"People during the 80s must have had no idea what they were listening to when they first heard that."

Another history of the Lampoon "That's Not Funny, That's Sick" is coming out soon.  According to the author Ellin Stein, everyone eventually has a falling out with Hendra.  Even Sean Kelly won't speak to him anymore.

If anyone's trying to track it down, the song is called "Magical Misery Tour" and the source of the lyrics was Lennon's Rolling Stone interviews, not the Playboy one.

He's really good in "River's Edge" too.

Indeed.   

Yes.  Dance This Mess Around.

I bailed on "The Simpsons" sooner than most (heresy, I know) but that episode is probably my favorite.  Practically perfect.

Can we get an inventory of movies / tv that get drug trips right?  Someone upthread mentioned Roger's LSD trip on "Mad Men."  I would add the casino sequence in "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" and when Ian Holm's dialogue suddenly goes out of sync with his lips' movement, revealing his plans to secretly murder his…

A number of the lines predict future events: "Get home before Dawn" and "I think this is going to be a very big year for vengeance."

The strike didn't just hurt writers, but anyone at the the bottom end of the food chain of the film / television industry.  A friend of mine who is an actress has said that production still hasn't returned to pre-strike levels.   Reality TV is also to blame.

I'm just finishing "Three by Perec."  I disliked "The Exeter Text" - in which the letters a, i, o, and u don't appear - until the orgy scene.

@avclub-7f0d5ceefd00ad8303401bdcf213eb83:disqus "Geek Love" was published in 1989.  Now you might see it as a mix of late 90's cult ideas, but when it was published, it was a welcome alternative to most of American mainstream fiction (ie college professors having affairs in the suburbs or young people doing coke in…

@TashaRobinson:disqus - I read it because I was traveling and it was the only  book at the B&B that was in English and in which I had any interest.

Hmmm…looks like it's time to start "A High Wind In Jamaica."  I have a copy but haven't read it yet, and I liked "In Hazard" a great deal.

@TashaRobinson:disqus  - I was one of those who looked down upon Foer without having read anything by him.  Then, almost against my will, I read "Everything Is Illuminated" and was impressed by the book's use of language, humor, level of invention, charm and sadness.

I love the fact that it looks like your avatar, H. R. Pufnstuf, is saying this.  I have to look away cause I'm at work and the juxtaposition is giving me the giggles.

It sounds great when you're dead.

Thank you.  I wasn't aware of Hitchcock's "13 Favorite Albums" article.  It's a great read.  I love it when musicians can articulate their responses to music.

"Writers No One Reads" is a great blog.  I flattered myself that I was fairly literate, but man there are so many authors out there I've never heard of, let alone read.

Go, Philip, go!  I know that sounds like something you would yell at a jazz club (and Larkin loved jazz) but his poems are like great solos.