Yeah, this year's recent announcements have been really good so far. Off the top of my head: Nightmare Before Christmas, Natural Born Killers, Shawshank Redemption, Cool Hand Luke, Transformers, the first round of Criterion movies, and many others. We may even get the Godfather movies as Paramount is doing a DVD version, and the Indiana Jones movies if we are REALLY lucky, though I wouldn't count on it.
We can expect another Pixar movie besides Wall-E and also, and not a minute too soon since it was announced FOREVER ago, Lawrence of Arabia. Getting Lawrence of Arabia is like getting 20 other movies on Blu-Ray for me. The Bridge on the River Kwai would be pretty awesome too, but that will probably be at least a year off.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
