They're not only un-bear-able; they're downright unburrable!

“I don’t even know how to react to this information,” Plait writes, speaking for everyone. “It’s as if… my whole world has been turned upside down.”

Megami Tensei/Persona games are even better for these purposes. I forgot who the hell Rhadamanthus was until I played Persona 3. Now he's firmly lodged in my head. Persona 2 even draws upon some Mayan lore, so now I know the significance of Xibalba and In Lak'ech.

Blut und Ehre (Blood and Honor) was a popular slogan of the Hitler Youth. Close enough.

Yeah, this goes beyond discussions of Twilight, but the tacit assumption that women are somehow more impressionable than men rankles me too. It's not as if there aren't plenty of men with unrealistic expectations of the opposite sex as well as a preponderance of male-targeted/male-dominated media that reduce women to…

I think the main problems with that picture are…

"George, I'm not going to get swamped with fan mail for the rest of my life over this bullshit, right? After this, we're done. You know where to send the royalties. May the Force be with you."

The correct way to pose this question is: "What movie scene would you have wanted to be on set for…that is not from a Werner Herzog/Klaus Kinski collaboration?" Because otherwise those are the only appropriate responses.

The Oscars. To ask your question is to answer it.

And the remarkable amount of ignorance and self-deception in the implication that people who don't look like the cast of Deliverance or Ed Norton in American History X can't possibly be racist.

"Cretinous, snaggletoothed hillbillies" have too much self-respect to get involved with the Oscars voting committee.

Yeah, the closest French counterpart to Ozu that comes to mind is someone like Marcel Carné, but even that comparison feels weak because Carné didn't share Ozu's focus on mundane and intimate subject matter. I don't see the Melville analogy at all.

Have you seen Leo McCarey's Make Way for Tomorrow? It's an equally great film which provided the inspiration for Tokyo Story.

Frank Zappa was the first name that came to mind, since you didn't specify "band" in your initial post.

So is "Underwear" a safe bet for every concert? Are there others that I'm forgetting?

The more I think about it, the weaker the connection between intellectualism and artistic genius/talent appears. While the prominence of idiot savants is likely overstated — most artistic geniuses probably possess above average intelligence — true polymaths are extremely rare. And when artists fancy themselves as…

You think being a very talented musician necessitates being a very talented poet as well? Oh dear.

Probably just a cantankerous personality that gravitated towards provocative and unconventional opinions.

And while they're poaching the work of talented Eastern European auteurs, why not a Florida-based Black Cat, White Cat?

Check out Point Blank if you haven't already. I think it's his best film. It's like a modern noir with lots of idiosyncratic influences and color and jump cuts. Also: Lee Marvin.