Rasputin's Stash is good stuff (I only recently came across it):

'Jackin' for Beats' is a great song—I've made two full discs of uncollected De La Soul tracks—most of them from the Prince Paul era when their 12"'s were full of remixes and goofy throwaways. For a while they were like They Might be Giants in that respect.

I was also just reminded of Kate Bush's 'This Woman's Work' much of which was previously available in the US as a bottleg called 'Passing Through Air'.

Fucking corndogs.

"There must be outtakes"

'Meat is Murder' is not bad but it's not essential either, especially since 'How Soon is Now?' is available elsewhere and kind of doesn't fit. Also, even though the title track launched a thousand vegans, it's a terrible drag as a closer.

I think it's a Hammer horror film, but I've never seen it.

I played all those Star Wars games but for the life of me, I could never figure out one specific part of the original Dark Forces game—on the level with the trash compactor, how do you get past it?

She just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich…
"Is there another retelling of the Rasputin story involving an indiscernible stew of internationally recognized but cheaply available actors willing to work in Australia for a few weeks?"

Here's a taste of Corso:

bsort—I feel like I should throw out names. My younger sister went to McCarthy Middle School so if you did too you may have known her. Did you ever have Ms. Hallal? She's the sophomore honors English teacher that allowed me to substitute 'On the Road' which I wanted to read for 'The Once and Future King' which I…

'Breakfast at Tiffany's is a much better novel than the movie might lead you to believe, and not a love story. It's been a while since I read it, but I think of it whenever some lit crit type makes the familiar assertion that American Literature—especially by men—has never had a strong, well-drawn female character.

As for recasting Lean movies, TCM told me just yesterday that Lean himself originally wanted Marlon Brando for both T.E. Lawrence and Dr. Zhivago. I could care less about the latter, but Peter O'Toole was perfect.

I wouldn't lump William Carlos Williams with those others, though. He was an important High Modernist, at least as influential as Pound or Frost and his work ages really well:

I wasn't faulting Bukowski for his work but his legacy. To whatever extent he was the real deal, he created a template for many who are not.

I originally thought that, buried in Truman's rant up there was what I took to be an accidental conflation of 'Mockingbird' author Harper Lee with Nell Harper, the name of the character played by Nell Carter on 'Gimme a Break'—but it turns out that Harper Lee's actual first name was Nelle and so I instead of…

bsort—I'm not really FROM Chelmsford (as an Air Force brat I never lived anyplace long enough to be "from" there), but I spent the the crucial first three years of high school at Chelmsford High from '86 to '89. Since I had moved from Dayton, OH, Chelmsford may have saved my life.

I'll endorse 'Dead Letter Office'—I like the Voice of Harold lyrics better than the original '7 Chinese Bros.' one.

The full length version of Joy Division 'Substance'. Duh.

As staircar slyly implies, The Smiths were perhaps the most devious of the mid 80's marketers, at least in the US. Perhaps only Depeche Mode oudid them in that respect. I can think of a number of 12" discs that I or friends of mine picked up because of the 4 or 5 tracks listed, there was one we'd never heard of—only…