What was the Gibson novel that had the film which was gradually revealed online and which had followers around the globe interpreting it? I thought that that was a good comment on the strangeness of our computer culture. It is a normal thing to analyse a film, but this seemed so strange, and new at the same time. I…

I saw this the other day and really loved it. It was such a gripping movie. The characters, story and settings are so interesting that they are still vivid in my mind. This movie had a big impact on me.

I saw this movie the other day. I really loved it. I was completely engrossed in it. Everyting was interesting: the characters, story, settings. Such a gripping movie. Did I mention the characters? Talk about characters leaping off the screen!

I'm in the middle of The Quest for Tanelorn, by Michael Moorcock. I really enjoy Moorcock. I find his writing oddly soothing… This parade of strangely dressed and weaponed people with crazy names. Shifting through the dimensions from one wonderful dreamscape to the next.

This is an entertaining site devoted to sci-fi covers from the past:
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/

Claire Trevor? Born to Kill is a great noir. With Lawrence Tierney. The Big Sleep? I can't think of that movie without smiling, and I think of it often. How about the scene towards the beginning where a very hot and sweaty Bogart is sitting in the greenhouse with General Sternwood, who is wrapped in blankets?

TMWWBK - Connery walking on the rope bridge while singing - nuff said.

Neil Young, Albuquerque, from Tonight's the Night. Such a beautiful, mournful lament. That opening ghostly pedal steel solo… Ben Keith is so great. That sad, tipsy chorus.

It's funny how some books can be read again and some not. I actually re-read Catcher In the Rye about five years ago and really enjoyed it. Probably not as much as my teenage self, but I still thought it was excellent. However, too many times I've wrecked fond childhood memories: Lord of the Rings and Stranger In a…

Maybe there'll be another box of paperbacks… Keith Phipps writes great reviews! Loved his characterization of the "lost world" subgenre of fantastic fiction.

Yeah, but if I were reading from an electronic device, I could pretend I was like Jean-Luc Picard reading. And that would be awesome!

I'm glad that having books like this on Kindle might help to preserve them. I haven't read a book electronically, but I'd like to give it a shot. That said, there's nothing like reading an old paperback.

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Can I put in a vote against using letter grades with reviews. They seem silly and arbitrary to me. Saying one record is B and another is A-? People can listen to the clips here, or at MySpace, say, and make up their own minds. Letter grades are the ultimate testament to the sound bite era.

Sunrise has quite an impressive forced-perspective city-square set.

The song White Sky reminds me of the Paul Simon tune, Under African Skies.

I just read Moorcock's "The Champion of Garathorm." I enjoy all those "Eternal Champion" novels. I've read where Moorcock said that in the '60s and '70s, he could knock out a short novel in a few days. His books put me in a kind of dream-like state. Another Bristish fantasy author I quite enjoy is Tanith Lee. I would…

I just saw this movie; it was fantastic. I find it quite creepy the way Sarsgaard comes on to Mulligan.

There are some interesting making-of clips in the Inland Empire extras. I wonder if Laura Dern has ever talked about Lynch?

Black Dog was a cool movie.

A very good noir that is "pitiless and bleak" is Born to Kill with Lawrence Tierney and Claire Trevor. I love this movie; it is the kind of movie you might find if you lifted up a rock at the damp end of your backyard.