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About Me

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My Interests

Music:

The Beatles, The Stooges, New York Dolls, The Ramones, The Birthday Party, Skip James, Robert Johnson, The Strokes, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Le Tigre, L7, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, The Rolling Stones, The Smiths

Movies:

Mullholland Dr., Brazil, Wild at Heart, The Man Who Wasn't There, Double Indemnity, Force of Evil, Citizen Kane, The Trial, Lost Highway, Dr. Strangelove, Raising Arizona, Danger: Diabolik, Barbarella, Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction

Television:

Arrested Development, The Simpsons, Mr. Show, The Wire, Deadwood, Venture Brothers

Books:

Fortress of Solitude by Johnathan Lethem, Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware, early Marvel Comics ('60s and '70s), On the Road by John Kerouac, Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich, Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

My Blog

About a Son

A documentary on Kurt Cobain is coming out in October. It's About a Son, directed by AJ Schnack. The film apparently uses images of Seattle, Aberdeen and other places important to Cobain w...
Posted by Ian Brill on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:45:00 PST

Inside Man

So I'm walking home after getting off a bus. Walking the in the opposite direction of me is a man. He's white, maybe late-40's if he's not in his 50's. Gray hair and beard. Not...
Posted by Ian Brill on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:32:00 PST

Halloween review

You know you're watching a Rob Zombie film is the words "Fifteen Years Later" appear on-screen and you still feel like you're watching something take place in the '70s.I must be the opposite of a Hall...
Posted by Ian Brill on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 10:13:00 PST

Walk Hard

As soon as I played this trailer for Walk Hard I put in my DVD of Boogie Nights and played the scenes of Mark Wahlberg and John C. Reilly in the recording studio. "That's not an MP, th...
Posted by Ian Brill on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 06:48:00 PST

Superbad dicks

Here's a clip that's actually in Superbad. I'm sorry that I've suddenly become a PR flunky for this film but I can't get it out of my head since seeing it. I love this scene becu...
Posted by Ian Brill on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 01:59:00 PST

God

I usually enjoy A Softer World but this was the first strip I wanted to share with you all. ...
Posted by Ian Brill on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 10:00:00 PST

Superbad review

I have returned from the screening of Superbad and I bring with me good news. The movie is funny as Hell and very well made.If casting Harold Ramis as Seth Rogen's dad in Knocked Up didn't revea...
Posted by Ian Brill on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:03:00 PST

Superbad clip

This is a deleted scene from Superbad which, if everything goes right, I'm going to see at a preview screening tonight. Hey, keep your eyes glued to the MaximumFun blog becuase Bill Hader, who i...
Posted by Ian Brill on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 10:09:00 PST

24

...and that's when it hit me: nothing says 24-years-old like drinking beer and eating Trix.
Posted by Ian Brill on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 10:54:00 PST

Whos Black Muslim Bakery is it anyway?

The biggest story in the Bay Area right now is the murder of an Oakland Tribune editor, leading to the arrest of seven in a raid of Your Muslim Bakery. A 19-year-old handyman at the bakery confe...
Posted by Ian Brill on Sat, 04 Aug 2007 03:28:00 PST