One song I’ve used to skip for years was “Long
Long Long”.Used to think it was some whiny filler among so many gems on
White Album but some day it just fucking hooked me for good. That insinuating bass line, that desperate
sense of emotional suppression and loss, heroic drum breaks, and the aural portal
to hell opening…

Yeah, I got one and it's pretty blurry but you still can figure out small faces of The Beatles. Little Lennon is hilariously hiding behind a camel!

Plus Sugar's "File Under: Easy Listening" - that cover was beyond lame!

The Old Stoic Lady got the "Martyrs" treatment… That was COLD, Ramsay! Even for a northerner.

I really dig Uncle Grandpa because I know that he's in fact GG Allin, resurrected and given a second chance to fuck shit up. This exclusive knowledge helps me to understand what's he really doing…

I gotta check this!
I wonder how it would compare with high-rank nazi porn being pursued in DeLillo's "Running Man" and Hitler the Sc-Fi Writer's feverish homoerotic fantasies in Spinrad's "Iron Will".
As for "Look Who's Back" - I found it pretty toothless and quite tedious.

Satyricon is one of my favorite psychedelic-period Fellini's masterpieces, along with Juliet of the Spirits and Toby Dammit. None of those films are exactly coherent but they are unique, engrossing and gloriously freaky even by his standards. And always fun to rewatch. The design sets alone make my cerebellum spin in…

No wonder, they made friends and Gibson mentioned Beauman in some interviews. But I thought Glow was a bit of a letdown. The plot is cartoonish and overcomplicated, the characters are rather one-dimensional and detailed scientific descriptions of various drug effects and physical conditions feel rather forced. The…

I enjoyed Vanishing for the atmosphere and direction but, man, was that travelling couple unbelievably irritating! Actors tried really hard to eliminate all empathy with their constant hysterics. Considering the largely implausible ending, I view this more as a black comedy.

Reading Cronenberg's Consumed. So far it's pretty restrained on the body horror front but I enjoy it. Nicely flowing writing with DeLillo-like sarcasm upgraded for current tech-nerds. Still hoping something greatly unappetizing will occur.

Vineland was the first Pynchon I read in English after enjoying translations of V and Lot 49 in my native Russian. I was struggling with this book for about a year, taking considerable intervals. It seemed hard because of his constant narrative twists and digressions, but after that I swished through Gravity's Rainbow…

Young Buscemi played by young Pynchon - now that's a biting twist!

That bath scene reminded me of the most awful moment in Updike's "Rabbit, Run".

Well, that wig is my favorite survivor of the whole season…

With his mouth sewn shut, he still shakes his butt
Cuz he's Hitler & Swayze & Trump & Travolta

And still it's an enlightening reading experience! If only for the scene, involving Hitler's nose… It's on page 989, I think.

Bondarchuk is a pompous douchebag, who makes cheesy, vapid sub-cinema. He should be simply ignored, like annoying commercials. 1993's "Stalingrad" was good but kinda too formulaic. Check the description of Stalingrad Battle in Jonathan Littell's "The Kindly Ones" for visceral, surrealistic horror and true desperation.

Two pretty brutal and powerful movies should be mentioned here - "La ciociara" and "La Pelle".

A decidedly trying experience. In 1999 and living in Moscow I didn't have a big chance to see Fugazi live and disjointed concert snippets didn't really satisfy my hunger. But after a hundred or so viewings (as it rolled on my VHS constantly) I finally got into the Art-Zen groove of this anemic document.
The most…