Tampopo is brilliant hunk of madness after brilliant hunk of madness.

Jackie Brown
The scene with Sheronda, Ordell's sweet simple country girl making the drop with Jackie, totally blindsided me. Out of nowhere I felt very concerned for this interesting though inconsequential side character (especially because she was in a Tarantino movie), she completely broke my heart. I was bothered…

some people started singing it not knowing what it was…

bye Dio.

I'm with you on that.

I'm partial to "The Legend of Curly's Gold" myself.

yes it goes on an on my friends…

*Vince

Vinve Gauraldi or the Jackson Five
Both are just things that have been on in the background since I was a kid, though for different reasons. It's impossible for me to do any over-thinking when either is on, just focusing on the sounds and how nice they are.

Harvey Pekar.
http://www.zeitgeistyreport…

Shit, why are there no shurikens in the opening credits?

@Mirit, ever see that Spike Jonze Ikea ad?:

Eh, Taxi Driver doesn't count, regardless of what he'd have you think, Travis Bickle is a part of the madness, he's not in over is head.

Brave Little Toaster
Remember that song "Worthless" in the junkyard, where the cars tell the story of how they ended up there:

I once wrote a paper about how Dr. Manhattan and the Tralfamadorians basically saw time the same way.

*too

Elvis Costello on SNL/The Garage Rock wave of 2001/Saul Williams
When I first saw footage of him doing "Radio Radio" it was some next level shit. The other started with the Strokes "Last Night" vid, but I also gotta shout out "Main Offender" by the Hives and "Fell in love with a girl" by the White Stripes. Then Saul…

@Janet: Mick Collins told that very same story when he did Soft Focus in Chicago.

Will Vinton Claymation
Specifically Meet the Raisins and Michael Jackson's Moonwalker, two tapes I wore out as a kid. Watching the Raisins as a 22 year old I get a lot more of the cultural references, like Stretch playing a Rickenbacker 4001 style bass that says "Raisinbacker" on the headstock. His Christmas and…

The boobs of today are way more shocking and realistic than the dated primitive boobs of the 80s.