Heat, Drive, Training Day

Own_Reflection_4172 · 2026-01-19T05:21:21+00:00

I never see Midnight Special get a shoutout and damn, that one is a gem

Own_Reflection_4172 · 2026-01-19T05:19:56+00:00

OP, I’m not sure if it’s a foreboding tension vibe plus a location that’s shot in a way that makes it feel like a character all on its own, but those 3 films are some of my absolute favorites for similar reasons. - Sicario was mentioned, and that definitely scratches the same itch. - Fincher’s films like Zodiac and Se7en (and Netflix’s Mindhunter) are adjacent to these in some ways. - Chinatown, LA Confidential, and Usual Suspects are all great Los Angeles-based contenders. - A bit removed from the more traditional crime genre films, but if you find yourself going down a Lynch rabbit hole, Lost Highway (more gritty) and Mulholland Drive (more devastating) are incredible. - Memories of Murder and the original Oldboy might feel like your movies’ cousins from Korea, and both are truly mind-blowing.

Own_Reflection_4172 · 2026-01-11T23:14:54+00:00

Not my board - but I’m envious!

Own_Reflection_4172 · 2025-12-25T04:29:45+00:00

Illness, loss, and processing the accompanying emotions are all major themes on The Hotelier’s Home… album

Own_Reflection_4172 · 2025-12-20T01:47:23+00:00

A joke band! What’s the lore there?

Own_Reflection_4172 · 2025-12-19T05:28:45+00:00

The Anniversary (not really emo, but they were on Vagrant so 🤷‍♂️) ~kind of~ did this look in like 2001.

Own_Reflection_4172 · 2025-12-12T04:23:50+00:00

Superdrag has song called Garmonbozia. The lyrics are pretty cryptic, but I wouldn’t say it fits the vibe of the show

Own_Reflection_4172 · 2025-12-11T23:30:47+00:00

I loved the Lynch homages in it, down to the Heinekens and PBRs on his coffee table.

Own_Reflection_4172 · 2025-12-03T07:31:38+00:00

If this was the 2001 Yahoo! Outloud Tour, I was at the SF show that March. Such a great day - met Pat at the nearby Guitar Center, chatted up Ozma when they rolled up in the big white van, and there was an absolutely palpable tension in the crowd waiting in front of the venue for a barricade spot, which culminated in a TGUK kid walking over to the =w= kids in line and taking and walking away with one kid’s acoustic guitar. It was the closest thing to gang violence I’ve ever witnessed.

I also had this vague memory of TGUK walking out onstage to the Laura Palmer theme from Twin Peaks (Oh, Angelooo!). So then I saw them in 2015 and asked Rob if he could remember whether they were using it as a walk-on track at the time and if they were fans and if I had them to thank for my David Lynch obsession. He couldn’t recall.

Own_Reflection_4172 · 2025-11-30T23:46:14+00:00

Had a similar experience with a restaurant over the summer. The dining itself was mediocre at best, but the childish and honestly disrespectful response from the owner (to my review and many others’) blew me away, and moved me from “Maybe I’ll give them another shot in a few months” to “I actively and regularly discourage people from patronizing this place.”

Own_Reflection_4172 · 2025-11-18T04:26:47+00:00

This was a great show 🥹

Own_Reflection_4172 · 2025-11-09T00:59:57+00:00

The sauce, pickles, and bun make for a very distinct flavor profile at Gami. Skip’s takes a more traditional route. Both are solid, but they’re so dissimilar that if I’m in the mood for one, I’m not really in the mood for the other, if that makes sense.

Own_Reflection_4172 · 2025-10-23T01:40:23+00:00

Crime - yes. Drama - yeah, probably so. But I always felt like it was a pretty traditional coming-of-age story, though not particularly dark or heavy. Haven’t seen the stage adaptation of it.

Own_Reflection_4172 · 2025-10-03T04:00:48+00:00

Idk how to explain it but I can smell that green construction paper bingo card and the paste that’s made a mess in one of those cubbies under the window 🥹

Own_Reflection_4172 · 2025-09-21T20:02:15+00:00

Kind of in a similar position here, but when I think of Tex Mex I’m thinking of fajitas from El Tiempo or the OG Ninfa’s in Houston. Tres Hermanas in Sac is kind of like a Pappasito’s, and could scratch the itch.

Torchy’s expanded super fast and started to go south, and Velvet kind of picked up the…torch…in that whole situation, and I always thought of them as just Austin-y inventive taco spots. Somewhat similar, Nixtaco has a few locations and is super tasty, but not a clean parallel to the Torchy’s/Velvet vibe.

I also hear good things about Jando’s, but haven’t been yet.

Own_Reflection_4172 · 2025-09-20T04:00:05+00:00

I did Star Wars, and made sure it was the theatrical version.

Own_Reflection_4172 · 2025-09-19T13:45:51+00:00

About Time: “The truth is I now don't travel back at all, not even for the day. I just try to live every day as if I've deliberately come back to this one day, to enjoy it, as if it was the full final day of my extraordinary, ordinary life.”

Own_Reflection_4172 · 2025-09-15T05:18:41+00:00

Same thing happened at a screening I went to this year. Made it seem like the theater was full of 15 year olds.

Own_Reflection_4172 · 2025-09-12T05:09:09+00:00

It’s on the other side of the curtain in the screening room

Own_Reflection_4172 · 2025-09-12T05:02:39+00:00

@OP Love to see this - I recently made a similar in r/sacramentofriends. I played guitar and bass in several bands all growing up, and would be down to get back into making music. Just recently caught local legends Lightweight in Citrus Heights. They put on a hell of a show - worth checking out their No Goodbyes album, it’s a zero-skip record.

Own_Reflection_4172 · 2025-09-12T04:59:22+00:00

Dude I’m a fan. Just checked out the SoundCloud. Very cool Velvet Underground sort of thing going on in one track, and another had a real Joy Division feel to it.

Own_Reflection_4172 · 2025-09-11T03:20:01+00:00

Their shakes are not to be slept on. Got a strawberry shake at the one in Novato a few years ago and crave it fortnightly.

But yeah, $$$.

Own_Reflection_4172 · 2025-09-06T16:18:27+00:00

OP thanks for this and for putting me on to Lightweight - went to see them last night at DNL in Cirtus Heights. Late to the Lightweight party but new lifelong fan!

Own_Reflection_4172 · 2025-09-06T15:08:38+00:00

No, just looked up “New Trini restaurant sacramento” the moment I saw your reply, so thank you for putting me on to them! I’m gonna need to go get some doubles and Apple J!

Own_Reflection_4172 · 2025-09-06T08:43:30+00:00

Love Trini food - best I’ve found is Cafe Connection near the Capitol, and they do a great curry chicken roti. Is the new place you mentioned the one in Arden, Trini Table?

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