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good golly yeah i'd forgotten how much this is michel gondry at the height of his powers. loving Evil Dead homage, people placing and receiving phone calls from separate dreams they are having, jumping into someone else's dream by falling asleep, some beautiful transitions. here's a writeup from a few years back.

i've forgotten the specifics but on the liner notes for gondry's volume of the Director's Label DVD series, he mentions that the weird morphs at the end were because one of the band members (i wanna say Pat Smear? let's go with that) didn't like the idea of playing "himself" as a character who kidnapped and roughed up women, so gondry's solution was for him to burst out of his prior character as if it were a costume and suddenly emerge as "Pat Smear, respecter of women". (note: if anyone has more details on this and wants to correct me on which band member it was, fire away!)

oh god, this is how I found out that Foo Fighters' drummer Taylor Hawkins died this year :(

Taste Cinnamon Rolls
Recipe By: David Rosengarten
Servings: 16

This recipe is from an early 90s food network show called Taste with David Rosengarten. Before Alton Brown hit the scene this guy was one of the faces of The Food Network, but you wouldn't know that these days since his existence is completely scrubbed from their website.

I had to transcribe this from an ancient printout my mom had. These are, without a doubt, the best cinnamon rolls I have ever had in my life. Any time my parents tried to tweak the recipe or use a different one they were never as good. This is the one you want.

• 2 packets     Yeast     (note: one packet of yeast is typically 2 ¼ tsp, so you will need 4 ½ tsp)
• ¾ cup     Warm Water
• ¾ cup     Sugar
• ½ cup     Vegetable Shortening (Melted)
• ¼ cup     Butter (Melted)
• 3     Eggs
• 1 ¼ cups     Whole milk
• 6 cups     High gluten or bread flour
• 1 tsp     Kosher salt

• 6 tbsp     Butter (melted)
• ½ cup     Sugar
• ¼ cup     Brown Sugar
• 1 tbsp     Ground cinnamon

• ¾ Cup     Powdered Sugar
• 1 tsp     Vanilla Extract
• ?     Milk – to desired consistency

Roll out dough into a rectangle (approximately 24 inches by 10 inches) and to a thickness of ¼ to ½ inch. Brush dough with melted butter. In a bowl, combine sugar, brown sugar, and cinnamon. Sprinkle mixture over melted butter, covering all the dough. Along long side of rectangle, roll the dough up, like a rug. Trim ends and slice rolls into 16 1 1/2-inch rounds. Dip both sides of rounds in cinnamon-sugar mixture and arrange on greased sheet pan or in 2 buttered large cast-iron frying pans, cover and let rise for 30 to 40 minutes.

In a bowl, whisk together powered-sugar, vanilla, and milk, until it forms a frosting at your desired consistency. Cover and set aside.

Bake at 400 degrees F for 15 to 20 minutes or until golden

Cool for 5 minutes and drizzle with glaze.

Thanks to @theyce for the idea