Sometimes, you just have to let the masters do their thing. If you don't know him, Bill Simmons is a pop culture and sports writer over at ESPN, but he also has a website of his own called Grantland, where Chuck Klosterman (another excellent writer) collaborates quite often. Check it out. But while you're over there, check out Bill Simmons' review of the new Fast and Furious 6 trailer which premiered during the Super Bowl but got an extended edition just a few days later. It's hard to tell Read more [...]

I really meant to change the title of this post, but I didn't get around to it as I'm very busy. About halfway through watching this flick I realized I wasn't watching the romantic comedy I thought I was going to get. If you went out and watched Shame with your loved one without actually reading this post first, I'm willing to pay your first month's alimony cost as an apology. Man, this really wasn't the "date night" movie I was expecting. Everyone took their clothes off for this one! There Read more [...]

Djake's got a lot of movies. A lot of movies I've never seen, that I want to see. He's got really good taste, so I let him recommend movies to me every so often. He told me to watch The Proposition (2005), an Australian western, and let me borrow it way back at the beginning of December. Here's a conversation with Djake I had about the film a week before Christmas: Djake: Hey, you watch The Proposition yet? Deuce: Well, I started it, but I'm only about 30 minutes into it. Djake: Argh! You gotta Read more [...]

After watching, what I believe to be, the saddest moment on television (Sunday's episode of Downton Abbey--wow, I totally did not see that coming), I decided to turn to lighter programming, FX's American Horror Story.  I mentioned to Sitz when I was finally persuaded to join this blog that I would mainly contribute my thoughts on what I've recently been reading, but since I've really not been in the mood lately, TV is now my go-to.  On to American Horror Story. The premise is simple and Read more [...]

Ryan had mentioned that I should add more projects that I've actually worked on, so I thought I would throw this out there. Alright, so I didn't actually work on it, but my friends made it in my basement as a warmup for one of their other projects, and they basically wanted to see how the cops would play off of each other (as you'll see, quite well since they're part of a comedy trio called Grawlix, based here in Denver). Be warned, there is a lot of bad language, but if you're cool with that Read more [...]