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NSFW!

BTW, if you don't know that this is from the brilliant, short-lived HBO series Deadwood, this will mean absolutely nothing to you. Sorry for the bandwidth.

For sure there can be no doubt that the time is now for the sequel promised in the following credit sequence, can there?

I mean, it's already been tributed:

Ok, so Matt Damn crossed a picket line and that's fucked, but DAMN, if this isn't funny. I mean, "Let's put that guitar down and go fuck Matt Damon."

My bad. This was filmed pre-strike.

It's quite possible that Of Montreal is the best live band in the history of live music. Yes, I am fully aware of how hyperbolic that is. Sue me.

I'm also aware that this clip isn't live. It's on account that the band is so amazing live that no human can accurately capture the genius on any current recording medium.* Perhaps sometime in the future there will be a way.... Pray that there is.

*Or it could just be that most live clips of them have lousy audio.....

Ok, I lied. This one's pretty damn cool:

In the Q&A for his hysterically funny new doc, Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project, director John Landis gave the best Q&A I've seen in ages. Here he riffs on Debbie Reynolds and Robert De Niro and makes us all very impatient for the DVD release of this film. Unfortunately, this is the only clip I have that really illustrates what a great storyteller and genuinely funny man Landis is (Not the best in-camera editor am I). I am willing to bet he could do a week of 90-minute one man shows and not repeat one story. There's definitely a book in there, somewhere.

Mr. Warmth screens on Saturday, Oct 13 at 9:30pm and on Saturday, Oct 13 at midnight

A few seconds of Czech Scooby Doo, recorded at about 5am, on my way up to my room from Hell in the basement of the Hotel Thermal in Karlovy Vary on July 7th.

Legendary director Sidney Lumet weighs in what he perceives as an inevitable shift from celluloid to hi-def digital production at a Q&A following a press screening of his latest film Before the Devil Knows You're Dead at the 2007 New York Film Festival. I'll be running a review of the film in the coming days as well as the complete audio recording of this Q&A session.

83 and still getting excited about new technology! The man's amazing.

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Tennessee Braves manager Phil Wellman is apparently, completely batshit crazy. My favorite moment? The resin bag/grenade move. What aim the man's got!

While waiting for some technical problems to be resolved in what I must admit might be the worst musical venue I have ever attended, The Hideout, members of Japan's Asakusa Jinta decided to wing it...in English. "I eat Texas beef, Texas bread, Texas pork....(I get) little fat in Texas." Heh!

I LOVE this band!

Another video after the jump....

I just love this band (Duh!) so I thought I'd post the remaining three clips I have of their porformance at the Japan Night showcase at this year's SXSW. Which I also love. A lot.

Elizabeth gives me a rather adorable version of the evil eye, while James chats, slightly confused...

Shot at a fantastic BBQ thrown in honor of the recently concluded Sarasota Film Festival. More pix and videos coming soon.

A brief bit of history regarding my feelings for Christopher Hitchens:

Brilliant drunk--->Crackpot drunken hawk--->Partially redeemed brilliant drunk

There you have it. Why the redemption? How about this clip, for starters:

(BTW, I do not use the word "drunk" pejoratively. I adore some drunks and have myself been one, on occasion.)

You might have varied negative opinions about Hitchens, including his extremely pig-headed and wholly incorrect position on the war in Iraq (he's for it...still) and his arrogant posturing indicating that he is certain that he is the smartest person in any room.

That all said, he is very smart and, some might say to a fault, honest.

Another video after the jump, this time from the Fox "News" show Hannity & Colmes:

So we've had an Ottoman gang bang, the brilliant response and yet another fake sex R&B "masterpiece", so you might now very reasonably ask, how can we possibly top that?

Well, our very, VERY strange brothers from across the Pacific have a solution and I must share it with you: