"Wendy?"
"Yes Lisa?"

Agreed. This was a busy week, both at work and socially, so I didn't get to participate at all in the discussion. A shame, as "A Scanner Darkly" is probably my favorite PKD novel. Will have to catch up with everything said when I have more time.

For British Comedy Nerds
There's an episode of "The Goodies" in which they're trapped inside a dinosaur's stomach and an episode of "Bottom" in which Eddie and Richie are stuck at the top of a Ferris Wheel that has shut down for the night.

There's also the episode of MASH in which Hawkeye has suffered a concussion and must keep talking to stay awake while he waits for help. Almost the entire episode is his monologue which takes place in the home of a Korean family who don't speak English.

Could have seen Nirvana on the "In Utero" tour but couldn't be bothered to get up early on a Saturday and wait in two lines to get a ticket. "Oh they'll be around for a long time."

ajm -

LOVE Woodring, and have ever since the days of "Jim." "Weathercraft" is beautiful and strange.

Wally Gropius
When Dan Clowes was at The Strand in NYC a few months ago, he lauded "Wally Gropius" as one of the best comics he had read in a long time.

Good Introduction
Good overview of Haneke, Scott.

Similarly, I had a friend who took a first date to see "Amores Perros." Like your date, she was an animal-lover and nearly walked out of the theater.

Dear Sick Tranny,
Satantango seems to play in New York every two or three years, usually places like Lincoln Center, the Anthology Film Archives and BAM.

"Werckmeister Harmonies" is very interesting - you will probably enjoy, Craig.

Word of warning: lower your expectations for "Spirit of The Beehive." Based on what I had read, I thought the movie was going to be transcendent, which is is not, to put it lightly.

Funny you should mention that. I was thinking the same thing. Love "Baby of Macon" "Eraserhead" and "The Brood."

Miss Scarlett -

FidelAstro - are you serious? Oh man. I never read the liner notes to "Blaxk Saint." Doing that as soon as I get home. It's been a while since I've listened to the record.

If On A Winter's Night A Traveler Swims To Cambodia
Italo Calvino's "If On A Winter's Night A Traveler" single-handedly changed not only my ideas of what fiction could be and do, but also educated me about the messy world of publishing and the unreliability of even authorized texts. In short, a funny and fun…

"Night Flight" was pretty important to me, too, if not life-altering. It's hard to imagine now, but there was a time when there wasn't much access to weird culture, which is what made "Night Flight" so vital in its first couple of years, especially if you lived in a small town.

Yes, excellent book. Postman gets some of his facts wrong but he was prescient about how ideas are altered by the medium that transmits them.

"First time it occurred to me that music other than punk rock could be cool and exciting and dangerous" is EXACTLY how I felt the first time I heard Charles Mingus' "Black Saint and the Sinner Lady." It further blew my mind that Mingus' album came out in 1963 or thereabouts, when the Beatles were still "yeah yeah…