“Stop Me” by Mark Ronson featuring Daniel Merriweather 

The Donut Hole in La Puente, California

“Beach Baby” by First Class

(by Bertha0815007)

“Pitch In On A Party” by DJ Quik 

“Linea Telefonica” by Grupo Indio 

I’m on on call jury duty this week meaning I have to call everyday at a certain time only to be told I have to call back tomorrow at the same time again. 

Ryan Gosling in Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives. 

Via Film Stage

Between this one and The Master, 2012 is going to be a great film year.

Bizarro Super Boy Making Friends (by sjr2345)

“Over and Over” (Maurice Fulton Remix) by Hot Chip 

I feel like I gave up on “reality” shows sometime in 2009. I made the realization that I didn’t have to watch a show that I hated so I could write or talk about with other people. Yes, I watched “Jersey Shore” and still watch “Storage Wars” and “Restaurant Impossible,” but I wouldn’t call them “reality” shows where the situations and scenario are enhanced for dramatic tension. Well, “Storage Wars” is enhanced, but Barry Weiss! Barry Weiss triumphs over that. 

Yet, “Mrs. Eastwood & Company” is the first “reality” show that I want to watch and have to watch. There are so many great things about it.

In one of the most recent episodes, Dina Eastwood confronts her hoarding problem. Dina Eastwood hoards celebrity gift bags and wrap party gifts. She goes through stacks and stacks of stuff and saying that she can’t throw something away because Matt Damon gave it as a wrap present or she can’t part with another bag because Industrial Light & Magic give the best gifts. Dina’s hoarding problem is serious and I don’t mean to make light (in the episode she reveals that she has a hard time parting with things because she grew up poor and didn’t have many things), but it’s just funny that she keeps stacks and stacks of stuff because she can’t part with a pen that Angie & Brad gave her. It’s the name dropping that makes it funny. 

Dina’s step daughter, Francesca’s extremely unhealthy relationship with photographer Tyler Shields. I have to naturally assume that the dynamics of their relationship are played up for its full dramatic impact, but it’s too crazy not have some truth behind it. In one episode, Shields asks Francesca to stand on the ledge of a bridge so he could take some photos. Francesca has a panic attack, starts to cry, but Shields charges ahead, gets his shot and retreats to the car. As Francesca cries in the car, Shields tell her that she looks beautiful, takes picture, asks her to do something with her hand and she does it! They have a discussion about what happened in their hotel room and Shields says when he’s in artist mode, he’s not going to care about her emotions but adds that Francesca is his muse. If you look at Tyler Shields’ work, he wants to push things over the cliff and make some grand point. His appearances on this show feels like an extension of his art. 

On another episode, Dina, Francesca, and youngest daughter, Morgan bury their ashes of old pets in the backyard. Apparently, that was too boring or Morgan forgot to take her vyvanse that day, so the three of them start to fling the ashes at each other. 

And there’s Clint Eastwood. Clint has been briefly in the three episodes I’ve seen. Clint doesn’t appear to be mic’ed up and it seems like he doesn’t know what’s going on. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Clint Eastwood is the character in reality television because he’s not going to play up to the camera, he’s not going to engage too much in the story lines when present. 

When on speakerphone with his wife and daughters, Clint calls them, ‘gals’. Clint calls his daughter and her friends ‘gals’ and assumes that they’re going to drink martinis during their hotel party. Clint Eastwood just does not give a fuck. In a way, it explains why Eastwood has nearly directed one film a year since 2002. He had to get out of the house. 

I’m running out of time here, but Dina Eastwood also manages an all male vocal group, there’s a wacky maid and they have a gigantic turtle for a pet. 

So, I ask you, please watch “Mrs. Eastwood & Company”. I need many seasons of this show. 

Henry Rollins wrestled an aligator on “Animal Underworld”.

I’m not necessarily who the “they” would be in the second part of this sentence, but if they ever do or attempt an ‘American’ version of The Trip (the Steve Coogan/Rob Brydon film and TV series), it should be with Henry Rollins and Glen Danzig.