Darren Hughes

I don't need another guitar but I might need the Kim Gordon Jazzmaster.

I drafted a comment on Paul Schrader's latest FB nonsense but didn't post it. Please clap.

Like everyone else, I’m struggling a bit in thinking through YCSE. CLOSE-UP is definitely a useful precedent.

My favorite of my interviews.

I’m paused eight minutes into The Invite. Does there come a point when it isn’t terrible?

Why do streamers keep paying Judd Apatow to make boring documentaries about his friends? Who gives a shit?

TIL the video for "Pop Goes the Weasel" by 3rd Bass was directed by Bob Dylan's son, Jesse.

@helmetgirl.bsky.social This is great!

@labuzamovies.com You asked the other day why people care about college football. That's 102,000 people, 25% more than the biggest NFL stadium. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHwW...

After working at UT for almost 30 years I had my first chance this week to scratch Smokey’s ears and take some photos. He’s a very good boy.

This guy gives me hope

Hey Gen X'rs how're we coping with entering the phase of life when friends get cancer and die of natural causes because I'm not coping well at all.

The new U2 song isn't bad

Easiest prompt ever: watch Night of the Living Dead, trash del Toro’s desecration of Nightmare Alley.

Cutting trailers to Boomer rock is the worst trend. Stop. Just stop.

Middle-aged white guy from Tennessee here. Over the last week, my Facebook feed has been overrun with paid promotions of Republican leaders and causes. Like, it's a total night and day difference. I'm taking this as anecdotal evidence that they're burning through remaining funds before the midterms.

Tump. My wife from southern Alabama uses this to mean something between knock and dump. The cat tumped over the water bowl. That kind of thing.

A couple years ago I instituted an aggressive block/mute policy to rid my social media experience of assholes. Today Shane Gillis broke containment. That guy sucks.

I just saw the first cut of our festival trailer and am very happy.

If I have just a bit of hope for Blade Runner 2099, it's because they had the good sense to cast Michele Yeoh, Hunter Schafer, and Tom Burke.

Great practice show last night in Austin! We’re off to the UK in a couple of days to practice some more over there.

Rotten Tomatoes should be an invaluable archive of late-20th and 21st-century popular film criticism. Instead, it's my go-to example of how ephemeral digital culture is. I'm researching a film that got a pretty wide release in 1997 and 15 of the 20 links are broken. Many of the sites are gone.

Remarkable how consistently the Trump administration has adopted the aesthetics of mass shooters, from their schizophrenic social media aesthetic to livestreamed executions to masked men with long guns roaming our streets with impunity. Nihilist violent extremism as statecraft

Given the rich history of Bard’s film program, I’m surprised I haven’t run into a single mention of this monstrous asshole in my corner of the film discourse. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/u...

My favorite performances ever by Patton Oswalt, Seth Green, AND Colin Hanks. youtu.be/afXtQ6ghzsA?...

Everyone should watch the first season of Killing Eve, which, for eight episodes, teases out incredible "will they, won't they" sexual tension that had zero chance of being sustainable over four seasons.

This is your periodic reminder that Lindsey Graham wasted his cruel, pathetic life in pursuit of power and then all of sudden fell over dead and was forgotten.

A quick check-in on cancelation culture.

This just popped up on FB and, man, it is such a bummer that most of us only get to live this experience for a few months in a long life.

Yesterday I drove my kids over to Nashville to see UNDERTALE: The Determination Symphony, and I assure you the Ryman has never seen a more wholesome, neurodiverse audience in its long and storied history.

I listened to this after seeing social clips and my god Steve-O is the *ideal* MAHA dumb-guy spokesperson. Have we studied the correlation between MAHA, life optimization, and addiction/recovery? My personal hell would be getting trapped in a room with Steve-O, RFK Jr, Dax Shepard, and Pete Hegseth.