Oh yeah...now you say that, Corwood. Not my brightest day I ever had, today's not. It's okay, Strega. Say that with a bunch of Buffistas, I so had that coming. But the big shows on HBO right now are run by three guys named David. Chase(The Sopranos) Milch(Deadwood, for which Robin and Corwood both get a free turn on Swearingen's craps table, cause toasters don't exist there) and last but not least, Simon, my literary husband and Wire exec. prod. AKA to me as the Daves, in sentences such as "Big Love" is okay and well-acted, but not as good as what the Daves could do."

Lynch Scorecord:

Man, that's EXACTLY what I would have down, with the exception of Big Honkin' Love for The Straight Story.

The Straight Story broke my heart...so lovely. Related tangent: I saw Sissy Spacek singing backup for her daughter Schuyler Fisk the other night. They opened for Colin Hay. Pretty, pretty voices.

I saw MI:III tonight, which was loads of JJAbramsy fun. References to previous works (which may include current-season Lost/Alias spoilers) include:

*Opening with the hero tied to a chair being threatened by the bad guy, and then flashing back about 48 hours
*bombs in heads!
*Keri Russell, who almost gets to play Sydney Bristow
*failed CPR followed by desperate chest-pounding, which (surprise!) works
*Greg Grunberg in a cameo
*Geeky nervous tech guy who can be convinced to play along with off-the-books plan because hero is just that trustworthy
*hero betrayed by actually-evil boss at sooper-seekrit government agency
*missions all focused on an object whose mystery is exceeded only by its silly code namepower...and which ultimately fails to matter at all, since it's mostly about saving loved ones via jumps off of tall buildings

I thought it was a blast. The plot doesn't make a ton of sense, but that doesn't matter because it moves very fast, and is just FUN. Philip Seymour Hoffman is awesome, just deliciously evil.

I haven't seen very much Lynch, I guess. Mulholland Drive freaked me out and I didn't love it, but I was also high for the first time ever when I tried to watch it - maybe I should give it another whirl. Twin Peaks became spectacularly uninteresting to me after the random dream midget scene in the third episode or whatever - at that point, it stopped being interesting weird and merely became over-the-top stupid weird, at least to me. Didn't help that I found the characters amusing but not captivating - I just wasn't entertained. I've never watched Dune all the way through, but what I've seen is brilliant. And The Elephant Man will always live in my brain as that really good movie I searched out on Ebay, and watched with my dad: the only time I've ever seen him break down bawling.

Man, that's EXACTLY what I would have down, with the exception of Big Honkin' Love for The Straight Story.

I guess I'd better go watch it then.

And The Elephant Man will always live in my brain as that really good movie I searched out on Ebay, and watched with my dad: the only time I've ever seen him break down bawling.

Now that's a movie watching story. Let's see on that theme, I'll ante:

I watched Return of the Pink Panther on TV with my Dad and he laughed so hard his face turned red and he completely became overcome with the giggles. I never saw him laugh so hard in my laugh.

Curiously, the 70s Pink Panther movies are also the movies which have caused me to laugh the most in a theater.

I'll raise you: As a young girl my father brought me to the cinema to see Cool Runnings. Nothing's quite the same after your father breaks down in tears watching a comedy movie in a room full of your ten year old peers.

Oh! I can't believe I forgot to mention -- in the credits, JJ thanks (Lost current-season spoiler) The Hanso Corporation.

JJ thanks

Bwhahahahahahaha!!!!

I watched La Dolce Vita for the first time over the last two nights. Love! So beautiful and wacky and sad and funny.