75000 in Oregon.

h/t The Caucus via Independent Liberal

Tom Waits is coming to Texas in June.

Pumped.

Ang Lee casts Demetri Martin.

Strangest headline ever? Maybe…

40 years on…

On this May 1st, International Worker’s Day, also marks the 40th anniversary of May ‘68, the epochal uprising of the general strikes in Paris.

A good read:

The Spirit of ‘68 by AO Scott

The best film I saw at Tribeca.

This film is quite brilliant, a fantastic mix of the sadness of a coming of age/first love drama and a chilling vampire film.

You know what?

I am pretty goddamn happy right now.

Amongst the weirdness of this day…

I think of how films have been there for me, like friends or companions in my life. In an strange way they have always and forever been the great accompaniment to the oddities of living. I remember getting my heart broken in college and discovering Ghostbusters on television and feeling like it had been placed there for me to watch for the hundredth time. When less than ideal things have occurred in my life I have always been able to stumble across something in cinema to make me feel better.

Perhaps that is my crutch, my usage of an art form to stand in for friends I feel a remove from, to supply me with a distanced yet real reaction and comfort to the events of my life. But hey, if I can always turn to a moment in Godard, a joke by Bill Murray, a gesture from Hal Ashby, a sentence from Woody Allen I can know that what I have has been felt before and will be felt again. And in that comfort I find peace.

My buddy Frank went to China…

Wish I could have gone… h/t Frank Kearl.

This is probably fake…

… but the video is still creepy.

August is too far away…

The Pineapple Express trailer looks amazing.