The final scene in the Plague Dogs, which I thought was an all right adaptation, but has a devastating ending. I ahd to lock myself in my room and weep for about half an hour.

Wow, even thinking about that movie can get me going. I thought I was the only one.

Also:

-Watership Down
-The Pogues "And the Band Played Waltzing Mathilda"
-Lou Gehrig's Farewell to Baseball... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Kafkaesque at 1:06 PM on August 8, 2008

Great stuff! The swan is impressive enough, but the harpist is the one that's going to haunt my dreams.
posted to MetaFilter by Kafkaesque at 5:30 PM on June 24, 2008

Every time my wife and I drive to Joshua Tree we stop off at the Wheel Inn in Cabazon. It's the diner featured in PeeWee's Big Adventure--it even has the giant dinosaurs out back, though sadly they have been bought by creationists, not that that should stop you.

When I was a young tough on the mean streets of San Jose, CA, we'd hang out at Denny's mostly. Then a spot called Diner 88 which has been gone for years but featured a jalapeno burger called the Mambo Burger.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Kafkaesque at 5:50 PM on March 28, 2008

Super cool. Thanks.
posted to MetaFilter by Kafkaesque at 3:47 PM on April 7, 2006

I live practically on the San Andreas. I'll be straddling it, Slim Pickens style when the big 'un comes.
posted to MetaFilter by Kafkaesque at 3:34 PM on March 10, 2006

I saw the Pogues with Shane on the Fall from Grace tour in the year of our lord 1989 or something. Still the greatest show I've ever been to. Later Pogues and Popes shows paled by comparison.

Shane really deteriorated after parting ways with the Pogues, though The Snake was impossibly good given his condition. From all accounts, he's improved in the last couople of years, and is getting more coherent. I'm waiting for them to announce a show in San Francisco, and I'll be... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Kafkaesque at 7:47 AM on March 10, 2006

What about the whelk? I ask you.
posted to MetaFilter by Kafkaesque at 7:19 AM on February 16, 2006

Totally agree that Jodorowsky's Dune should be on the list.
posted to MetaFilter by Kafkaesque at 7:35 AM on February 14, 2006

Incidentally, I just bought the "new" extended DVD of Dune...it's officially the first bona fide Alan Smithee movie I've owned. The bad news is that the extended scifi channel version is awful--astounding touches like a voice-over not by Princess Irulan but by...er...someone else, that features artist renderings that look a great deal like the storyboard. Wait! They are the storyboard. It's fairly obvious when a pastel drawing of a Harvester has the word "Harvester" written... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Kafkaesque at 7:41 AM on February 14, 2006

Interesting article and, in the end, not terribly surprising.

I have watched 24 since Season Two, and I really felt conflicted about watching this season, precisely because of the torture elements of the show. In the end, I caved, and got hooked right away. It's a great show. But, by watching, am I tacitly supporting the portrayal of torture as an effective information gathering tool?

I just feel dirty, is what I'm saying here.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Kafkaesque at 12:55 PM on February 3, 2006

If you're putting your tadger in a Pringles can, I'm guessing you've spent most of your life putting it in any vaguely cylindrical orifice, salty-snack related or otherwise.

Also, think of the injuries inflicted upon the bold, space-dog-Laika-like Pringle can prototype testers. These brave souls had no foam sponges! They were wailing away on a completely unprotected Pringle can, for the rest of us. The pain of a sour cream 'n' onion infection daunting them not a whit as... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Kafkaesque at 5:13 PM on November 26, 2005

I was in Saratoga, seventeen years old, watching the baseball pregame with my brother-in-law, who'd only recently immigrated from England. The quake started, and I said "Hey! This is an earthquake! This is great!" wanting to share this facet of Californian life with him. But the quake continued.

We had a covered patio, with sliding glass doors on three sides. These all fell out and shattered on the tile as my brother-in-law and I cowered on the sofa.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Kafkaesque at 12:58 PM on October 17, 2005

Al Gore is Brian Oblivion!

Reading this makes me so sad. I think about another universe that's existing in parallel with our own, a happy land where the president can write his own speeches, and write them well.

Good for Al Gore. It's a shame no-one will listen to him.
posted to MetaFilter by Kafkaesque at 1:20 PM on October 6, 2005

We need the Iron Maiden mask shaver, that is a mask whose inner surface is covered with blades. You just put it on, spin it a bit, take it off, and you're shaved. Bloody, but shaved

Yeah, I'm waiting for the Gillette Googol-- anything else is for wimps.

I'm personally waiting for the Gillette Gogol-- it's likely to shave off your nose.
posted to MetaFilter by Kafkaesque at 1:15 PM on September 14, 2005

They just address all my cable bills to "stallion".
posted to MetaFilter by Kafkaesque at 9:36 AM on August 19, 2005

This is the best thread ever.

And Milton, that Lionel album kicks ASS!
posted to MetaFilter by Kafkaesque at 4:00 PM on August 5, 2005

Great site. Thanks.
posted to MetaFilter by Kafkaesque at 9:48 AM on July 29, 2005

I thought there was nothing worse than the talking baby ads.

You want unheimlich? A love scene between Mr. Six and the Overstock.com lady. eeeeeee!
posted to MetaFilter by Kafkaesque at 1:02 PM on July 27, 2005

Happy birthday Metafilter. Just don't puke in my potted plants like you did last year.
posted to MetaFilter by Kafkaesque at 7:37 AM on July 14, 2005

Chicks dig puppets, man.
posted to MetaFilter by Kafkaesque at 9:12 PM on June 15, 2005

It seems to me that to turn a blind a eye to the very offensive scenes in this video, that was produced and distributed in the workplace, is to say its sexist and racist stereotypes are OK. I saw highlights of the video on the news yesterday, and there is a big difference between this and Chapelle's Show: Chapelle's Show is smart.

I am a big football fan, a Niners fan at that, but this sort of crap reinforces what everyone thinks about football players and sports... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Kafkaesque at 10:08 AM on June 2, 2005

So, only smart people can make ethnic jokes or jokes at the expense of...well, anyone?

Yes. Only smart people can do that. That is exactly what I am saying. We will crush the dummies, first with small arms fire, and later with tanks.

Start crackin' the books, jon.
posted to MetaFilter by Kafkaesque at 10:30 AM on June 2, 2005

getting all indignant over this admittedly puerile video is a bit hypocritical. "My offensive comedy good! Your offensive comedy, bad!"

How can you draw a comparison between stand-up comedians and a training video produced by an NFL PR guy?
posted to MetaFilter by Kafkaesque at 10:52 AM on June 2, 2005

I am the proud owner of a gold-plastic-jesus-on-the-cross snowdome filled with glitter.

But I am in awe.
posted to MetaFilter by Kafkaesque at 10:02 AM on May 27, 2005

Shoeless Joe Jackson, and One-Armed Abbott were nothing compared to the grandeur of Headless Pete Smith.
posted to MetaFilter by Kafkaesque at 10:28 AM on May 25, 2005

When people won't stop talking about their wedding, just remember not to stop talking about something you are fascinated by that they don't give a diddlyshit about. Like your rare tropical foot fungus. Or grapes. Or the ontological proof for the existence of God. Or Celebrity Skeet Shooting.

All things are one.
posted to MetaFilter by Kafkaesque at 10:17 AM on May 25, 2005

"Hunting the bighorn sheep" is my new favorite euphemism.

And yeah, you can argue all day about whether 2001 is in the canon of truly great film. But you really look like an anti-intelligentsia moran with a chip on your shoulder if you argue that "only the 'smart' people like that."

To paraphrase another fine film: He failed French in high school, and thinks everything over there is set up to make him look stupid.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Kafkaesque at 9:43 AM on May 19, 2005

We were constantly chased off by the caretaker

It's always the caretaker. I bet if you searched his shack you'd find the phosphorescent paint he used to make glowing footprints, and maybe a slide projector and an old record player.
posted to MetaFilter by Kafkaesque at 3:58 PM on May 11, 2005

I am filled with rage and bile at this disgusting outpouring.
posted to MetaFilter by Kafkaesque at 1:45 PM on April 24, 2005

So many great games there. Which Witch was a biggie when I was a wee bairn. And who can forget the stirring majesty of Ants In The Pants? Incidentally, the phrase "Ants In The Pants" is best spoken in the voices of JFK and/or James Earl Jones.
posted to MetaFilter by Kafkaesque at 9:31 AM on April 11, 2005

I like to lope up to the set, sniff it. Maybe chew on the cord. Then, I begin to beat my fists against the uncaring screen and lob chex mix at the set, making baboon noises that allow my fellow bar patrons to think about the tyranny of the cathode ray in a very real and artistically meaningful way.
posted to MetaFilter by Kafkaesque at 11:14 AM on March 22, 2005

I wonder if the teevee thing in American bars has any relationship to the perception of bars and the demon drink in general in the States. It's rare here, particularly outside urban centers, to have a pub or bar function as a social center as it does in England. Bars are dank and drear places where barboils sit ashamedly sipping their libations.

Maybe the stigma of drinking at a bar is relieved by communally focusing on that guy getting hit in the nuts on America's... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Kafkaesque at 3:41 PM on March 23, 2005

And maybe this attitude toward drinking is based, far back, on the puritanical religious leanings of America's founders?
posted to MetaFilter by Kafkaesque at 3:43 PM on March 23, 2005

I've had the Skyline Sessions for years. It's a great document of two of the greats collaborating. It's a testament to both artists' appeal beyond their specific genre. The Rubin Cash records really point up how Cash's music transcended genre. Please, though, I beg you, no-one post a link to "Hurt".
posted to MetaFilter by Kafkaesque at 10:15 AM on March 9, 2005

I am a professed pinball junkie. My favorites (and the machines I want most for my basement) are Earthshaker! and High Speed. Both of these are Williams machines, and that's no accident. I've never played a Sega, Gottlieb, or Bally that could touch Williams.

Kevspace, there is certainly skill to pinball. The nudging of the machine, the precise one-two of the flippers in sequence, the right shot up that ramp, ensuring no drainage...

Oh my! I'm all worked up.
posted to MetaFilter by Kafkaesque at 1:45 PM on March 8, 2005

And I have expounded at great length how the world really ended the day that the 1,000,000 shot ushered in the era of pinball inflation. Our innocence was lost. Gone were the days of the 250,000 point free game. Now millions, soon, billions!

We were frail Icaruses, too full of pinball hubris, and we have paid the price. Sob!
posted to MetaFilter by Kafkaesque at 1:51 PM on March 8, 2005

She sang like a sheep goes "Baaahhh"

But sheep go "Baaahhh" very well! Better than ducks or squirrels, anyway.
posted to MetaFilter by Kafkaesque at 2:26 PM on February 28, 2005

1. I have fifty Red Rose tea animals with your name on them, collector guy!

2. I'm just glad the image for My Skin, Teeth, and Hair Collection was broken.

3. It's all fun and games until 8,000 tiny Kinder Secret Agent Mole figurines come to life and start chasing you around the garden.
posted to MetaFilter by Kafkaesque at 9:32 AM on February 25, 2005

Yeah, people suffered, but I got 5 KNUSSIs, and seven lamps that look like eggs with feet. Worth it? Oh yeah.

Now where's that tiny allen wrench?
posted to MetaFilter by Kafkaesque at 8:39 AM on February 10, 2005

Police said they believe that an internal struggle involving the ownership of the cult's property led to the four members sealing Mr. Song in what became his tomb.

It's always tough when a cult breaks up.
posted to MetaFilter by Kafkaesque at 8:03 AM on December 16, 2004

I was doing great right up until Hawaii. Man, that's like the challenge round.
posted to MetaFilter by Kafkaesque at 10:28 AM on December 7, 2004

But a big part of TJ's success and self-promotion is centered around their touch-feely, warm & fuzzy, treehugging, aboriginal fetishizing image. And it's generally a good rule of thumb that the more "progressive" an image a corporation tries to front, the more shitty they actually are.

I don't think this is true. I don't go to TJ's anymore all that much, but only because I prefer *gasp!* Mollie Stone's or Whole Foods. I have talked to... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Kafkaesque at 10:10 AM on December 3, 2004

"Who ate Baby Jesus" is now stuck in my head, to the tune of "Ruby Tuesday".

Why does the messiah have to be so damn catchy?
posted to MetaFilter by Kafkaesque at 2:49 PM on December 2, 2004

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say "staple stuff".
posted to MetaFilter by Kafkaesque at 1:01 PM on December 2, 2004

Oh man. Thank you, mr. chland!
posted to MetaFilter by Kafkaesque at 8:39 AM on November 30, 2004

Grouphug is better, and you don't have to sit through the animations.
posted to MetaFilter by Kafkaesque at 1:57 PM on November 26, 2004

Very well done. As so many in this thread have mentioned, he captured many of the stages of the process very well. For me, it was mom's melanoma and dad's brain tumor. All of the stages on display in the comic looked very familiar. I just wish either of my parents had been the five percent.

Maybe what the writer managed to capture best was the feeling of gravity in the months you watch the decline. As certain moments transpire, you feel them burning into your memory... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Kafkaesque at 9:19 AM on November 22, 2004

#1 most quoted movie in my house:

Withnail: Look at that. Look at that. "Accident Blackspot"? These aren't accidents. They're throwing themselves into the road gladly. Throwing themselves into the road to escape all this hideousness.
[to a pedestrian]
Withnail: Throw yourself into the road, darling - you haven't got a chance.

Maybe #2:

"Tell me of your homeworld, Ussel.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Kafkaesque at 10:19 AM on November 18, 2004

I just realized it's AMERICAN Film Institute, which would kind of explain the lack of Withnail & I or Monty Python.
posted to MetaFilter by Kafkaesque at 5:50 PM on November 18, 2004

Fixed

Nae trous.
posted to MetaFilter by Kafkaesque at 9:07 AM on November 10, 2004