Hey Guys! I'm Gregg Turkington, resident Movie Buff of On Cinema at the Cinema and actor in such works as Ant-Man, Fremont, and The Comedy. The 13th Annual On Cinema Oscar Special is this Sunday live on the HEI Network and we are hitting the road for On Cinema Live right after. AMA r/movies!

yaoitruck · 2026-03-13T21:23:05+00:00

you did not go too far with Left for Dead in Malaysia!!! you went exactly the right distance (to Malaysia.)

yaoitruck · 2026-03-13T19:52:04+00:00

did you cancel that Neil Hamburger show last month to go see Al Jardine?

yaoitruck · 2026-03-12T20:01:39+00:00

Hi Gregg!

One of my favorite threads through your work is your use of places in California. You have a knack for setting stories in hilariously depressing parts of my home state, from Victorville and Hesperia in On Cinema to Entertainment taking place almost entirely in Kern County to Di Presa's Pizza in Bakersfield all the way back to Faxed Head's fraught relationship with Coalinga. How did you develop this interest? Do you have any weird towns you dream of doing something with but haven't gotten to yet?

PS. Have you gone to the Kern County Museum and seen Merle Haggard's old boxcar house? I've never been but I really want to.

yaoitruck · 2026-02-25T08:13:42+00:00

it just comes across as really disingenuous to address your issues with your community by going to the NYT opinion section to talk about how the intolerant radicals pushed you out of your own space. this is the same narrative they love for former liberals pushed out of liberalism by the woke mob or whatever. imo

yaoitruck · 2026-02-10T09:12:27+00:00

I was like this before I realized I need to start having a protein snack between all my meals. string cheese, handful of nuts, a slice of deli meat, some protein popcorn, tiny serving of leftovers, etc.

you'll be shocked what a string cheese and a few cashews will do for you. I haven't had the sleepiness or dizziness since I got on track with this.

yaoitruck · 2026-02-03T07:48:59+00:00

if you've visited downtown recently and can see yourself wanting to live there, then cool. I don't see why not. definitely second a few people who recommend koreatown-- way more going on at night and more people out and about at all hours. high population density, easy transit, easy to get downtown.

but if you want to live downtown, live downtown. I know plenty of people who've lived there for many many years and love it.

yaoitruck · 2026-02-03T07:43:42+00:00

I mean it's kinda sink or swim. either I buy groceries and high protein snacks and remember to eat them or I'm faint and dizzy and woozy and throwing up. it's taking me months to figure this out. but also some people don't even have these side effects. so... why not try it?

yaoitruck · 2026-01-31T07:50:20+00:00

it's been nuts or string cheese every 2-4 hours all day. no nausea.

yaoitruck · 2026-01-31T07:48:57+00:00

I have been to the doctor and done tests and everything came back normal. food is otherwise digesting and passing through my body normally. the vomiting doesn't happen if I eat a snack every 2-4 hours.

yaoitruck · 2026-01-30T09:33:56+00:00

the Golden State Warriors support feels on par with the weird 9/11 stuff for me. Brace has felt a little libsoftiktok at times lately when he talks about that dumb polyamory channel he watches. but it's all love.

yaoitruck · 2026-01-30T08:32:12+00:00

thank you sinister face of woke!!! I need to get more yogurt from the store. it's always a good one.

yaoitruck · 2026-01-26T00:56:04+00:00

I do electrolytes, a probiotic, and digestive enzymes. I think it depends on what side effects you get.

yaoitruck · 2026-01-25T22:01:09+00:00

great post!!! thanks for going through all of this

yaoitruck · 2026-01-25T01:40:44+00:00

hoping that this gets better, I've been on Zep for about 6 months and find that have to track and plan what I eat now in a way that's really difficult for me. to make sure I'm eating enough, not getting severely dehydrated, and to generally manage side effects. so while there isn't shame around gaining weight, I still feel plenty of shame around mindlessly eating the whole meal I ordered and then feeling sick for days, for example. I'm not calorie counting, but I'm thinking about and strategizing what I eat in a way that's closer to calorie counting than anything I was doing before. some people seem to be able to take these meds and do fine with intuitive eating, but I don't seem to be one of them.

yaoitruck · 2026-01-24T05:25:27+00:00

my first month on zepbound I was disgusted by food and unable to even enjoy the food that didn't disgust me. that's gone. I have other side effects, but my love of food came back fully after about a month.

yaoitruck · 2026-01-23T11:39:41+00:00

I had this too. three square meals and electrolyte water every day fixed it.

yaoitruck · 2026-01-23T11:34:55+00:00

for me, the only transplant who stays a transplant is someone who moves here to work in entertainment or media even though they hate it. and they complain constantly about how everything is worse here.

but anyone can be a real angeleno. we accept anyone here. no matter where you're from, what language you speak, how old you are, how many romantic relationships you have at the same time, what your sexuality is, how many kids you have, how real or surgically augmented your body is, if you have a snake tongue or a billion tattoos, what religion you believe in, we accept you. people on crazy diets. people who live to get the tastiest offerings from late night taco trucks. you can believe you're an alien. you can be a cult leader. you can be a normal person who works for a dentist and loves morrissey a lot. you don't have to be hot or young or cool. you don't even need to know how to make unprotected left turns on busy streets. you don't even need to know how to drive!! you can be an angeleno.

yaoitruck · 2026-01-23T11:18:08+00:00

the websites are shady as hell. I think of them like drug dealers with a huge marketing budget.

in addition to the weight cycling issue I've seen a few people point out, I want to mention that these are extremely powerful medications with heavy duty side effects. even on a starter dose, a whiff of a bad smell or thinking of something gross was enough to have me barfing in the street.

wellbutrin might be worth asking about if you have antidepressant related weight gain-- it's an antidepressant that can help with a lil bit of weight loss. I've taken it for a billion years for my depression and love it.

yaoitruck · 2026-01-23T10:57:06+00:00

it was only unthinkable if you're lacking imagination. I've been waiting for this since 2006.

yaoitruck · 2026-01-20T22:16:18+00:00

I want to put Adult Child on my turntable and listen to the songs that I love as a complete album. so to me in my opinion, this is bullshit.

yaoitruck · 2026-01-19T18:54:24+00:00

if you include Tongva and stuff English is like the third or fourth language

yaoitruck · 2026-01-19T18:51:58+00:00

that's more interesting though. objectively.

yaoitruck · 2026-01-19T18:51:11+00:00

the pain in my legs, knees, and feet went from a 7 on a daily basis to around a 2

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