Jazzooo wrote:I didn't completely lose interest in Moonrise Kingdom but I was losing patience as it ended.

Exactly, I was with it in the first half but felt it just went on for too long.

I've been mining the 2014 "best of" lists for some new shows to watch. Transparent (Amazon Streaming) - This is a blast so far. It's not perfect but some great stuff in there, and you've gotta check out Jeffrey Tambor's performance. The Leftovers (HBO) - I got through the first season (I n...

The Roger Ebert documentary Life Itself is debuting on CNN on Sunday. I've heard good things about it.

Do you like other Wes Anderson stuff, Doug? I love The Royal Tenenbaums (easily my favorite of his) and we seem to end up watching pieces of Rushmore whenever we see it on cable. We happened to watch The Life Aquatic last weekend, which is considered one of his lesser films, but there's something I ...

I couldn't make it through that one either, Clint. I see very few movies, but I saw The Grand Budapest Hotel and loved it. For the record, so did a lot of other people. I saw that one in the theater as well. It's stock seems to have really risen recently, showing up on a lot of top 10 lists, etc. I...

moldyfigg wrote:"August: Osage County" was the last current flick I saw that was that kind of click.

To each his own, I guess. I saw 10 minutes of that yesterday and wanted to jump off a bridge

You could be right about that final scene in Birdman, Lenny. I know Brian Blade played, but I think the lion's share of drum parts were by Antonio Sanchez. Did you read otherwise? Ah, I had seen, when I read up on IMDB, I believe, that Brian Blade got composition credit for the drums, so I assumed ...

I saw Birdman in the theater again on Friday. I might have enjoyed it even more the second time. It's pretty unlikely that it won't end up my #1 film on the year. This film feels huge in the theater and I think it deserves to be seen there, if you can find it. There's some great music and sound as w...

Jazzooo wrote:What the hell is happening to the Movies thread? Are you all shut ins, unable to leave the house to catch a great film like Birdman?

Saw it yesterday and loved it!

The theater said that they had trouble getting it. Most of the multiplexes around here aren't showing it.

I'm a fan of the original Sin City, so I went to see the Sin City: A Dame to Kill For on Friday afternoon. Well, it looks the same. It's got the same basic cadence and grit (and violence). It just doesn't work as well. The stories just aren't as interesting. Oh well. Still a couple of hours well spe...

I didn't think Nixon could get any worse. Seriously. But then I checked out the documentary on HBO. What a cretin. What a sick, sick, paranoid man. I'm pretty sure that's the one that I caught about 45 minutes of last week. Wow. He was one paranoid and pissed off dude. He would spout off racial slu...

I still haven't bought into tablets very much. I almost always wait until I have a laptop available.

All I do on a smartphone is browse a handful of news sites and look up information as needed. I feel like the text on this site would be too small for me to bother.

Loved The Rockford Files when I was a kid.

I'm not sure why, if you didn't make it through the first one. I know. Duh! I felt like taking some time off of work and devouring a medium popcorn, but there wasn't anything else I thought I'd like better. A critic I like gave it 3.5 stars, so I figured I'd give it a shot. I do need to wait until ...

Different experience than Doug with Dawn of the Planet of the Apes . I was fine with about a third, but then it lost me. I took a half day off of work, and better things awaited, so I ditched the film about 3/4 through. I just didn't buy it. I didn't make it through the previous one either, but expe...

steve(thelil) wrote:Rock is clearly more simplistic than Jazz. But the statement that rock music is "usually limited to three chords" is much more simplistic than either and simply dead wrong.

Three-Cord George Thorogood thinks otherwise.

Kind of like what a Supreme Court Justice once said about porn: "I know it when I see it". Only, you know, it's not porn and you use your ears instead.

I have to say that I love Pinterest. Not a site that I care about, personally, but my wife finds a lot of recipes on there and it's pretty much changed my life.

I do like The Good Wife . I'm one season behind. Sergio, you like Parenthood , right? It took me a while to get through the first show (like 3 tries; it rubbed me the wrong way at first), but I hung in there, I think because you recommended it. Do like it a lot now. Other than that, no idea what net...

Great to see you back, Jimmy. Missed your food and beer posts, and the rest too.

boing.

Rahsaan Roland Kirk at Keystone Korner, San Francisco, circa 1974. That was three remarkable live saxophone (stritch, manzello...) performances, all at the same time. One that I sorely would have loved to have seen. Me too. Bright Moments was recorded there. Of all the live albums I listen to, that...

Well, consider this the first official boner thread.

I should have posted this when I first woke up this morning.

Nice work! Thanks, Justin.

I saw the Mingus Big Band once in Paris and the Dynasty once in NYC, and both times I enjoyed the playing of Wayne Escoffery. After the NY show, which was several years ago now, he walked by and I talked to him about his horn (he played a vintage horn at the time). I'd recently rebuilt a 1929 Buesch...