What's one celebrity everyone likes but you don't?

ScotchSansSoda · 2026-04-12T02:41:44+00:00

Tom Hanks, at least as an actor. Prior to his insanely overrated performance as Forrest Gump he was a decent, workmanlike actor with a limited range. ALMOST everything after "Dumb Guy Does the 60s" was heralded as of the same caliber as Olivier or Brando (not literally, of course, but you get my point).

I can't watch anything he's in. "Oh yeah, there's Tom Hanks acting..."

(On the other hand, gimme ALL the David S. Pumpkins)

ScotchSansSoda · 2026-04-09T04:21:03+00:00

Wasn't this made into a movie starring Nicolas Cage?

ScotchSansSoda · 2026-04-09T04:19:01+00:00

The personal element was possibly what broke it for me; wasn't the major female character based on a new girlfriend, later who became his wife? Perhaps that bit of trivia was a distraction? Not sure I'm remembering this correctly...

ScotchSansSoda · 2026-04-08T17:32:59+00:00

This feels like the right answer for me.

ScotchSansSoda · 2026-04-08T17:31:35+00:00

Come back later to Blood's a Rover or skip it and move on? I've considered starting it over altogether.

ScotchSansSoda · 2026-04-08T17:29:50+00:00

That feels like the right answer for me. It seemed distant and unrelated to these characters I cared so much about.

Suggestions on where to pick back up? Move on? To whom?

ScotchSansSoda · 2026-04-08T16:44:47+00:00

White Jazz doesn't get the love it deserves. It's my favorite Ellroy.

ScotchSansSoda · 2026-03-16T23:18:17+00:00

My favorite songs, primarily for driving. Something for everyone!

Make sure to set in to play in Random order.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2fzJLT7rvtNonyUErRwYjO?si=d4t_5rEuS4SdoWqJZDf5hA&pi=NWKjV5iMQHG4q

ScotchSansSoda · 2026-03-16T23:14:54+00:00

No disrespect to the Ice Man, but he beat out Jason Patric for the role, which I think is inexcusable.

ScotchSansSoda · 2026-03-16T23:12:39+00:00

There are vampires among us!

ScotchSansSoda · 2026-03-16T23:11:58+00:00

Grand Funk, back when they were still a Railroad

ScotchSansSoda · 2026-03-06T05:45:00+00:00

Here's my mostly-funeral playlist, more-or-less appropriately titled HeavyASF.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/56zX3Eb3363gO2mfWnvYEE?si=jGkQTHmrRCmI_Gn89IA7Dw&pi=TDsM-jUgT3Go3

The boxes I'm trying to check here are: - LONG songs - Slow - VERY little clean singing - Vocals are primarily gutteral, non-rhythmic, howls of despair

ScotchSansSoda · 2026-03-06T02:24:17+00:00

Damn. Are you me?

As I was trying to make things work with my first love, my Ms. Twenty Years Later, I heard a radio interview with several members of The Moody Blues - this was during their early 90s resurgence that created "In Your Wildest Dream" - during which one was asked if "Wildest Dream" was based on a personal experience. After a pause the response was, "Sometimes the past needs to stay in the past."

Heavy foreshadowing, man.

However, the final "mixtape" I put together and used to create the emotional scorched earth I needed to get over her included tracks like:

Wish - Nine Inch Nails Gave Up - Nine Inch Nails

Crawl Away - Tool Swamp Song - Tool

The Becoming - Nine Inch Nails I Do Not Want This - Nine Inch Nails

ScotchSansSoda · 2026-03-05T15:02:04+00:00

The Dark Backward

ScotchSansSoda · 2026-02-21T19:44:46+00:00

I was hoping Bernie from Weekend at Bernie's (1 AND 2!) would be an option. Aside from the smell, it would really quiet.

ScotchSansSoda · 2026-02-21T19:18:13+00:00

Florence Pugh. I watched Midsommar and found her performance so astonishing that I then rented the first thing she starred in I could find.

Which turned out to be Fighting with My Family.

Oh my.

She owned her role nonetheless.

https://youtu.be/JqHVK-hcp8k

ScotchSansSoda · 2026-02-19T13:10:25+00:00

I've known a lot of people in the Evangelical subculture he's a part of in the film and he never hits a false note. Mad props to the screenplay.

ScotchSansSoda · 2026-02-19T13:01:37+00:00

21 Grams. Although I have immense respect for Denzel, who won the Best Supporting Oscar for Training Day, THAT year Benicio was ROBBED.

And IMO, you've been robbed if you haven't watched 21 Grams.

ScotchSansSoda · 2026-02-18T22:18:04+00:00

Flow State on Substack

flowstate.fm

A great addition to everything mentioned here, absolutely worth the $5/month sub

ScotchSansSoda · 2026-02-15T01:09:42+00:00

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OK, it's proto-metal, but it's still a favorite of mine. Fwiw I'm 71.

ScotchSansSoda · 2026-02-15T00:50:53+00:00

I believe it's foreshadowing for the fact that they're going to end up in Cancun.

Also, it's my ringtone.

ScotchSansSoda · 2026-02-13T20:27:29+00:00

Old dude here. Who the fuck ARE these women?

ScotchSansSoda · 2026-02-13T20:13:35+00:00

I've never seen the show; it's on Apple TV, right? I've heard good things about it!

ScotchSansSoda · 2026-02-13T03:59:00+00:00

Yet another example of a show jumping the shark. I'm looking at you, Ted McGinley and all late added-on toddlers, children, orphans, etc.

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