nice work keith
I appreciated the research and backstory on J.D. Loudermilk, Stan Freberg, Glo Coat and the Nashville Teens. (allmusic.com has a photo of Loudermilk that looks amazingly like Mad Men's Harry, which suggests why Loudermilk never had much success as a performer.) Tobacco Road is one of the great rock…

I'm trying to figure out if holes are cohesive by nature or whether cohesion is not a property of holes at all. I suppose it comes down to how you look at it. Either way, tough to produce.

Lonesome Onry and Mean
That's my favorite Waylon album, and Mickey Newbury's "San Franciso Mabel Joy" is my favorite cut on it — chokes me up every time. Shows that underneath all the outlaw persona, which I love as much as the next guy, ole Waylon could simply deliver a song like nobody's business.

Having listened to this album quite a bit today, it seems to me it kicks ass. I like it a lot.

where's chuck?
Haven't heard this one, but it seems odd that, according to allmusic.com, the great guitarist Chuck Prophet returns as Escovedo's songwriting partner here (on most songs, not all) but doesn't play on the album; on Real Animal he did both.

With These Hands is also good.

Thanks for the elaboration.

@pheodreaw, if you're still paying attention here, I'd be curious as to why you say that. I have long been aware of the contempt philosophy students and philosophy teachers have for this book. I once made the mistake of merely mentioning it in a graduate seminar and people reacted as if I'd farted. I'm aware that its…

Jesus, Mel!
As Nietzsche said of the Christians, "I'd believe in the Redeemer if more of his followers acted redeemed." Or something like that.

thanks
I was aware of Fulks but didn't know his music. I cherry picked the favorite songs everyone mentioned here today and put them into a Rhapsody playlist. Really enjoyed it — thanks!

Basho's use of the word "illiterate" is inexact but not a malapropism.

"Cheesy, bafflingly stupid, and manipulative as shit." That about sums it up. Will Smith is great in it, though. If I'm not mistaken that was his breakthrough role.

@Coldstream: "The hate and anger she pours into her political activities is so impulsive and visceral that I genuinely believe it must be overspill from some other issue in her life that is not being addressed."

As Peter Case pointed out
I don't want to swear it but it's something that I heard
A gun in the first act always goes off in the third

thanks, Janeane
Thank you for saying what you're saying and having balls enough to take the shit the crazies throw at you. I also appreciate that you don't take yourself too seriously. Great interview.

I thought the point was that the mechanics of the form are so pat that even a talent-less idiot like Pupkin (who, after all, has been preparing for this moment most of his life) can do a reasonable imitation. One of De Niro's great, underrated moments as an actor, imo.

re the Raindrops scene, I agree it seems oddly out of place, but at the same time it helps set up what I think is the theme of the movie, i.e., the coming of a new age of technology and corporate power that will make idiosyncratic individualists like Butch and Sundance obsolete, the bicycle representing a sort of…

@Alex, yes, it's well known about the alcohol being cooked off, but to see it that way would be to think and act rationally. I repeat: Rabid parents look for ANY excuse to become hysterical. And for all I know there's a reason some parents might be legitimately concerned about alcohol being used even if it IS burned…

I don't know where you guys live, but in my town parents are thrilled to have an excuse to assault the school board at the slightest perceived offense. Serving a school lunch prepared with alcohol would be like throwing meat into a school of sharks.

@Doc Brown. Congratulations. I think you may be the first person in Internet history to admit you don't know what you're talking about.