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On a whim, Phil and I rented Me and You and Everyone We Know<\/i> a week or two ago. I wasn’t crazy about it (I’m pretty much over the boringly stylized meaninglessness and apathy portrayed in a lot of predictably post-modern hipster art — you know what I’m talking about), but there were parts (the shit fetish kid, obviously) that cracked me up like most overtly funny movies haven’t managed to do in a long time.<\/p>\n

And Phil really enjoyed the sluts, mostly the one who didn’t look like Marilyn Manson.<\/p>\n

So, as we were thumbing through dusty boxes at Black Lodge<\/a>, I started thinking (remembering, really, because I’ve thought it before) that it’s high time I systematically worked my way through the indie section. So many obscure movies come out that I hear or read about and think, I’d really like to check that out<\/i>, but never get to see because I either forget about them or they don’t come anywhere near Memphis (Jesus is Magic<\/i>, I’m looking at you) or stay here for a week and then vanish (Breakfast on Pluto<\/i>, I’m looking at you), and I generally don’t rent very often, but when I do, it’s usually popular crowd-pleasing crap. <\/p>\n

It’s also possible — though less likely because I got enough of them in my film classes in college — that I might try to work my way through some old movies, too. At least the classics. Brandon<\/a> brought Citizen Kane<\/i> over the other night and I have to say, it was pretty good. And Orson Welles was a hot young man. <\/p>\n

Now that I don’t have cable, and won’t, I’m going to need some shit to watch when I want a break from “Strangers with Candy” and “Futurama” and “Six Feet Under” and all their commentary tracks (which will be soon, now that I’ve watched each series about five times in the past three weeks). And I’m thinking Netflix might be the way to go. You can rent an unlimited amount for something like $10 a month with the cheap plan. <\/p>\n

I think that’s a reasonable amount to pay for a steady stream of pretentious arthouse tripe and bland black-and-white rot, punctuated by the occasional golden nugget. I can’t wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On a whim, Phil and I rented Me and You and Everyone We Know a week or two ago. I wasn’t crazy about it (I’m pretty much over the boringly stylized meaninglessness and apathy portrayed in a lot of predictably post-modern hipster art — you know what I’m talking about), but there were parts (the shit fetish kid, obviously) that cracked me up like most overtly funny movies haven’t managed to do in a long… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1jWWl-749","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}