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Tape Heads
It’s no secret that I’m ride or die for physical media. Over the 16 years that this column has been a part of The Loafer, I’ve written about my love and obsessions for music, especially on vinyl. Incidentally, sales of new vinyl records topped CD sales for the first time since the 1980s recently. For […]
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Every Recipe on the Internet
As the Summer grilling season winds down, my family and I have really gotten a lot of use out of our grill this season. We plan to keep on using it right into the cooler months too! One of our favorite things to grill, alongside meat, is broccoli! That’s right! Grilled vegetables are nothing new. […]
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Kentucky Kernels
Most people today have never heard of the comedy team of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey, the pair were contemporaries of The Marx Brothers and Laurel & Hardy, reaching the peak of their success in the mid-1930s. The pair were cast as comic relief for the 1927 Broadway musical “Rio Rita” then came to Hollywood […]
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Perpetual Tile Confusion
It seems like many people are taking advantage of all their time at home during this pandemic to take up a new hobby or learn a new skill. Anyone who has done a casual glance of social media these last few months have seen everyone and then some take a stab at baking bread. Some […]
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Without Pat and Mike
Once again Warner Archive has a pretty robust slate of new to blu-ray releases for this month, including the blu debut of two films from legendary screen couple Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn. I’ll be focusing on those two titles, but I will make mention towards the end of some welcomed deep catalog cuts that are also getting […]
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What Do The Numbers on The Wall Mean?
Waking up everyday in 2020 is an experience unlike any I’ve encountered before. Typically, I am very good about what day it is, what happened the day before, and what my plans for tomorrow are. Yet, when everyday feels the same, I find that when I wake up in 2020—outside of screaming for five minutes—I […]
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The Mysteries of the Embroidered Ham
As with most mornings, I woke up and took a few minutes to come to terms with myself. Once I accept my fate I leave the bed and wander down the hallway into the kitchen and make coffee. While the coffee brews, I’ll walk around to the bay window in my kitchen and open the […]
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Million Dollar Mermaid
I don’t remember the first time I saw an Esther Williams movie, but I’m 90% positive I stumbled into one on TCM sometime. I quickly became transfixed by the experience. Those incredible aquatic fantasies that are the hallmark of her movies are simply stunning. There is, quite literally, no other thing like it in the […]
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That Whole Internet Thing
It was just another pandemic morning (oh-way-oh). I woke up, but I remained in my bed, trying to wrap my head around what day it was. Unlike most mornings, that morning I found myself feeling completely unmotivated to get out of bed. As I laid in my bed staring at the ceiling, I did what […]
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Romance on the High Seas
Sometimes you need the fantasy. Not fantasy in terms of a genre related to swords, dragons, mythical quests, and far off adventures. But the kind of film fantasies that create a certain kind of vibe. Worlds that you find yourself wanting to escape to. A sort of “Ipanema of the mind” if you will. 2020 […]
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The Cameraman
In the late 1920s, after Buster Keaton’s “The General” had been a box office disappointment, though now is rightfully seen as a masterpiece, Keaton’s longtime distributor United Artists began to reign in the independence Keaton had seen throughout much of his career as an independent filmmaker. UA insisted that Keaton work with a production manager […]
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The Inevitable Column about Animal Crossing
In these pages in the past couple of years I’ve talked about my enjoyment of the Nintendo Switch, a gaming system that frankly I’ve loved about as much as my Sega Genesis and original Nintendo back in the day. I say that as I can’t recall when I last enjoyed playing video games as much […]
