You purposefully avoid Will Ferrell?  Did he kill your dog or something?

Very interesting point, one I never considered in quite that way.  And phodreaw is absolutely right to recommend Ronson's book.  For a quick and dirty version, there's an episode of This American Life discussing it in detail.

Yeah, forget_it_jake is right.  That change, plus pretty much every additional piece of dialogue or exposition involving Jake, are really unnecessary, distracting, and much less powerful than the original version.  And that's a great point you make about what the original scene in the street meant for Roland's…

Yeah, and if at all possible, read the original version of The Gunslinger before Stephen King went ahead and Lucas'd it a few years back.

Yeah, littlealex and Claude are totally right.  Pet Semetary is one of the rare times when he absolutely nailed an ending.  *Spoiler* His undead wife scratching out "darling" through a dirt-filled throat is one of the best, bleakest images in King's universe, and a perfect capper to the slow-motion annihilation of the…

Yeah, and both revisions were extremely irritating.

Agreed re: "Mutations."  I'm a big Beck fan, and it might be my favorite album of his.  It's certainly one that I come back to most often.  "Cold Brains," "Sing It Again," "Canceled Check" - great folk songs.  Beck can really write some pretty-ass melodies when he wants to.

"Buena" by Morphine.  Maybe it's a regional thing, but where I grew up (burbs of Chicago) that song (which is awesome) was inexplicably played all the time on a few "modern rock" stations.  A song featuring only stand-up bass, saxiphone, and that awesome shuffling brush-drumming that Morphine did so well.  I was…

There's a line in that show when Stanhope asks Louis what he has to live for, why he shouldn't kill himself.  I thought Louie's answer was one of the coolest, most unexpected pieces of dialogue I've ever seen on a TV show - he basically said (paraphrasing) "fuck you, I'm not going to tell you what to live for.  It…

One of the best GTG's.  The only thing I would add is that if Murmur or Life's Rich Pageant sound good to you, and you're wishing for more of that early, jangly REM, go buy The Decemberists' The King is Dead.  The best REM album in at least 10 years.

I am extremely jealous.  Murmur is a genuine masterpiece, and one of those records that just sounds better on vinyl.  One of the albums that I wish I could listen to for the first time again.  Hopefully it won't be wasted on your replicant ears.

Ben Folds has done some decent work in this area, and also some pretty mawkish, cloying bullshit.

Regarding the "weeping push," I don't think there's a better example of it than "I Never Dreamed You'd Leave In Summer."  A song that I must be extremely, extremely careful where and in whose company I listen to it.  The last line of that song, with the accompanying string arrangement, absolutely murders.  Truly one…

And the flowers are still standing!

Hah, hah!  Well done sir.

Yup, end of the line for my household as well.  It's just not fun to watch this show any more.  I'm all for brain-dead storytelling if there's some enjoyment in the execution, but my god, who was enjoying making this season?  In parting, may I note: how in the fuck is anyone that lives in Bon Tomps an athiest?  Every…

Yeah, I'm not sure if it's "R" either, but I saw this at around 11 years old at my friend Jonny Mac's house.  I don't know if I've ever fully recovered.  @C.H.O.M.P.S., I can't even imagine what seeing it once on a big screen would have done to me, let alone five times.  How did you ever go to sleep after that?

See also: Lafayette's constant doubting that "magic" exists in the world and is functionally useful.  Really?

Please do not ever stop posting.  You are a national treasure.

Yeah, I just posted this down below, but I completely agree.  Those sweet, sweet guitar sounds.