Sorry, that's a bit of a data dump there. But I really do think all these albums are worth listening to at least once. Well maybe not AC and a few other of those more under-produced (formative) metal albums.

My favorites of 1993 in alphabetical order.

Here are my favorites of the year in alphabetical order:

You mean like the entire Gothenburg metal sound of a few years back.

There are metal bands that are a lot more melodic than this.

I disagree. That shit was potent to my 15-year-old mind. Of course I haven't actually listened to it since I was a teenage metal and hip hop (not rap rock) fan. It could be atrocious now for all I know. I just remember it being the most kinetic and visceral commercial rap I had heard at the time. Well, I guess I'd…

Art in Russia, endure YOU the whores Soviet.

Which seems to have happened in life as in art.

In Mother Soviet Union, Rambo is like, how you say, Genocidal Maniac.

Another victim of the shadowy MPAA Black Ops unit.

I came here because I thought this might be a horror movie about Colin Powell, but now that I'm here I kind of need to see this.

The fallacy here is that the Sandman was rarely ever in jeopardy throughout most of the series. Most of the suspense in Sandman came from the fate of mortals and other lesser beings in the context of reality and the Dreaming. In many of the story arcs you're asked to enter the story through characters that are a great…

In the seventies, even the blooper reel's pacing is slow.

I kind of dig Bram Stoker's Dracula. But I definitely agree with your overall sentiment. One romantic Dracula/vampire is fine and well, but it's gotten out of hand. That said, Love at First Bite and the 1979 Dracula already established the misbegotten concept of romantic Dracula before Coppola got to it. In pre-AIDS,…

I read that and a couple other books on the topic in the late 80s/early 90s. I think one was titled Dracula: Prince of Blood and had these weird novel-like excerpts to dramatize parts of Vlad's life. These books formed the basis of some 30-page story about the historical Dracula I wrote for an English class. The…

Yes, that would be Blackula. Oh, you said "A soul," not "WITH soul."

They could have made a cool novel-based miniseries that explores Victorian mores and other problematic nineteenth century issues like exoticism, racism, imperialism, the rise of modernity, sexual repression, all the cool things that fed into the novel through Bram Stoker's own weird ticks. Instead they decided to make…

Then what about the adults that write and direct gory films, or the millions of adults who watch them?

Or you could listen to this if you want something spooky (visually as well as musically) that's a bit more up to date: http://www.youtube.com/watc…

I didn't say he said exactly the same thing, only that he made the point that tv and entertainment culture was corrosive. I was speaking more generally.