@Todd Soul Ends
Yeah, I consider Obscure Object to be a completely different beast, since it was only two actresses, used much more subtly, and was about different sides of her personality (or how she felt about him) than the overt shifting of Palindromes. After reading Noel's review coupled with Scott's, though, I…

Damn stupid enter button
Subject: "Todd Haynes copying from Todd Solondz"

Todd Haynes copying an idea from
Regardless, I'm Not There sounds very interesting. If he does start making a number of films like this

First list I feel kind of ambivalent about
I agree in principle a rock sax can be pretty lame, but don't think it's much of an interesting idea, and certainly think a lot of these are at least a little off base. Well, actually, I could go either way with a number of those listed, but really just have to agree with…

Heavyhanded?
It's a children's novel. You're telling me when you read it at the age of 10 you found its symbolism overly obvious?

damn
A Wrinkle in Time might be the book that had the most influence on me in my entire life. It (and then A Wind in the Door and A Swiftly Tilting Planet) was what made me, at that point, want to write. Eventually that led me to purse filmmaking, but it all started with being inspired to write a childrens science…

Nice idea for a new feature
And Cronenberg is a great place (well, person) to start. I think he's one of the most criminally underrated directors out there—original in ways few are these days and incredibly thought provoking. I know way too many people who are just grossed out to a level where they don't pay attention…

Lebowski
In college I wrote paper about the way the Coen Brothers worked with genre. As part of this I argued that Lebowski was a genre pastiche that combined elements of Westerns and Detective movies and set it in the present day.

guerillaentent
Actually, you are Forty SIXTH. Hope that worked out for ya.

Hot Cakes
One of the only jokes that was ever funny on American Dad involved the wife selling muffins from a kiosk at a mall and telling the husband "For your information, these muffins are selling better than hotcakes." They than cut to another kiosk, completely customer-less with a banner saying "Aids Hotcakes." The…

Heh
Rancho Notorius is one of the darkest of westerns in story, but there are so many things that make it ridiculous, it becomes a strange mixture of dark and silly. Specifically, the Greek chorus of a theme song, with it's constant mention in song of "Chuck-a-Luck," really undercuts the mood.

raymandoh
I'm actually not a big fan of Leviathan. It left me a little cold and thinking "that's it?" I loved the New York Trilogy, though, especially "Ghosts."

music of chance
I'm a sometimes fan of Paul Auster's—anybody have an opinion on if the novel is any good? Is it indeed called The Music of Chance or does the book have a different name?

peanuts
You didn't mention the reason, in my mind, why this is the best volume to come out since maybe the forth: Peppermint Patty. She's the first really great, important character to come along since Sally three volumes ago. And she's the first character since pretty much Linus back in the second volume where…

re: shourjo
Dave Foley was, like Dick, just another actor on NewsRadio—they had no writer/actors (not to put him down for that—he, like the entire cast, was incredibly good on the show). The creator/show runner (which includes head writer) was Paul Simms, but they had a lot of other very funny people writing on it…

yeah
Sounds more like a tongue in cheek sort of thing—"Gee, too bad we never started hating each other, we could be all the rage today."