It takes more than rhetoric to govern. I will lose friends if I engage this topic (politics and politicians disgust me - fitting for an autarchist), so that's my only say on the matter. It's a cop-out, but since when has one opinion against the masses ever made any difference?

Very interesting - I couldn't stand Love at all. I just... can't stand mash-ups, no matter how catchy they are - and they are, too. My loss, as I respect the project itself. As far as my favorite Beatles album? The White Album . Well, half of it, anyway. Even in its grandiose original form it is the...

Maybe because I’m such a big Beatles fan, I just could never get into Oasis at all. There music just seems so derivative , and rather uninspired . (emphasis mine) Whoa! You just broke my heart. :cry: PJ Harvey and Heart sure do rock, though. Two of my favorite musicians/bands of the feminine variet...

Well, this seems as good a place as any to put it, so: I wasn't alive during Pauline Kael's critical run, so my views are somewhat bias (although I feel they are right), and I'd like to get some opinions from this varied group on her writing, her criticism, and yes, Pauline Kael herself. I appreciat...

Speaking of the Beatles, Oasis , my second favorite band of all time (have been since 1997! Take that evolving tastes!), will be releasing their new album the first week of October. I've been listening to their first single, "The Shock of the Lightning" over and over and over again over th...

I've been reading a bit more than I have watching movies this summer, and it's been a mixture of old and new! I started off by reading William Gibson's two "new" novels, Pattern Recognition and Spook Country , then dived into his oldest (and most famous) work, Neuromancer before stopping o...

Hi Mel. Interesting question. You can paint me into the 'boring corner' over there as a non-believer in ghosts. I put them in the overactive imagination, sickly (or induced) hallucinations and electromagnetic sensitivity (such as many animals possess) categories. Regarding acts of violence, I chalk ...

There's a 1992 version starring John Rhys-Davies, in full-blown Sliders glory, as Challenger. It's not very good. I'd have to take either 1925 or the BBC production. I admire the 1925 production in the same sense that I admire the original King Kong - probably because it is silent film's "King ...

My wife once had to write an analysis on one of Shakespeare's works for a class she was taking and chose King Lear . It just so happened that I had planned on showing her Ran anyway, so we watched it and she wrote her report on it instead. If I remember correctly she got ace marks. I hold Kurosawa's...

Hendrix "Machine Gun" [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVvtIS2YGVI[/youtube] The Clash "London Calling" [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiVvA9YQpiI[/youtube] CSNY by way of Neil Young at Massey Hall "Ohio" [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv6kwG4B...

This DJ has recently compiled his soundtrack to a certain beautiful September day and here are some select sizzlin' cuts for all you wonderful people out there in radioland. THE BLUES BROTHERS "Gimme Some Lovin'" [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaJip3pUgeo[/youtube] (do NOT listen ...

Tonight I introduce my wife to early Kurosawa. She's seen Seven Samurai and I've shown her Ran , but it's downright criminal (oops, I just had-ta!) that she hasn't been properly acquainted with The Great One's noir era - doubly so considering she is a huge Suzuki fan! Perhaps I can goad her into sig...

Chris's thread disappears like a missing reel from a grindhouse flick, the Record Party got a bit too tipsy and lost a page of tunes and my account got sucked in to a black hole.

Where's Dirk Gently when you need him?