a mighty wind c/d

There is a thread on here somewhere about the treatment of LGBTQ characters in Guest's films and the above bit was not beyond reproach.

Where’s the real mayor? Someone shot the mayor, but they did not shoot the deputy.
Incidentally, the D.A.’s office called. They can’t find any witness, so he’s in the clear, Your Honor.

Speaking of Your Honor, I was at a swinger’s party the other night and a fellow says
to me “I’d like to meet your wife,” and I said “Your Honor!”

Watched Mascots for the first time last night and it was surprisingly delightful.

Huh thought Mascots was very very bad. Eugene Levy has a lot to do with the artistic and comedic success of the earlier films.

the transgender "joke" definitely was uncomfortable, since it was fairly obvious Shearer's character is the butt of the joke. Can agree it was antediluvian but I will admit around the time that film came out, my reaction probably would have been different than it would today, as back in 2003 I didn't know anybody that was transgender or know much about gender dysphoria or the trans community at all.

kind of a bummer note to end the movie on, yeah.

I had low expectations, and it's better than most of what's on Netflix. Mostly it was nice to see the regular players again, especially since we've been rewatching Party Down and some other shows where they pop up a lot.

Finally saw this recently. It might not have been quite as laugh-out-loud funny as Guffman or Best in Show, but it had a warmth to it that I really enjoyed, and there are some great bits -- Bob Balaban completely misunderstanding basic stagecraft and concert setup, warning the audience about the plants in the lobby, Jennifer Coolidge's line about model trains, Ed Begley Jr as a philosemitic Swede public tv producer who can't stop dropping yiddish into conversations, the spanish civil war song, "wha happened" etc. The rehearsal scenes especially felt very much like a real band reuniting for a concert. My grandparents were very much in the Chicago folk scene and I grew up hearing the music and stories, so it felt very close to home for me. I thought they captured a very specific slice of that scene very well -- not so much the Dylans and Dave Van Ronks, but the Kingston Trio type bands (I loved that the Folksmen sneered at the commercialism of the New Main Street Singers while only being a notch or so less commercial). "Eat at Joes" felt very real. These seemed very much like the bands that would do a hastily thrown together multi-act reunion concert for public tv, whereas the more *serious* acts probably wouldn't.

Mixed feelings about the Eugene Levy performance - I got the sense that he was supposed to be either acid burnout or nervous breakdown, but it was a little hard to tell if it was that or if he had had that same weird stilted speech when he was young. A bit one-note and underdeveloped.

The titles and cover shots of Mitch’s solo albums are hysterical