It's impossible for me to hear this song and NOT think of that scene in Silence of the Lambs.

I'm thrilled that Richard Williams got so much love in this piece. He's great. His version of A Christmas Carol is the only animated version I can tolerate. I'm kind of sad that Christmas Comes to PacLand got demerits, but I'm fully aware it sucks. However, I would like to make a case for the first Smurfs Christmas…

All the dead toys came back to life. It was the miracle of Christmas! Ugh.

I remember watching this as a kid, too. In fact, I remember that it was sponsered by Kraft cheese because they hit over the head with that during the commercials.

Well, I'm just giving my opinion on what I like, and I don't think someone like John  Ford wants scratches and pops in his movie, but I do think some filmmakers - like Quentin Tarantino or Stan Brackage - do. Or even Ingmar Bergman, Todd Hayes, Joe Dante, or the guy who did the Muppet Movie. All of those guys took…

When film messes up, it's beautiful. When video fucks up, it's just an ugly, pixely mess. I love the audio pop when the reel changes, or scratches and marks. I saw a print of Texas Chan Saw Massacre recently where the end credits had somehow been sliced back in upside down, and it somehow just fit the movie perfectly.…

My favorite Monkees song is "Mommy and Daddy." The darker, alternative version about "my blood spilling on the kitchen floor." That song is seriously fucked up and the fact that the Monkees recorded it makes all the more awesome.

I'm a Monkees geek, I think. And I can't tell you how frustrated I am that the Davy Jones episode of Scooby Doo is not available on DVD. Such a crock of shit.

I love HEAD. I'm so happy Criterion released it on Blu-Ray.

My answer would be the parents from Peanuts. The Charlie Brown cartoons. Mostly because you never ever saw the parents. As far as I can tell, they don't even have parents. The kids just come and go as they please, all hours of the night, never being disciplined. You occasionally heard the indecipherable sounds of…

Silence of the Lambs and Jaws are both horror movies. You guys are way off. They're both horror franchises. Dudes cutting faces off people and putting them over his own. Jump scares. Campy humor. Only in horror movies and pornos do you have characters flinging semen around willy nilly.

Season two is my favorite season. I love how it really delves into the personality of the city - its politics, class structure, etc. It does it in a way that the first season only hinted at. I also love how insanely complicated it gets. Between the bus crash and the stabbing on the bridge, there are so many red…

Yes. Absolutely. I feel like he got obsessed with being prestigious. Big budgets and mainstream acclaim really changed who he is as a director, and I wish he would get down in the muck again. I think that's something Spielberg managed to avoid. After winning two Oscars for WWII dramas, he still went back to shooting…

I don't think he's delusional as much as he's just desperate. I've always had the impression that he embraced cooking meth mostly because it was something he was good at - not just because he needed the money. He was essential, at least to someone. But now he's lost all his power and control, and he's desperate to get…

I always knew that if I boycotted buying any edition of E.T. with the digital changes, Spielberg would come crawling back to me with the original only version. Another notch in my belt of success! That makes two notches.

Sure
I'll see this.

Reminds me of when I wake up from a scary or sad dream
Initially, I'm a little scared or sad, but as soon as I get my bearings, there's a rush of excitement. It's the same way with movies or books or TV shows for me. I get excited that something has managed to stir something up in me - something that I know has…

Jeffrey Lewis
In particular, this song: http://www.youtube.com/watc…

I got the impression Brenda did it too when I first saw it. Mostly because I was assuming she had an affair with Nate's dad. The tattoo, the "I would do more than that for him" line. It seemed as if that was what we were being led to believe at the time.

My Favorite Set
My favorite set was by far Arcade Fire. I'm not even that big a fan, but that was one hell of a show - preceded by hanggliders dropping sparkiling whirly flashing things on the audience (wish I had gotten one so I could know what it was exactly).