This isn't really a reply to you, but I didn't know where else to put it given the long discussion below (and apologies if someone else has pointed this out - I didn't read the endless stream of back and forth; apologies also for the pedantry but it seemed like a reminder was in order):
People seem to forget that this…

It's not profound; it's a fact.  It's the expression of that fact, as if it were the beginning of a fairytale, aka the American Dream, that makes the sentence striking. 

O my friend, it is metal to the core.  Be prepared.

As you say, Marketa Lazarova is not that difficult to follow.  The
scenes are not necessarily in chronological order, and Vlacil uses a
variety of narrative tools, but if you are paying attention, the story
will be clear by the end of the movie.  Vlacil wasn't trying to make a
confusing movie; he was trying to immerse…

I saw one heavily intoxicated, who-give-a-shit show where they played, or tried to play maybe 40 songs and actually made it through a handful of their own before Paul refused to play any more and then a fight broke out on stage (not involving band members), but it was a pretty enjoyable show (I might have been annoyed…

Sobriety is kryptonite for Westerberg.  He, and the Replacements, need to find that sweet spot between anxiously terrified and incoherently careless, otherwise known as gloriously buzzed.  You think I joke, but the man needs balancing out of some kind.  I saw two back to back solo shows in 2005 - for the first, he was…

Best all-around filmmaking book:  Alexander Mackendrick, On Film-making
Best introductory cinematography book: Cinematography, by Malkiewicz and Mullen
Most important book: your rich friend's checkbook

Djur: You have my sympathies.

Here's another vote for continued posting of these types of interviews.

Did her character change, or did it just take 10 years for you to figure it out? (sorry for the personal questions but this stuff fascinates me.)

I guess that "we understood each other completely" judgment was a little hasty.

I realize you're being sarcastic, but the question of dialect in literature seems to be one that is perpetual.  Should Mark Twain not have bothered to depict the language of poor whites and blacks in Huckleberry Finn?  Was Joel Chandler Harris perpetuating (or inventing) stereotypes through the voice of Uncle Remus? …

I realize you're being sarcastic, but the question of dialect in literature seems to be one that is perpetual.  Should Mark Twain not have bothered to depict the language of poor whites and blacks in Huckleberry Finn?  Was Joel Chandler Harris perpetuating (or inventing) stereotypes through the voice of Uncle Remus? …

This should have been about 10 times as long, maybe a page for every Los Lobos album.  It could've used some more Blasters, too.

This should have been about 10 times as long, maybe a page for every Los Lobos album.  It could've used some more Blasters, too.

thug chuckles Uh, the Japanese certainly did a poor job of surrendering at Okinawa (in which more people died than in the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki) or after the firebombing of Tokyo in March 1945 (in which over 100,000 were killed.)  The Japanese also didn't surrender after the bombing of Hiroshima - it took…

thug chuckles Uh, the Japanese certainly did a poor job of surrendering at Okinawa (in which more people died than in the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki) or after the firebombing of Tokyo in March 1945 (in which over 100,000 were killed.)  The Japanese also didn't surrender after the bombing of Hiroshima - it took…

Musically, I find the last 3 Wilco albums to be pretty staid and uninteresting - I think I listened to the last two maybe 10 times total (and still I buy them!)  But what's really gone downhill are the lyrics.  Tweedy was never as poetic or evocative as Farrar, but the stuff on the latest album is pretty much…

Musically, I find the last 3 Wilco albums to be pretty staid and uninteresting - I think I listened to the last two maybe 10 times total (and still I buy them!)  But what's really gone downhill are the lyrics.  Tweedy was never as poetic or evocative as Farrar, but the stuff on the latest album is pretty much…

I, like you, thought of "college rock" as what they played on college radio, which included all of the bands you mentioned.  There is a Rhino box set, Left of the Dial, which covers pretty much all of the major bands.