I haven’t actually re-read The Sound and the Fury. I will though.

That must be a pretty confusing experience, to just read that one once. For the record the hardest time I ever had reading a Faulkner novel was Go Down, Moses from 1942, which is famous for having the short story “The Bear” as part of it, but the rest of the book not only jumps around in time but has characters named Isaac McCaslin, McCaslin Edmonds, Carothers Edmonds and Carothers McCaslin, which you have to keep telling apart because of context clues only. I have no plans to re-read it. It was fucking gruelling, IMO.

I just really hope that both Waters and Gilmour live to age 100 and that they’re both still performing live then and still fighting, too.

The Lynch movie seems like it would be confusing to be because a bunch so much of the exposition is fragmentary with out-of-context voiceover lines like “his wife is dead” popping up almost randomly to deliver important information. I only watched the first of the new movies, I skipped the second because I didn’t like the first one, but I felt like more of the details were in the Lynch movie, but I guess Villeneuve did a better job streamline the stuff he cared about, >and leaving anything else he included as window dressing.

I’m going to rewatch the 1984 film soon just for comparison purposes but I really doubt it’ll get any better or more interesting. For the record Lynch says he likes “parts” of it. Not sure which parts.

Is there a medical term for typing things that sound the same but are spelled differently, when you would easily spot the errors if someone else wrote it and you were reading it?

Not to my knowledge. There should be!

Okay now it’s your turn. Find the VHS/DVD covers for 2001, Star Wars, and Back to the Future that tout their Hugo Awards.

Pass…but so you know, it was those printings of Left Hand Of Darkness and Neuromancer that I read for that 2002 science fiction class I took.

Rainbow’s not that obscure. Dio and Ritchie Blackmore were in the band. Are you going to listen to the later lineups? I don’t remember those albums and never really thought of it as the same band.

I’m on the third and final Dio album now, and if anything past that is good I’ll keep going, but I’m not counting on it. This third album is…okay.
Rainbow…well, I suppose anyone who knows about Dio or Deep Purple will probably find out about them, but I can’t say I’ve ever heard anything by Rainbow in public.

I’ve seen the old Aerosmith videos, but I wasn’t watching MTV when they were current, so I don’t remember when they were actually in heavy rotation and they were never a part, positive or negative, of my impression of the band.

I didn’t have MTV as a kid, but I DID have a nearby arcade where I could go play the godawful shooter arcade game Revolution X which featured clips of Aerosmith who I think had been kidnapped by evil forces or something in the game (shades of Bad Dudes!!!!) and which was horribly dated about five minutes after it was released.

Didn’t Dylan have to publicly claim that “Tweedledee And Tweedledumb” wasn’t about Bush and Gore?

I didn’t actually remember this.

I might be wrong, but I know people thought that song was about people who hated both candidates in 2000, of which, you recall, there were many!!!

That Black Sabbath -Get A Grip video also has a dick in it. That whole thing is just a laughable example of what somebody from the ’70s thought would be cool in the ’90s.
Did all the early/mid ’90s grunge and metal fans who got into Sabbath because they were idolized by contemporary bands have any idea that this incarnation of the group was still puttering along? Did they actually show that video on TV? Did Beavis and Butthead ever watch it?

Not to my knowledge, I think B&B would have only watched the Ozzy songs. Not that 80s 90s Sabbath is anything terribly cerebral. I know of Kurt Cobain’s love of Black Sabbath but in the 90s Ozzy was the guy who did “No More Tears” and “Crazy Train” and who once bit the head off a bat and he was viewed almost exclusively as music for high schoolers. Or at least that’s my memory. My first memory of even seeing Ozzy Osbourne physically was the fat blonde Miami Vice-clothes wearing Ozzy from the early to mid 80s, probably around his low point.

For the record, Ice-T also appeared in one of the Leprechaun movies around this time!!! Yaaayyy!!!