I don’t expect a complete filmography on these things, but leaving out The Wall and The Commitments seems especially egregious. And the last sentence: “His final feature was 2003's The Life of David Gale” is just twisting the knife.

Mike? Is that you? Seriously, also from a small town, also would give up on Walmart, and would also travel an hour or more away (either to Jackson or Baton Rouge) just to go record shopping. My best friend’s name was Mike. He had a crappy Oldsmobile Cutlass that we’d take on those trips. AC Delco cassette system, baby!

My mom has that problem. I remember traveling with her to NYC in the 80s, and learning that Tiffany’s is the only store with a public restroom.

For me, it’s record stores (or at least it used to be, back when they were a thing). For historical context, I can still remember that in the mall I used to frequent, by the Camelot Music there was a Sears whose bathrooms were fairly easy to locate. Now there’s an old-fashioned sentence.

Me too, more or less. Criminy, as a kid, I just assumed he came into this world at 65 and stayed there for the next 40 years.

Oh, and #2: not that I know of. There are certainly some low budget studios that produced interesting works, but none that seem to be a factory for rising talent. I think that had to do a lot with how the studios worked in the 50s and 60s that allowed Corman to do what he wanted the way he wanted. Nowadays, anyone…

That book is fantastic. Highly recommended! Also check out the documentary Corman’s World. Lots of A-listers sing his praises, including Jack Nicholson, who gets choked up talking about Corman kept giving him chances when the rest of Hollywood wouldn’t. Yes, fucking Jack Nicholson. Tearing up. About Roger Corman.

I’m curious to know if I can watch this without buying the blu-ray, but I’m terrified of Googling “butt boy, streaming”.

Don’t forget Roy Brown’s “Good Rockin’ Tonight”, which I’ve heard claimed as the first use of the term “rockin’” to denote a “good time at a music club” as opposed to the more widely used euphemism for doing the sex. I’m not sure about the claim and the research behind it, but I will support it as a great song and…

No lie: I’d love to see Will Forte star as Florian in a Kraftwerk biopic.

Of course I’ll second all the other choices, but I found his menacing bully from the made-for-TV movie (based on actual events!) In Broad Daylight to be absolutely mesmerizing.

If she had given them her leather first, it would have been fine.

Guy comes into my Dad’s shop to buy a part for his car. Dad tells him he can’t sell him anything else until he settles his account. Guy goes out to his truck to get his rifle. Dad pulls his .38 from under the counter and shows it. Guy gets back in his truck and drives off.

I started watching this about a month ago. I just finished season 4. Random thoughts: they like to sing a lot. FINALLY they just went ahead and committed to doing a musical episode, and it was...not that bad. Then during the saddest, most moving part of the whole show, they break into a-ha.

There’s a Mystery Science Theater channel that shows classic eps, along with Rifftrax and Cinematic Titanic.

That was my first concern, too. Found the button. Crisis averted.

I mainly listen to music on the weekends when I’m relaxing in my recliner, but lately I’ve decided to give some shows a shot:

I’m a notoriously slow reader, but I’ve really been into The Lost Art of Scripture by Karen Armstrong. I don’t necessarily agree with all her points, and sometimes the tangents go on a bit long, but it’s a very interesting dig into how early societies formed around rituals and oral traditions, and it was only much,…

Nothing to add to the actual discussion, but I can’t resist showing off one of my most prized possessions:

This show is almost a reverse Office, in where the characters actually get more likable as the series progresses, and you actually get excited when they start pairing up. I wasn’t sure about it going into it, but man, I’m glad I stuck it out.