Great interview, intelligent questions, and nothing wrong with the length. Minor gripe is, I wish we heard more about Candy Mountain, but as its never appeared on DVD, and doesn't look likely to, I suppose that would be a waste of time.

"Ah, he's killed me, too…" Great final words.

I'm flattered that you ripped off my comment to open your pitch with, Lydia. Alas, I am unable to give you real love, only my cock up your nose.

Billion Dollar Brain is amazing. One of the best of that era, easily beating most of the Bonds. Cul de Sac is great, too.

He must be a modest man, then. I've had the DVD for many years (UK edition, not Criterion) and not really checked the features out.

Intriguer
Fascinating to see this. Always wondered what exactly his "adaptation by" credit on Paris, Texas meant, given that Sam Shepherd is always credited with being the sole writer.
And this is a neat follow-up to the excellent article on Breathless that you fellows did the other week.

All this is very hurtful.

His Tones
Also, he had a lovely speaking voice. No-one's brought that up.

Pedantry Corner:
In the movie he didn't go around killing people who were just called "Sarah", did he? He killed people actually called "Sarah Connor". He wasn't that much of a fucking doofus.

Buk Books
I had a wannabe Bukowski phase when I was 19. It was terrible, one of the worst, most lonely, pathetic phases of my life. But that's my stupid fucking fault. The books are still really good- and I'm surprised no-one has mentioned his short stories. Some are pretty uninteresting, but when they're good,…

That's a real shame. I had read elsewhere that Reed was jealous of Quine's superior playing, but I didn't know he had been so spiteful. Quine also hated Live in Italy (his opinion was even recorded in the liner notes for the recent re-packaging of it, though no reason is given for why he didn't like it).

You need to try harder to get a rise out of people on here.

I love "No Money Down", despite, or because of, its sheer '80s- ness.. That pulsing sequencer thing just seems to work for me. The canned funk guitar on it is crap, though.

He's amazing. Never heard a guitar like that before. I've recently gotten into Legendary Hearts, it takes a bit of work, and I like it, but one of its obvious disappointments is that Quine seems to be kept on the leash throughout.

I love Doin' The Things We Want To and Turn to Me in particular off New Sensations. The former for its lyrical subject matter that starts off talking about a Sam Shepard play then goes on to celebrate Martin Scorsese's early New York films ("Here's to Travis Bickle and here's to Johnny Boy"), and the latter for its…

Legendary Hearts is a good one to go to for advanced studies. Subtle, understated and slow, only a couple of rockers on it, but with some of his most personal lyrics about overcoming booze and violence.

Aye, cheers for your input.

Turtal Turturro
Interesting, with the talk of him being ethnically malleable, that he was cast as the world's least convincing redneck in Secret Window.
Also, I would have liked some talk about Fear X, but maybe it's a bit obscure, even though Refn seems to be about to leave his mark with Drive. And people seem to…

No Sympathy
Terrible fucking title.

It's available for download on iTunes, if that's any consolation. It might not be.