Loving the Fred Zinnemann anecdote about "options". I have no idea what it means, but he just tells it so well.

Nice formatting skills, dude. But why you bolded AND italicised 'rest' and only italicised 'fatwah' is beyond me.

Runaway Train. Jon Voigt leaning into the icy wind, finally free, and doomed. So brutal. But so friggin' awesome.

Alternate title: CHEMO-SABES

Sumner is indeed an underrated guitarist, but he cannot slouch over the microphone, sing like he can barely be arsed, AND play the hugest salt-and-vinegar basslines of all time.

Two things:

"When we get older, our tastes get better and once we look back at what we liked, we tend to get embarrassed for it."

The AVclub content auto-recycler-o-matic
Some days it's wall-to-wall babes, today it's scruffy middle-aged iconoclasts. I'm thinking there's some kinda editorial intervention happening here.

And that Australian noise scene stages its get-togethers in a barbershop. In Sydney, at least:
http://thethousands.com.au/…

Comfortability
Is that even a word? Sounds a bit hobbity.

Silent producer as in silent and deadly?

Sour-on….or something.

Minus the illiterate bit maybe. But yeah, I can totally hear the recorders and the glockenspiels.

How about 'Basic' and 'Expert', just for added D&D-ness?

This thread is just totally apposite, in that

He's been in some great stuff
Not least of all the "dudes who look like they're wearing eyeliner" club

To me, the second line doesn't seem to scan so well. Unless you place the emphasis here:

A couple of months back I found my old copy of 'Circuses and Bread' by the Durutti Column out at my parents' place.

Instances of Warren Oates mentioning his guitar playing and/or guitars on the AV Club comment boards: ABOUT A GODDAMN MILLION.

Hands up
Who looks pretty much exactly like the guy in the photo?