GALLIPOLI's ending was devastating.

Even if the movie disappoints, we'll always have the lead-up.

…I don't think so, actually.  I think they divorced.  Then she formed a group with his son, the idea of which kinda gives me the shivers.

I thought this was one of the few truly perfect albums until I found out what an underhanded guy he is.  I pulled the album off my phone and I don't know when enough time will pass that I can listen to it without judging him.  I know that's kinda stupid, but it's the same way that real-life actions spoiled Michael…

IMPERIAL BEDROOM was the first bad Elvis!?  You're insane, son.  To me, that was a huge rebound after what I would call the incredibly mediocre GET HAPPY/TRUST/ALMOST BLUE trifecta.  (Yes, I know I'm in the minority on this.)

You have a problem with IMPERIAL BEDROOM, A SENSE OF WONDER, and NEBRASKA?

It's pretty mean-spirited, I think.  That's my biggest problem with it.  It would make for a bad Coens' brothers movie.

Salinger actually published about forty or so short stories.  He just didn't collect many of them in book form.

Fourth.  I read it in my mid-twenties and found it artful; tried again not long ago and found it insufferable.  I don't think I lasted fifty pages.

Charles Laughton as director.

He had a pretty great run for only — what? 18 months' recording? But I'm not sure if 4 1/2 hours or so of songs is small enough for this article's purposes, though if Salinger qualifies, Holly probably should.

This got me, too.

Like.

Well, you did insult him a *little bit.*

This is a truly inspired choice, so the casting has now basically zeroed out, correct?

I'm proud to say that almost anything I listened to then I can listen to without embarrassment today.  Favorites were Springsteen, the Clash, Zevon, Costello, REM, Lou Reed.  I dropped ELO for a bit because they were considered uncool (and SECRET MESSAGES was awful), but picked them up again as a college freshman. …

I grew up in small town Indiana, and quite often when I would read about some cool-sounding new (or old) album, I'd have to special order the thing and one of the co-owners would inevitably try to talk me out of it.

Amen, amen, amen.

I think Justin Bateman owes an awful, awful lot to Albert Brooks.  His acting in ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT pretty perfectly mirrors Brooks' cadences — he's just usually more confident.

I think it was a camera person during testing of the IMAX camera, actually.  I'm fairly certain this is correct, unless two stunt people died.