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Fassbinder's "BRD Trilogy"! "The Marriage Of Maria Braun", "Veronika Voss" and "Lola". I actually just finished watching all three this weekend and every one (especially the sublime "Marriage...") comes hugely recommended.

This should be lead to some interesting responses... http://pitchforkmedia.com/page/news/44529-mia-confronts-the-haters

[In deep Tomisaburo Wakayama voice]: Daigoro? Daigoro?

Love those books...reading them back to back certain portions repeat themselves, but that's natural for a pulp series. The constant obsessive details of his massive food consumption, sickening girth and preparations for his killing sprees are incredibly eerie and repellent. Great stuff :D

Really enjoyed the first two albums (the first album was a locked in high school favourite), but diminishing returns definitely set in once they let the guitarist write and *ahem* 'sing' more. Also one of the worst live performances I've ever seen after much build-up.

USHC/Punk is absolutely amazing. Just off the top of my head as an (entirely subjective) small sampling, how do you fuck with: Angry Samoans Antiseen Bad Brains Battalion Of Saints Black Flag Blight Chrome The Dwarves The Germs Husker Du Minor Threat The goddamn Minutemen!! Negative FX Neos...

If you get Colin Moulding's on your back you'll be set for permanent indigestion an internal struggles for the rest of your days. Edit: Well, I misread that completely...the full Coogan would be amazing if he was lightly touching the tip of his nose. That being said, I still think the full...

Just saw "The Bloodstained Shadow" (or "Solamente Nero" last night...really evocative soundtrack that occasionally descended into strange buzzing and clicking. Worked well to create a very threatening and uncertain mood. Also some great characterization in the flick itself, fairly rare for my...

Sorry, Zhao...I wouldn't normally pick on misspellings but that's truly too beautiful to pass up. "And lo, the Moroccan souvlaki soldiered on to avenge himself against the sons of Idris." Fantastic album nonetheless.

My favourite thing about "Rats' Revenge" is that when you turn over the 7" to listen to Pt. II, it's just almost exactly the same song, fading in from where the last one left off. Great tune!

Truly, truly excellent. Sadly have yet to see them live, but love their records to death (esp. "An Evil Heat" - the preacher vocalising at the beginning combined with the guitars off that disc give me chills).

I made the mistake of getting incredibly excited about the prospects of a three synth + drum machine outfit. Didn't mind the album and certain parts of it are quite lovely, but I think that I built up the potential a little too much before actually hearing it.

The Conversation was horrifying, that final shot just left me, mouth agape, staring at the screen. The whole movie hasn't left me, and Gene Hackman is truly fantastic. I kind of loved the cheesiness of TDOTC, more of its time than anything else. I think the concept and Redford/Dunaway worked...

The traditional ploy around these here parts was the mac + cheese followed by lukewarm water down the pants, but I see the appeal of both and now must agree with your original post.

I thought that was generally considered a good party?

"Sheer Hellish Miasma" is a stone cold classic. Really enjoyed Drumm's disc with Lasse Marhung "Frozen By Blizzard Winds" that was essentially stripped Black Metal down to its absolute raw form, all ambience, hiss and silence with skeletal electro-improv tendrils creeping around the sides.

Wow, you're not kidding. What a gorgeous woman...and the film looks very good as well :) I haven't seen anything by Mira Nair other than Monsoon Wedding.

Not esoteric at all, but I just finished Three Days Of The Condor and was absolutely blown away. I'm mid-way through The Conversation by Francis Ford Coppola right now, and am similarly impressed. And now thoroughly paranoid.

I actually find that part of it's charm...half of the lyrics are just random pastiches anyway. It's almost reveling in its whole absurdity.

Just read Jodorowsky and Moebius' "Incal" over the week-end after being curious about it for ages...excellent stuff with an equal mixture of the spiritual absurdity of much of Jodorowsky's work with a healthy dose of humour and Phillip K. Dick. Also currently enjoying exploring the work of...