WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH ALL THESE GODDAMN HANKBUCKS?!?

You must not be looking very hard... you already have everything you need to find him, Clarice.

We're heavy into production right now. That's about all I can say at the moment. First 3 episodes in particular are HUGE and have been a bitch to design, storyboard, edit, etc. Have been buried in work, but it's exciting and, occasionally, fun.

Thank you for the exceedingly high praise. I worked really hard on "O.S.I Love You"--it was a personal favorite that required a lot more specificity in the direction than other episodes, due to its fractured narrative, and it's those tough ones you're most invested in that you worry the most about how they're received. Glad to know it "worked!"

Am a huge Wes Anderson fan. Have been since I saw Bottlerocket in an indie theater in its initial release and it snapped me out of a nasty post-college depression. I would gladly go work as a PA on any of his films, and yes, in the back of my mind, when I'm making a Venture Bros. episode, I often think "I want this to be the most action-packed, 22 minute Wes Anderson film ever made."

Tennenbaums is my personal favorite, but I love all of them. Though sometimes not the first time I see them. He's one of those directors I love so much that I unfairly walk into each film expecting it to immediately hit me in the same way as my favorite one did, and when it doesn't, I feel let down. Then I think about it for a little while, or I see it on DVD six months later, and realize I was being an idiot. I'm the same way with the Coen brothers. The first reaction is always "aw... this isn't Barton Fink..." and then a few months later I think "Wait... this is still like the best movie that came out all year, and nothing like anything any other director is making. I should shut up and enjoy it."

So yeah, I loved Grand Budapest Hotel. Probably his least emotional film in a while--he didn't spring one of those 3rd act gut punches on the audience this time (like Richie's suicide attempt, Ned's helicopter scene, the drowning Indian kids...). More farcical, like a live action Mr. Fox or something. Was happiest to see the return of the flawed, headstrong, proactive and unflappable main character--M. Gustave is in that class with Max, Royal and even Dignan and Mr. Fox--that we didn't see as much in the more recent of his films.

The set design was, of course, amazing. I'm truly jealous of the Soviet-era makeover the hotel got. And man, it was neat to see Anderson add the likes of Fiennes and F. Murray Salieri Abraham to the ensemble!

No plans to at the moment.

It's coming soon. And so, probably, is an appropriately-themed Shirt Club one-off. That's all I can say right now.