249. Singles Night at Whole Foods

Jim Stormdancer — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0700

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Official and unofficial remakes of Yojimbo
Danny McBride shows, and how to balance character likability with dark comedy- examples of this done well vs poorly?
I can't fix bad movie dialog mixing for everyone, but I can fix it in my own house
The Chinese Checker Players by Richard Brautigan
- http://kempwash.blogspot.com/2011/05/chinese-checker-players-by-richard.html

Microtopics:

Songs that signify that this scene or moment is sophisticated.
How to pronounce Debussy.
Southern gothic dark comedy body horror.
A weirdo from Twitter who can't email your employer because he doesn't know who you work for.
The Glass Key's remake family tree.
A drifter samurai coming to a town.
A dude who shows up in town and decides to play all the criminal factions against each other.
The scene where the protagonist sets the bed on fire and jumps out the window.
Escaping from rum runners by convincing them that you've already escaped.
Propping your gun on a cross and using Jesus to pull the trigger.
A sorceress who spends the whole movie topless because it's one of those movies.
Omega Doom starring Rutger Hauer.
A robot who gets stabbed in a bar because the stabber needs to download his memories.
Using a mook as a human shield.
The supporting actor getting a better offer and quitting in between takes.
Where you put the interesting part in your movie.
A hobo who runs two crime syndicates.
The story of two rival vice principals.
Jim's theory for why cringe comedy shouldn't exist.
Where cringe comedy has gone since Seinfeld.
How to make an unlikable protagonist that people don't admire.
Characters who aren't good at anything.
The schlub.
A montage of dad destroying model airplanes with a sledge hammer.
Liking some things about someone while not liking other things.
A monster who is very fun to hang out with.
The character in the show who ends up in Florida.
Marathoning Breaking Bad and Better Call Sail and ending up 40 years old no matter how old you were when you started
Why you might not throw away a sound bar.
Entering the Konami code to enable compression.
What the Clear Voice feature actually does.
Getting really agitated and putting the subtitles on.
Thinking of something interesting to say and then forgetting it.
Which one's the son and which one's the dad?
Ripley vs. Ripley's Believe it or Not.
Lobbying for more mean old lesbians in theatrical productions.
Playing Chinese Checkers with a woman who outlived her husband by 70 years.
Where you were when you realized that it's possible to outlive your spouse by 70 years.
Bowling Alone.
A place to meet people that isn't the play you go to drink or the place where you go to pray.
All your friends who went sober in the last year.
Liquor stores that only sells non-alcoholic products.
Mocktail bars.
Name tags that have different foods on them.
Inappropriate attention in nerd spaces.
Figuring out where you can go with all your sober friends.
Who listens past the first five minutes of a podcast?
AI-driven smell-o-vision.
Searching automated transcripts to find things that people didn't say.
The subtitler writing "knockos" whenever people in The Wire say "narcos" in a Baltimore accent.
Streaming services cutting corners wherever possible in a desperate attempt to become profitable.
Snitching on bootlegers of racist Disney movies.
How to get banned from TikTok.

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249. Singles Night at Whole Foods