I like this movie but not as much as Meantime, Bleak Moments, Hard Labour, Kiss of Death, Nuts in May, Grown-Ups or Home Sweet Home. But its probably my favorite of his Post-BBC films.

I'm really sorry I missed this for so long, but I have to add this, which is sorta stated between the lines all over the article and comments: Frank Black's albums reveal themselves over time. Almost EVERY SINGLE ONE of his albums has first sounded like a mistake, or a mess, or just boring to me and he is my all-time…

I've tried that too, and to similar results. This is what I've paired it down to, though of course plenty is missing, like Pan American Highway and other such gems:

Here's my playlist called "Frank's Frankiest"

I have to say I went into this with such high expectations that I was a little let down - not by the amazing choreography of the space movements and the seat-gripping scary parts - I was just regularly jolted out of the rapture of the visuals by the really clunky clockwork characterization shoe-horned into an other…

That's exactly the one I was thinking of when I read this headline, but it only has one "kick", even if its in the same basic style.

I didn't love the final movie but I got to spend a day in a room with Gandolfini as the boom op for him recording some additional dialogue for this and it was one of the great treats of my professional life when he asked if he could do the lines to me (since there was nobody in the room to act against). He was…

Will always love Last Splash (though I am firmly on "Team Frank" if there is such a thing). But I especially love this EP, including especially the Sebadoh cover -