I didn’t enjoy Dune Messiah nearly as much as the first one, but thematically I think it was necessary for the first one to be a legitimate contender for the Official Great Science Fiction Novel. However, Analog editor John W. Campbell did not appreciate the subverting of his beloved superman themes, and after having printed disproportionately long issues in order be able to handle serializing Dune, he refused to buy Messiah, which was printed in Galaxy.

I was going to find a cover from one of the issues of Galaxy representing Dune Messiah, but none of them did! The best cover, coincidentally, highlights a late work by A.E. van Vogt, who was one of Campbell purveyors of superman tales (and major financial supporter of Dianetics after Campbell and Hubbard co-developed it to make their Superman dreams come true! At least Campbell and van Vogt bailed on Hubbard over the Co$, which they wanted nothing to do with.) Here it is:

The idea that Ride the High Country is a “lost classic” is weird to me, since it’s always been regarded as one of the greatest westerns. Can anyone who thinks that it was “lost” name ten Classic Hollywood Westerns that don’t have John Wayne in it?

That movie is a masterpiece, and only on Music Babble do I ever see people talking about Peckinpah without acknowledging that it’s one of his two best loved movies. That’s certainly the critical consensus. If you want examples look at the critics lists in the back of this book: https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofwe0000hard/page/n5/mode/2up
If you want to dismiss the plot like that, well you could just as easily do that to Stagecoach or really most genre films. It’s not as though that’s really what it’s about.
This was supposed to be the last film in the Budd Boetticher “Ranown Cycle” that Criterion recently released, but Boetticher ended up spending 7 years making a documentary about Bull Fighting son Peckinpah directed it. If you dismissed this one then you probably won’t want to bother with those.

The originals on Another Side of Bob Dylan crush all of the covers. Ballad in Plain B is boring though.

It’s funny that Crazy wasn’t used on Permanent Vacation because they didn’t want more than one ballad on an album. Get A Grip is lame, but I think most of the first half is okay. They rockers on the second half are all total filler though. The record company made them throw out like an album’s worth of material. Most notoriously Black Cherry

_ Lyrics seem to be talking about a man paying to have sex with a prostitute, and then going for a second round, but having anal sex this time, hence bursting her “black cherry”._

https://aerosmithbackburner.com/2019/03/24/black-cherry/

A fan covered the song based on samples leaked, lyrics and independent research.

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