I'd kind of like Tarrantino to do some work for hire as a director. Find a good screenplay by someone not him (and who doesn't write a "Tarrantino" script) and just shoot the damn thing. I think that Tarrantino the director suffers sometimes from Tarrantino the screenwriter's quirks. Maybe he and Wes Anderson…

You have to go to Ovation for all that cultural crap now…

Just ran over to Borders on my break to get a copy. Plugged the AV Club while I was at it. Maybe we all should make plugs like that when we get our copies. Maybe get you guys some ad revenues.

I totally thought "Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past" from Aqua Teen would be on the list.

Small Wonder - that shit was scary!!!

Why am I thinking
That all that missing Wall Street money is tied up in this film's completion bond.

I had a phase of reading Tom Robbins late high school, brought on by a punkish girl from school who read me one of the "Another Roadside Attraction" sex scenes on the school bus one morning.

Nathan, another suggestion for future MYOF:

The thumbs remind me of a still from the original "Attack of the 50 foot Woman" that I saw in one of those B film mags (Outre, Psychotronic, Videohound, can't remember which). The woman is chained to a wall, and you see her hand in the close-up, with the chain cutting into her papier-mache' wrist.

Jaws must run pretty close to the top.

There is an element of noir in there also - Oly/Miranda/Miss Lick sections read a bit like some crime pulp, and that in the noir/pulp world, there is an ethical code that separates the "good guys" from the "bad guys", even when they are comitting obstensibly similar acts. Also that sense of corruption reaching…

Yeah Farmer John, just checked out Cronenberg's IMDB page, the two projects he's working on are from a Christopher Hampton play about Freud and Jung (I hope it goes better than the last play he made into a film, M. Butterfly), and a Robert Ludlum thriller. The days of Crash and Videodrome may be behind him.

Isn't that the case with a lot of transgressive works though, that they actually end up supporting "conventional morality" in a sort of cautionary tale manner, like the way most horror movies are essentially telling us to not open that box, or go into the woods, or not have sex before age 37? While there certainly…

I too kept looking for some kind of evidence that these "rest homes" were a lie, because such a thing would seem like a logistical nightmare, given structure of Arty's "church". The novel never gives us any, and I believe Partdavid is right that there are clues dropped supporting their existence. I'm considering it…

By the way, thalidomide was a sedative and treatment for the effects of chemotherapy that was in fairly wide use until the connection to birth defects was discovered in the early 60's. It was one of the very first major drug recalls. I could imagine this being at least partially the inspriation for Katherine Dunn…

I sort of imagined him as having the basic thalidomide baby defects, which also mostly happened between 1957-61, which fits one of my assumed timelines for the novel. Not sure whether such defects would allow Arty to swim, though. In the most common of these defects would have fairly well developed hands and…

No real clues as to actual time setting in the book. The kind of trailers described as upgrades in the Arturism phase sounded to me like they couldn't really exist before the mid to late 60's or 70's. Like Darth, I pretty much mentally set the Miss Lick sections of the novel as contemporary with the novel's writing.

Definitely no on the Tim Burton. As much as I love Terry Gilliam, I think he would be too inclined towards whimsy for the material. Lynch maybe, but I think his version would just go for the surreal, and miss the sly connections to the real world here.

That was a good find though Arturo.

The Master of Disguise creeps me out more than Geek Love ever could.