LEFTOVERS

Harvey Pekar on Letterman

2012-01-14T12:42:00.002-05:00

Season's Greetings from Alternative Reel!

2011-12-07T20:15:00.003-05:00

Top 10 Animated Christmas Villains

Top 10 Christmas Movies of All Time

Top 10 Worst Christmas Movies>

Top 10 Totally Tasteless Christmas Quotes

Top 10 Trivia About The Star Wars Holiday Special

The Doors - Light My Christmas!

2011-12-04T09:53:00.001-05:00

The Doors FAQ Review

2011-10-15T10:04:00.003-04:00

Review of The Doors FAQ by Jim Cherry of The Doors Examiner!

The Best Hotel on Skid Row

2011-09-16T15:52:00.003-04:00

American Fucking Hero

2011-09-10T06:13:00.002-04:00

A Tribute to Bill Hicks

Bam Bam

2011-08-21T08:40:00.002-04:00

HST Girl - Bam Bam

Dinosauria, We

2011-08-20T21:02:00.001-04:00

Unveiling the Myth

2011-08-08T07:24:00.001-04:00

Interview with Abel Debritto, the author of "Sartre, Genet, Miller and Bukowski: Unveiling the Myth"

The Rough South of Harry Crews

2011-08-06T13:41:00.000-04:00

Fears, Desires, Addictions and Dreams

2011-06-01T21:35:00.000-04:00

An Interview with Charles Unger, the Director of COME TOGETHER

The Doors FAQ

2011-05-31T13:03:00.002-04:00

It has been 40 years since the untimely death of L.A.'s mystic and rock's Dionysus, Jim Morrison, yet the Doors have consistently inspired new generations of fans worldwide ever since. Highlighting one of the most influential, original, and outrageous American bands of the 1960s, The Doors FAQ is a dynamic, unorthodox exploration of this remarkable band and its enigmatic lead singer. Drawing upon unique sources, Rich Weidman digs deep and serves up fresh perspective on the music, from the garage to the hits to the outtakes; and on the band's members, from their roots, influences, and key industry partners to their rare talents, personal foibles, love affairs, and arrests. This volume also details every studio album and live recording, all the highs and lows of the Doors in concert (including the notorious 1969 Miami concert), Morrison's 40-day trial, and the death of the "Lizard King" in Paris in 1971, as well as post-Morrison milestones. Unlike the straightforward narratives of other Doors biographies, this inventive, ceremonious biographical collage leaves no stone unturned, covering the band both with Morrison and post-Morrison, including the 2010 When You're Strange documentary and the recent pardon of Morrison by the State of Florida for the Miami concert. Countless rare images from album art to ticket stubs to posters accompany the text, in this dazzling edition of solid rock scholarship.

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Nothing Left

2011-05-30T08:50:00.000-04:00

"There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death. They don't honor their own lives, they piss on their lives. They shit them away. Dumb fuckers. They concentrate too much on fucking, movies, money, family, fucking. Their minds are full of cotton. They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them. Their brains are stuffed with cotton. They look ugly, they talk ugly, they walk ugly. Play them the great music of the centuries and they can't hear it. Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die." - Charles Bukowski

Writing Under the Influence of Rock 'n' Roll

2011-05-22T09:47:00.003-04:00

An Interview with Author Jim Cherry

Cinemania

2011-05-19T19:31:00.001-04:00

Deliverance - "Dueling Banjos"

2011-05-16T20:22:00.000-04:00

Bukowski's Kitchen

2011-04-23T14:33:00.001-04:00

Like the Wrestling Matches

2011-04-09T08:20:00.003-04:00

"I've always had this feeling that Literature, that of now and the centuries, was largely a put-on, you know, like the wrestling matches." - Charles Bukowski, letter to Gerald Locklin, June 22, 1987

Charlie Sheen's Greatest Hits

2011-03-03T19:40:00.007-05:00

"I'm tired of pretending like I'm not special. I'm tired of pretending like I'm not bitching, a total freaking rock star from Mars."

“Yeah. I am on a drug. It’s called Charlie Sheen. It’s not available because if you try it once, you will die. Your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body. Too much?”

"Sorry my life is so much more bitchin' than yours. I planned it that way."

"I'm sorry, man, I've got magic. And I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time—and this includes naps—I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air."

"Every plan I have is the best plan in the room."

"You borrow my brain for five seconds and just be like 'Dude, can't handle it! Unplug this bastard!' . . . It fires in a way that is perhaps not from this terrestrial realm."

"There is such a thing as too much fun. It gets redundant. How many times can you wake up and struggle to remember your name, her name and where you are?"

"You have the right to kill me, but you do not have the right to judge me. Boom. That's the whole movie. That's life."

"I will not believe that if I do something then I have to follow a certain path because it was written for normal people. People who aren’t special. People who don’t have tiger blood and Adonis DNA."

"The only thing I'm addicted to is winning."

"Fame is empowering. My mistake was that I thought I would instinctively know how to handle it. But there's no manual, no training course."

"I'm dealing with fools and trolls. I'm dealing with soft targets and it's just strafing runs in my underwear before my first cup of coffee . . . they lay down with their ugly wives and their ugly children and just look at their loser lives and then they look at me and say, 'I can't process it.'"

"The run I was on made Sinatra, Flynn, Jagger, Richards, all of them look like droopy-eyed armless children. It was epic."

"I’m a high-priest Vatican assassin warlock."

"I’m grandiose. Because I live a grandiose life. I’m not 'aw shucks' . . . because I'm gnarly."

“There’s been a tsunami of media, and I’ve been riding it on a mercury surfboard.”

"If you're a part of my family, I will love you violently."

"I saw 28 Days. I don't remember rehab being like a day camp or being that funny. Rehab is a dumping ground. It's a big landfill."

“I have a 10,000 year old brain and the boogers of a seven-year old.”

"Well, I don’t have much of a reputation left to ruin."

"Slash sat me down at his house and said, 'You've got to clean up your act.' You know you've gone too far when Slash is saying, 'Look, you've got to get into rehab.'"

"I've got magic. I've got poetry at my fingertips."

"I don't believe myself to be an addict. I really don't. I think that I just ignore or smash or finally dismiss a model that I think is rooted in vintage balderdash, you know? For lack of a better word."

"I'm on a quest to claim absolute victory on every front."

”I’m a peaceful man with bad intentions.”

"Sure, I did a lot of things in excess. But if you look at the core, the foundation of what I pursued, what red-blooded young American male in my position wouldn't?"

"I'm not Thomas Jefferson. He was a pussy."

"There have to be more important things going on in the world than my past."

Boats 'N Hoes

2011-02-27T08:29:00.001-05:00

To the Whore Who Took My Poems

2011-01-26T12:47:00.000-05:00

Suicide is Painless

2011-01-25T08:29:00.000-05:00

Rock Quotes

2011-01-07T23:18:00.002-05:00

"Everybody gets fucked up sooner or later." - Neil Young

"I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money." - David Lee Roth

"I don't need drugs to make my life tragic." - Eddie Vedder

"I think everybody's mind should be bent once in a while." - Bob Dylan

"Drugs and sex go hand in hand when you're a rock and roll musician. Whereas if I were a violinist, it might be a little different." - Slash

"I've never done heroin. I wouldn't recommend heroin. But it hasn't hurt my record collection any." - Bill Maher

"Rock & Roll is supposed to be fun. You remember fun, dontcha? You're supposed to enjoy it." - Johnny Rotten

"Rock & roll is trying to convince girls to pay money to be near you." - Richard Hell

"I used to live in a room full of mirrors, All I could see was me." - Jimi Hendrix

The Seeds - "Pushin' Too Hard"

2010-10-17T12:52:00.001-04:00

Xanadu: Home of the Future

2010-10-12T15:38:00.001-04:00

Johnny Cash Covers John Prine's "Sam Stone"

2010-10-09T11:31:00.003-04:00

Nice cover but Cash censors one of the most powerful lines in the entire song: "Jesus Christ died for nothin' I suppose"! Here's John Prine's version:

Respectable Poverty

2010-09-29T07:07:00.004-04:00

"To be young is all there is in the world. The rest is nonsense—and cant. They talk so beautifully about work and having a family and a home (and I do, too, sometimes)—but it's all worry and head-aches and respectable poverty and forced gushing . . . Telling people how nice it is, when, in reality, you would give all of your last thirty years for one of your first thirty. Old people are tremendous frauds." —Wallace Stevens

The Miracle of Life

2010-09-28T22:04:00.001-04:00

"Here's another idea that should be punctured, the idea that childbirth is a miracle. I don't know who started this rumor but it's not a miracle. No more a miracle than eating food and a turd coming out of your butt. It's a chemical reaction and a biological reaction. You want to know a miracle? A miracle is raising a kid that doesn't talk in a fucking movie theater . . . I'll go you one further, and this is the routine that has virtually ended my career in America. If you have children here tonight--and I assume some of you do--I am sorry to tell you this. They are not special. I'll let that sink in. Don't get me wrong, folks. I know you think they're special. You think that. I'm telling you--they're not. Did you know that every time a guy comes, he comes 200 million sperm? Did you know that? And you mean to tell me you think your child is special? Because one out of 200 million sperm connected . . . that load? Gee, what are the fucking odds? Do you know what that means? I have wiped entire civilizations off of my chest, with a grey gym sock. That is special. Entire nations have flaked and crusted in the hair around my navel. That is special. And I want you to think about that, you two-egg-carrying beings out there with that holier-than-thou, we-have-the-gift-of-life attitude. I have tossed universes, in my underpants, while napping. That is special." - Bill Hicks

Remnants

2010-09-02T20:07:00.000-04:00

"Rock simply should not be played by fifty-five-year-old men with triple chins wearing bad wighats, pretending still to be excited about playing songs they wrote thirty or thirty-five years ago and have played some thousands of times since. Its prime audience should not be middle-aged, balding, jelly-bellied dads who've brought along their wives and kids. It should not be trapped behind glass in a museum display and gawked at like remnants of a lost civilization. That is not rock 'n' roll. Rock 'n' roll is not family entertainment." —John Strausbaugh, Rock Til You Drop

Fade Away

2010-08-28T11:13:00.002-04:00

"It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out. I don't appreciate worship of dead Sid Vicious or of dead James Dean or of dead John Wayne. It's the same thing. Making Sid Vicious a hero, Jim Morrison—it's garbage to me. I worship the people who survive . . . Sid Vicious died for what? So that we might rock? I mean, it's garbage, you know. If Neil Young admires that sentiment so much, why doesn't he do it? Because he sure as hell faded away and came back many times, like all of us. No, thank you. I'll take the living and the healthy." —John Lennon, Playboy Interview, 1980

Why Shouldn't I Work for the NSA?

2010-08-25T21:15:00.000-04:00

"Why shouldn't I work for the NSA? That's a tough one, but I'll give it a shot. Say I'm working at NSA. Somebody puts a code on my desk, something nobody else can break. So I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I'm real happy with myself because I did my job well. But maybe that code was the location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East. Once they have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels were hiding and 1,500 people I never had a problem with get killed. Now the politicians are saying, 'Send in the marines to secure the area' because they don't give a shit. It won't be their kid over there, getting shot. Just like it wasn't them when their number was called because they were pulling a tour in the National Guard. It'll be some guy from Southie taking shrapnel in the ass. And he comes home to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from. And the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job, because he'll work for 15 cents a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile my buddy from Southie realizes the only reason he was over there was so we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And of course the oil companies used the skirmish to scare up oil prices so they could turn a quick buck. A cute little ancillary benefit for them but it ain't helping my buddy at 250 a gallon. And naturally they're taking their sweet time bringing the oil back and maybe even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis and play slalom with the icebergs, and it ain't too long until he hits one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic. So my buddy's out of work and he can't afford to drive, so he's got to walk to the job interviews, which sucks because the shrapnel in his ass is giving him chronic hemorrhoids. And meanwhile he's starving because every time he tries to get a bite to eat the only blue plate special they're serving is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State. So what do I think? I'm holding out for something better. Why not just shoot my buddy, take his job and give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected president."
-Good Will Hunting [1997]

Something Magnificent

2010-08-24T14:16:00.000-04:00

"In life itself, apart from the beliefs in what comes before or after it, there is something magnificent. There is something to be found in life that can give so much to a person that he feels that he could swell up and then just burst. That 'something' is simply the act of living life to the fullest." - Richard Farina

Chasing Ghosts

2010-08-16T09:08:00.000-04:00

Billy Batts Busting Balls

2010-08-14T09:08:00.002-04:00

Goodfellas: Batts (Frank Vincent), a sleazy gangster with a hysterical toupee, has just been released after a long stint in the pen. During a quiet welcome home party at an out-of-the-way bar, he starts busting fellow gangster Tommy’s balls. Tommy (Joe Pesci) gets pissed because Batts tells everybody about Tommy’s early days when he shined all of the older gangster’s shoes: "Relax, would ya. What’s got into you? I haven’t seen you in a fuckin’ time and I’m breaking your balls a little bit, I’m only kidding with ya." Batts' comment to Tommy, ". . . why don’t you go get your fuckin’ shine box?" sends Tommy over the edge. Later that evening, Tommy returns looking to kill Batts. Tommy, Jimmy (Robert DeNiro) and Henry (Ray Liotta) end up beating the living shit out of this guy and throwing him in the trunk of their car. (Side note: According to Movie Minutia, the song "Atlantis" by Donovan is playing in the background while Batts is getting beaten.) So they take Batts upstate to bury him but soon realize he’s still alive and kicking back there in the trunk. So they have to pull over and finish him off. It turns out Batts was a "made guy," which means Tommy’s essentially "fucked." During a ceremony where Tommy believes he’s going to get made himself, he instead gets a bullet to the head. End of story.

Break Away

2010-08-13T21:48:00.003-04:00

"I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news." - John Muir

Barney's Beanery

2010-08-07T16:36:00.000-04:00

Shel Silverstein on "The Johnny Cash Show"

2010-08-01T08:48:00.000-04:00

A Strange Story

2010-07-31T17:24:00.000-04:00

"Jim Morrison—it's a strange story—that he drowned in a bathtub in Paris. It seems a Goddamned odd thing to happen. I never believed it for a minute." —William S. Burroughs

John Cage

2010-06-25T09:00:00.001-04:00

Doors Interview, 1969

2010-06-07T20:06:00.001-04:00

Groovin'

2010-06-06T09:25:00.001-04:00

Alone Again Or

2010-06-05T07:43:00.001-04:00

L.A. Woman

2010-05-23T09:11:00.001-04:00

Sterling Hayden Interview, 1983

2010-05-14T22:26:00.002-04:00

The Rough South of Harry Crews

2010-04-24T09:08:00.001-04:00

Maggie

2010-04-21T08:33:00.001-04:00

Outlaw Poetry

2010-04-14T20:34:00.001-04:00

"Outlaw Poetry, basically, is a stance against academia and the writing degree establishment. Outlaw Poetry is also a stance against the politically correct in poetry. Outlaw Poetry comes along at a time when the arts in general and poetry in particular are moribund, stale, boring, cowardly, candyassed and dead." —Todd Moore

Trying to be Immortal

2010-04-08T14:52:00.004-04:00

“Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal.”
- Malcolm McLaren [1946-2010]

William S. Burroughs - "Is Everybody In?"

2010-04-07T21:17:00.002-04:00

Difficult to Believe

2010-04-05T15:00:00.001-04:00

"In the days before machinery men and women who wanted to amuse themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists. Now they sit still and permit professionals to entertain them by the aid of machinery. It is difficult to believe that general artistic culture can flourish in this atmosphere of passivity."
- Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception (1954)

Sleepy John Estes

2010-03-20T10:33:00.001-04:00

Syd Barrett

2010-03-18T06:18:00.001-04:00

Best Man at a Zen Wedding

2010-03-12T04:52:00.002-05:00

"I was in the rear, stuck in with the Rumanian bread, liverwurst, beer, soft drinks; wearing a green necktie, first necktie since the death of my father a decade ago. Now I was to be best man at a Zen wedding. Hollis driving 85 m.p.h., Roy's four-foot beard flowing into my face. It was my '62 Comet, only I couldn't drive—no insurance, two drunk-driving raps, and already getting drunk. Hollis and Roy had lived unmarried for three years, Hollis supporting Roy. I sat in the back and sucked at my beer. Roy was explaining Hollis' family to me one by one. Roy was better with the intellectual shit. Or the tongue. The walls of their place were covered with these many photos of guys bending into the muff and chewing . . ."
—Charles Bukowski, "The Great Zen Wedding," Tales of Ordinary Madness, 1983

Loretta

2010-03-11T17:28:00.000-05:00

Always on the Way

2010-03-07T08:40:00.002-05:00

"Death is always on the way, but the fact that you don't know when it will arrive seems to take away from the finiteness of life. It's that terrible precision that we hate so much. But because we don't know, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless."
—Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky, 1949

Black Uhuru at Reggae Sunsplash, 1984

2010-03-05T15:13:00.000-05:00

In Spite of Ourselves

2010-03-04T20:45:00.001-05:00

John Lilly: Through the Center of the Mandala

2010-03-04T08:49:00.002-05:00

Sir David Attenborough on God

2010-03-02T18:17:00.001-05:00

High Fidelity

2010-02-27T14:37:00.002-05:00

"How can it be bullshit to state a preference?"

Bukowski Documentary from 1973

2010-02-17T21:15:00.001-05:00

Audience of One

2010-02-15T09:51:00.003-05:00

William S. Burroughs - "The Bunker"

2010-02-09T13:24:00.001-05:00

Dangerous Evolutionary Baggage

2010-02-08T14:40:00.000-05:00

"In our tenure of this planet we've accumulated dangerous evolutionary baggage — propensities for aggression and ritual, submission to leaders, hostility to outsiders — all of which puts our survival in some doubt. But we've also acquired compassion for others, love for our children and desire to learn from history and experience, and a great soaring passionate intelligence — the clear tools for our continued survival and prosperity. Which aspects of our nature will prevail is uncertain, particularly when our visions and prospects are bound to one small part of the small planet Earth. But up there in the immensity of the Cosmos, an inescapable perspective awaits us. There are not yet any obvious signs of extraterrestrial intelligence and this makes us wonder whether civilizations like ours always rush implacably, headlong, toward self-destruction. National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars. Travel is broadening."
—Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Barricades of Heaven

2010-02-08T14:04:00.001-05:00

"Running down around the towns along the shore
When I was sixteen and on my own
No, I couldn't tell you what the hell those brakes were for
I was just trying to hear my song

Jimmy found his own sweet sound and won that free guitar
We'd all get in the van and play . . ."

Laughing at the Odds

2010-02-03T06:21:00.002-05:00

"For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us."
— Charles Bukowski"

Charles Bukowski - "Fan Letter"

2010-02-01T21:24:00.000-05:00

Aaron Lewis - "Black"

2010-01-28T06:19:00.001-05:00

Michio Kaku

2010-01-23T09:19:00.001-05:00

Mirrors

2010-01-22T21:52:00.000-05:00

"I have to believe in a world outside my own mind. I have to believe that my actions still have meaning, even if I can't remember them. I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there. Do I believe the world's still there? Is it still out there? . . . Yeah. We all need mirrors to remind ourselves who we are. I'm no different." —Memento, 2000

Trails

2010-01-22T08:52:00.000-05:00

"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May your rivers flow without end, meandering through pastoral valleys tinkling with bells, past temples and castles and poets' towers into a dark primeval forest where tigers belch and monkeys howl, through miasmal and mysterious swamps and down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottoes of endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs, where deer walk across the white sand beaches, where storms come and go as lightning clangs upon the high crags, where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you --- beyond that next turning of the canyon walls." - Edward Abbey

Frijid Pink - "House of the Rising Sun"

2010-01-21T07:44:00.000-05:00

8 1/2 Minutes with R. Crumb

2010-01-20T11:55:00.000-05:00

Running to Stand Still

2010-01-18T20:24:00.001-05:00

Carl Sagan - "A Glorious Dawn"

2010-01-11T20:17:00.001-05:00

Symphony of Science

2010-01-11T20:06:00.002-05:00

Pure Snow

2010-01-11T19:42:00.000-05:00

"This is pure snow! Do you have any idea what the street value of this mountain is?"

"Greendale is a bodaciously small town . . . A fly speck on the map, a rest stop on the way to the ski slope. I can't even get real drugs here!"

"I've been going to this high school for 7 1/2 years. I'm no dummy. I know high school girls."

"You ski the K-12 dude and girls will go sterile just looking at you!"

"Outrageous! This is pure snow! It's everywhere! I think I just froze the left half of my brain!"

—Charles De Mar, Better Off Dead, 1985

Hamburger: The Movie

2010-01-10T10:17:00.000-05:00

"Anyone who watches a movie with this title deserves whatever he gets."
—Leonard Maltin's 2006 Movie Guide

The Strongest of the Strange

2010-01-10T10:10:00.001-05:00

After Dark, My Sweet

2010-01-06T20:34:00.001-05:00

"When a man stops caring what happens, all the strain is lifted from him. Suspicion and worry and fear, all things that twist his thinking out of focus are brushed aside, and he can see people exactly as they are at last—as I saw Fay then: weak and frightened but basically as good as a person could be and hating herself for not being better. Suddenly, the only thing that mattered was that she live, it was the only way my having lived would make any sense. It was why I had been made like I was - to do something for her that she could not do for herself, and then to protect her so that she could go on, so that she could have the reason for living that I’d never had."

Jack Kerouac Shooting Pool

2010-01-01T13:31:00.001-05:00

Allman Brothers—"In Memory of Elizabeth Reed"

2009-12-09T20:27:00.000-05:00

Leonard Nimoy's "Ballad of Bilbo Baggins"

2009-12-09T06:10:00.001-05:00

Picnic

2009-11-30T21:20:00.001-05:00

Tilley: “I don’t understand a picnic . . . we just go some place . . . we put a thing on the ground and we eat.”
Nora: “Yes . . . it’s nice to do that.”
Tilley: “Why? I don’t get it. It’s better sitting at home and watching TV.”
Nora: “I think there’s something nice about a picnic . . . it’s fun.”
Tilley: “What’s fun about it? Ants get into the food . . . there’s bees. I don’t get it. We have to drive, it takes maybe an hour to get there, then you sit in grass and eat. Why is that fun?”
Nora: “I just thought it might be nice to do something together, that’s all . . . thought it might be fun.”
Tilley: “It doesn’t sound like fun to me . . . you take the stuff you’ve got here in the house, you take it someplace to eat it. It’s just as much fun eating in front of the TV, and we do that together, don’t we? No ants and no bees . . . much more comfortable.”
- Tin Men [1987]

Instinct

2009-11-24T20:38:00.004-05:00

"Whether or not I am a writer,' I wrote, 'I have—and this is both my curse and my virtue—cultivated the instinct of one, an aversion for the herd, without, in my unhappy case, the ability to harness and articulate that aversion' . . . 'For my heart will always be with the drunk, the poet, the prophet, the criminal, the painter, the lunatic, with all whose aims are insulated from the humdrum business of life . . ." —Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes, 1968

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2009-11-23T17:38:00.001-05:00

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Complete List of Top 10 Lists

JFK Assassination: Secret Service Standdown

2009-11-22T10:31:00.001-05:00

Sidekick

2009-11-22T08:02:00.002-05:00

"Karloff? Sidekick? FUCK YOU! Karloff did not deserve to smell my shit! That limey cocksucker can rot in Hell for all I care! . . . How dare that asshole bring up Karloff? You think it takes talent to do Frankenstein? It's all makeup and grunting."
—Bela Lugosi, Ed Wood, 1994

Park Bench Mutations

2009-11-20T21:06:00.000-05:00

"Where the eagle glides ascending
There's an ancient river bending
Down the timeless gorge of changes
Where sleeplessness awaits
I searched out my companions,
Who were lost in crystal canyons
When the aimless blade of science
Slashed the pearly gates.

It was then I knew I'd had enough,
Burned my credit card for fuel
Headed out to where the pavement turns to sand
With a one-way ticket to the land of truth
And my suitcase in my hand
How I lost my friends I still don't understand.

They had the best selection,
They were poisoned with protection
There was nothing that they needed,
Nothing left to find
They were lost in rock formations
Or became park bench mutations
On the sidewalks and in the stations
They were waiting, waiting.

So I got bored and left them there,
They were just deadweight to me
Better down the road without that load . . ."
—Neil Young, "Thrasher"

Maniac

2009-11-17T20:25:00.001-05:00

"Oh! Stealing through my body! Creeping through my veins! Pouring in my blood! Oh, darts of fire in my brain! Stabbing me! . . . I can't stand it! I won't!"

J. R. R. Tolkien on Film

2009-11-14T07:13:00.001-05:00

The Wanderers

2009-11-12T05:35:00.001-05:00

Winnie The Pooh Meets Apocalypse Now

2009-11-10T20:09:00.002-05:00

A true classic viral video that takes clips from Winnie the Pooh mashed with audio from Apocalypse Now. . . Starring Winnie the Pooh as Capt. Willard, Piglet in the Dennis Hopper role and Eeyore as Col. Kurtz.

Interview with Chuck Palahniuk

2009-11-10T20:06:00.001-05:00

The Matrix vs. Carl Sagan

2009-11-09T13:24:00.002-05:00

The Chris Farley Show Book Trailer

2009-11-07T16:02:00.001-05:00

John Prine - "Happy Enchilada"

2009-11-07T08:14:00.001-05:00

Dinner With Henry Miller

2009-11-07T07:16:00.001-05:00

Frank Zappa on "The Steve Allen Show"

2009-11-06T21:17:00.001-05:00

Hilltop Hoods - "Chris Farley"

2009-11-06T21:12:00.001-05:00