Big Time Bastardo!

One of us! Gooboo gaboo, gooboo gaboo!

The Inevitable Summer Slowdown

Yay.

So Beautiful Or So What

No need to beg me For This Paul Simon album.

I Want To See This

Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon in The Trip. I learned about it from NPR.

In Coogan's latest film, The Trip, he reunites with Brydon — but this time, the two men play fictionalized versions of themselves going on a restaurant tour of Northern England. Adapted from a BBC Two sitcom, the movie features the two men riffing off each other on a variety of subjects and interacting with various actors playing their relatives and friends.

Golden Books

I've been meaning to post this for awhile, but Josh Cooley, a mighty talented story artist at Pixar, has produced a series of Golden Book parodies based on classic movies for adults such as The Terminator, 2001: A Space Odyssey and Good Fellas. I've collected the ones I could For The Price of a few minutes. Just ask for Cooley ...

Shit

He's Columbo to many, but I'll always think of him in a few choice movie roles: Murder by Death, Wings of Desire and The Princess Bride.  Have any of you seen Wings of Desire?  Some sub-title reading required, but it featured Falk and a young Nick Cave.  More of a film than a movie.

RIP Peter Michael Falk

I'm Back!

From vacation, that is. Here are a couple of photos from Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, made famous by 1994's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. (Click to embiggen.) The book cover's Bird Girl isn't there anymore, by the way. She was donated to Savannah's Telfair Museum of Art to avoid disturbances by visitors to the cemetery.

Bedtime Story From a Bad Motherfucker...

For those of you with kids, I'm sure you've felt this way...

Evacuate?

Stephen Hawking says our long-term future as a species - like, beyond the next 100-200 years - depends on colonizing space. (transcript here). Any of you upstanding bastards have time shares off-planet?

Yes!

I scored a Sleeveface! That would be my kitchen and my lovely wife's modeling expertise on display.

Another Bastard Birthday!

Happy Birthday Bastard Eric!

See You There

Premiered at SXSW in Austin, and opens next week in select cities, which includes Nashville but none of the other bastard burghs. Wi not trei a holiday in Nashville this summer?

In Store at 4000 Holes

Set List:
Welcome to My World
The Girl
This Is Where I Belong (Kinks cover)
The Last to Know
Passenger Side (Wilco cover)
Disconnected
She's After Me
Her Heart's on a String
Blank
How Do You Get to Heaven (from Natchez, MS)
Rebecca (Young Brians)
Josie Can Brag (Young Brians)
Off White Wedding
Motel Darkness
Running the Family (Denzil cover)

Welcome To Jitney Jungle

Hmm, Maybe I Won't See It After All

Avengers Assemble

A promo poster for Marvel's The Avengers was spotted at the Licensing International Expo in Las Vegas. (Whatever the hell that is.) The Avengers comes out next May.

Heaven's Got A New Angel

Seth Putnam, lead singer of Anal Cunt, has died of a heart attack at age 43. He had so much more to give.

Super Gr8.

Super 8 is a fine way to spend your hard-earned entertainment dollar.  At times it feels like a tribute to Spielberg with shades of The Goonies, Jaws, Jurassic Park and ET, which spells good summer fun, with some sappiness, of course.  And Elle Fanning is a helluva good young actress. 

I really like that this was not 3-D, which has become tired and expensive.  After Avatar, the industry should have just said, "well, there you have it." 

What other summer films are on your radar?  (I know we're all about to wet our pants to see HP7b, so skip that one.)

I Know One Bastard Who'll Watch This

A little Gervais from Big Think, one of my favorite websites.

Hmm...

I usually keep up on what all the cool artists are doing. Somehow this one slipped by.

Yikes

On a totally unrelated note, anybody going anywhere this summer?

Actual Pre-Show Bumper For Alamo Drafthouse

Pizza and Zombies

I figure you wanks who can play on YouTube during your workday came across this a long time ago, but I, shackled by a corporate firewall, just discovered it.  I was always a sucker for those Choose Your Own Adventure books, but there was never one with pizza and zombies.  

Ew

That's all I got.

Circuital

You knew I was gonna.

My Morning Jacket has been one of the bands I have most consistently enjoyed over the last 7 or 8 years. They've been severely imitated to the point where most bands' sound would seem diluted (I'm looking at you, Fleet Foxes), but thanks to Jim James sometimes maddening forays into Prince-ish weirdness and sheer talent, they have remained vital and interesting. I cannot recommend their live show enough. Hopefully they will extend their tour into the fall and hit one of the vital Bastardo locations so I can drag one of your sorry asses with me. Of course, Florida Takes Precedence.

Memphis Pop Pilgrimage

I suggested The Arcade Restaurant on the A.V. Club's Pop Pilgrimage website, and they visited! (And if you haven't seen Mystery Train, shame on you.)

Billing itself as “Memphis’ Oldest Café,” The Arcade Restaurant has been at the corner of Memphis’ South Main Street and G.E. Patterson Boulevard since 1919. Just steps away from the train station, the restaurant has seen its surroundings rise, fall, and rise again with the fortunes of the city. Once the bustling heart of Memphis’ downtown, the neighborhood around the Arcade fell into decline in the 1970s and ’80s. By the time Jim Jarmusch arrived to shoot his 1989 film Mystery Train, hard times had overtaken what had become an especially seedy part of town.

Thankyouverymuch.