He was an enormous influence on Conan O'Briaaaaaains…

Hmm. Needs more heavy-handed expository dialogue about race relations.

Muchas gracias Señor Roboto!

A Rick James presidency is much more plausible than Rick Santorum's presidency.

His comments suggest that the press junket for the gritty reboot of Coneheads is not going well.

In the timelessly wise words of Bodie, it still stands as the strongest argument for "not leavin' Bodymore".

Seconded. It's a lovely song, fairly simple, my wife plays it on the piano sometimes and I show my approval by not singing along.

Seconded. And occasionally Vicodin on weekends.

I know exactly what you mean. I'm British but work in California and have been trying to explain my heavy heart to my work colleagues all day. Almost none of them have heard of him.

I met Terry Pratchett at a book signing in a cafe behind the old Forbidden Planet store on the New Tottenham Court Road in London. Neither the cafe or the store are there anymore. He had just written The Color of Magic and it was, I believe, his first major public appearance.

"Let the record show that the Baron has identified Rex Rexroth as the silly man!"

Some good artwork by Storm Thorgerson though. And the packaging wasn't bedeviled by a stupid flashing LED that crapped out after a fortnight.

Anyone remember the kingdom of "Slaka" from The Gravy Train Goes East, (starring a practically teenaged Christoph Waltz)? No? Then get to YouTube immediately: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

After a brief furlough at the Casino Hermann Goering.

Roland in Time. If you're British, of a certain age, owned an Amstrad, and had a lunatic's tolerance for grating music and horrible collision detection, you'll know exactly what I mean.

The Keep is indeed a strange and lens-flaretastic one. Instead of being "good" versus "bad", it's more "bad" versus "really really bad", which is a pretty thin genre all told. It's a shame that Michael Mann is so reluctant to discuss it.

Near Dark?? Good lord… Perhaps that one came down to an unacceptable "juxtaposition of vampires and Tangerine Dream".

One of the best comments I've read for a while. It makes me wonder if the A.V. Club might not want to take a look at how certain films are classified (censored, really) the world over.

And lo, the A.V. Club newswire turned into Seanhub.

"To See the Invisible Man" was good one. Not sure how it holds up now, but I remember my 13 year-old self being deeply troubled by the thought of a society that used shunning as a judicial punishment.