Sir Stewart

Wow, just reading that name brings the word 'fail' to mind.

Dude, Louie, you're not even reading my posts. Don't bother replying to them. I never said the fucking work was dangerous. Christ.

See her in a native tongue film like Volver, and you'll get it. Can't speak for Nine though.

I can see your point, but it's not a good parallel. For one thing, investing in a book is a whole different animal from listening to a record. And Manson was open about what "influenced" him: Piggies, Helter Skelter, etc. (Imagine what more havoc would have been wreaked if Manson shared a birthday with McCartney!) Chapman's obsession with Catcher was more vague, and the connection seemed more troubling to me. Where Manson just seemed nutso, Chapman was quiet, composed. The book seemed dangerous.

Congrats!

Crow, I saw this too and could not believe my eyes when they closed up on that dude. I needed another close up to confirm, but didn't get it. Now I'm sure of it. Beetlejuice style indeed.

Anyone ever seen the cable TV movie Hendrix? It was on the other night, not bad at all. I mean, it has the usual cheesiness of a biopic, coupled with the fact that it was made-for-tv, but still, the lead actor, Wood Harris (aka Avon Barksdale from The Wire) was a pretty groovy Jimi.

Y'all are still fucking talking about this?

Fucking Onion, brilliant. Awesome. I read The Laughing Man before falling asleep last night. I feel like rereading everything now. One thing about Catcher - I grew up (as I know most everyone else here did) in a post-Lennon world, for most part. The association between Mark David Chapman and Catcher In The Rye was impossible to ignore, for me. And I think that was one of the reasons I put off reading it for so long. It wasn't required reading in high school (my town's school system is apparently the only one in America that didn't require it), and though I started it once in my late teens,

No I saw the updated version. Thanks though!

Holy cats, I did not know that - thanks! My subscription just started this month...

I don't have an official "problem" with Alito mouthing 'not true', but it was a punkass move. The dope move would've been to sit there all stoic and shit, like "Yeah, we just did that. The fuck you gonna do about it, 44?"

And please let that be the last non-Salinger related post in this thread. Thanks.

I caught some of the Conan repeat last night - interviewing Jennifer Aniston (who was talking about seeing Courtney Cox on bus ads), Conan mentions seeing Jay Leno's face on buses and billboards "and it's weird because he's my friend, and there he is suddenly...Hi Conan! Waving." Odd that NBC would choose to air that ep...or not.

Nice story. Thanks for sharing. This: Brought to mind this:

Were the Clash that unpopular in the USA in 1984 or was that a one off type of show? I thought they would be in a way larger venue by then!I would have loved to see them..just starting to get into them (I am very late to the game) I have a Clash show from the Agora Ballroom but I think it's dated 1979. EDIT: the Agora in Cleveland, it's from. http://homepage.mac....20Hartford.html I think '84 is post-Topper and Mick, right? That could explain the small venue.

Is there any more attractive book packaging than this series? I'd say no.

So...when will we start seeing some unpublished work?

I can't say it got me interested in literature, but I can vouch for Catcher In The Rye as a piece of work that need not be read by an angsty teen to be appreciated: I first read it in my late 20s, and was moved just as much if not more than if I had I read it 15 years earlier.

It is a great quote, a massive bit of humanity. Took my breath away when I first read it, and every time since. I'm bummed too. Leafing through my copies now, not reading really, just looking.

But the Special Edition expands that to 16 tracks. Still, there's a couple in that link that aren't even on that. Thanks!

A perfect day for bananafish.

http://www.chron.com...ll/6840095.html

Finally this thread has proved its worth!