(Paul apparently declines to answer which I probably would too if people thought that was me.)

Video includes an anecdote from a recent bandmate of Ringo’s who asked him and reports that he doesn’t remember. Which I have no trouble believing because if you showed me most of my own reviews from 30 years ago I could only say “That does sound like me” (which is what Ringo said).

Paul or Ringo? The "Dear Prudence" Drum Mystery Solved YouTube video by Beatles Reconstructed

I’ve never believed that Paul played “Dear Prudence”’s epic drum outro and am happy to see someone lay out all the evidence that it’s a Ringo overdub (on Paul’s basic track). youtu.be/EEFgSwe-AtY?...

I’m gonna shove your massive gravitational anomaly up your ass.

Shame that AN AFFAIR OF LOVE (original, superior French title: UNE LIAISON PORNOGRAPHIQUE) isn’t available anywhere apart from libraries and 🏴‍☠️. An exquisitely acted two-handed starring Baye and Sergi López (of recent SIRĀT fame). Placed 9th in the 2000 Skandies, ahead of e.g. DANCER IN THE DARK!

Is he. Is Lee Cronin the Mummy.

Honestly I would have but I was running out of characters.

In other ancient-TV spottings: baby John Hawkes on NORTHERN EXPOSURE!

Bad guy on a CAGNEY & LACEY episode looked super-familiar to me so I looked him up. 10 years after that he was one of the male leads in Rohmer's TALE OF WINTER (which I happened to recently rewatch). Also discovered that the vaguely familiar female guest star was once married to George Clooney.

1936’s version of RIYL.

I am now very curious about what that could possibly have to do with a mummy. (“Very curious” = curious enough to eventually read the Wikipedia synopsis. Not curious enough to see the movie.)

My own “do you live in a society” litmus test is whether people return their shopping cart to a designated area or just fucking leave it blocking a parking space because they can’t be bothered to push it 50 feet.

c) look to see whether anyone’s approaching the empty space, exit through it if not. Unclear visibility? Back up.

That’s why I wondered—my (dim) memory is that I had to hunt it down and saw it either alone or nearly so. (This was during the period when I saw virtually every movie that opened anywhere near me.)

Wonder how many people now living saw this during its theatrical run. 🙋

Oh. Well that’s just sad. “Finally, someone cares about our insular subculture (involving the most financially successful movies ever made).”

(Actually I guess CLERKS preceded PULP FICTION, Sundance is before Cannes. But still.)

Lemme introduce you to a fellow by the improbable name of Quentin Tarantino who’d made two wildly popular movies replete with prolonged pop-culture discussions before CLERKS was released.

Me from 30 years ago says: Do not watch MALLRATS.

I imagine a lot like LiMu Emu and Doug.

“Roger you’re the one with 666 in your price, not me.”

I sometimes forget that letterboxing ultimately got broadly accepted (thanks to TVs widening), which would’ve seemed miraculous back in the ’80s and ’90s. Let’s not revert because iPads are Academy.

Inevitably? CERTIFIED COPY, UNCLE BOONMEE, HOLY MOTORS, AMOUR, MOONRISE KINGDOM, YOU AIN’T SEEN NOTHIN’ YET, THE PAST, ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE (on first viewing), TWO DAYS ONE NIGHT, CAROL, PATERSON, TONI ERDMANN, I could easily go on just from the years I attended. 2009 was an anomaly.

(I liked CLOSE.)

[Will Arnett growl]

If you…are expecting…A-level auteurs…in this year’s…Cannes Competition…

Anyway it’s a far cry from say 2009 when I was salivating for the new Tarantino and Von Trier and Haneke and Tsai and Resnais and Noé and Bong and Raimi and Gilliam and…

Thought about trying to get back to Cannes this year, glad I decided against it. Which is not to say there won’t be some terrific films in that lineup—I’m sure there will—but only Farhadi truly excites me on paper. (Nemes would’ve been another had I not so recently been bored stiff by ORPHAN.)

Saw a passing reference to this Amazon Prime kids’ show and assumed it was a joke but it was not a joke. It is an actual show that (very briefly) existed.