Tasty.  A great piece for the beginning of a journey.

"How about if I use the Five-Point Exploding Heart Technique, but—let me finish—on their brain?"

Me as well; I think it was the thought at the back of Rabin's mind too.

Lou Reed, "The Gun"

JS Bach, "Ich habe genug" (It Is Enough; if you don't know it, it has the same melody as "Erbarm Dich" from the St. Matthew Passion)
Pixies, "Gigantic" (because I am all about big big love, and will remain so after death)
The Pogues, "The Sick Bed of Cuchailann" (because I am a classical mad Celt)

—That's not a word @avclub-8d0eadf72c6ac3576d8abc9a2ff0b6ad:disqus .
—Is now.

Comment on the main site and also here, but not as often.

@avclub-7e1ce4ce3124fd9ecc13a151afcff11b:disqus :  I do think that the person is there under the rage, but not so much that it can emerge and take action.  If it did (and this is my problem), we should see a lot more evidence of it in 28 Days.  One thing I did like about 28 Weeks Later (and a lot of people didn't) was

@avclub-99b410aa504a6f67da128d333896ecd4:disqus :  it led to the collapse of his political career (he was running for the Senate), opening the way for a young politician named. . .Barack Obama.  You can't make this shit up.

Thanks, and it is.  I did recommend The Fixer to the class; it's the better book, but SAG has more historical scope, which I why I used it.

"I'm afraid I killed another woman as a demonstration, cut out her lungs, made sausages of them and served them to you as breakfast."

Graham:  So, what I'm thinking is, with his love of cuisine and general smarts, it might be Dr. Lecter who's the serial killer.

"You seem more villainous than usual today, Hannibal…have you not eaten anyone?"

I assigned Safe Area Gorazde for my European history class, wrote to Fantagraphics and asked for a desk copy.  They sent me the Special Edition, with interviews and comparison photos and diary entries and original drawings.  And they're also doing the complete run of Peanuts.  My point is, this week fucking sucks.

Agreed.  It's either safe for children, or it's not; either you limit your audience, or you don't.  PG-13 created a category of "we want to make a shit-ton of money off this violent story so we'll cut what we have to so it's not R."    E.T. was PG, and it did fine; Aliens was R, and it also did fine.  Also, back then,…

I'm gonna shoot myself in the face with hairspray.

There's a long-ago AV Talk podcast (remember those?  Remember Reasonable Discussions? Sigh) where Tasha and Rabin (rememb—oh fuck it) make the case that Ratatouille is their best, most unified film, and that the first 40 minutes of WALL-E is the best piece of filmmaking they ever did.  And so say I.

Also (can't remember who said this, it might have been William Faulkner), if you don't sell them your property, the studios will make the movie anyway and change the name.  If you want to see any money then, sue them and good fucking luck, maybe you'll get a settlement in ten years after the legal fees have bankrupted…

@avclub-f121d09285898f1c66d66f1e6f0455a6:disqus :  Christopher Eccleston has a neat little monologue in 28 Days Later about the chained zombie, along the lines of "he's telling me he'll never use tools, never speak language, never be more than this.  And eventually, he'll tell me how long it will take for him to…

"Don't pretend you're not well suited for the job."  I would see this movie if the line was "don't pretend you don't have a particular set of skills.  Skills you've developed over a lifetime of drafting UN resolutions.  Skills that make you a nightmare for creatures that are incapable of having nightmares.  Now, if…