Good point. They’re the clear influence on The Darkness, but that’s such an homage/direct copy that it doesn’t count. No one’s really taken them as something to build on, although I suppose Paranoid Android is kind of a dark reflection of Bohemian Rhapsody.

I rode my bicycle to that rendezvous.

Say what you will about Billy Joel, that line is perfect.

Yeah.  The problem is that to really make a biopic about someone who was well-known worthwhile, it has to explain what made them who they were, how they did what they did.  Which is really, really hard to do.  If you can’t pull that off and/or that’s not the movie the studio wants, all you get are reenactments.

Record execs never learn from that shit.  Like A Rolling Stone is also 6 minutes long, and, I believe, was also played by FM DJs rather than released as a single.  Then again, chopping the organ solo out of Light My Fire made it a hit, but since we don’t have access to an alternate universe where they released the…

The Hold Steady are better suited to having a movie made about their songs than themselves—though Finn’s use of language is so much of what makes them great that I don’t think the story of Gideon, Holly, Charlemagne, et. al. would actually translate well to the screen.

Never seen the original, or any Argento [dull story about me and horror movies excised from here]. Any thoughts on if I need to check it out before seeing the remake?   

Arguably username/comment synergy.

Stopped forcibly enough to create some scar tissue, at that.

I enjoyed it, but I wouldn’t’ve even put it up for Best Picture, let alone given it the win.

The programming session after the product release was awesome.

I haven’t seen this since I was a teenager, which is longer ago than I care to think about. I remember liking it, but really need to give it a rewatch.  Especially since I no longer need to worry about my parents coming in during a sex scene.

The How It Should Have Ended for Frozen is great.

That’s a new one on me.  Is there a rumor Banksy’s a member of Massive Attack?

I am now pondering how Banksy explains what he does and where his money comes from (selling prints at $1.4 million, he must be rich) to people. It seems in character for him to drop hints that he’s a shady international arms dealer or something, and they’re better off not asking questions.

having someone scream, “Fuck you!” at a restaurant, it just wrecks your meal. 

When I read Infinite Jest, I thought Wallace made up Whataburger. I didn’t know it was a real thing until I moved to Texas five years ago.

The lady will have the quote from a well-known episode.  I will, of course, be commenting off-topic.

Serious lol at Danielewski. “How are you doing that with your voice? “What do you mean?”

I’ve described Burn After Reading as an incredibly stupid comedy in which several people die violently.