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Also they filmed Lost there for like 20 years or whatever! I couldn't get in on that gravy train?
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Extremely well. I'm under no misconceptions that it was our magic parenting skills that got them to sleep -- Ferber or no, we just were lucky enough to get kids that slept through the night relatively early.
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Yes! I walked out of KILL BILL VOL. 1 really angry and upset about what I perceived to be Quentin Tarantino just fucking around for two hours. I vowed not to see the second part. By the time the second part came around, I couldn't stop thinking about the first part, and really wanting to know what happened next. When I rewatched Vol. 1 (and saw Vol. 2) I loved it -- I think for some reason a switch had just been flipped in my head that first night that made me view the movie as something different than it actually was.
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Not for as long! And not on his impressive scale! But yeah, basically. I don't know anyone who freelances who hasn't experienced a bunch of those crazy editor emails/unexplained kills/magazines running the thing you pitched months later.
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I really like Leonard's malasadas, which is boring but Jesus are they good. My favorite poke I ate on my last trip to Hawaii was from a truck parked by Kailua Beach. They also did killer garlic shrimp.
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Hi Maura! My only regular gigs are movie reviews for the Voice and WaPo. Whenever I can pitch something they say yes to, I also write for New York and its attendant blogs (incl. Vulture), Slate, and of course The Awl. I got to write an Arts & Leisure preview this spring but who knows if that will ever happen again.
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I have high hopes of writing more! But I am still trying to figure out how to find time to do it right, considering that the Awl, unfortunately, still cannot pay. Anyone want to pay me to write more?
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I avoid a lot of really terrible movies, even beloved culty ones. So I'm sure THE ROOM or TROLL 2 are worse than this, but I just had a conversation over lunch about how bad BRAVEHEART was, and it seems even worse now, doesn't it?
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The University of North Carolina Trippin' Tar Heels!
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Peep show, creep show, where did you get those eyes
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"Hot Tub Time Machine" was a golden opportunity to make such a movie, but -- though I liked it -- it certainly had an ironic worldview rather than an essentially sweet one. And so many dirty jokes! I would argue that those movies do still exist, though, only their target audience has broadened -- they used to be made for 8-14-year-olds, and now they're made for everyone, by Pixar.
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I am unqualified to answer this question! However, I will say that I barely know anyone in the rational middle, but I'm part of the socialist liberal media elite so my sample is skewed.
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Haha, I only remember thanks to rote, bruising repetition. I find it helps if you keep the iambic meter in mind - ka-MA, ka-VEE, vo-OH-lay. My favorite Iz solo track is "Ka Huila Wai," the waterwheel song from "Facing Future," but writing the book gave me the chance to listen seriously to his old band, the Makaha Sons, for the first time, and it turns out I prefer their stuff to Israel's solo material, in general.
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Woah, starting off with a biggie! I don't know about the best film ever, but I know about my favorite, which is Edward Yang's YI YI. However, the movie I have watched the most times is, thanks to a battered and beloved VHS tape in the house I grew up in, REVENGE OF THE NERDS.
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Dan Kois’s Bio
Film critic, culture writer, author of FACING FUTURE
