This is a video of a guy opening and closing a cabinet door so the whole world can hear how it sounds like Chewbacca. Also, 'holy shit, this is amazing!' should never be used to describe a cabinet door. "Say, are you that guy that made the Chewbacca squeaking door video?" "I most certainly am!" "You...

That’s what Blue Collar Muse is asking.  Here’s my take.. If bailouts are bad, they are bad. If people think they are good, they are ok still bad. But here’s the thing….if Tennessee (or any other state) were to refuse the bailout money, does that mean those dollars wouldn...

What a surprise. Taking a little New Year's Eve break from my wall-to-wall fest programming screening. I enjoy some home made soup and texas caviar and catch up with the year end Austin Chronicle. I come across the music Top 10s and don't expect any ahas. Just reading for a quick familiarity and nam...

We didn’t pay much any attention to the news while visiting the midstate over the weekend, and were really surprised to find I-40 east closed from Cookville to Knoxville because of a chemical spill.  There are a couple of ways to react to something like this.  One is to kick yourself in the ...

For the last three years, John's been teaching a Master Class at UT - holding great conversations with some of the most talented filmmakers around. Some guests are close friends, some are just delightful new friends. Either way, it's been a real highlight for me. I can't get enough of hearing John t...

Everyone knows we got married in a movie theatre (Film Forum when it was on Watts Street to be exact - it's where we'd met working there the year before). We showed the second half of Buster Keaton's "Seven Chances." But the pre and ceremony soundtrack? Keep in mind John's parents were very religiou...

Was it a low blow? Well she did make her statements while campaigning for Barrack. To me that makes anything she said fair game. If the tables were turned and she’d made a stirring, tear jerking statement about how great this country is, you’d better believe the Dems would be using that ...

Although I didn’t get any work done, this was one of the most productive afternoons I’ve had in a long time. Today I met up with some fine folks to discuss the idea of CoworkingKnoxville. Of course, as the name implies, the general idea is that we actually will get some work done eventua...

Tennessee is the top ranked team in the nation? In basketball? Men’s basketball? You have to understand, I attended the University of Tennessee during the reigns of Wade Houston and Kevin O’Neil. I was a pretty die hard fan back then. Of course it was easy to sit in the front row of the ...

Sitting here happily watching the Grammy's with John - like we've done a hundred times before. (OK, not a 100, 26 times but that's besides the point.) Just hanging, enjoying this commercial tv awards show, thinking Alicia Keys looks great in that dress even though it looks like it's hard for her to ...