I would like to have that brickwall photography backdrop for when I take candid photos of myself making love to a 24-inch plush Chewbacca doll.
Fortunately, both are available at Amazon.com. Hail Amazon! Hip hip hooray!

Great stuff. Morris, in particular, is a real legend to me. Brilliant comedy.

I find I like the idea of "free" more than the actual results; early Ornette is still pretty musical, but there's a lot of stuff that just goes off the rails, and stays out there. I will never begrudge Coltrane for following his muse, and taking the path he wanted to take, but stuff like "Ascension' or "Sun Ship" is…

That's all true, but I also think that there was always going to be a limit as to what ABC was going to allow on a primetime show in 1990. Getting Lynch was considered a big deal for ABC at the time, so they would let him do what he wanted, but I'd guess even if another director had a 'vision' of something, they'd…

That sounds right to me. As you note, Ianucci worked with Stew on the Vehicle, as did Chris Morris. So it couldn't have been too bad. In the Herring interview, he and Coogan got on very well, and Coogan seemed to take the teasing about Partridge as well as he could. It was obviously an old ghost just hanging around.

Orbital seems like the forgotten men of the early 90s UK techno boom; it shouldn't be the case, as they were really great, and much more inventive and melodic than much of what followed in their wake. They kind of lost the plot somewhere in the mid-90s, as did the majority of their peers, but the first few records…

Yeah, I did read that somewhere, although was never quite sure the entire issue. I did see a Herring interview of Coogan where he pointedly teased about the 'Partridge' stuff, and Coogan kind of laughed it off but clearly wasn't all that keen on getting into it very much. I have read that Herring and Stew both…

Police Squad was very funny, and that kind of humor tended to work better in 23 minute shows then stretched out over 90 minutes or so. I also remember watching Police Squad as a kid, and the main reason it died so quickly was, even as a teenager, after a couple of episodes you could predict every joke coming a mile…

Mamet's always been very much a 'ribs and cigars' kind of writer, in that it's a lot of blustery bullshitters, who I think he admires, and it's aged about as well as a pile of dog shit in the yard. Actors liked him in the past because he gave them a lot of stuff to say in his scripts that sounded impressive. As a film…

I'd say if you're not really getting into Twin Peaks by now, you most likely won't. It's meant to be very arch, and stilted (which, frankly, is true of a lot of his movies, as well). Sooner than later, you'll probably find yourself getting bored. I like the show, but I also think over the years it's gotten…

Do a fair amount of that, myself. Nice that all of the odd BBC stuff can be found on youtube. Have you watched 'The Day Today'? That's where I got my start on his stuff, and it's still quite funny.

Duckie is a total creep, and I'd guess if we saw Andie in her first year of college, she'd be trying to avoid him at all costs as he kept calling and crying "Why won't you come visit me" over and over again.
Those Hughes movies have aged about as well as the films of D.W. Griffith. They do have better soundtracks,…

"Hard Day's Night" has always been pretty highly thought-of, not only because it's a "Beatles movie" released as they were really exploding worldwide, but also because of it's rapid-fire humor, Lester's direction, and the fact that the band all had great charisma (particularly Lennon/McCartney, of course) which comes…

It is weird that a hard rock band would have a guitarist who plays 'fast and loud.'

In my world, they call that 'prog rock'.

It is weird that a former senator and Secretary of State would run for President. Probably unprecedented, tbh.

I just buy the records I want to own.

Didn't know that. Thanks for the info.

Wheels of cheese stacked to the stars.

Well, it's been going through to the third generation, so they are doing a pretty good job of it so far. I mean, who knows in the future, but it's not looking too good so far. If the people are to 'rise up', what do they do next? They have no structure, no understanding, of 'democracy'. That's when the guys with the…