I like how random and personal the list is - no cookie cutters here. The Howdy Doody bit is really interesting, really...something. I love it. Nice find. I will not read about Mad Men 3, however, as I only get to watch on DVD...

Aha, I see now. Well, I'm not a journalist, I've never conducted an interview - so obviously this tiny bit of the story didn't bother me at all. And it really is a tiny bit of the story. If she sucked at the interview, I'll credit two things she had going against her: a) she works for a small town newspaper and thus doesn't have the experience to jump up her interviewing game; b) it was clear from the moment she walked in that they had chemistry and were going to have to fight very hard not to fuck

I really wanted to read that post, but then he started getting into details and I decided to wait until after I had seen the thing to read what he has to say....

Yeah, it's totally BECAUSE it freaks me out, though, that I am excited to see it. Something that provokes you and haunts you and beats the shit out of you. I've only seen Dancer in the Dark once - years and years ago - but that movie sticks with me viscerally. I don't think I've ever felt so emotionally abused by a movie before. Holy shit is that movie intense.

I like the way you think! And I won't even use the word posh. I like to call them highfalutin!

Yeah - there have certainly been times I've been turned off of something because of its core audience. But give it a few years and try checking this out again. It's really great.

:)

Oh. And, yeah, there actually already is a sequel to American Graffiti. Called....More American Graffiti. :(

Don't get me wrong about Dazed and confused - I love it. I love the 70's feel and everything else. It's almost painful to watch it's so drenched in deep nostalgia. But I also love the 50's (or early 60's as is the case with American Graffiti). I am sort of in love with each decade of the 20th century. That's kinda how I like to categorize things. And I think it's fascinating that so many things so easily fall into decade categories. Another thing I love about American Graffiti is its California setting.

You know who arranged to get all the 25 tickets for Lost World? Me and Brian Bulger. Instead of rehearsing Evita, he and I went downstairs to the Ridge Park office and put the reservations on his credit card via Moviefone. We had to call like 5 times because Moviefone had a limit on how many you could buy. Jurassic Park (the first one now) was one of greatest things that could've happened to me at that point. I saw that movie at least 6 times in the theater that summer.