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I can only agree with this. Separation Sunday is the kind of album you want to live inside (and lamost makes you feel you can).

English Bill, Michael Clayton, Captain Ron Mexico and The Juggernaut, Bitch are all sharp, on-point commenters who haven't registered. You see the username enough, you start to remember that person's comments. (Wasn't that what we used to do before the avatars and stuff came in?) I'm for registration on the grounds…

Michael Bay would start off with the hero's pregnant wife's womb exploding. And get less subtle from there on out.

"Wait till you see our version of Mad About You … "Mad About Shoe"! Huh? Huh? … Hey baby, gimme a kiss. No tongue!"

Loved it, and always felt sad that it didn't get more attention (maybe in the States it did, but it was barely aired over here). Giamatti, Linney, Wilkinson and Hollander were all excellent, and the script did a great job of bringing the time and historical context home to a modern audience.

He survived because he was an Eagle Scout. Just like David Lynch. You don't fuck with either of those guys.

I read VALIS after large amounts of its plot/themes were referenced in the Invisibles. (But then, what didn't get referenced in The Invisibles?)

The basic prose and sometimes-clunky dialogue is one of the things I like about Dick's books - as if all the craziness is being narrated by an ordinary fellow whose brain is slightly fried, and is trying to relate everything in a down-to-earth fashion in order to be believed.

Jonathan Lethem
wrote a very good essay on PKD and his books. He goes through his best works, and even suggests an essential list - it's very much the work of a fan and enthusiast, but with a certain critical distance added. It's published in his non-fiction collection, The Disappointment Artist.

SPOILER ALERT: The entire book is him yelling "Shakira Shakira!" over the text of Tracy Morgan's tell-all book.

What, no Pras Michel tell-all book?
::sulks::

Or Hackers. Crazy CGI inside-the-computer sequences! Characters with nicknames like Zero Cool and Acid Burn! A pre-fame Angelina Jolie!

It's a latter-day conversion to rival Saul of Tarsus.

I didn't exactly hate Lord of War, but not a lot of it stayed with with me afterwards. The best bit was the opening sequence, undoubtedly.

Any idea how many tasteful, middlebrow fact-based dramas he'll make before he decides to unsuppress it?

The Keep has got a wicked soundtrack by Tangerine Dream, who also scored William Friedkin's Wages of Fear remake Sorcerer. Do 'em both!

"Thornton was upstairs, trapped in his office by a desk he could no longer trust…"

The "actors mimicking the director's every action" was already done in Synecdoche, NY.

"I saw Mulholland Dr. with my mom."