Uh, a CD?
Silly question, I know, but is this going to get a physical release? I ask since I like CDs and, you know, I wouldn't mind giving the kid ten bucks.

Network anyone?
At least they refrained from using the phrase "crusty yet benign."

Ah, yes; that's the guy; he worked for the NME, I think.

Sub Pop should take the blame along with the credit
"…Seattle scenesters weren't exactly inviting outsiders to come to their land of omnipresent rain and widespread heroin addiction with some flowers in their hair."

Ricky Gervais yes, Ron Howard no
Yes, you can make fun of all kinds of stereotypes and/or taboos as long as you do it in a way that, in the end, sheds some light on the stereotype and/or the taboo. Like, most of Ricky Gervais's comedy, especially in the first series of Extras, made fun of hot-button issues like…

skip this, rent Tarnation
Tarnation from a few years back seems like a much better example of someone turning their own life into an interesting documentary; this guy just seems creepy. Plus, Tarnation had really good music; lots of Low songs.

but what did Cannibal Corpse SAY?
Wow, this was really great; this guy is really smart. I saw Poltergeist when it came out as a 12 year-old and it was pretty intense. Plus, I grew up in the suburbs of Southern California so that world was very much my world. (This film and ET totally nailed what those years were like:…

Queen: "Who put that on?"
"It's on random!"

Norman Bates
Sorry if somebody else wrote about this (five damn pages of comments? I have work to do!) but I'd say that Hitchcock gets us, in the course of Psycho, to root for Norman Bates rather than condemn him (part of that, of course, is that we're not really sure, until the end, that he's the murderer). Like, the…

nice mention of American Psycho
which also came out in 1991; bravo

thought of the foley scene in Modern Romance as I read this
"I think you saved the picture."

Eyes Wide Shut
The first time I saw Eyes Wide Shut I hated it; I thought every scene was too long and the music (basically two piano notes repeated over and over) sucked. But then a decade went by and, in that decade, I got married. I then realized what it meant to be faced with the prospect of only ever sleeping with…

smells like a grande latte
I didn't really mind Sonic Youth signing to Geffen, although there's no doubt in my mind that it constrained their music (SST wouldn't have batted an eye at what they recorded, whereas I'm sure they Geffen A&R man hunted their CDs for singles). But the crappiest thing I've seen Sonic Youth…

AndyN, that is a totally cromulent argument. Way to go.

make The Unconsoled NOW
"Ishiguro could easily become a sub-genre." Totally agree and just THE IDEA that "The Unconsoled" could be a movie makes me giddy. I totally love that novel.

Dude, time for a D-I-V-O-R-C-E unless you're willing to go double or nothing on Pee Wee's Big Adventure. Otherwise, end it.

tightest. script. ever.
In terms of plant/payoff, this is one of the tightest scripts ever; there's hardly anything that's presented in the opening scenes that doesn't payoff somewhere down the line, including slight gags like the slogan of the mayoral candidate in the present ("Progress is his middle name") being the…

Pedro the Lion's "Winners Never Quit"
Pedro the Lion's "Winners Never Quit" CD from 2000 is a concept record all about the relation between two brothers; one becomes a criminal while the other becomes a politician (who later becomes corrupted and disgraced). The opening lines set up the themes of the two brothers who,…

Another book to check out along the same lines that's a lot of fun is The Collaborators by Pierre Siniac. That book is even murkier since all of the in-jokes are about French authors. But it's a very fun read.

The Player meets Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (the original)
I just read it and liked it a lot; there are two twists that happen midway through the book that were a real surprise. The ending is pretty saccharine, but up to that point it's a really good read; a sort of a noir about the literary world more than an outright…