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00:00 - 02:21 - This week on Travis Bickle on the Riviera, we have another guest episode. Returning guest David Brothers came to talk about movies, but more importantly to talk about the collapse of a certain major comics news site from an insider's perspective. This is an in-depth expose that you won't get anywhere else!

02:22 - 18:30 - HOMEWORK - David's homework this week was The Fury (1978), directed by Brian De Palma, starring Amy Irving, Kirk Douglas, John Cassavettes, Carrie Snodgress, Charles Durning, Fiona Lewis, Andrew Stevens, and William Finley.

De Palma was originally going to adapt Alfred Bester's The Demolished Man, and the book is a simlar cat and mouse psychic manhunt, and Body Double later ended up incorporating some story points from it as well.

Also mentioned in this section: Carrie (both the original and the new version), Mean Girls, Akira (and Otomo's other psychic warfare books Domu and Fireball), Scanners, the X-Men movies, Gantz, The Good Son, Children of the Corn, Chronicle, Bruce Willis vs Tom Cruise, Women directing horror movies, and found footage movies.

18:31 - 27:58 - HOMEWORK - Sean's homework this week was Election (2005), directed by Johnnie To, starring Simon Yam, Tony Leung Ka-Fai, Louis Ko, Nick Cheung, Cheung Siu-Fai, Lam Suet, Lam Ka-Tun, Maggie Shiu, David Chiang, too may people.

Also mentioned in this section: Takashi Miike, Mad Detective and the trailer for Blind Detective, the Godfather films, Life Without Principle, and the styles of Hong Kong action films.

27:59 - 42:58 - David watched Half Baked (1998), directed by Tamara Davis, written by Dave Chappelle and Neal Brennan, starring Chappelle, Jim Bruer, Guillermo Diaz, Harland Williams, Laura Silverman, and Stephen Wright. He also watched Airplane (1980), directed and written by Zucker, Abrams, and Zucker, starring Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Neilsen, Peter Graves, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack, Stephen Stucker, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Barbara Billingsley, James Hong, David Lesiure, like 900 other people.

Also mentioned in this section - Chappelle's Show, Adult Swim, CB4, 30 Rock, Scary Movie 2, Mad Magazine, guys dicking around on walkie talkie scenes, Zucker/Abrams/Zucker, John Landis, Louie, Key & Peele, Carlos Mencia, Daniel Tosh, Workaholics, Pitch Perfect, Nick Swardson, Creepshow, Ted, A Touch of Cloth, A Haunted House, and Airplane 2.

42:59 - 55:59 - Sean, kept up with his De Palma marathon, and watched Scarface (1983), directed by Brian De Palma, written by Oliver Stone, starring Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Robert Loggia, F. Murry Abraham, Harris Yulin; and Carlito's Way (1993), directed by Brian De Palma, writen by David Koepp starring Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Penelope Ann Miller, John Leguizamo, Luis Guzman, Viggo Mortensen.

Also mentioned in this section: The Boondocks, Throne of Blood, exasperation as the best emotion, Spawn, Casualties of War, also listen to my voice break as I try to say "F Murray Abraham" twice in one sentence.

1:00:00 - 1:09:13 - And finally, David watched Alphaville (1965), directed and written by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Howard Vernon, Akim Tamirof.

Also mentioned in this section: Ron Wimberly's riff on Alphaville, I Am Legend, Pierrot Le Fou, Blade Runner, language, philosophy, geography, the other Lemmy Caution films, black and white vs color in Godard, Manhattan, 2001: A Space Odyssey, the hero's journey format, and Europa.

NEXT WEEK - SOMETHING!

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This was basically the Joe and Tucker make Chris listen to us excitedly describe our fondest things. Call it purloined joy, if you would. Then Matt returned and I left and they talked about that Uno Moralez guy and Leiji Matsumoto and then Chris brought up RASL and I like to imagine that it was around this moment that the guys realized they'd all forgotten what sharing was because you couldn't get any more specific to each individual then those three topics. If I'd been on that episode I would have made them listen to me talk about Sweet Meats.

Here's the Comics of the Weak, after an unexpected week off. Abhay covered the news of a dead nun, I tried my Norm McDonald hat on. Nate Bulmer was there. Then, this week was a brief riff on Mignola, Deforge and the Samnee/Waid Daredevil.

I greatly enjoyed this brief article on Tom Cruise and authenticity porn. I didn't realize until I went back to it that Tom Gauld had done the little illustration at the top.

Geoff Klock made this mash-up video of quotes from Hamlet, I dug it.

The consistently wonderful writer on film Ignatiy Vishnevetsky turned up over at the AV Club, writing a brief "why I like this" thing on Michael Mann's Miami Vice. I'm a little older than Vishnevetsky, and I remember walking out of Miami Vice feeling like Mann had lost a step, a feeling that Public Enemies did little to dissuade. But due to another article (on the AV Club, actually), I gave Vice another chance last year, and it won me back over. Everything Ignatiy says about it is true, but it's the purity of certain portions of it--Jamie Foxx's merciless, muscular pursuit of the men who took his girl down to the simple movements of a yanked mask and a smoothly placed hand on the small of a woman's back--that struck me more than the digital immediacy that seems to fascinate others. I like seeing people write about it, and I'm glad I gave it another chance.

This guy Joan Cornella--okay, now that's exciting. When I started reading his stuff, I was immediately won over, and 10 minutes in, I was feeling the same way I felt when I first saw Deforge, Lisa Hanawalt or Joe Daly. These are the exact kind of comics I want to read.

I like David Bordwell's blog in part because it's so unlike every other blog I read in that nearly everything written there takes a solid block of uninterrupted reading time to digest. I was pleasantly surprised to see him toss up this small piece on Calvin and Hobbes, which was written in response to Dear Mr. Watterson, a documentary on the strip and its influence. It is a dream to get a chance to write for Comics Journal, and I don't regret any of the time I spent writing for comiXology, but seeing short pieces like this reminded me how excited it always made me to read offhand observations about comics and cartooning from smart people with only a passing interest in the subject, especially when it would show up in non-traditional venues. I wish there was more like this out there, or at least, that I was better able to find examples of it on a consistent basis.

Tessa Strain dealt with Gatsby. I could read her all day, on anything, but when it's movies and books at the same time, it's a total fish in a barrel scenario. She's the best.

Community Bookstore is taking over Babbo's Books over on Prospect Park West--if you don't live in Brooklyn, this will mean nothing to you--and turning it into their second store, Terrace Books. I liked Babbo's, I love Community, and therefore couldn't be happier if you stapled a puppy to a balloon shaped like a pony. (Both of those things are adorable!)

Koyama is going to publish the third issue of Ryan Cecil Smith's SF--I don't have a link for that, but I'm not sure why you would need one. All the information is right there.

Comic Books Are Burning In Hell is pleased to offer the latest in its top-ranked continuing education seminars.

Our main session concerns FRONTIER, HOTT NEW PUBLISHER NEW NEW COMIC collecting **UNO MORALEZ**

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JOE discusses BENNY BREAKIRON, nEEEw release from SMURFS CREATOR PEYO!!!

MATT discusses COSMOSHIP YAMATO, 1,000% AUTHENTIC (i.e. untranslated) MANGA from LEIJI MATSUMOTO --not a Daft Punk tie-in --

CHRIS discusses RASL, ALL JEFF SMITH, SOON IN COLOR.

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