“the creaky old Norman Rockwell dis” - this, 100%. Titles are hard, I guess, but, you know, kinda not cool to put a magazine illustrator’s actual name in your album title to indicate contempt. Come to think of it though - “The Fucking Saturday Evening Post” would’ve been been brilliant, so try a little harder is the…

I’ve seen Scream 2 a couple of times after it came out, and each time was blown away again by exactly that - totally fascinating, and more melodramatic, which I love and is totally both a commentary on something which is typical of sequels, and effective simply because it’s good melodrama because good melodrama is…

Oh yeah, “Wes Craven’s New Nightmare” was great, one of my favorite movies ever.

I’m kinda surprised no one mentioned “Scream 2", since it was an explicit - well, I guess, was it a deconstruction of “Scream”? It was, right? In pursuit of the same end as “Scream”, which is kind of different from.

And Melanie Hutsell. And Anthony Michael Hall. And Randy Quaid. And...that woman who was in Superman III.

The scene in the original where she tells Tommy Doyle to run across the street to the neighbor’s house is one of my favorites - it has an authentic urgency that I just buy. It’s so well done, even a little thing like her saying the name of the neighbors he should run to made it seem so authentic. One of the things…

Not just considered for, he was OFFERED the role and turned it down because he didn’t think anyone would buy him in the role. Buck Henry actually had him in mind when he wrote it.

I have to say, I’m really glad you mentioned more than in passing how good-looking Redford is. One of the true joys of seeing Hollywood movies is being able to look at beautiful, beautiful faces. A really handsome man was at one time regarded as being not so “masculine”, which is a pretty classic expression of…

You CAN’T “go ask Alice”. She’s dead.

I had a compilation of 1930's jazz recordings once - all of them familiar songs, but recorded by second or third-tier jazz bands of the day. I forget the label but whoof, it was painful sometimes.

Motown for instance retained ownership of the acts names - so when, say, Florence Ballard left the Supremes she was forbidden from being advertised as “former Supreme”, since they owned the name. Whoever owns the act’s name can basically do what they want with it.

Ha and the little guy gets it in the rear. I was traumatized by that song at an impressionable age, and literally scream and run from the room/dive for the radio dial if it starts. 

There’s a place I drive by sometimes called “Second Amendment Sports”. That caught my eye.

Yes, there is an old recording of it which is the same.

I know, I get pre-emptively defensive sometimes, and weirdly embarassed by my obsessions and tastes - only sometimes though. Maybe I’ll be completely over it by the time I’m, let’s say, seventy? Ray Price’s music, though, is one of my major loves. I decided it was time to learn to play guitar after I had a dream in…

I did come across a Ray Price rerecording of “Make The World Go Away” for TeeVee records with vocals that are almost shockingly good though, clearly made during the height of his vocal powers - usually an artist being forced to rerecord early material resulted in something that sounded like, at best, a chore, but he…

I know this was common practice in country music for years - maybe it still is. Artists with a sizable catalogue of hits would change labels and rerecord their hits, so the new label would have access to the income generated by a greatest hits collection and/or so the artist would have something to sell at their…

Ten years ago? Oh no, somewhere around 18 years or so.

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