Took me years to appreciate Presto. Perfect pop songs played with a Rush sensibility. Chain Lightning, War Paint…damn good stuff. Only dud is Scars, I think.

Much love for your love of The Final Cut, my man. I memorized all of the lyrics, too. Loved the way Waters sang with so much emotion. I find it fails pretty hard at being a Pink Floyd album, but it's a damn good album nonetheless. There isn't anything quite like it.

As much as I love all of PTA films and There Will Be Blood especially, I think Punch Drunk Love is his most fully realized and focused character study. A lot of his has to do with the length of the film compared to his others, sure. But he made a concerted effort to streamline and simplify. And the film has tons of…

Indeed. I also unabashedly love Octopussy. It's got eggs and Maud Adams and a guy who grinds dice to dust!

That would be pretty cool to revisit Clubber Lang and Drago in some fashion in Creed. Hell, just a mention of them somewhere. I mean, in real life boxers just hang on and on and on, comeback, win different titles. There's got to be some sort of creative outlet there that's not fan fiction!

This is great…thanks so much! And nice Community reference.

Wow, that's very cool. Do a lot of people ask you about it? I only ask because I would love to know more about it…but only if you aren't irritated by telling about your experiences!

This is exactly it. I read it one summer, dedicated to reading 10 pages a day. Often it was much more, but always that minimum. Once I realized that I couldn't possibly understand how the plot weaves together, it was much more enjoyable. Re-reading it a few years later was even better. It's just a fucking fun book.

I would describe him as post-post modern. Very interested in sincerity, but he always got there in a roundabout way. He wanted to make connections through language, through shared experiences that couldn't always be easily articulated. His non-fiction is rich with amazing observations and details and empathy. His…

Ugh, I do remember. And then people saw the movie and realized just how goddamned mind-quakingly awful she was in it. She's not sexy, she's not funny, she can barely act, and her character is superfluous and dull. Hell, after this trainwreck and the invisible car, there was nowhere to go but to start over. So, I…

2 is indeed pretty damn great. I really love the barbecue blow-up at the end, holy shit.

Counterpoint: Is Tom Atkins in it? Is he beer-swigging half-assed doctor who hates his kids and sleeps with a woman half his age? WATCH THAT SHIT.

What do you suppose ever became of Drago? At that time in the Soviet Union, would he have been disgraced and sent to the Gulag? Or would he simply have soldiered on? Defection? Suicide? These questions demand answers.

Damnit, he likes to bind and to be bound!

"DON'T TOUCH!"

This toy gives "You came in that thing" a whole new meaning for so many people.

Oh please please please let it be over!

It is extraordinarily bad now, with Max what's his name, which I happen to like when he's talking boxing, and that Marcellus what's his name, who does nothing but stammer over all the highlights and ruin Beadle's timing as she's trying to narrate clips and so forth. Makes me miss Colin what's his face a little bit. Or…

Day-Lewis is so damn good in this. I know it's cliche to say at this point that he's good in everything, but that's the truth. This site was talking about Tom Hanks last week and how good he is in Captain Phillips, and I love Hanks as well. There is a naturalism in Hanks that few actors can manage.

Indeed on all of this. Banks really laid down a wash of keyboards on those albums—much more subtle than his contemporaries. And Bruford really is damn good. His playing on Crimson's Red is among is best for sure. I know he sort of made a tangent into jazz and electronic drums, and I lost sight of him after his second…