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Hmm. That metaphorical representation does not match my memory of season 1. Don't know if I'm forgetting stuff or they are just being willfully sensational or that is more about what's to come than what has happened.

Whatever - Feb. 15th. Noice. It's on my calendar. Let's do it.
 
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Somehow I had never seen Eraserhead. I like David Lynch and love weird creepy black and white, so I'm not sure how that oversight happened.

But, yeah, it's really weird. Pretty much loved it.

Should be mandatory viewing before becoming a father, I think.

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Episode 2 of Horace and Pete was good. There was a bit more humor in it which I like - but humor is clearly not the point. Louie wants to be a dramatist. I feel like Horace and Pete could end up melted down and on Broadway someday.

That's fine I guess. I personally value humor more than drama but he's earned the right to do what he wants and it's good. He is good at finding pointed truths, that's for sure.
 
Gotta figure out what to watch now that I have seen all the Oscar stuff. Good thing there are some shows coming up. Better Call Saul coming back and Game of Thrones not far off. John Oliver too - only half an hour per week but always a good one.

Vinyl, I am looking forward to. Possibly Quarry although I'm not clear if the originally scheduled premier - which was right around now - is still on.
 
Every day on the drive home from work I see a billboard for the movie Deadpool and it has the character Deadpool lying rakishly on his side and the caption reads, Wait until you get a load of me.

Isn't that ripping off a line from Jack Nicholson as the Joker in Batman?

Whatever, apparently Deadpool is a wisenheimer. That's an important angle - a wisenheimer superhero. Or maybe a super anti-hero. Whatever he is, he is very self-congratulatory about it and he is from Marvel and he cracks wise.

Watching Deadpool ---> it's pretty low on my to-do list.
 
I am tentatively wading into Mozart in the Jungle. 2 episodes, I have seen. It's classified as a comedy. Half-hour episodes.

It's about music - a symphony orchestra - and I have a deep fascination with music so it has me easily hooked from that angle.

I am sitting on the fence as far as characters and storylines. It hasn't made any terrible mistakes so far but it also hasn't had any wow moments. Not a lot of laughs either, really. Dunno. Gotta see where they're going with it.

It's weird because it has several good actors - Gael Garcia Bernal, Saffron Burrows, Bernadette Peters, Malcolm McDowell - but for some reason they have given the lead to a chick who is very mediocre. There is a definite potential for that to grate on me as we go along.

She is the sister of another mediocre actress - Jemima Kirke - who is in Girls. So good for the sisters finding work, I guess.

Jemima.
 
He plays a hot-shot young maestro conducter of a symphony orchestra in New York - taking over from a stuffy old-school guy (Malcolm McDowell).

Can't help but think the Bernal character is largely based on that Dudamel guy who came out of South America at a very young age and now conducts the L.A. orchestra I think (??)
 
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