Also Roadkill (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098209/) is a great hybrid rock 'n' roll/road movie featuring Nash The Slash and an appearance by Joey Ramone.

Thelma and Louise?

Smokey and the Bandit?

Jeepers Creepers?

Stephen King's Riding the Bullet?

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

the first Vacation movie

Road Trip

You already have all the other ones I could think of...

Ha, just watched Two Land Blacktop and was going to add it to the list. But Candy Mountain is going to be checked out. Thanks.

You definitely need to check out Two Lane Blacktop.

And a film I haven't watched in a few years, Candy Mountain.

OK so I'm doing a bit of a road movie binge. And I have to say it's limited to those of the American sort (the others may have roads in them but they don't count).

I'm trying to find the stuff mostly for free online, this website stagevu is giving me the most and due to copyright laws being short on movies everything before about 1986 seems up for grabs.

So the list begins with the easy ones:

Easy Rider

Vanishing Point

Gone in 60 seconds (1974)

The Car (1977)

Christine

The Duel

Ruckus in Madison County

Death Race 2000

Cannonball

Natural Born Killers

Convoy

To be honest I'm not sure if Christine really counts as a road movie as it's not about a journey or a chase. But if you can add anything to this list then I'm all ears as I'm running out of ideas.

The Lusty Bloody Ben

Ingredients

3 large stalks celery from the heart, including leaves, plus extra for serving

36 ounces tomato juice (recommended: Sacramento)

2 teaspoons Lusty Monk Original Sin

1 teaspoon grated yellow onion

1 lemon, juiced

1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce

1/2 teaspoon celery salt

1/4 teaspoon kosher salt

1 1/2 cups vodka

DIRECTIONS

Cut the celery in large dice, including the leaves, and puree in the bowl of a food processor fitted with the steel blade. Process until finely minced. In a large pitcher, combine the rest of the ingredients except the vodka. With the food processor running, pour 1/4 of the tomato juice mixture into the food processor through the feed tube. Then pour the contents of the food processor into the pitcher with the remaining tomato juice mixture. Add the vodka and chill. Serve in tall glasses over ice with a stick of celery.

I love the classics of the genre as well and would add

Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke

Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein

Ringworld (and the rest of the Known Space stories) - Larry Niven

Niven's recently published 4 Ringworld prequels that I enjoyed as well.

I took a long break from SF, but now that I'm a librarian and commuting by public transport, I've got a lot more time and opportunity to catch up.  Trying to get into steampunk but haven't found a keystone for that sub-genre yet.
 
Funhouse Skull said:

Wow. I see I'm joining this party a little late, but what the fuck? Science fiction is without a doubt my favorite genre in both literature & film. The drawback to SF in film is that fans are frequently given  short shrift as the perception is we will accept anything as long as it includes bug-eyed monsters & scantily clad space wenches.

 

check out Charles Baudelaire his most famous thing is called Flowers Of Evil...here's a link that mentions other poets like Paul Verlaine (where Tom Verlaine from the band Television took his stage name from)...as it says Baudelaire was also a pioneering translator of Edgar Allen Poe.

http://www.poemhunter.com/charles-baudelaire/

Has anyone ever read any of Samuel Beckett's poems? I found a book of them at the thrift store the other day. When i took it home and started reading it i nearly lost my mind. Shits totally insane. I was wondering if anyone knows any weird trippy poets or poems they might recommend?

DID ANYBODY EVER SEE THE UNAUTHORIZED , R-RATED VERSION OF "ARCHIE" ? I'm not kidding. It was called "Hot Times" , and it used to air on cable , sometimes , in The 80's. It was made around '73. It was basically about Archie and the gang in sexual situations. They were all called by the same names as in the comics , except I think Jughead was called "Mughead".

I don't know how the people who did it did'nt get sued out of existense.

I know , I'm so tired of seeing actors get bumped off by CGI ...All they'd need is a muscle boy in a wig , painted green. Lou Ferrigno was no Olivier , but , he pulled it off...Of course , he seemed more sympathetic because he could'nt hear , and was just learning to talk , in real life....Of course "Captain America" HAD CGI  graphics, but no actors lost their jobs.

I did'nt even know there WAS a "Ghost Rider" sequel , nor that it sold as well as it did....I'm sure Suicide's song STILL was'nt used , either.
 
joey fuckup said:

So has anyone seen the second "Ghost Rider" film yet? I'm almost on the fence about going, now that I know that Marvel is inacting legal action against the comic character's original creator. Years ago he sold off the rights to Marvel, and throughout the years, he's made some measly profit money showing up at comic conventions. Well, they want ALL his profits he's made (I think it's in the neighborhood of $17,000.00), and they want him to keep his mouth shut about being the creator. Sheesh, talk about greed, and this guy will never see a dime from any licensed item nor from the film itself. Hell, I may go see it, at least some of the money will go to Nicholas Cage, since after all he had to file for bankruptcy (Ok, bad joke).

I've seen the latest trailer for "The Avengers", and I must say, I was quite impressed. However, I did have a couple of issues with what I have seen. One is the Hulk's look. I don't think he will ever look totally believable in any film, but I still think he looked the best and most authentic in Ang Lee's adaptation. They used Industrial, Light, & Magic, and I don't know why they were never used again. The Hulk just looked way too CG in the second film, so it's hard for me to try and watch that version (still have never watched it the whole way through). Perhaps the second Hulk film had a lower budget? And now, here in his third big screen appearance, he does look better than the second time, but pales in comparison to his first dash on the silver screen.

I know the Black Widow was a major character in "Iron Man 2", but other than setting her up as being in "The Avengers", I'm not that sure she was really all that necessary. I never really read the Avengers comics, but was she ever one of them? So in the trailer, she's shown a lot, but does she add THAT much (other than being eye candy)? There's also the inclusion of Hawkeye, who we all know was an Avenger, but he just doesn't seem like he belongs, neither (perhaps because he just looks bland). He had a small appearance in "Thor", but he just doesn't seem to add much. I know in the '60's Avengers (#1), the superhero line-up was Captain America, Hulk, Iron Man, and Thor, and I think they should have stuck with that. The movie doesn't come out until May, so I guess I will have to wait and see, and hope the Black Widow and Hawkeye just aren't characters thrown in for the hell of it, getting in the way, and creating too many subplots.

Isa Chandra Moskowitz' Veggie Broth

1 T olive oil

1 large onion

2 large carrots

2 parsnips

3 cloves garlic, smashed

2 leeks, 

1 cup parsley or cilantro

1 cup dill (less if using dried)

9 cups water

1 t salt

[All veggies coarsely chopped]

In stockpot, heat oil. Saute onions 5 min. Add everything else and bring to boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 1 1/2 hours, uncovered.

Let broth cool, then strain out veggies. Use firm pressure to get broth out of 'em.

It has begun already...

Makes me think of that Dan Quayle quote: "The future will be better tomorrow."

http://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/11/thanks-a-lot-robot-friend/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/squeakywheel/2421024309/

Ha! That's the truth! One of my friends went to Carnegie-Mellon for his BS, and I'm sure he's seen it change sooo much in, jeez, 29 years, yipe! What's rent like for you? Here $600 for a 1-bedroom is considered a pretty good deal (2nd tightest market inna country, ow!).

As for venues here, we don't have a strip like so many cities, they're kinda measled all over, so in a way it's kind of a blessing. One place gets over-run, you can find another. Unfortunately, there aren't too many punky dives here, more alt/hipster type clubs. Still, a nice city w/ good roadshows.

Looking forward to more insight from ya, Dave

Well, it's easy for me to take it so lightly, because I don't live on the South Side.  Some of my musician friends live there, and they have to put up with this all the time.  One of them actually said to me, "I'm sick and tired of beautiful women," because of all the young hotties who flock to the South Side.  It's not often you hear a guy say that:)

dave said:

Cool, glad you can still look at these twits and smile :) Also glad you've seen some great bands there. BTW, You apparently are "the new Portland" for better or worse. Hope it blows over faster there than it did here. Take it easy, Dave

Cool, glad you can still look at these twits and smile :) Also glad you've seen some great bands there. BTW, You apparently are "the new Portland" for better or worse. Hope it blows over faster there than it did here. Take it easy, Dave

I couldn't talk at length about this last night because I had to run out for an errand.

Anyway, yeah, I've heard the same thing here about East Carson Street, which is the main drag on Pittsburgh's South Side.  Quite honestly, the area has always been a huge meat market, with maybe a handful of people involved in the local art and music scene.    Personally, I have nothing against the douchebags, just as long as they don't cause me any problems.  As for the people who live on the South Side and complain about the noise and litter (not to mention finding vomit in their yards in the morning), well, they should have known to expect this when they decided to live on the South Side.

BTW, I do enjoy observing the douchebags on the South Side.  It's the greatest kind of free entertainment ever.  Nothing like standing outside the Rex Theatre and watching a douchebag getting into a fist fight with a couple of bouncers across the street in front of Diesel.

I have some good memories of the South Side...I saw the Cynics a few times at Zythos and the Rex Theatre; I saw Les Hell on Heels at the Smilin' Moose and the Pipettes at Diesel, and I heard later on that the Pipettes hung out at Dee's after the show; I saw Dick Dale at the Rex Theatre; I saw the Science Fiction Idols a bunch of times at Excuses and the Smilin' Moose, so it's not all bad.

Anyone else around here have the same problem with a particular watering hole or strip?

This sounds very similar to the complaints I've heard here in Pittsburgh about the South Side.  I'll add some commentary later.

{Does anyone else have stories like this, about a fairly cool, or at least tolerable, drinking area going to the dogs? This made me laugh...}

[via Portland, OR Willamette Week Drink Guide]

It was my friend Christian Gaston, as it so often is, who first noticed the omen: a retractable belt barrier on the sidewalk of Northwest 21st Avenue. It was outside the latest location of the sports-bar chain Blitz, containing the crowd lining up to grind away a winter Friday night. But it was also a bugle call in a short and one-sided war, one that could be measured in the flipped chairs outside M Bar. 

Nob Hill has gone to the bros.

The bridge-and-tunnel crowd in Portland used to congregate only in Old Town, at clubs like Dixie, Barracuda and XV. But as the shopping district of “Trendy First and Trendy Third” faded in the recession, the only trend in the Alphabet District is Major League Soccer—turning Northwest into a de facto stadium district on game nights, and an outdoor frat house every weekend.

Venturing into this douchebag spring on a recent Saturday after a Timbers loss, I stopped first at the brand-new Kells location: a not even ostensibly Irish-themed brewpub-cum-meat market. The place still smelled of fresh paint; the large room with its private wooden nooks was sweltering. Men in striped shirts and ballcaps exchanged whispers with women in tight, ill-fitted striped dresses. In the dim light, it looked like a referee convention. 

Outside, a twentysomething dude in a green scarf ran in circles in the street until one of his buddies put him in a headlock.

This scene was quiet compared with the Silver Dollar Saloon. The dive was standing-room only, and a man in the doorway made three boob grabs through a woman’s red Adidas scarf before she slapped him away. The din of the crowd—much yelling about finding a strip club—was punctuated by intermittent, alarming thuds from a punching-bag machine.

In the men’s room, someone was attacking the malfunctioning paper-towel dispenser. “Karate chop that,” his friend suggested. “Punch that shit! Fucking punch that shit!” 

It was an accidentally symbolic moment. The lads of the stadium district are going to attack Northwest 21st until it falls apart.

Well i'm into politics/social issues and i like it when a band comments on society.But were talking about rnr here.Not some revolutionary music thing.It has to be well put.Should comment like a punk rocker would,not an anarchist.Lyrics should be first "poetic" (as opposed to political).Thats the way all artists should act in my opinion.Comment through their "art".Not preach.The d/k did that really good.But theyre the best punk band ever too....:) I personally love crass. But theyre not punk rock. rebeliousness is one thing ,politics another.They may meet at some points but one shouldnt be confused.

p.s next time treat those vegan nazis with some meat throwing onstage...

Dunno if you can find it, but there's a late 2011 talk Cory Doctorow (writer/freedom advocate) gave talking about the record companies (& everyone else) pissing off their customers. Quite good. Hi Bono, lol...

What We Talk About When We Talk About Internet Regulation It's broken up into 5 segments, skip ahead in pt. 1 past the long-winded intro...

Guardian article, German pirate party

I couldn't agree more, the governments are pandering to a greedy, lazy media industry that has grown fat off the people and expects to stay that way without moving with the times.

As sad as it is when jobs are lost, I think it's a good thing every time one of these fat record labels collapse because that's the only way of giving the smaller guys a piece of the action who don't turn round and bite the hand that feeds.

Vidalia Onion And Sweet Corn Soup

4 sweet onions

1/2 stick unsalted butter

2 Tablespoons olive oil

Kosher salt/Fresh black pepper

4 ears white corn

4 cups chicken broth

2 teaspoons cilantro

1/2 teaspoon tarragon

1/2 cup heavy cream (optional)

1 serrano chile

Slice onions. Heat butter, oil in saucepan over med. heat. Add onions, season w/ s&p, cook for 20 min.

Slice corn off cob w/ sharp knife

Add corn to onions and cook 10 min. Add broth, bring to boil, turn down to low, simmer for 30 min.

Add herbs, and cream, and chile.