the story is dissolving into nonsense but they certainly put damian lewis through a serious acting workshop…so that was pretty compelling.

i was not quite sold on the singing and songwriting but in their defense i thought they had a really tight performance, above SNL average in terms of just nailing it playing wise.

i'd never heard of the band before…definitely tighter than tight but the mixture of vocal sounds was a bit off. always good to hear a new band tho.

god help me but i am going to watch this whole damn season….you win dunham.

true…the melotron/drum/guitar is definitely the most lush orchestral thing zep ever recorded.

well he's definitely good…no doubt.

dang it…how did i leave may off my list? he has composed some of the finest guitar solos ever, no doubt.

how does "the rain song" have a guitar solo? either my copy of houses of the holy is broken or i'm unclear on what a guitar solo is.
rain song has a phenomenally beautiful chordal guitar outro for sure. the alternate tuning is great. definitely agree re gilmour on Dogs (and animals in general is stellar).

true…i still go back to "shut up and play…" some astounding and eccentric soloing on there.

obviously there are exceptions…i love built to spill and dino jr. i was just making a general snark.
also not sure that built to spill can dino jr can really compete (nor would they want to) with the likes of page, gilmour, slash, hendrix, evh, etc. different strokes etc.

sheesh…not sure guitar solos are the wheelhouse of the av club. i thought the whole point of punk indie stuff was that you are NOT great at playing guitar.
anyhoo
comfortably numb, eruption, stairway, a bunch of jazz stuff nobody would have heard, since i've been loving you, voodoo child slight return, something off…

only took a couple minutes to find this review..hehe.
anyway my favorite bits of the two eps were
1)"communist bad at math flouride zombies"
2)ron talking about how he has no use for 4 cabins.

it was pretty shoddy overall have to say….regardless…as was noted in the recent "running man" discussion a truly faithful adaptation could never get a budget big enough to do the project properly. if i watch the stand i want to see larry's lady friend dead and bloated in the tent discovered by larry thinking he's…

PG apocalypse is the lamest…NC17 would be best…but i'll settle for a hard R.

the book was so damn bleak it would be nearly impossible to fiance such a film….and if they "debleak-ified" it enough to finance it would not be worth making imo. regardless of all that…i would definitely watch a faithful adaptation.

was he really racist? i don't remember that….just his wife forced into prostitution and dying sick daughter (if memory serves).

it also featured the hero's intestines uncoiling all over the floor of said plane due to being gut shot. damn good ending imo!

the super dark stephen king source novella is so much more effective than this movie….the ending is a really punchy one (even while being completely nihilistic).
for vintage arnie i'll take terminator any day.

The quality of the new blu ray is pretty standard 70s b movie celluloid hi res transfer. under lit with nice 70s film stock tones. sound is minimal and far from hi fi but definitely gets the job done.

one of the easiest to identify elements of any carpenter film is the score…he always writes the themes himself. simple, repeating, dark, modal riffs….pure carpenter vibe.