The short answer to your first question is the opening 30 minutes of the original Dawn of the Dead.

You poor delicate flower.

I pity the fool that doesn't…. like….. he.

It was one of my dad's favorites too. He even owned the 2 cassette, widescreen VHS of it back in eighties. Same goes for the Great Escape now that I think about.

Oh, I get it. You're completely humorless.

The book was self published as an e-book and only picked up by a publishing house (and movie studio) much later.

As awful as the description sounds, its real life incarnation actually looks quite a bit better than most fast food sandwiches manage. Though that's probably just because it doesn't have any vegetables or sauces to slide around and muck things up. Gack, how dry must that thing be?

I was just thinking that I'd seen a surprisingly large number of the movies listed here in the theater with my dad and brother as well.

I'm glad Jason mentioned the pathos of Vyvyan's reunion with his mother as I always had the same reaction - which felt very strange amidst the usual array of emotions the show elicited.

You know, I'm the one who got him out of that band.

This sort of oddball, niche coverage used to be the site's bread and butter, but these days…. not so much.

I must be the bizarro Dunk - that's the only Band of Horses song I like!

In line with your last point, he gives someone he was inclined not to like a break because "I heard he went to a Fugazi concert once".

I suppose that's true. But people aren't just throwing that term around randomly. The most recent phase of Coynes behavior and output coincides with his divorce, and contrary to the bands image, he really didn't talk incessantly about drugs until fairly recently.

You must only be about 10 then, because the ratio of annoying nonsense to cool, crazy shit has been out of balance (and worsening) for more than half a decade now.

I *so* wanted to like it. I had been a huge Floyd fan during my formative years, I loved the Final Cut, and I had tickets to the tour. I could not have been more excited. Then I got the album and read those inane (and endless) liner notes and it only got worse from there.

Radio K.A.O.S. is quite possibly the worst album I ever purchased. Any sins committed by MLoR (and there are many) look minor in comparison.

"I don't know how you guys walk around with those things."

It's the addition of "but nothing crazy" that really seals it.

It's amazing to think that less than a decade ago, zombie fans were such a tiny, niche, market that it was considered a small miracle for Romero to have cobbled together the funding for "Land of the Dead". And 'Shawn of the Dead' was a completely off the wall idea for a movie.