Most peculiar, @avclub-3f5380bb675dc58c512ecc65878e3e14:disqus. Roll!

Nah, John died three decades ago.

AVC: Were you surprised that the film was as controversial as it was?

Sleepless has been recommended to me, but I haven't taken the plunge yet.

"Mina… You are in the closet."

I've got your back, Sonia

I was kind of miffed when Oddballs came out since I had spent a lot of time (and money) tracking down all of the CD singles that seeded it.

I love Eric Drew Feldman's production on Teenager of the Year. I was most pleased when he returning to the fold on Dog in the Sand and stayed through Black Letter Days and Devil's Workshop.

I would watch a movie called Our Gay Apparel. I'm not proud.

So I've been told. I'm not made of money, though, much as I would like to be.

This is the second review I've read that has failed to point out that this is essentially the premise of John Waters's A Dirty Shame played straight. What is wrong with this picture?

Opera.

Don't pass over their self-titled release. I think it's one of his best.

Honeycomb was where I got off the Frank Black train. Never bothered to get back on.

Maybe that has something to do with the fact that criterion.com appears to be down.

And one of them is black because diversity!

I own a few of his books (Writing in Restaurants, Some Freaks, On Directing Film). I haven't revisited any of them in years, but I still keep them around because there is good writing in them. An anti-gay piece would force the issue for me as well, though.

How many Kindergarten Heroes do we need?

You try telling that to Bob Eubanks.

Whenever Abrams and his love of lens flares comes up, I'm unavoidably reminded of a certain scene in Office Space…