Now with the DVD release, I get to enjoy this brilliant gem again. This time, I was joined by my guest for the weekend, Drizzt. I will repeat a word he used a word to describe it -- an endorsement with which I wholeheartedly agree: "Genius."

It is entirely possible that it requires a certain type of mind to appreciate this movie. (Read: Yes, we are better than all the rest of you pathetic little numbskulls, and we know it.)

It is a movie that has virtually no "story" at all, so to speak, but it somehow manages to encapsulate the entirity of human experience, roll it up into a little bundle of scenes, and splatter it at you nonstop for 99 minutes. It's an ever-energizing, ever-engaging, continuously refreshing thing of beauty. Pure candy for the intellect.

Richard Linklater is a genius. Definitely gonna have to watch the commentary tracks. Simply amazing stuff. Goodnight, world.