When you said that, you reminded me of Sudden Impact (1983). I saw that as a teen in the theater, and for the rape flashbacks specifically felt kinda dirtied, afterward. (Not a feeling I've had with too many movies…)

I don't know about all this - I didn't see the report on Mitre - but I know that Real Sports has been killing it for years, now, sticking always with a human perspective. As with other shows, it reflects well on HBO that it keeps this one going, and with what seems to be a lot of autonomy.

Insidious is a classic - there's no reason why a film made with such modest means (smoke machines; simple makeup, & in-camera effects), and rated PG-13, should be so damned scary—but it is. The second film is forgettable, and a part of the problem is Leigh Whannell's writing *and* performance in the film. I'm sick to…

"Most performances artists strive to convey…" - I was also reading the AV Club interview w/Tim Heidecker just before, and I think you're exactly right: even "Tim and Eric" couldn't hatch this scenario of a showbiz serial rapist talking to imaginary fans on a rotary phone. Hannibal Buress pulled that mask off, and now…

Yes, Radio Shack - the source for that Moog-designed Realistic Concertmate MG-1 monophonic synthesizer I purchased as a kid in '81 or something (long since sold)…Good times!

Yeah, my first thought was of the fatality on the Midnight Rider set…

Nancy's on that shit…about that shit.

I never got a chance to see him live, back then (wish I'd seen them opening for NIN at Nassau Coliseum!), but seeing footage of the tour supporting Antichrist Superstar, you're left feeling: Damn, he wasn't lying - he didn't seem to care whether he lived or died, at that point…

True. Antichrist Superstar was the point at which MM inhabited his role/act fully. Even Bowie at his deepest and best kept more distance, even if only a hint of archness or self-awareness, between himself (whoever that is) and his personas. But Manson was on a whole other level—I'd have to compare him at that point to…

>Better that then a destroyed live and liver.

AA is the White House Prayer Breakfast of behavioral pseudo-therapies.("Bill W, meet Douglas Coe…")

Sounds a bit like me - and I'm not joking.

John Cale included a line from Warhol's diaries in one of the "Songs For Drella," where he mentions finding Cale just as unpleasant & "mean" sober as before. The realest part of sobriety: becoming *more* "yourself," for better or for worse…

So true!

>“There is no creative expression of artistic value that has ever been produced by >ex-drunkards and ex-drug addicts,” he added.

ha - John Carter was the best: the cast is absolutely amazing, it's like a dream…Samantha Morton's in there…Willem Defoe, Ciaran Hinds, Dominic West, Bryan Cranston, Mark Strong—and then they threw in Kitsch as the star?! What in the hell?

Wha? Taylor Kitsch evincing the turmoil of "a difficult past"? He can actually do that?

Creepiest moment since Robert Blake in Lost Highway said, "Now give me back my phone!"

"not consequence free speech" by custom, though. By law, First Amendment protections are pretty broad (after Brandenburg v. Ohio in '69). But, anyway, at least one big company/entity has shown it's uncomfortable with its brand coming to close to this crazy, faddish anti-vax propaganda…I guess Alex Jones can rub…

The State of California opened that door wide, when they instituted vaccine exemptions! By the vague, unsystematic, irrational nature of the anti-vax movement, it only follows that any petition for exemption will be filled with nonsense. What in the hell were they thinking???