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Such, such were the youthful flirtations with fascism.

A loud, brash, unapologetically vulgar celebration of aggression divorced from intellect…a coked-up, narcissistic delirium,  (that) makes them look like oblivious, dim-witted assholes, of their pop-culture–warped imaginations.

     — The AV Club

…while never forgetting his background and skills as a DJ.

Another vote for Sgt Pepper's… it mesmerized me as a kid. Magical Mystery Tour was a distant second. When I started developing my own taste Led Zeppelin II was the touchstone, and then there was Ace of Spades: cable came late to my town and MTV was a free teaser channel for a while, and one late night while the…

Beat me to it. My thoughts exactly, though I guess I know what he means: 'grunge' as co-opted style/marketing.

Great band, great interview.

The Once and Future King is one of those absolutely sui generis works that connect you (or me at least) to another mind and world entirely. You should read the separate editions of The Sword in the Stone and The Book of Merlyn as well. The latter is one of the few books that can still make me cry. If you're into…

I just started it myself, I wouldn't say unreadable but it's definitely in the vein of massive 18th century picaresques that take three pages to say hello. Which I think is kind of the point.

Mezzanine is wonderful. Room Temperature is similar but I prefer the first. Read Vox for sure, and The Fermata is… interesting. It's pretty great to see a wordsmith, litterateur of Baker's caliber take on the "Dear Penthouse Forum" genre, but Vox was much more affecting. I'm not as fond of his more recent fiction, but…

Ha, I just read it. I said more in another comment, but I found it a bit pedestrian and I'm not encouraged to follow up on the other America books. Myra Breckinridge, on the other hand…

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What in hell do you mean by '(and reliance on riffs)'? Metal without riffs is… um, what… denim?

"Mayor" is a callback to Sean O'Neal's piece on the project.

I think it's his finest, but not what I'd recommend for a first taste.

I'm recommending Kraken these days. It has the feel of the Bas-Lag books, but lighter and maybe a bit more accessible as it's a contemporary setting and the story itself is the contemporary protagonist being drawn steadily deeper and deeper into unknown realms… his other books just drop you straight into an alien…

So the big takeaway here is that dull movies are… dull? I guess I can buy that.

@avenuehebrew, I do sure wish I had some Rad Chilies and a Chochacho shirt. I'm extremely dubious about  this animated thing, to the degree that I haven't yet watched the trailer. The voices will be WRONG, I just know it., wrong as I hear them of course.

Settling in for a matinee at the sumptuous Castro Theater to wind out your trip from an LSD-fuelled all-night dance party is another excellent way to see this movie.