The marching band version of This Too Shall Pass is also pretty great - I prefer it to the Rube Goldberg version because of that same thrilling sense of joy.

I loved Suicaine Gratifaction when it came out and for a good few years after - haven't listened to it in ages, though. Now I might . . .

It's also available as a Region 2 standalone DVD, from Artificial Eye . . .

Hopefully, they'll get over it . . .

Yup.

Put on the first 3-4 tracks of Niggaz4Life. The album gets pretty spotty afterwards, but those tracks - especially if you think of them in the context of pre-riot LA - are pretty frickin substantial, and sound great.

No, not sarcastic at all, when G&S started, I was a pretty consistent viewer of the Flog . . . and I usually enjoy her sporadic vids from the home/office, but I haven't checked in on her lately, so it's good news to me. Thanks for the tip . . .

The Flog is back? That's great . . . !

Haven't actually seen the trailer yet, but I'm pretty much a sucker for anything Demme, so I'll surely seek it out at some point . . . (agreed, re: YA's script, but it also seemed to be reaching, to me, for something a lot more interesting than complex than a Juno retread, fwiw).

Well, as an adult who's seen both films in the past few months with my 4-year-old, I'd say Shaun the Sheep is an infinitely better movie, hands down. (My 4-year-old would likely disagree, but I chalk that up to his impressionable susceptibility to mass marketing rather than an early indication of his poor taste -…

I think Juno was such a weirdly unpredictable hit, and was SO frickin quirky that there was a weird combination of Cody backlash, but also Cody being overly impressed with herself (hell, she won all those awards!).

Demme has done a bit of genre hopping throughout his career, which can make it easy to seem him in the director for hire vein. But a lot of his best films take a fascinating, and varying, approach to the way outsiders, or just plain old nice people, deal with menace. Alec Baldwin, Ray Liotta, Hannibal Lecter, even…

Biskind definitely turns Ashby into the sad boy of his saga - not all of which may be accurate. But there's definitely something strange going in when one of that decade's greatest filmmakers is constantly overlooked in lists/considerations like this - I mean, without Ashby, there IS NO Wes Anderson, etc., etc., etc .…

Ashby gets the shaft again . . .

The Also Structure sounds like a great name for a band or an album or even a song or maybe something like an episode title of some premium TV show.

agreed, on all counts!

Nah, not blasphemous . . .but I guess it depends, did you see it on first release? It was such a breath of fresh air for me (and my friends, partner, etc.). I was never the biggest fan of Nolan's Batman (more blasphemy!), and as good as Ledger was, that film just left me . . . meh. Iron Man just seemed, at the time…

That's one of its big problems, for me. Enjoyed the hell out of it first time through, but rewatches have actually diminished it a bit for me because it's so . . . thin.

Mad Max does put most recent action movies to shame. It's probably a better movie than the first Iron Man, but in some ways I felt similar coming out of it - blown away and all that, but also, somehow, refreshed. Like (as your post indicates), "ohhh yeaahhh, that's what action movies can do."

Plus, also (and I may have missed it), the article seems to make no time for Delaney and Bonnie - mostly known for their incredible touring band(s) - who had a profound impact on the emergence of southern/country rock for musicians from both sides of the pond.