I love how you get the New York-isms right, Roy. I was visiting relatives in NYC a few weeks ago and someone I was talking to said “whattaya” and it felt like slipping back into a warm bath. I love Philly but there’s no place like home.
I was waiting for tentacles. Some sort of Las Plagas parasite deal. It's easy to forget how deeply weird some of these guys are, in my case at least in part because I'm focused on Carter Page as the epitome of Trump Weird. But you can't explain it all away by love of money, sex, or power. A lot of it is weird, twisty mental illness. Roy captures it well. I'd go over the top.
"BANNON: It’s natural. They’re afraid to say all they know because they’re afraid they might upset you. Which is good! They should be afraid! We rule by fear, so even our vassals must be afraid. In fact they should be the most afraid. Otherwise it’s anarchy." Too bad so many people believe that.
Get this to Alec Baldwin! Netflix is starving for content, and their competitors are even more desparate. Boy, if Qube were more than a Katzenberg fever dream these would have been a natural for them. I smell an Emmy at least.
I'm thinking back right now to Dan Aykroyd's SNL skit as Nixon in "The Final Days", where if memory serves Belushi as Kissinger has to talk him down. This is like that if instead of the inspiration being Woodward's book it was a combination of HP Lovecraft (yes, with the racism) and Mario Puzo. I cannot fuckin' wait to get back to something more like Aykroyd's Jimmy Carter on the call-in show, where Joe Biden coaches someone through fixing a postal sorting machine and then counsels a young man through a bad trip.
So bizarre... I’m starting to find some of these things credible...
with this gang? parody and reality are in a continuous race for primacy.
LOL, “Onassis” Jesus Christ.
I love how you get the New York-isms right, Roy. I was visiting relatives in NYC a few weeks ago and someone I was talking to said “whattaya” and it felt like slipping back into a warm bath. I love Philly but there’s no place like home.
Bannon's face is so viscerally repellent it's almost mesmerizing.
An endless manscape of dermatological pathology.
Imagine what his third eye looks like...
stop now please
Stout Steve Bannon And The Fog Of Warp
I was kinda hoping Bannon would stick a gross hand onto the glass, like in “Arrival.”
I was waiting for tentacles. Some sort of Las Plagas parasite deal. It's easy to forget how deeply weird some of these guys are, in my case at least in part because I'm focused on Carter Page as the epitome of Trump Weird. But you can't explain it all away by love of money, sex, or power. A lot of it is weird, twisty mental illness. Roy captures it well. I'd go over the top.
So! Roy’s at this bar, and Lynch and Cronenburg walk in...
With all the talk of a coup it;s reassuring to see the real picture of ego, incompetence and malicious malfeasance.
Just imagining Bannon as the Third Stage Guild Navigator from David Lynch's Dune...
Yes! Although I also got vibes of Jabba the Hutt and the aged whatchamacallits, with the teenage girl, at the top of the cliff, in 300.
"BANNON: It’s natural. They’re afraid to say all they know because they’re afraid they might upset you. Which is good! They should be afraid! We rule by fear, so even our vassals must be afraid. In fact they should be the most afraid. Otherwise it’s anarchy." Too bad so many people believe that.
There should be enough of these vignettes to make their sale as an e-book feasible next year. I’d buy it.
A real book, surely!
That too.
Get this to Alec Baldwin! Netflix is starving for content, and their competitors are even more desparate. Boy, if Qube were more than a Katzenberg fever dream these would have been a natural for them. I smell an Emmy at least.
I'd like to show Trump my ass.
I'm thinking back right now to Dan Aykroyd's SNL skit as Nixon in "The Final Days", where if memory serves Belushi as Kissinger has to talk him down. This is like that if instead of the inspiration being Woodward's book it was a combination of HP Lovecraft (yes, with the racism) and Mario Puzo. I cannot fuckin' wait to get back to something more like Aykroyd's Jimmy Carter on the call-in show, where Joe Biden coaches someone through fixing a postal sorting machine and then counsels a young man through a bad trip.
I definitely remember the Carter one. That and the Pepsi Syndrome
More like Lovecraft through Stuart Gordon. I'm thinking "From Beyond"