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I'd really like to check this out. Um, where's that .zip file, again?
Answer: Nobody. If we've learned anything from watching 4+ seasons of Breaking Bad, it's that Walter always comes out on top. All Hail the King!
Whoa. Did someone already mention this, or am I the first one to note the movie that Mike is watching while Hank and the boys are searching his house (sorry don't have time to try and find out the movie's title) shows a scene where a cop has committed suicide? I think we're on to something.
Makes me so glad I stopped reading the Weekly a long time ago, and yet still ashamed to be an L.A. resident.
Whoa. My bad. Didn't know there was so much love for corporate marketing strategies.
Bullshit category. Bullshit list. Come on.
Lane, like a great deal of the characters in the show, want a piece of Don. They want to be considered part of his posse, as it were. And in Lane's case, he couldn't let Don know about his failings, for fear that Don would cast him out (which is exactly what happened). I think if Lane had landed in some other agency in America, he might not have been so reticent to leave and go back to the U.K. When he first showed up in the show, it was established that he came here so that he could redeem himself in the eyes of his superiors back home. But it was being caught up in the excitement that was Don Draper that made him love New York, and to say yes to starting the new agency. I think that even if Lane did have another legitimate job on the table, he might have gone the same way when faced with his firing from SCDP. What I can't help noticing (and probably neither can Don), is that this is not the first man to hang himself after getting the brush-off from Dick Whitman.
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I want to be picked up by Jen Turner. She probably wouldn't tweet about it if she did.
I have to take issue with those who are complaining about the lack of characters evolving on this show. This episode, I think, was a significant one in terms of Don's character. I mean, Don Draper getting all excited about Howard Johnson's? Orange Sherbet? Clearly this was Don trying to share his childhood memories with her, without being able to say so, because he is Don Draper, and it is 1966, and because he probably isn't even aware that this is what he is doing. But that doesn't take away from the fact that this was him putting himself out there for Megan, even just a tiny bit. Since Don is used to being able to convince people what their tastes should be, he is sure that he will be able to show his foreign wife an Americana wonderland at the HoJo, and have her go nuts with glee over the fact of him sharing himself with her. So when she rejects it, because she has no associations with the place or the food, and because she (as well as the audience) mistakes his enthusiasm for bully-ing, he takes it as double insult...to his taste-making acumen, as well as to his childhood. That's why he flips out and leaves her...well, that and her 'go call YOUR mom' crack. So, for the tiny step forward he takes, now we get the inevitable giant steps backward. Of course, he's going to ditch her, he's just had his childhood self slapped in the face and he must retreat back into the only mode he is comfortable with: that of the secretive loner. But then he relents, and he goes back for her. That I think is pretty telling of where he is. There was plenty of time left in the episode for him to take that room key and go upstairs with the next available woman to walk into the diner. Any previous season, he probably would have. I really enjoyed this episode, and I think it epitomized what's great about this show: compelling (and compellingly flawed) characters who keep having to learn the same lessons over and over again, and whose interactions are every bit as random and bizarre as those we encounter all the time.
When I saw 'I am trying to break your heart' in the theater, I already owned all of Wilco's albums, and felt that YHF was the natural progression of a great band into making it's masterpiece. Like I'm sure the vast majority of the audience, I was on Jeff Tweedy's side when he argued with Jay Bennett, not knowing until it played on-screen that Bennett would be fired. Jay Bennett comes across in the film, as I recall, as a sort of irritating personality. Were I to have to deal with him, I thought, I'd want to get rid of him, too. But, many years later, when the news of Jay Bennett's death broke, the blogosphere seemed to come overwhelmingly to his defense. I reconsidered my opinion of Mr. Bennett, especially in light of the fact that, after buying only one more CD after YHF, I found myself no longer interested in Wilco's music. But Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is a record I hold dear. And, I believe Jay Bennett gets as much credit for its genius as anybody else involved. Which is why it is heartbreaking that he died having filed suit against Tweedy and Wilco in an attempt to claim royalties from that record so that he could pay for treatment of the condition that ended up killing him. I don't mean any disrespect to Jeff Tweedy. I think he's a great musician, and one of the great songwriters of our time. I guess I just wonder how he looks on that film and his relationship with Bennett.
Let 'em In - the first Paul McCartney song I ever heard, I think even before the Beatles. I was a toddler, I think, so it left a huge impression.
ELO - "Yours Truly, 2095"
Grimes - 'Oblivion' (that goes for the video, too, in case that ends up being a contest)
"I’m not sure what took so long." The demise of the Republican party is what took so long.
Bass flanger...the only effect pedal I ever used. (I am a bass player)
I have to applaud all the ridiculing that this picture has generated. And I totally agree with all of the trashing. However, I have to give props to Kate Hudson for being cool enough to go out in public wearing the best fucking shoes ever invented. Vibram five fingers!! http://vimeo.com/3755989