Down the rabbit hole we go...
Christian Bale, Count McNuggula and more
The days are getting shorter, but the rabbit holes are getting deeper. At least in this house. I figure if I’m going to be online so much that my eyes hurt, I might as well put some of it somewhere… So here are some clippings of things from entertainment and the internet rolling around in my rotted little mind these last few weeks:
Matt Damon explaining to Christian Bale what 30 Rock is. Do not ask me how I went down this particular rabbit hole (first rule of Fight Club), but Bale nodding along and feigning interest like he’s an elderly grandparent letting his granddaughter explain the Apple Dance interruption drama is sending me.
Speaking of… I’m proud to say I was in the audience for an incredible LA Night 2 performance of Charli xcx and Troye Sivan’s SWEAT Tour after Night 1’s audience quickly gained a reputation on TikTok and Twitter/X for being abysmal/disappointing/full of influencers who didn’t know the words to any of the songs by the performers they paid to see (see: Charli throwing her hands up and asking the audience: “are you fucking joking?!” during “I Love It”). What can I say? Life is a competition and it feels good to WIN.1
Charli xcx at Kia Forum, Los Angeles, CA. Image by Colleen Claes, 2024. Say what you will about John Mulaney (mostly his – alleged – twisted personal life2), but catching this clip of him doing bit after bit about Los Angeles had me rolling as I scrolled aimlessly on my phone one night before bed. Honorable mentions: “If you were rolling around town, you’d be like, ‘No mayor, right?’” and “One thing that unites every part of Los Angeles is that no matter where you go, there is zero sense of community.”
McDonald’s Reagan Era “Count McNuggula.” How come nothing is CUTE anymore?!?! Trickle-down economics steals from us once again.
Luca Guadagnino’s American Psycho Remake Gate that blew up on Twitter/X3 this weekend, polarizing many. Once again, studios love nothing more than to say the letters ‘I’ and ‘P’ together instead of allowing brand new stories to enter their rotten little money-hungry brains!! My hot take as someone who just recently watched the original American Psycho (2000) for the first time? They probably should not do this… for several reasons, most of which have to do with Christian Bale.4 I feel sorry for whichever young actor gets cast and has to somehow “reimagine” this role that Bale already made so iconic and impossible to replicate. My RED HOT take? Let Bale torture himself physically for months to somehow look 26 again and reprise the role. Give him The Substance or something – if anyone can do it, it’s him!
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I refuse to drop the name “Twitter”, but also “Twitter/X” sounds funnily journalistic to me
…noticing a fixation trend yet???