HATE BREAK!

A preview of movies, books, music, and other ephemera originating in the 2000s that I actually loved.

Here’s the deal: the list of stuff I hate is actually negatively affecting nearly every aspect of my being. Still, I promise to finish it (by the end of next week, even).

However, I also promise to follow it up with a run-down of materials for which I felt profound admiration and affection during the previous decade.

In the meantime, a paying gig and a weekend away from the computer are propelling me—dare I imagine?—into a new and different (albeit temporary) direction.

So peruse this quick, impromptu, off-the-top-of-my-hot-head list of 2000s stuff I dig, like, severely.

Full loving explanations and celebrations with proper outside linkage will follow, following next week’s return-to-the-”I’m so MAD!”-madness.

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MOVIES, IN GENERAL, GOT BETTER
Meaning: in contrast to the previous 15 or so years, with the 1990s being the worst era of film history.

THE GHASTLY ONE: THE SEX GORE NETHERWORLD OF FILMMAKER ANDY MILLIGAN by Jimmy McDonough

MR. SKIN.

DVD COMPANIES “FOR US, BY US”
Anchor Bay, Blue Underground, Code Red DVD, Cult Epics, Fantoma, Grindhouse Releasing, Something Weird, Synapse

AMERICAN IDOL

BUBBLEGUM MUSIC IS THE NAKED TRUTH (book).

DOOM METAL/STONER ROCK

PRISONER OF X: TWENTY YEARS IN THE HOLE AT HUSTLER MAGAZINE by Allan MacDonell

GAYS IN THE MILITARY (the band)

THE CASCADE DRIVE-IN

WES CRAVEN’S LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT by David A. Szulkin

THE SOPRANOS

INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS (2009)

BILLYJACK.COM

THE SHIELD

HOWLING AT THE MOON by WALTER YETNIKOFF

CONTEMPORARY DOCUMENTARIES: Anvil, Capturing the Friedmans, The Cockettes, Crazy Love, The Devil and Daniel Johnston, Dig!, Grizzly Man, The King of Kong, Man on Wire, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster.

YACHT ROCK

COME, REAP by THE DEVIL’S BLOOD

AMERICAN PSYCHO (2000)

FAMILY GUY

DEXTER