Mould's just put out his three best albums in years. And I'd guess you're right about Narducy and Wurster. If Frank Black wanted to have a Mould-like renaissance perhaps it would be a good move to try to find some new, compatible collaborators rather than try to keep the Pixies a thing.

Even before that; Black Francis pretty much put Deal in the corner for Doolittle. I've come around to thinking that Surfer Rosa is the only real Pixies album.

I think the fact that he adds a rape as a central plot element to his film makes it absolutely impossible to separate art from artist in this case.

Just mentioning Threads will make me depressed for the rest of the day

Too bad, 'You've been KNOXED' is a great catchphrase.

Probably an unpopular opinion but I'll stand by it: despite the horrible Hollywood title, Point of No Return > La Femme Nikita. It helps that the American version cast the roles perfectly with Byrne, Keitel, and Fonda (in my book her best work, and I think she's under-appreciated generally.) But more importantly I…

Heh, I just said the opposite above, that Noonan shows more of his humanity than Fiennes. It may be Red Dragon's emphasis on Dollarhyde's shitty childhood that makes the difference for me by reducing his behaviour too easily to a root cause; Manhunter leaves it up to you to fill in the blanks, which to me makes Noonan…

Ed Norton was a horrible Graham. Petersen did a great job conveying how damaged Graham was often without saying anything. Norton just seemed kinda emo to me.

Never trust anybody who thinks Red Dragon is a better film than Manhunter.

I got my current kickass apartment because Goldblum convinced me to check out apartments.com.

I think the phrase 'Surprisingly Burt Reynolds did a good job' applies to more of his 80s films than people remember.

I think the anti-consumerist angle of the original is a bit obvious and overdone, and the remake's a better film for avoiding it.

In no way is the Duchess of Malfi a lesser play than Hamlet.

Who gives a fuck about a movie's franchise potential?

Telling other people about music is the exact same thing as copyright infringement. The analogy checks out!

Yeah, that's a good one. At the time I actually thought Marion Raven was a good choice for a duet partner–but I agree she didn't work in the final product, and that really exposed the limits of her talent. (And its a shame because Steinman is brilliant with female vocalists.)

HIs is a very 'stuck in adolescence' kind of sincerity.

I with Steinman and the Sisters would have done more* together. A lot of Vision Thing strikes me as Eldritch trying to write like Steinman, and the last Sisters single 'Under the Gun' is a flat-out Steinman ripoff.

I would name Steinman's two Streets of Fire songs plus 'It's All Coming Back To Me Now' as The Most Steinman. 'All Coming Back to Me' is such a great song that I'll defend the Celine Dion version (although the Pandora's Box version is the one I have, and by far the best one.)

Jim Steinman is seriously the most earnest, sincere, emotional musician of the rock era, and Meat Loaf was a perfect voice for him. So I'd say Meatloaf fans are fans of the sincere.