I spent the last year going through Dylan's entire catalogue (I drive for a living). Yeah, he'll never be told "no" by anyone in the recording industry, that is true. Hence, the peaks and valleys of his catalogue are enough to induce vertigo.

That wasn't Dylan. It was an actor named Bob Denver, who's also known for inventing LSD.

Not sure if this has been addressed, but…

QL, why do you hate me?

"Witchboard" anyone? (not sayin' it was a good movie, just sayin' it existed).

Ha, ha, let my old college friends make all their money and live in their fancy houses… because of my English degree, I just got an esoteric joke on a message board!

Hear hear! "Screamadelica" was a huge favorite of my college circle at the time. Two of us were watching MTV when they first showed the "new Primal Scream video from their upcoming album." When this - "Rocks" - came on… well, the disappointment was palpable.

There's such a consensus on this that it's considered a cliche even to bring it up, but… his appearances in his movies dragged them down tremendously.

I went through a Vonnegut phase in the '90s. I was just retroactively updating my Goodreads profile, and it caused me to reflect:

Fun fact:

Yeah, the movie is as dated as all-get-out, but randomly catching it a couple years back myself, it reminded me of just how unbelievably kick ass that movie was back in the day, and much of that still comes across.

Bravo for posting, but man the written word doesn't do that quote justice. You so have to hear the way the last line is delivered, really frantic and incredulous.

The Mystery Science Theater 3000 treatment of that movie (or is it the sequel?) is totally worth it, and I'm not even much a fan of the show.

I seem to recall the sheriff's secretary (a poor man's Edie McClurg type) yelling that she warned him that too much coffee would give him diarrhea… yeah, I'm a huge fan of horror movies from this era, and that scary video box was a staple of '80s horror sections… yet, when I finally saw this movie, I found it utterly…

When Roth was on, he was just awesome (my personal being "American Pastoral"), but he really did coast sometimes, especially near the end. It's like, there were a series of his late novels that just seemed to be formulaic fantasies about a hot young woman having a relationship with an aging artist/intellectual.

I remember stealing a line from this movie for use in my personal life.

Yeah, I think my mom-and-pop store eventually resorted to the waiting list, and then a couple years later a chain (National Video?) opened across town that would blare out TV commercials such as "Rent 'Robocop' tonight! If your National Video doesn't have 'Robocop' in stock then you'll get a free rental of any other…

I remember coming across the one for "Frogs" and thinking it was coolest thing I'd ever seen (the one with the giant frog with a man's hand coming out the mouth).

Ha, ha, I remember perusing the boxes (no pun intended, once you see where this is going) of the horror movies and because of the incredibly cheap wooden shelves the store used, I could furtively examine the backs of the X-rated movies in the next aisle over.

Ahh what memories prompted by the cover art of VHS and Beta horror movies, and the dawn of the neighborhood video store in the mid-80s.