I may be sick and I may seem dumb
That don't mean you know where I'm coming from

That wasn't Keith's point. His point was that is that they aren't in normal guitar keys such as A or E, they are using "piano keys" such as A flat or E flat.

You can tell that Scorcese has a love of the music, although not too sure about the man, judging from the out-of-focus shots when he is talking. But the clips he had for this! They are just perfect. I mean, John Jacob Niles? And I'm still trying to find the full clip of the Joan Baez "Virgin Mary had one Son" clip,…

After this movie….

I always thought this was one of the songs that aged the worst. I mean, he whines about a Pepsi throughout the song. I'm white, middle class, I'm wearing a bandanna and a Pendleton buttoned at the top to show my street cred, and my mom won't give me a Pepsi! He's a person my dad would make fun of in those days, and I…

A face in the crowd, which was many years before. Admittedly it's a reach, but in that case, Andy Griffith was both Rupert and Jerry - a blackmailing, manipulating, back-stabbing everyman host. And things didn't work out too well for Lonesome, so Face is more of a traditional drama, where King is more black in that…

We'll be in touch! (hands over business card) Always, always works.

I was going to say Repo Man too. But the movie that always lifts me out of my funk is Badder Santa, the DVD version of Bad Santa. Stranger than Paradise, Jarmusch's first movie works too, I like the card shark Aunt Lotte and the weird American questions they ask each other. You might like Down by Law better, I do…

Oh Yeah! I saw them at the On Broadway in SF in the '80s and good lord they were good. As soon as you mentioned them, that song Lake of Fire started playing in my head: Where to bad folks go where they die? They don't go to heaven where the angels fly. They go to the lake of fire and fry. Won't see em again till the…

How did this book not get mentioned in this review? Meyerowitz doesn't have an ax to grind, and was actually there.

I disagreed with every opinion that Arkansas Road Story guy had. He's obviously never had to live with somebody like Doyle, or had a family member like that, or had to throw out a person like that at a Christmas party. A person like that is just toxic.

I've said this before on another thread, but the band scene was just perfect. Even before the Box o Laffs or whatever his band is called, I could tell that Thornton had been in some terrible garage bands. The idiotic banter between the band members is so spot-on it gave me a headache. You have to have known musicians…

I found out from this very site last week that Tom Petty does the voice of Lucky on King of the Hill. That was good knowledge.

S___k my dad says

There's a Fruitvale Station poster at Fruitvale station. Most people I talk to around here are pretty much resigned.

News flash: A lot of music has an undercurrent of anger. Love songs quite often are wistful and wishing that things went another way. There is a lot of resentment there and it's not even buried.

Ebert's review of this is one of the best he's done. I think he might have done multiple reviews of this, but he mentions the camera shot where his date's keys are dropped down to him, and how hard that was to do pre-CGI.

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Marx brothers movies are a good example of this. In fact, them and old Woody Allen movies are the only examples of this, while still being funny.

Confederacy of Dunces for me.