe denim. He wants revenge. Seen in that light, this dance-like formation is how Dalton expresses his rage, his bloodlust, his thirst for retribution. Could there be anything more Dalton than giving voice to his basest instincts in the most beautiful way possible? Dig deeper and deeper into Dalton’s psychophysicality and you’ll find the place where the heavens meetthe earth.
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300. THE QUIPS BEGINOctober 27, 2019
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JIMMY: Prepare to die! DALTON: You are such an asshole. Noël Coward it isn’t. Peter Parker it isn’t. Arnold Schwarzenegger in _The Running Man_ it isn’t. Jimmy makes an explicit threat, and Dalton dodges the threat component completely—no “not today,” no “prepare to think again,” nothing directly tied to Jimmy’s words. Just, “You are such an asshole,” a statement he could have accurately made about Jimmy at any point during their relationship, not predicated on being informed he should prepare to die at Jimmy’s hands. Not for the last time in the two-minute fight that follows, Dalton’s mid-battle quip is essentially a non sequitur. He hasn’t come to banter—bantering just gets on his nerves. He won’t reply to the banter, but he’ll assert his feelings about the banterer, merely using the banter as a logical starting point. It’s a fascinating series of choices for someone engaged in a life-or-death struggle, like if Luke Skywalker had responded to the Emperor’s taunts by saying “You are one ugly motherfucker.” “Prepare to die!” “You are such an asshole.” Say it loud and there’s music playing, say it soft and it’s almost like praying. Pain Don't Hurt dalton, jimmy
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299. THE LEAP
October 26, 2019
Sean Collins 0 comment Decking a man off the back of a moving motorbike is no mean feat. You have to run full-tilt, first of all, as close to motorbike speed as the human body allows, just to get in the door as it were. You need to properly angle your body and the leap it makes so that you’re aimed in the right direction rather than just jumping blindly. You have to lead the bike so that you’re not jumping at air where the bike once was. You have to not lead the bike too much so that you’re not gonna land on the dirt a few feet in front as the bike runs you over. You have to count on your quarry being so preoccupied by his own glee over the wanton destruction he’s wrought that he doesn’t notice the man in sweatpants barreling towards him. It helps to be shirtless and glistening with sweat, too. (I mean, I assume. Aerodynamics and all that.) You need your arms and legs at full extension, buying you time in midflight to readjust and aim appropriately, to say nothing of the asethetics. And you have to be animated with a blinding thirst for vengeance against a man who dressed up in head-to-toe denim in order to blow up the house of the weird old man who rents you an extravagant loft apartment for a hundred bucks a month, a nominal fee intended to keep the local Presbyterians at bay. You put it all together and you have Dalton, running at breakneck speed, then soaring through the air in order to crash into a man on a moving motor vehicle and then, after the crash, to kick his ass and tear his throat out. Poetry in motion. No, wait: Philosophy in motion. Pain Don't Hurt dalton, jimmy
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298. THE LAUGH
October 25, 2019October 26, 2019Sean Collins
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Like a 1950s nun kicking the little girl under her desk. Like a billionaire ejaculating on a $40,000 watch. Like tyrant hearing a sycophant’s joke during the purge. Like a budding killer dousing a cat with kerosene. Like a border patrol agent who’s learned just enough Spanish to becruel with it.
Like a wildfire taking a sudden turn toward inhabited areas. Like the commander of the trebuchet that launches severed heads overthe battlements.
Like an incumbent senator the night of his eighth reelection. Like a man in wraparound sunglasses swerving his SUV toward a rabbit. Like student loan officials at an all-expenses-paid luau. Like a shitposter reading about the latest mass shooting. Like a child’s nightmare of a cartoon villain as he slowly makes his way down the hall to the bedroom door. Like a piano with only black keys, played by unseen hands. Like a flash flood, like a rabid dog, like cut brakes, like hate speech, like black ice, like a sudden sharp pain in the left arm, like knives, like cuts, like blood. Pain Don't Hurt jimmy, road house
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297. ON TOP OF THINGSOctober 24, 2019
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Dalton’s compassion is cloaked at this stage in the film by his rage, but it’s still there, animating his actions. To a fault, perhaps. After he pulls Emmett from his burning house, which then explodes a second time, Emmet tells him “I’d be fine if you’d get off of me.” And what does Dalton do _immediately?_ Rest his head on the old man’s chest. He does this not out of spite or a desire to increase the man’s suffering, of course—he’s just overcome with relief that his friend is well enough to crack wise. Dalton even smiles for a second, despite it all. When you write about _Road House_ you have to take all of it on board or it doesn’t work. You have to treat every weird filigree of the film like a deliberate choice. You have to treat the characters as the gestalt of their actions. This is why Dalton engenders such love: About two minutes before he rips a man’s throat out in anger, he presses his forehead against the chest of his landlord, just to be closer to a man he’s glad is alive. He makes time to be nice, andbless him for that.
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“THE AFFAIR” THOUGHTS, SEASON FIVE, EPISODE NINEOctober 24, 2019
Sean Collins 0 comment > Do I think “The Affair” set out to tell a #MeToo story from the > start, before the #MeToo movement existed? No. But the pieces have > been there all along. If it took until now for the show to look back > and put those pieces together, that doesn’t make the resulting > picture any less real. > Noah can be a good father, as Helen insists he has been. He can do > his best to be a good man, as he has insisted time and time again > — going so far as confessing to a crime he didn’t commit in > order to protect Helen. He can even be the victim of opportunists > like Sasha, who care only about the accusations insofar as they can > be exploited for personal gain.>
> But Noah has been a bull in the china shop of women’s lives for a > long time. All “The Affair” is doing now is surveying the> damage.
I reviewed this week’s episode of _The Affair_ for the New YorkTimes.
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“MR. ROBOT” THOUGHTS, SEASON FOUR, EPISODE THREE: “403FORBIDDEN”
October 24, 2019
Sean Collins 0 comment > Risk is the essence of romance. A wise woman told me that once; I > live with her now, so I’m inclined to believe she knew what she > was talking about. Exposed and vulnerable, we reach out to another > person and hope they’ll reach back. We put ourselves at their > mercy in hopes of connection. In some cases, we put ourselves at the > mercy of a world that will punish us for that connection should it > be discovered. There is some pain we suffer gladly because it’s > the vessel in which pleasure comes.>
> Titled “403 Forbidden” — like every episode title so far, > it’s both an internet error message and a signpost for the story > — this installment of “Mr. Robot” has both the series’s > protagonist and antagonist putting themselves at risk in romance’s > name. In one case, it leads to disaster. In another … well, the > season isn’t over yet. I reviewed this week’s episode of _Mr. Robot_ for the New YorkTimes.
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NEW COLUMN ALERT!
October 23, 2019
Sean Collins 0 comment I’ve started a new column about film called My Favorite Movies, which will cover exactly that. The inaugural installment: _Eyes WideShut_.
It’s available for my Patreon subscribers at the $5/month tier. I hope you dig it! With that in mind I’ve experimented with making my pro wrestling column, Sweeping Up the Eyeballs, free this week. I hope you dig
that too!
Uncategorized eyes
wide shut , meta
, movie reviews
, Movie Time
, movies
, my favorite movies, patreon
, reviews
, stanley kubrick
, sweeping up the
eyeballs ,
wrestling
RIP BOILEDLEATHER.COM 2011-2019October 23, 2019
Sean Collins 0 comment Due to a lost credit card, a crowded inbox, a lackadaisical hosting service, and a piece-of-shit squatter, I no longer own boiledleather.com, the address of much of my A Song of Ice and Fire/_Game of Thrones_ writing since 2011. Fortunately all the content is actually hosted at boiledleather.tumblr.com , so it’s not a total loss. I sincerely apologize for the linkrot that’s now setting in, though. I’m mortified I let this happen and gutted I can’t afford to buy the domain back from the people who snaked it out from under me.Uncategorized
boiled leather
, meta
, real life
296. SWAYZE SAVES SANTAOctober 23, 2019
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It’s a layup, I realize, to take your old-man-with-a-big-white-beard character and put him in red long johns for pajamas. Because it makes him look even more like Santa Claus, see? But in a way I fear that this deep in the weeds with _Road House_ we’ve lost sight of some of its simple pleasures: butts, boobs, dudes getting punched in the face, people getting thrown through tables, explosions, a monster truck, a town full of nothing but codgers and yokels. Can we not add “Emmett dresses up like Santa Claus when he goes to sleep” to the list? Can we not savor the site of Dalton and Dr. Elizabeth Clay rescuing St. Nick from a fiery inferno? Can we not enjoy the fact that after being bodily removed from a building in the process of exploding like the Hindenburg, Emmett’s only concession to Dalton’s query about his health is to quip “I’d be fine if you’d get off of me”? You can’t keep this right jolly old elf down, try as you might. The same is true of _Road House_. There’s always something marvelously dumb just around the corner, if you’re willing to look. Pain Don't Hurt dalton , dr. elizabeth clay, emmett
, ho ho ho
, road house
295. FIRE AND WATER
October 22, 2019
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Jimmy Reno has exactly four minutes to live when he sets off the initial explosion in Emmett’s home. Four minutes to the second. What an emotional journey that must be for him. The tension and thrill of being a sneak in the night. The firebug awe of the detonation. The bonus, unlooked for, of the secondary explosion, even bigger than the first. Stopping his getaway motorbike to laugh uproariously at Dalton, Doc, and Emmett, reveling in their powerlessness compared to his fiery prowess. The sudden shock of being knocked off his bike by a flying man. The determination to kill this man. The back and forth of their battle. The pain of incurring blows and the satisfaction of inflicting them. The sadistic delight of reminiscing about his time as a prison rapist. The moment when it all changes and he realizes he’s in trouble, deep trouble. The desperate decision to pull a gun and settle things for good and all. The rushed in-the-moment thinking that occurs when you feel you’re at immediate risk of death. The pain in his throat. Oblivion. From lighting up the night with his malice to floating face-down dead in a river, in the time it takes the Beatles to do the “na na na nanana na” part of “Hey Jude.” Take a sad song and make it wetter. Pain Don't Hurt dalton, goons
, jimmy
, road house
, the beach fight
294. WHOSE HOUSE? EMMETT’S HOUSEOctober 21, 2019
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Collins 0 comment
Emmett’s house explodes twice: first from the explosive set by Brad Wesley’s lieutenant and bastard son (_WE WILL NOT BE ACCEPTING QUESTIONS AT THIS TIME_) Jimmy, and second, presumably, when the house’s oil tank or moonshine distillery or meth lab or something catches fire and goes boom. It’s a comically large explosion even by the standards set by Red Webster’s Auto Parts, which of course was a larger building and filled with natural accelerants. In the image above you can see Dalton, Doc, and Emmett fleeing as the explosion reaches its height; that should give you so me sense of the preposterous scale of the thing. Sometimes when I play Minecraft with my children I’ll build an entire structure out of TNT blocks, just so it’ll blow up bigger when I light it on fire. It’s easy to wonder if Emmett did the same with his sad little house, waiting for the day when his sins, whatever they are, came duefor repayment.
Pain Don't Hurt dalton , dr. elizabeth clay, emmett
, road house
THE BOILED LEATHER AUDIO HOUR #95: CHAPTER ANALYSIS: THEON I, THEWINDS OF WINTER
October 21, 2019
Sean Collins 0 comment Stefan and I are starting a series of Boiled Leather Audio Hour episodes going in-depth on each of the available sample chapters from _The Winds of Winter_, starting with a look at Theon I!
Uncategorized A
Song of Ice and Fire, asoiaf
, blah
, boiled leather audio hour, books
, fantasy
, George R.R. Martin, podcast
, the winds of winter “WATCHMEN” THOUGHTS, SEASON ONE, EPISODE ONE: “IT’S SUMMER AND WE’RE RUNNING OUT OF ICE”October 21, 2019
Sean Collins 0 comment> It’s wild!
>
> No, seriously, it really is wild. It reminds me, in a good way, of > some of the most far-out episodes of > Lindelof’s _Leftovers_ run—the ones where Justin Theroux > near-death-hallucinates that he’s an international assassin, say, > or the one where Christopher Eccleston talks to God on a weird > cult’s orgy boat before God gets mauled to death by a lion. Where > Moore and Gibbons’s _Watchmen_ eased you into its world’s > weirdness—which to be fair was orders of magnitude _less_ weird > than either the Marvel or DC shared universes of which it served as > a critique—Lindelof and director Nicole Kassell dump you into the > deep end and expect you to do the butterfly, with the aggressive and > eerie music of Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross blaring in the> background.
I reviewed the series premiere of _Watchmen_ for Decider,
where I’ll be covering the show all season. It’s good!Uncategorized Alan
Moore , damon lindelof, dave gibbons
, decider
, nicole kassell
, reviews
, TV
, TV reviews
, watchmen
293. SHIRTLESSLY SMOKINGOctober 20, 2019
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Collins 0 comment
Shirtlessly smoking
His surgeon, she’s standing nearbyAwaiting a word
Gasping at glimpses
Of bottomless buttocks He runs, wishing he could fly Only to leap when the house blows sky-highWordlessly watching
He waits by the windowFor Wesley
That’s the JC Penney guy Anxious for Emmett and arson explosionsHe worries
Did Wade wish him goodbye? Or call him mijo?They are one cooler
They are two alone
They are three together They are for the road house Bound from the barn loft And bounce by the hay bales to rescue Your beardy landlord firstDalton is diving
He’s down to defend from the danger Maybe rip out throats And choke them with their bloodThey are one cooler
They are two alone
They are three together They are for the road house Pain Don't Hurt crosbystills and nash
, dalton
, helplessly hoping
, road house
292. BODY LANGUAGE
October 19, 2019
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This is Dalton when he has nothing to do but fume. His muscles are taut, arms crossed fussily across his abdomen. His head juts forward, neck straining, jaw tight as he vents his frustration and rage. There’s nothing else for him to do right now—just vent, impotently, at his girlfriend. His body is like one huge knot. This is Dalton in action. His landlord Emmett’s house has just exploded and he’s leaping to the rescue from his second-story window. But he moves not like someone who needs to brace himself for a fall, but gracefully, soaring rather than falling. His arms are wide, his legs angled just so, his hair flowing in the breeze. Faced with a physical problem, he moves toward a solution like a dancer hitting his marks. This is Dalton as he is meant to be. His body responds to the call of duty just as much as his mind. Pain Don't Hurt dalton, road house
291. TAKE HIM
October 18, 2019
Sean Collins 0 comment “I’ve always wanted to try you. I think I can take you.” That’s what the Knife Nerd said to Dalton in the very first scene of the film, when Dalton breaks up a fight at the club he worked at back in New York. The sexualization of combat was already clear in the man’s choice of words, a language of dominance and submission that glistens and gleams each time it’s used. It happens again and again. “Your ass is mine, boy,” Jimmy tells Dalton when Wesley calls off their fight in the Double Deuce, just for example. And a few seconds from where we now stand it will accelerate to _explicitly_ sexualspeeds.
Dalton inadvertently sets the dominoes in motion. “I know _exactly_ who Brad Wesley is,” he snaps at Dr. Elizabeth Clay after she warns him he has no idea what Brad Wesley is capable of. “I’ve seen his kind _many times_. He keeps taking, and taking, until somebody takes _him_.” Dalton believes he’s man to do this—to take Brad Wesley, and thus best him. There’s a weird lacuna in the phrasing that invites questions: takes him…where, exactly? takes him down? takes him on? takes him in? You almost can’t help but sub in the sexual connotation of the phrase, since we’re offered so little by way of an alternative. This shirtless mass of muscle and sinew and fine feathered hair wants to take his enemy. You connect the dots. Pain Don't Hurt dalton, road house
‘WATCHMEN’: HERE’S WHAT TO KNOW FROM THE COMICSOctober 18, 2019
Sean Collins 0 comment > WHERE DOES THE TV SHOW PICK UP?>
> The show is set roughly 30 years later; during much of that time, > Robert Redford has been president. Vigilantism remains banned except > under official government auspices thanks to the Keene Act, a 1977 > law named after Senator Joe Keene, whose charismatic son is now > challenging Redford for the presidency. And Dr. Manhattan, who > despite his near-omniscience was unable to stop Ozymandias’s plot, > has fled the planet for Mars, where he has lived alone for decades.>
> Historically and psychically, the TV series roots itself in > the 1921 riot in Tulsa, Okla.> ,
> in which a white mob swarmed the prosperous black part of town, > resulting in as many as 300 deaths, with thousands more displaced. > In the fictionalized present day, the series pits the Tulsa police > force, whose members wear vigilante-style masks to protect their > identity, against a militant white supremacist group called the > Seventh Kavalry, which has adopted Rorschach’s lethal methods and > black-and-white mask. I wrote a quick and dirty guide to _Watchmen—_the comic, the show, and their shared world—for the New York Times.Uncategorized Alan
Moore , comics
, damon lindelof
, dave gibbons
, new york times
, TV
, watchmen
290. FIRESTARTER
October 17, 2019
Sean Collins 0 comment Dr. Elizabeth Clay is not taking Dalton’s shit. That’s the throughline for nearly every word she says during this scene. On Brad Wesley: “You don’t know him.” On the inability of the people of Jasper to stand up to Brad Wesley: a sarcastic “But _you _can stop him.” On Dalton’s assertion that he never loses: “But what are you gonna win?” She continues: “Who’s this for, anyway? Are you doing it for them?” She answers her own question: “I don’t think so.” She pulls off this rhetorical trick again for the _coup de grace_: “You think you’re gonna save these people from Wesley?” At the top of her lungs, her voice shredding, her face a grimacing mask of fury: “_WELL WHO’S GONNA SAVE THEM FROM YOU?”__BOOM._
At that precise moment, the building visible through the window behind her blows up. It’s the most fortuitously timed act of arson in the annals of Jasper, Missouri, I’d have to imagine. The bomb Jimmy the goon used to blow up the house of Emmett the old man is like an inflammable exclamation mark at the end of the Doc’s rant. It’s as if the ideas she’s bringing up are too dangerous even to give voice to. The world ruptures around them in gouts of flame. She’s a pyrokinetic Cassandra with one message to deliver: In the contest of Dalton vs. Brad Wesley, the only winner is the conqueror worm. Pain Don't Hurt bradwesley , dalton
, dr. elizabeth clay, emmett
, road house
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