The Dan Cortese one looks good, though

'Sopranos' I genuinely like, but know what you mean. I think I'd probably list the last 15 years of sporadic Scott Walker albums, as well. I have them, like them well enough, am glad I own them, but rarely play them outside of a dark and stormy night. Sometimes I just give up the ghost. I realized in the mid-2000s…

When they called her the 'It Girl', few people knew that 'It' was a tattoo gun. So they told everybody it was laudanum instead.

That, too. Sleeves seem to be fine, although I believe there may still be a line drawn (no pun intended) at the neck.

True statement

Seems like more of a Louise Brooks thing.

I was always amused at that time because many I worked with in ye olde record stores felt that tattoos were a 'counter cultural' sort of thing, like piercings and the like. I used to point out to them that, for something considered 'underground' we at Tower Records certainly carried a lot of magazines about tattoos.
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By exploiting, do you mean giving sizable paychecks for running around in front of a green screen and squinting? Unless there's a story about this that I'm not familiar with.

If that was the case, Will Smith, or anybody even resembling Will Smith, wouldn't be in it.
Fatty Arbuckle would, though. Which would be kinda gear.

Definitely feel like I'm one of the only people in his late 40s who didn't at least get some sort of marking. Back in early 90s, friend was going to get his first and tried to talk me into it. We'd had a few beers but, luckily, even then I was just like 'what the hell would I even get?' A few more beers in me, and I'd…

Dolphy definitely a fave, man of immense talents who died far too young (and was the only jazz flautist I could ever accept; well, he and Roland Kirk, I guess ). Ra I tend to admire more than like (although 'Space is the Place' is a great album ), ditto Cecil Taylor. Zorn I can appreciate for what he was getting at,…

Yeah, it was pretty dire, from what I understand. I mean, there's no other actor I can see as Miles than Cheadle, and there's endless stories to be told, but his story was so long-ranging and influential for different reasons, you can't tell it in a couple of hours. Plus family 'concerns' and the like, I'd gather.…

Yeah, I wouldn't really put that in the same category. But, you're correct, it was an attempt to alter the blueprint.

Honestly don't know how they monetize after original release anymore. But it once was a very rich market for DVD/blu sales, it's true. Now? Pretty rare, although I suppose new releases still can sell a bit. Catalog is finished, though.

Could be true, but going off my years of working in the video business, the market had essentially dried up a few years back. Yeah, 'Star Wars' will still sell, but that was something of a cultural event, even as it died down pretty quickly. This 'Ghostbusters' is not that at all. But, who knows anymore?

Yeah, I certainly didn't care that they remade it, I was a teen when the original came out and enjoyed it, but I don't recall, once the summer was over, that anybody felt all that 'protective' about it. It was just a popular movie with people who that age group liked. It just feels to me, for something that was done…

When my family first go cable television in '81 or so, we had Showtime for a movie channel, and they must have played 'Coal Miner's Daughter' 20 times a week (when they weren't showing 'Heart Like a Wheel', the biopic of race car driver Shirley Muldowney). It is a very good film, particularly for the era. I'm not sure…

Not sure how far you into your investigations, but I will always vouch for almost any of the titles on Impulse from the 60s—a bit more adventurous, plus the real home of Coltrane. Also anything Monk, or course. Mingus. Dexter Gordon. Archie Shepp. Oliver Nelson. But it really depends on where you head is at, jazz…

I'd have to think any notion of profit from DVD has been seriously curtailed, almost to the point of irrelevance at this point.

Places like the AV Club are so far from indicative of what the general public is interested in, it's actually almost a parody at times. Not to say that people aren't genuine fans of things discussed, but this constant lament of 'Why are networks cancelling 'Community' or 'Hannibal' or 'Agent Carter' they are great and…