Yeah, that documentary was awesome, and I have now downloaded quite a lot of music that's good to listen to while working as a result.

Yes, I think I started hallucinating at one point during one of those gigs. And I wasn't even on drugs.

"Bottle Rocket" by The Go! Team. The most exciting piece of music I'd heard in ages. There's just something about that chorus.

What I remember from the Oscars that year is one of the producers of Four Weddings and a Funeral being interviewed afterwards. Because of the similar pronunciation (with an American accent) of the first syllable of "Four Weddings" and "Forrest Gump", several times they thought they'd won an Oscar for a a split second.…

"Out of the Blue" sounds kind of like the Magnetic Fields to me - you could call the instrumentation "eighties", but not really the songwriting.

@Monkeylint: the movie The Descent is not based on the book of the same name. I've no idea whether them having the same title is coincidence or not.

Re: Made - "Vaughn takes his annoying, grating, self-centered character from the earlier film and makes it twice as bad."

Sexual politics is one aspect of screwball comedies (not only assertive female characters, but often cross-dressing male characters), but another aspect that doesn't get mentioned so often now is that of the upper class brought low (a product of the films being produced during the Depression).

A friend of mine recommended a work colleague check out the new Michael Winterbottom film for a first date, seeing as she'd enjoyed his previous films. She had no idea of the actual content of "9 Songs". The poor guy might as well have taken his date to "Deep Throat". It did not go well.

@Licky_Kicky - according to the infallible Wikipedia, "Monkey: Journey to the West" has only made one appearance in the US so far, at an opera festival.

@Admiral Neck - it's actually Jamie (aka Malcolm Tucker Jr.) who accidentally bumps into a cleaner and is very apologetic. Combined with the subsequent incident, it beautifully illustrates that although the politician types appear to be more polite than the swearathon press office guys, they actually don't have any…

Me too. I only recently found out that there was more Zenith than that which appeared in trade paperback form. I'd thought that some stuff just never got resolved. Apparently there have been recent attempts (as of 2007) to get the whole thing published, so it might yet happen.

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Liam Neeson's current career is "we would have cast Sean Connery but he's too old now". And he's pretty good at it, to be fair.

Having done a Danny Elfman music round in a film quiz recently, I can tell you that the only really distinctive score he's done this decade was for Hulk. The Bernard Herrmann influence is blatant, but that's a good thing.

I would actually go and see a show called "The Worst Three Hours of Your Life: The Musical".

So is Dustin Hoffman as Mr. Magorium the third, terminally senile stage of this character? I haven't seen it.

From Slate:

Roland Emmerich has already made that film. I wish I was joking.

It's hard to tell if you're joking or not, mbs. You know that Gomez released an album in March, and Cake have one scheduled for the summer, right?