Make it a triple feature with the infamous punk rock episode of “Quincy”:
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Don’t forget Night Court S1E11, Harry and the Rock Star. The “punk music” of which does not appear to be available online (for free). Which is a pity, because it is a marvellous amalgam of the sounds of broken glass and someody howling.
TV like that RUINED punk music for me when I finally heard it in my rural South Dakota enclave – it was just more freaking guitars! BO-RING.
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Exactly.
We’re both feeding into that habit, right this very moment; the irony therein is not lost on me.
That said, my job is 80% down time, just waiting for the next project to come down the pipeline; if I were not occupying my mind in some way, I could conceivably die from sheer boredom.
(Reading books or drawing is out, that’s a bit too flagrantly obvious that I’m not actually working.)
Additionally, not all my time online is spent talking shit or looking at cute cat vids; a fair amount of it is dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge.
The BBS in particular is pretty helpful in this regard; not a day goes by where someone doesn’t post something that is unfamiliar to me, and so I go look it up to further educate myself.
Like any tool, the internet can used or abused; I admit that I do a little bit of both.
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I love The Long Goodbye! One of my all time favorite detective films. I saw it the first time in a college class on Detective Films. I think I was the only one in the class who enjoyed it. [Sterling Hayden is always a treat to watch]
Bruce Willis would have been a great Marlowe. He has enough clout to do whatever the hell he wants. I am surprised he hasn’t tried the role. He has never shied away from small scale, quirky stuff.
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Exactly. Someone needs to find out why not.
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i was going to say, suddenly the need for the star trek “space hippies” episode makes so much more sense.
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The last time he did a mystery/detective film it was Sunset in the 80’s. He played Tom Mix. James Garner played Wyatt Earp. Together they solved crime!
It bombed at the box office and he got on poorly with Garner.
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The fucker’s still spent his entire career getting beaten up and cracking one-liners. How can you do that and not play Marlowe? It isn’t fair, I tell you.
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A redemptive reading of “Hippies in Spaaaaaaaaace”
While the Enterprise crew is famously unkind to the Space Hippies at first, deriding them by calling them grown adults who act like spoiled, irresponsible children (Scotty’s especially bad: I’m surprised he wasn’t literally yelling at the damn kids to get off his lawn), by the end of the episode they’re all, with the exception of Sevrin, portrayed as innocent (if sometimes misguided), kindhearted people who ought to be respected for making their own decisions about how they want to live their lives.
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Doesn’t that also describe Clint Eastwood’s action film career, and Ahnold?
I recently revisited HBO’s Phillip Marlowe Private Eye series. Powers Booth was a total badass, but I always felt he lacked the levity most people bring to the part.
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Yeah, but the Gubernator and Clint Emptychair would both have made terrible Marlowes. You’re right about Booth though. Fine for Spillane*, no good for Chandler.
*not that there’s anything wrong with Spillane, of course.
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When I heard it for the first time I was like like, “WTF? This just sounds like Country!”
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There was Last Man Standing but that is a bit removed from Red Harvest…
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I’m not a fan of James Garner as Marlowe. He never seemed right for the role IMO: sure, he’s used to getting beaten up, but he’s too macho and not very convincing as being post-HS educated and cerebral in the way that the novel Marlowe was.
Also, Marlowe had (again, IMO) one of the worst & cheesiest movie posters ever created: so much shadow that James Garner barely looks like James Garner.
The amazing Gayle Hunnicutt helps, though.
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An hilarious show from the brilliant comedy minds of Mel Brooks and Buck Henry. Unfortunately, like a lot of shows during this era, it occasionally suffered from “middle age white guys’ idea of rock-n-roll” syndrome. Remember “The Twizzle” on the Dick Van Dyke Show?
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Dig that video, but I’ve always preferred this version of “Kill Kill Kill” from their live album Bucket:
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I can stomach it, and I dig it.
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You’re going to need to point out some “stupid” cat videos. 
Cat videos are a solid use of internet. Even this post of mine would be better if it was a cat video.
Here, this’ll make my post awesome.
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