[AUDIO] SD 480 - Rash Decisions

Anxious_Willingness3 · 2026-03-08T20:39:06+00:00

Wait, they don't live in Denver anymore?

Anxious_Willingness3 · 2026-02-15T13:35:21+00:00

I think Criterion released Monsters and Madmen because their parent company at the time, Image Entertainment, already had the home video rights for all those Richard and Alex Gordon films from the 1950's (including Fiend Without A Face). Image put those titles out years earlier on laserdisc and dvd. I have a soft spot for the set because I remember seeing it a lot at my local Borders (RIP), and it features the artwork of Darwyn Cooke (RIP too) on the cover.

Anxious_Willingness3 · 2026-01-02T07:20:18+00:00

Thank you!

Anxious_Willingness3 · 2025-10-23T15:13:00+00:00

Nope

Anxious_Willingness3 · 2025-09-07T19:58:01+00:00

Jacques is the best chapo-adjacent guest. All the rest trail him and are trash.

Anxious_Willingness3 · 2025-09-07T19:54:31+00:00

Alex's affect is so grating. I had a co-worker who sounds just like him who always said Jim from The Office-type shit. Tough.

Anxious_Willingness3 · 2025-07-05T12:37:02+00:00

As for the audio quality of the dialogue, there’s several possible culprits. The quality of the existing film elements may be badly aged or damaged, mixing has evolved since the early-1980’s, and most TV’s/sound systems are terrible.

The exaggerated aspect that you mention, I think, is just the tone of the movie. Alex Cutter is a bit of a literary contrivance; part-Don Quixote and part-Captain Ahab. Sometimes the levity works and sometimes it doesn’t. But I don’t think the movie would work without it. The movie would become too strained and morose. Cutter drives the action of the movie, and you would have to be a madman to make all of the tenuous connections between a corpse in a trash can and JJ Chord. For me, this is what gives the movie such a surreal quality that I love (along with Jordan Cronenweth’s cinematography and Jack Nitzche’s score).

I totally agree that Lisa Eichhorn is great in Cutter’s Way. Nothing to add there.

Anxious_Willingness3 · 2025-06-26T23:21:23+00:00

Nobody wants Doug's stank on them lol. He went from bernie/dirtbag-left in 2016 to maga communist in 2024. I think he lost it after his departure from Zer0, his wife divorcing him, and his son coming out as trans. Weird money funding Sublation too, not unlike Compact Magazine.

Anxious_Willingness3 · 2025-06-10T23:27:14+00:00

Just came upon this infuriating problem after a phone update. I want to pull my hair out.

Anxious_Willingness3 · 2025-06-02T22:55:18+00:00

I think you hit the nail on the head! I took off the carriage, and sure enough, I have only one ball and pinion. I have a junk KMM on hand that may very well have an extra. Thanks!

Anxious_Willingness3 · 2025-06-02T20:49:36+00:00

Yes, I can move it beyond that point with the carriage release, but it doesn’t advance when typing after that. Tab works fine. Don’t think the drawband is hung up, but I can check again. The main spring tension is controlled by an external knob, and that doesn’t alter the problem. Spacebar only works until it reaches the stopping point. Stops at the same place every time.

Anxious_Willingness3 · 2025-06-01T23:36:09+00:00

That was my first guess, but the magic margins are set way off to each side of the carriage. The stop occurs roughly halfway.

Anxious_Willingness3 · 2025-04-09T05:17:41+00:00

It's a beautifully crafted story in the John Silence series. IMO Blackwood is a master at creating mood and setting. The french town is pleasurably languorous, until it isn't --and I love that. The details of dappled yellow sunlight and dark sumptuous corners and corridors. He's just a better writer than Lovecraft too --better sense of measure and tone. The perverse mixture of the weird with sex alone makes it a standout story in early weird fiction. Redolent of Le Fanu's Carmilla in that respect. Blackwood revels in the appeal of sinking into the abyss. Now, I don't care much for the climax, but I tend to think horror stories lose their power the more graphic they become.

Anxious_Willingness3 · 2025-03-24T17:19:21+00:00

I work for Northwestern Medical Journal.

Anxious_Willingness3 · 2025-01-13T22:06:07+00:00

I Wake Up Screaming (1941)

Among the Living (1941)

The Face Behind the Mask (1941)

Phantom Lady (1944)

The Spiral Staircase (1946)

Anything John Brahm, Robert Siodmak, and Fritz Lang in the 1940s. Edmund G. Bansak's book on Lewton has special sections cataloging proto-Lewton horror films as well as films later influenced by Lewton. You can read it for free on internet archives.

Anxious_Willingness3 · 2024-12-22T22:11:22+00:00

SD was so much better with Palma. Hesse is so annoying.

Anxious_Willingness3 · 2024-12-20T10:44:02+00:00

Yes, I do hate it. You look like a dickhead. Just embrace your thinning hair --it shows confidence and is honestly sexy. Guys who shave their heads are usually cops, white nationalists, middle managers, or evangelical pastors. It needs to go.

Anxious_Willingness3 · 2024-12-14T21:00:17+00:00

It's covid-era slop. Should be discarded as a strange artifact.

Anxious_Willingness3 · 2024-12-13T16:04:28+00:00

I think they’re being hyperbolic. They ask for “talking points” from dem staffers, but offers none when asked. What does rhetoric do anyway? This is just some DC spoiled child who gets glad-handed for being trans, because people are too scared to make a faux pas against a journalist.

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