8-Track Tape
A friend of mine worked in a record store in 1992 when Spinal Tap released "Break Like the Wind". He said the store got a promo copy of it from the record company - on an 8-Track cartridge. They had no way of playing it, but someone ended up with a cool souvenir.

And a tip of the hat to you, Sir, from The Church of the Presumptuous Assumption and More Science High. Anyone seen Pico and Alvarado? They were due back hours ago.

More groat clusters, please! But don't eat them with your hands, son. Use your entrenching tool.

As a kid I thought the idea of "Is There in Truth No Beauty?" was awesome (OK, so I hadn't heard of Lovecraft yet) with some cool twists. "Spectre of the Gun" was kind of entertaining in a silly way, but I really didn't want to see our crew plopped into a literal western (The O.K. Corral? You're pulling my leg,…

The crows have been gone for a few months now. They're back to using rats again.

I have to agree with Ringo on this one.

Lord Clam: I know they're great! Pretentious, but still great. For my money, "Route 66" is one of the best shows ever made, and Sterling Siliphant (the show-runner and main writer) always came up with interesting stuff.

How about these episode titles?

All you would need to play by e-mail or live online is to get a computer wiz to whip up a gamebox of the counters for Cyberboard (you e-mail the updated map back and forth) or create a VASSAL model for it (play either by e-mail or live online - you can use Skype too).

"The Howling" has some good sub-text satire going on, but I don't remember it being a comedy.

"Ravenous" does a good job of depicting the isolation of a 19th century military post in the Sierra Nevada Mountains - in winter. Great flick.

Thank you for mentioning "What Happened Was"! Every time Tom Noonan gets brought up I think to myself, "What was that movie he was in about the first date?"

Another vote for "May". Brilliant, with the most poignant and devastating ending I've ever seen. Even Guillermo del Toro has said he's jealous of it.

"The Blair Witch Project" didn't scare me (although it did creep me out). But, damn, do I admire how convincing it is. Editing that thing together must have been a nightmare, but the three actors did an outstanding job of creating believable characters (and of filming the whole thing too). I never once temporarily…

Bonzob - The answer to your question probably has something to do with what the director/writer are going for. "Don't Look Now" isn't very scary, but it's a great horror film. "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" isn't really a well-made film…but it works and is scary as hell.

Maybe my favorite internet post of all time was, in the middle of a ZMF declaration of "ownage", something along the lines of - AND YEAH THANKS FOR THE COOKIES THEY WERE DELICIOUS I GAVE SOME TO MY BROTHER - and then going right back into the argument at hand. Made my day.

Would have been better if the "button" reveal was made in the old lady's grave, and despite the telegraphed plot twist, Lohman really DID have the button after all, and her plan succeeds.

A few years ago, I stumbled across an internet link that claimed to be Romero's original screenplay for DAY OF THE DEAD. It was a lot better than the end result - but it was obviously intended as an at-least-slightly higher budget movie. Took place more on an island than in a bunker, and had some obvious but great…

By the way, "World War Z" should be an HBO miniseries. Not a 3-hour movie, or whatever they're trying to mould it into.

"Dead Set" blew my mind when I saw it a few weeks ago. Great to see filmmakers who know what they're doing tackle the zombie genre with a true sense of grisly realism, plus humor that's actually generated by the situation.