I already have done. Keep up, fucko.

I have to agreee with specialagentdalecooper (See also: The Cure), Some of the production on those albums is incredible without any need for vocals at all.. But once or twiceReznor has managed to reign in his histrionics and bad poetry and produce a vocal/lyric of worth. Hurt is one of those times.

I'm fairly certain that Thom Yorke has declared Videotape to be inspired by a story he read about someone with a terminal illness leaving a recording to their loved ones by way of saying goodbye, before they lost the power of speech and movement.

What about ' *whatever* is SHIT' versus '*whatever* is THE SHIT!' ?

Uh, 'him' being the abusive husband/father of course.

'The dog's bollocks' (which I'm assuming you're misquoting) is a British expression meaning that something is GOOD, doofus.

I was disappointed to hear that Exit Music was from/about Romeo and Juliet, I always thought it was an abused mother talking to her child as they try to escape his reach.

I love both versions, but echo the 'crown of thorns/crown of shit' distinction. Who knows whether Rubin bowdlerised it for Cash, or whether Johnny didn't want to swear on record, but it does transform the song's meaning somewhat . 'crown of Shit' suggests self-loathing beyond capacity for help (a young man's horror of…

Don't forget the blinding version by The Associates, whose incredible singer Billy Mackenzie eventually topped himself in 1997.

I like it a lot, but it is an excercise in cinematic formalism more than a gripping narrative. I think it was the stress of creating visually and thematically complex and multi-layered movies like this that led Lars Von Trier to create the Dogme movement and go the opposite way for a while. He seems to be back to the…

Judgement at Nuremberg is a great example of how to do the accent'/language thing responsibly and well.

I did mean 'sense of place' in the cinematic sense, as in you feel you're right there at the characters' shoulders. Never having been to Paris I can't comment on its geographical accuracy .

Oh don't get me wrong, Death Proof is bollocks from start to finish (apart from the action scenes)…. But when his techniques work it is indeed amazing.

There's a good 'bathroom mirror close' in An American Werewolf in London. I say this because i am just about to leave my desk and see John Landis introduce it at London Fright Fest.

Oi woz jest chicking to see if oi woz stending on plestik.'

Dialogue
You have NO RIGHT to say that to me!!!!'

Voiceovers
….can be used creatively and well as part of the fabric of a movie, especially when the narrator is unreliable or saying things that counter what's happening in screen. Terrence Malick is the master of this, but Goodfellas. The Assasination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford, Mishima: A Life in Four…

People falling through glass doors/windows and emerging without a scratch. you will be LACERATED by falling glass if this happens to you in real life, and may lose a limb or two.

EXACTLY!!!

Typing across the bottom of a scene ('Reno, Nevada, 1978') especially in a sci-fi/spy thriller, accompanied by dated 'computer printout' noise. I'm typing on a computer now. Why can't *I* hear that noise?