Naw—I just wonder how many Christians would be affected the way they are by 'The Exorcist' by a Horror movie whose monster is a bunyip.

That old gunfighter in Mexico should be played by Keith Carradine and that one Mexican guy is clearly modeled after Al Pacino.

"Combat Rock, however, is an above average one"

And Another thing…
Sly and the Family Stone's 'There's a Riot Goin' On'. After years of knowing them primarily from their 'Anthology' hits, the rolling boil of 'Luv N' Haight' was easily the coolest piece of music and the deepest Funk I'd ever heard up to that point:

Let me guess Fidel—was it the Spin interview? That was what got me interested, and is my main argument for why Spin was so great in the 80's.

That's just it though—if you get bored by the direction of the game, you run a crime spree for as long as you can—robbing the convent in Mexico and hog-tying nuns will never get old. And you can kill half of Thieve's Landing (pigs included) before anyone even cares. Even on a small scale, everytime one of those…

I'm in—I frittered away much of the summer playing that game and all I can say is it's the best argument I've ever seen to counter Ebert's anti-video game bias. I could never get into the GTA series because I can't stand driving games and kept wrecking, but you gotta really work to run your horse off a cliff.

I think Agent Cooper has a point—using letters and a series of interlocking first person "eye-witness" narratives is comparable to the pseudo-documentary.

I'm not faulting 'The Exorcist'—I'm saying that a large part of its effectiveness depends on your beliefs about what is and is not holy (A big factor in that film's Horror—from the crucifix masturbation to the cock sucking in Hell line—is the idea of the transgressive. When I say 'The Exorcist' is a comedy, I'm being…

The first time I heard 'Paul's Boutique' was the summer before 'Check Your Head' came out and after I had spent a month in France badmouthing The Beastie Boys (who's 'License to Ill' was still in heavy rotation there) for not being A Tribe Called Quest. I bought it used on cassette because I had heard or read some…

I was a Jazz dilletante in high school—mostly because I was into Kerouac and all that—but I never really "got" Jazz or enjoyed it for more than it's atmospherics until I was in college and took a Columbia Mingus reissue called 'Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife' out of the Dayton Public Library. I dubbed it without…

I made my parents take my 13 year old self to see 'Ran' in the theatre when it first came out because I was into feudal Japan (ninjas and whatnot) at the time and this was my chance to see it live action—I knew nothing about Kurosawa at the time. Years later I got into college on the strength of my application essay…

The first time I ever got high I was freaking out a little about the whole "frames" experience and a friend of mine, who had a bit more experience, calmed me down and said just listen—She had all the lights off and Thomas Dolby's 'Windpower' came on (The radio! Boston's WFNX in 1987. those were the days) and I can…

I'm gonna thread-jack it back (partially)—I saw Sam Fuller's 'Pick up on South Street' on demand last year and loved it immediately from the moment Richard Widmark breezily violates Jean Peters' clutch purse while she (in my opinion) pretends not to notice. Easily the most erotic instance of petty theft ever put on…

'Raiders of the Lost Ark' is the first movie about which I ever had the sentiment that I wish I could "see it again for the first time", that I knew the movie so well from seeing it, playing the soundtrack and the story record, reading the novelization and the comic, seeing the making of documentary—I remember the…

Gary Numan's 'Pleasure Principle' was an all out revelation the first time I heard it. I was in high school working in a record store in 88-89 and had a habit of picking up up cassettes here and there at a discount (or free) based on whims, recommendations or rumors. At one point I went on a kick of getting the albums…

I was taken to see 'Pulp Fiction' by a new girlfriend who was shocked that I hadn't really heard anything about it (blame my 20's detachment on social drinking and not owning a TV). She had seen it and loved it, and so, as one of our first dates, she took me to it. I would say that I was going along with it, enjoying…

Steve Miller's a trooper.. I made the mistake of seeing the Grateful Dead once and the best part about it was Steve Miller opening for them and really blowing them away. I had never been a fan and I'm not one now, really—so its not love at first sight (although 'Fly Like an Eagle' is one of those gold standards for…

I'll go even further with 'Blade Runner'—When it came out I was way too young to see it (bein' R rated and all that) but I knew it was coming out and had Han Solo/Indiana Jones in it. Somehow I managed to get my dad to pick up a copy of the comic adaptation (whose dialogue and imagery in many cases is taken directly…

I could probably come up with a few…
But off the top of my head, all I can think of is the time a few years back when I was flipping channels and came across a a PBS airing of the film 'Black Narcissus'. There are so many things working against that film where a contemporary audience is concerned—it's from 1947, it's…