I kind of agree although I think Wise Blood is a masterpiece.  The Violent Bear It Away is not as interesting to me as her SS collections however.

>>>I still broke down crying and no one in the office even fucking noticed what sort of crazed unfeeling people do I work with

How very sad for you.

How very sad for you.

Why is I Know Where I'm Going so under appreciated? Because people are idiots.

If Howard Hawks directed it it would star Dewey Martin and Charlene Holt and it would kick ass.

"A writer writes. Always." - Larry and Owen.

Then don't eat it.

Heisler's reviews of P&R make my skin crawl a little.

Heisler's reviews of P&R make my skin crawl a little.

"You want brown juice or green juice?"
"What's the difference?"
"Three weeks."

Well under 25's don't know much to begin with.

Thanks for your contribution.

To be a neo-noir you have to be noir.

Is Daniel still on the pipe?

I don't think much of "Model Shop" although I think Demy's "The Young Girls of Rochefort" is one of the greatest movies ever made.  He made a better film going against the grain of the hippie movement than he did when trying to evoke or appropriate it.

38.

I'm another non-fan of Vonnegut and think the Library of America hit bottom when they included him.

Horseshit.  There were probably more bullets fired in this movie than by the entirety of the LAPD during the decade of the 1940s.

I generally like his writing and have purchased his books but like a lot of writers on AV Club his work suffers from being constantly larded with political correctness.