I've always thought that the secret to reading Gravity's Rainbow is not to sweat it too much.

Well there's your Paul Giamatti role right there.

It was Laurie Anderson!  She said she assumed that was Pynchon's polite way of saying "no."

Is it possible to get Taco Bell notifications?

Fuck!

I'd really like to help you out.  Could you manage a Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo rip?   They're really popular here and I flip for those.

Well I did say "some" — it won Oscars after all.  But I remember reviews carping about it.

Last week didn't happen.  There was never a last week.

This list is hilarious.

I like both shows, but that's the weirdest-reading accidental conjunction on the list.

Well I learned a lot from Columbo.

@avclub-4caf6aa0375b2499ebfe7e971b36eee3:disqus  Bret Easton Ellis still makes six figures?  Those were good royalty contracts.

Well, that's what I'm saying, yeah.  The writing for major studio releases (especially comedies) has become, with rare exceptions, ridiculously puerile— meanwhile TV has become almost preferred as a venue for serious storytelling.

When this movie was released some critics complained that the writing was too much like television.

Lou Reed: a triumph of modern medicine, physics, and chemistry.

I'd certainly be wary of those names yes— although I'll admit each of them has turned out at least one movie that I enjoyed.  But the way that crowd moaned it was like: "From the Mind of Leni Riefenstahl."

It also increases your lifespan. Western society, with its anti-nap leanings, is killing me.

Break a leg, @avclub-5e5e0bd5ad7c2ca72b0c5ff8b6debbba:disqus !  I'm missing theater right now so it's good to hear about it vicariously.

I'm getting to quite like Bava.  Black Sunday's a classic of course, and I've also so far enjoyed Kill Baby Kill, the bizarre Lisa and the Devil, and the also-bizarre Planet of the Vampires.  Actually they're all bizarre, but that's fine.

That's some serious backlash, you know?  How many director's names could elicit that from the average movie audience?