Yeah, we’ve talked about Straw Dogs.
Criterion came out with that Pat & Billy set, so see that instead of the old versions. You want to make sure you watch the right 3 versions of the available 5, don’t you?
I haven’t bought it yet. I will definitely reward their efforts in putting this out by buying it instead of waiting for it to come to Criterion Channel. I was looking at it on their website and wondering about 4K, since my player & TV are 13 years old, so I Googled discussions of 4K vs Bluray. This comment on Reddit made me laugh,
“Then again I guess some people don’t have an eye for clarity. My girlfriend was still watching dvds when I met her.”

Re Peckinpah, I don’t care if you want to watch this or not, and you probably won’t think it’s a big deal if you weren’t hot on Ride the High Country, but he started out on television and I definitely think that his one season TV show The Westerner is an important part of his filmography.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Westerner_(TV_series)

I don’t know if there’s an earlier directorthat you could say that about. The DVD has commentaries from the same people who did the 2005 DVDs.

Of the Get a Grip Rockers, Eat the Rich got alot of radio play and lasted as a live number for a while. In addition to some of their most embarassing lyrics, it’s made superfluous (at least live) by being a bargin bin Walk This Way, but it was the song that made me first notice them (of course I heard it before Walk This Way). Fever got radio play and I think was even more famous when Garth Brooks covered it.

I remember God Is Dead, but not the rest of that album.

I’ll probably cave and Watch Covenant 19 years after it came out and then hate it even more than I expected to, just like those Terminator sequels.

If you saw this post when i first made it, I forgot to mention:

That book isn’t just about Campbell and Dianetics. It’s a group biography about Campbell, Hubbard, Isaac Asimov, and Robert Heinlein. Those last two had nothing to do with Dianetics.

The author pitched it to the publisher as a biography about Campbell, but he and the publisher agreed that they should give the other three equal billing, since they were the authors that he had the most important relationships with during his most influential period. People always knew that Campbell was an early adopter of Dianetics, and the original “Dianetics” essay appeared in Astounding (the magazine Campbell edited), but it wasn’t previously realized that he collaborated in creating it. I remember finding Dianetics adds in issues of Analog (the same magazine as Astounding, Campbell eventually changed the name) from the ’80s or ’90s!