I don't surf, but if I did I probably wouldn't use a surfboard wax called "Shark Bait"...

Is it ironic to witness 7 turkey vultures hovering above a McDonald’s in Marin?

Have you ever noticed that cinematic serial killers & psychos only listen to classical/opera or heavy metal? Why is that?

Ganglians are one of my new favorite bands. Stumbled upon them by prefabricated accident, liked what I heard, and plunked down $8 to see 'em at the San Francisco hole-in-the-wall known as The Hemlock. While their latest recorded offering, Still Living, is a bit shiny (actually more tinny), in living 3D they drop the disaffected glisten in favor of riveting surf gazer blow-out; their music drifts from demented, dreamscape doo-wop to ear glazing madness. This is deep-fried and sunny side up.

Today at 6:48pm

i have always been under the impression that maturity and fun are diametrically opposed to one another.

Spence Pontificates... on beer and sushi

"it seems best not to get drunk before eating sushi, but rather to get drunk while eating sushi. doing the former tends to make everything taste the same (i.e. bland). of course there's always the possibility that i’m just visiting the wrong sushi joints when i’m drunk..."

Spence Reviews... The Brothers Bloom

The Brothers Bloom - Short Take

It's like an OG Coen Brothers flick (think Miller's Crossing) mixed with a grifter themed collaboration between David Mamet and Wes Anderson.

Rachel Weisz is disarmingly sexy in the same way that Natalie Portman was in Garden State and Kate Winslet was in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Adrian Brody and Mark Ruffalo play off one another with droll sensibility and the cast of supporting players is sublime.

Entertaining all around.