That stupid game is at noon - hopefully we get blown to smithereens.
We start the day with
@Beef Invictus still on the clock, but
@Chuck Downie can make his two picks when he is ready, and
@Magua should probably make his pick today.
Speaking of Paul Thomas Anderson, I watched "Licorice Pizza" last night. The thing is, it got infinitely better about halfway through, from the "Plague of Frogs" apocalyptic traffic jam and gas shortage through mostly until the end. He does that sort of grand disaster very well in the films of his that I have seen, and this was no exception. The rest of the narrative just felt much tighter and less meandering and random in the second half. The part just preceding the traffic jam, with Sean Penn and Tom Waits in the bar and then on the golf course, was a f***ing mess. It was the kind of self-indulgent, filmmaker-up-his-own-ass terrible stream of consciousness that wouldn't have felt out of place in Vincent Gallo's "Buffalo 66," which is not a compliment, obviously.
Overall, I would say it wasn't as good as I was hoping or expecting it to be. Alana Haim did a great job with a good character, who I suspect was based entirely on her, and the rest of the cast was fine. The owner of the Japanese restaurant who spoke to his Japanese wives in stereotypical accented English as if it were Japanese was f***ing hilarious, and Bradley Cooper was great as Jon Peters. I don't even know what threw me off (other than that terrible sequence with Penn and Waits) - it very well could just be the setting. For those of you who weren't alive in 1973, it was shit. It was the beigest of times, it was the worst of times.