I was reading your post from the bottom up and when you mentioned Campbell helping Hubbard with the CO$ I thought you were talking about Joseph Campbell. I thought, really? A guy known for mythology helped out with a mythology, just great. What a sellout. But no. I suppose it makes more sense with the other Campbell but I didn’t know there was a CO$ connection with THAT Campbell either.

To be sure, if they ever really do make a movie about Hubbard (The Master doesn’t count) I’d certainly require it to have scenes depicting Hubbard’s naval misadventures, Jack Parsons trying to find a gateway to Hell and Hubbard using the line “The problem with China is there’s too many chinks here.”

Are you going to see Alien: Romulus? You probably won’t care for it much but I would be curious to know if you like it better than Prometheus or not, or poor Covenant which I only saw Paul C defend, if only because the characters aren’t really stupid this time.
BTW you know that planet that’s in the opening credits of the original film? Its rings actually play a key role in the movie.

Nothing about the Black Sabbatical album?

Re: Ride The High Country, it definitely has its fans–most IMDb external reviews spoke pretty highly of the movie–but there’s only 55 of them. (I guess that may not be such a great yardstick for discussing a film’s popularity, nor is it necessarily that the only special features on the DVD are a 20 minute interview with Peckinpah’s sister and some trailers. Or was it his daughter?) I don’t know how many people have even seen the film–apparently it got released as the second part of a crappy double bill by the studio back in the day, to Peckinpah’s chagrin. Certainly after The Wild Bunch the most talked about Peckinpah films are Straw Dogs, Pat Garrett and Alfredo Garcia. But hey, most talked about doesn’t mean best, eh. (I’d rather watch Cable Hogue than Straw Dogs.) I think you and I discussing Peckinpah films are the only times I know about RTHC being discussed on Music Babble. Otherwise the only Peckinpah discussion I remember on the board was either Brian talking about him and Jon Walter responding to outcries that we should boycott works by artists who have done bad things by saying “Sam Peckinpah was a near worthless human being and I still like some of his films. Celine collaborated with the Nazis and I still like some of his stuff.”
Some of the dialogue in the film, like the drunken priest, is fairly good, and I noticed Percy Helton as the little guy who hires Joel McCrea, isn’t it great that I knew right away that he was the little twerp who won’t give Ralph Meeker the key in Kiss Me Deadly and gets his hand slammed in a desk? I’d recognize that voice anywhere!

Re: “Black Cherry,” eeeeww gross, that’s grossest I’ve ever heard Aerosmith get and there were some pretty stupid lyrics on the corporate sellout albums.