loving you then
was peeing my pants at a joke:
sure, i was
a little embarrassed
but i couldn’t help it.
Will these neglected letters bruise?
He can’t bear read what they said.
The dead decay—unable to move
Recommendations of TV and movies from your favorite streaming services, from the staff of Drunk Monkeys. Today's pick is Mystery Science Theater 3000.
100 WORD FILM REVIEWS / Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band
Robbie Robertson fondly look back at the formation of The Band. The Rock ‘n’ Roll outfit was previously the focus of Martin Scorsese’s acclaimed concert film, The Last Waltz. This new documentary serves as a wonderful introduction to those unfamiliar with the group. It also fills in gaps in their history that die-hard fans may appreciate. My only complaint is that I wish the documentary never ended. Most importantly, Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band places front and center what truly matters: their music, the heart and soul that defined them and changed the course of music history.
100 WORD FILM REVIEWS / High Life
The theme of this sexually explicit horror film of a father/daughter relationship explains with sparse dialogue the silent depth of parental love. Robert Pattinson plays the father, whose sexual and emotional dark journey ends with the craft’s suicide destination inside a black hole. The sexuality is graphic, yet the horror lies in the crew’s lack of escape from their nature. Juliette Binoche, whose nudity is up close and personal, is stellar as the doctor at the center of this doomed experiment. This is movie is dark, weird, yet successfully coherent. The hopeless yet redeeming ending is its saving grace.
let my posts and selfies
decay like every other
stretch of skin
on this algorithm.
I once told a kid at my lunch table I had heard that Madonna
sang “fucked for the very first time” instead of “touched” when she did “Like a
Virgin” live, as if I had sources who attended concerts & reported back to me
about the good parts.
No one knows who hired Skeletor, or how long he’s been here.
Skeletor simply is, like the dying rubber plant or the grey
industrial carpet.
COMICS / Mr. Butterchips / Alex Schumacher / April 2020
Mr. Butterchips explores the limits of social distancing in the latest comic strip from Alex Schumacher.
Or you, the face on the milk carton, the lingering lipstick stain on the cracked edge of a glass,
the squalid humidity in South Carolina, thick and teeming; something missing,
something fleeting, something gone.
Burt Reynolds is Blade, and Whistler, and Frost, and also Dragonetti and Quinn. Dragonetti he can empathize with; an aging man being overtaken by the younger pack. Quinn he feels would be better suited for someone like Chris Pratt.
I am not like other girls,
will mean that I have real merits,
boy merits, spunk, attitude,
but most importantly that I have a future
at night, the mouse calls
out—i can’t be sure
if it’s for her mate
or for the inevitable loneliness
there are times when a thing as simple
as tea with too much honey, a joke told
in a certain way, can make you stumble
out of the now, how easy it is to forget
little jo, dad said, did you think life was fair?
wash the car before the sun sets
or you'll go straight to the moon, all alone,
making it easier for us here to breathe
“Jesse, you asked me if I was in the meth business or the money business. Well, I'm also in the nutritious meals and tidy house business.”
Pisces: You left a headband in a boy's apartment and hated him so much, you never texted him to get it back. Can't blame you. Who wants to talk to a guy who didn't have the smarts to want to use a condom? He doesn't respect you. Move on.
For some reason we became obsessed with the show He Man and The Masters of the Universe, which played every weekday at four in the afternoon on TV 44 KBHK in the greater Bay Area. This was before all your Cartoon Networks and Nickelodeons and whatnot, she wrote, sounding old af.
Eventually I looked away from the trees and saw Fake Freddie exiting the auditorium. He had two beautiful women on either side of him. They walked right passed us in the car.
“We’ll that ruins my entire night,” she said.