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Good Will Hunting 6:  A Good Day to Hunt Hard

"In an interview in 1975 or ’76, Buñuel claimed that he had used a dead calf’s eye. Through the use of intense lighting, and bleaching of the calf's skin, Buñuel attempted to make the furred face of the animal appear as human skin."

I was in college back then (yes I'm an old), and I bought R.E.M.'s "Chronic Town" EP in '82 and "Murmur" in '83.  Both were blind purchases based completely on raves from the guy at the one cool record store in town.  The songs were so inscrutable, I really didn't get what the excitement was about.  At first I mostly

If they're tired of Coldplay comparisons, they probably shouldn't put a song called "Warning Sign" on their album.

I always appreciated the irony of two different songs on the subject of "maybe I think too much".

Those commercials were amazing.  And now I'm hungry for a 30-year-old cheeseburger.

I saw them at a little club in the early 90s, shortly after "Weirdo" became a minor hit.  I remember that they were back-lit for the entire show so I never really saw their faces — just silhouettes — for extra trippiness, I suppose.

Wait, Hilly Kristal was a DUDE?

"1964 High School Yearbook" was pants-down the funniest thing I read during the 1970s.

So this is about ABSCAM?  Where's the scene of the Jenrettes doing it on the Capitol steps?

A Series of Unfortunate Events did reasonably well.

Oh, I get it now.

A Good Day To Butle Hard

That's a cold ass honky.

A Good Day To Up Hard

Yeah, it's Cornell who really irritates me on that song.

"Fisties!"

They've managed to survive on a craphole island that looks like the moon and smells like rotten eggs.  — Homer Simspon

Diary of a Mad Black Orphan