surely their biggest song is "Sweet Child Of Mine"?
good to hear Jane's Addiction getting mentioned here too. This can never happen too much.

HP Lovecraft

AC/DC turned it into an art form

if it was a work of literary fiction he would be up there with the classic unreliable/batshit crazy narrators

well it gets credit for its influence in this article, just that everything it influenced evidently sucks

I'm curious to hear where Appetite For Destruction fits into the 80s cock rock timeline/legacy. My understanding is that it was the early 90s grunge sound that consigned it to the dustbin of musical history, but GnR seemed to have escaped the retroactive sneering as far as I'm aware. (Granted, they were never quite as…

the Big Vagina is played by Winona Ryder in the DVD extras

I'd also settle for Gaspar Noé

Cameo - Word Up

mostly I pine for ZMF

I see dead people what you did there!

the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald is SMH right now

The A.V. Club

Book Vs Film, I just had to look it up

yeah true, they didn't seem like an obvious pick for me but they killed it

I think Don Cheadle was toying with the latter at one point
Djibouti was awful but I could see it working as a film

His 1970s Detroit stuff is great - 52 Pick-Up, City Primeval, Unknown Man 89 and Swag - but my personal favourites are from the 1990s - Maximum Bob, Riding The Rap and Get Shorty. Post-2000 they are patchy at best (although Tishimingo Blues is up there with his classics), I liked Mr Paradise too.

Maybe there is less pressure to include everything (to the detriment of the film), less sacred cows to slay etc etc…and of course really great books do stuff that simply can't be replicated on screen, as you say.

I'll take "the Baldwin brothers" for 500, Alex

Not one Elmore's greatest books, but then you could say the same about Cormac's No Country For Old Men and that film turned out more than okay