Taylor Mead, any film.  That guy sounds like he's constantly choking on his own backwash.

Taylor Mead, any film.  That guy sounds like he's constantly choking on his own backwash.

A quote of hers I always liked:

A quote of hers I always liked:

"I know I'm no Cole Porter / I'm noticeably shorter"

"I know I'm no Cole Porter / I'm noticeably shorter"

About damn time this guy got his due.  Insanely talented, and painfully overlooked for too long.

About damn time this guy got his due.  Insanely talented, and painfully overlooked for too long.

I always loved Rodney's performance in this video.  They go out of their way to highlight how little he contributed to this song. 

I always loved Rodney's performance in this video.  They go out of their way to highlight how little he contributed to this song. 

Not a very good likeness…

It probably was going to die that way.  They did shoot those flashback scenes on a farm, after all.

Yup, that's "Sans Soleil".  I find it hard to imagine, though, that Marker himself was responsible for orchestrating that slaughter.   Not that that makes it any less harrowing to watch, but I don't hold that scene against the film or Marker (truthfully, I really love "Sans Soleil").  Game hunters are the real…

The close-up snail deaths in Crispin Glover's "What Is It?" are surprisingly hard to take.  Especially the one snail that, rather than be salted to death like its brethren, gets cut in half with a razor blade.

I'm sure that chicken was actually killed.  Haneke's films are rife with animal deaths.  Besides the two you named, there's also the goat that gets stabbed in the neck in "Time Of The Wolf" and the slow death of all the fish in "The Seventh Continent."

"Pink Flamingos" isn't even Waters' only film in which a chicken gets killed.  "Mondo Trasho" opens on a shot of a masked executioner taking an axe to several chickens.  It's not quite as brutal as the "Pink Flamingos" scene (the fact that it's in black and white helps).  The way those decapitated chickens flop around…

Fun factoid: Eunice Puell is played by Ann Magnuson of the band Bongwater.

Way to not mention Gay Dad.

Yeah, that third album of theirs is just as good as the other two.  Actually, bringing it around full-circle to what you were saying about Tzadik, John Zorn plays sax on the first track of that album.  

Couldn't agree more.  I was lucky enough to catch two Blind Idiot God reunion shows a few years back.  One show was with Don Caballero, and the other was with The Flying Luttenbachers.  Two more bands definitely following the same lineage as the ones you mentioned.