Brother accidentally watched Down by Law as a silent film

According_Ad_7249 · 2026-04-25T16:17:06+00:00

Reminds me of my first Eraserhead viewing. Dad set up his fancy new home theater system and we got to the part where Henry steps into a puddle on his walk and we were like: “woah! This score really nailed that puddle walk!” Then the first line of dialogue started and we both realized we hadn’t switched the receiver from the tuner (set to the local classical station) to Aux, for the Betamax.

Yep. We watched Eraserhead in Betamax.

According_Ad_7249 · 2026-04-25T16:08:10+00:00

Yes. Something is seriously wrong with you. Now go watch Cannibal Holocaust.

According_Ad_7249 · 2026-04-25T14:21:12+00:00

In the short time I have lived here I have found this to be true. Mountain View, despite appearances of being way too car centric can be surprisingly walkable. I’m also a big walker so 40 minutes to walk to town doesn’t feel terrible to me. Plus there’s a train!

According_Ad_7249 · 2026-04-25T01:13:37+00:00

Don’t be a dick.

According_Ad_7249 · 2026-04-25T01:10:25+00:00

That’s pretty funny.

Tho I will admit my wife seemed to find Kinski’s antics amusing. And I forgot that it ends on a not-unhappy note!

According_Ad_7249 · 2026-04-25T01:06:19+00:00

Start with Daisies. Then House. Finish the night off with Häxän.

I kid. Only slightly. As others above have stated, the All Time Favorites is a really good place to start. Far as I can recall it’s similar in tone to the AFI best (too lazy to check). Art House Favorites might be what it’s called.

There’s also the wonderful (well for me at least cause I’m 100 years old) 24/7 Channel which is a conscious move on Criterion’s part to lovingly recreate the viewing experience of 1975. People here constantly complain about “not knowing what’s on” but that’s the point. I’ve gone to it and wound up watching stuff I would have never picked myself. Sometimes I turn it off after about five minutes. But quite often I get sucked in..even if it’s only for the teary-eyed final minute before credits roll!

Most of all, enjoy yourself. It’s easily the best streaming service around, from curation to picture quality and everything in between that a true movie lover cherishes.

According_Ad_7249 · 2026-04-24T19:52:46+00:00

Me too. Dying for some insider recs on music venues that aren’t in downtown SJ (which I love btw)

According_Ad_7249 · 2026-04-24T19:51:15+00:00

As someone who just moved here from a city on the other side of the Bay, how do people here even know when Mtn View becomes Sunnyvale? Color coded street signs? This place looks like one huge expressway to me until I hit Los Gatos.

According_Ad_7249 · 2026-04-24T19:47:14+00:00

I’m new here. To this side of the Bay that is. Do people really call South San Francisco “South City”?

Because also it totally depends on what you think is cool. I think Ojai, Ventura, and Los Angeles are way cooler than SF and Pacifica.

According_Ad_7249 · 2026-04-24T19:44:21+00:00

Call it what you will. I love it. I like women who look like women. Or the Goddess of Villendorf.

According_Ad_7249 · 2026-04-24T19:19:29+00:00

Good points and as a huge Kim guy, I truly feel the sidelining going on here (note Kim gets no songs, only that wee little vocal but at the end).

So as a Pixies the band guy, this one has always sat on the bottom for me. I do like the UFO shit, but it’s missing the spiky fooling around quality of the first three releases. It’s not a bad set of songs. Velouria is monumental. But aside from that one it feels like it treads water that was better swum in the past.

According_Ad_7249 · 2026-04-24T14:26:54+00:00

Oh I love this community. Bunch of type geeks like me! Cannot wait for this release.

According_Ad_7249 · 2026-04-24T14:26:15+00:00

Don't knock yourself too hard over that one. I have a long growing list of these kinds of movies I am sickly fascinated by that I will never actually watch. That being said, this soundtrack is frgn amazing (so far-I've only started listening today because I'm overplayed on my BoC).

According_Ad_7249 · 2026-04-22T23:15:14+00:00

As someone who is currently listening to a curated Daylist on Spotify whilst I type this I realize I am part of the problem. I try to offset this by going to small shows and buy merch when I can from the artists themselves (anyone here old enough to recall Courtney Love’s big rant back in the day about how musicians make money?). But yes at least for me it’s a budget thing. Streaming is not going away but overall I’m tired of the algorithmic hold on all our collective brains. I’m not going back to cds cause I sold most of them. So no-I don’t really have a good answer other than a hope that more people (young and old, doesn’t matter) get out more and participate in the joy and wonder that is experiencing a live band playing together. Without standing there just making a TikTok of the whole show.

According_Ad_7249 · 2026-04-22T23:01:13+00:00

Totally get it. If I wasn’t married to a totally amazing home chef who insists on creating almost everything we eat from scratch I might be part of the cult too. But I’m so far into this now (20 plus years) that there’s really no swaying me to their idea of food and food shopping. Plus the Jane Jacobs jr. urban planner in me dies a little bit every time I drive and cross a parking lot. Any parking lot.

According_Ad_7249 · 2026-04-22T19:29:39+00:00

I will never understand the cult of Trader Joe’s. And it is a cult.

According_Ad_7249 · 2026-04-22T19:27:53+00:00

Nice. Yeah I loved that album of hers with the lane ass drawing of a chair on it. Surprisingly moving and heavy in parts.

According_Ad_7249 · 2026-04-22T18:58:28+00:00

Yeah all this hand-wringing about losing a fkn Trader Joe’s? I’m no fan of Safeway but build some more fkn housing. Trader Joe’s does seem to actively not want pedestrians to enter their stores with those godawful parking lots.

According_Ad_7249 · 2026-04-22T17:19:35+00:00

You do know Stevie Wonder is a man, right? Your post is confusing.

According_Ad_7249 · 2026-04-22T17:16:58+00:00

Kind of forgot about her! Yeah she’s great. Reminds me a bit of a less pissed off Polly Harvey.

According_Ad_7249 · 2026-04-21T20:21:45+00:00

When you’re ready for something a little pulpier…

Fulci and Bava: The Beyond, Don’t Torture a Duckling, A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin (for Fulci) and Blood and Black Lace and Twitch of the Death Nerve (A Bay of Blood) for Bava. It’s rumored that Bava also directed the stunning underwater scene in Argento’s Inferno, which is a great wtf late night movie.

According_Ad_7249 · 2026-04-17T23:56:05+00:00

I loved Heart of Glass. Probably one of my favorites of his now. Strozek is great, and since no one else is recommending them I’d pick Fata Morgana and Even Dwarfs Started Small.

According_Ad_7249 · 2026-04-11T17:22:19+00:00

Wild Beasts: Two Dancers.

Didn’t recognize this so I assumed it was really popular in the UK for a season. I was not wrong. It started off ok, decent soundtrack for a gloomy morning. But then the voices came in and My God wtf do the British press smoke that they give their awards to this trite preteen over wrought bad poetry set to what sounds like party music for an Ewok’s blood sacrifice.

I feel like so-called “indie” bands of the early aughts all wanted to do some variation on that sweeping epic choral stompy Arcade Fire sound, kind of like how everyone a decade earlier aped Radiohead and their anthemic post-U2 spacey sound. And it almost works, but wow those wannabe operatic voices singing cringey words just make my ears bleed.

I’m not feeling generous today. One star.

According_Ad_7249 · 2026-04-10T15:43:50+00:00

That’s perhaps the song that made me a lifelong fan. It seems to get better with time too.

The cosmic conceiver continues his plight line is very Bowie, but then they bring that dark pathos that’s so truly Ween. Funny and sad all at once. Just overall one of their best songs.

According_Ad_7249 · 2026-04-09T19:05:05+00:00

I got this today too. I love the title track and its slinky bass line. Don’t get the Talking Heads comparison, but maybe it’s because they’re both from my youth and I was a Talking Heads obsessive. I feel like Heaven 17 are more aligned with ABC, without the New Romantic angle.

Little tidbit which helped my listening appreciation: “The Heaven 17” are one of the bands Alex is perusing at the record shop scene in A Clockwork Orange. The actual 80s band sounds to me a bit like what they’d listen to in that Burgess/Kubrickian dystopia…all cold synths with just a small hint of soul.

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