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Good job! I like you this way, as a reward I'll give you a discount, the kick-in-the-ass journey is shortened to Salinas, even though it takes intelligence to do Zappian desecration and you're short on that.

I approach critiques with caution; after all, all of Kubrick's films are destined to grow over time. Masterpieces like A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Barry Lyndon were panned upon their release. It's a disturbing film, much like a danse macabre, featuring two bourgeois characters who survive among a thousand infernal temptations. While in A Clockwork Orange the hell was expressed through Alex's very physical behavior, here it is aseptically represented in the normality of the two spouses whom Kubrick observes with a detached gaze. Masked, but still the same hell trying to show itself to us. The lingering doubt I have is whether another actor in place of Cruise—Mission Impossible (for example, the icy Ryan O'Neal from Barry Lyndon)—would have amplified the film's impact a hundredfold.

@odradek, for me it’s increasingly a surprise to discover your knowledge. In fact, in the subsequent albums, Tolman left and the guitar work was done by session musician Chuck Prophet of Green on Red.

@sterbus, thank you for the compliments and for your zappian culture, but this doesn't exempt me (even though I'm not picky) from pointing out that the correct name is McNab with a b, as you can see by visiting his personal website malcolm-mcnab Maybe you're confusing him with Kerry McNabb (with two Bs) who was the mix engineer on this album.
@c'è: one thing makes me really angry and that's stupidity, something you clearly demonstrate.

@paloz, I agree on Burnt Weeny Sandwich (damn, there's even Lowell George) but you already have to be devoted to the master's cause to fully appreciate it.

@there, of course you have no idea of the nonsense and the Zappa-like desecration, you're a sad character, the Maestro would have kicked you in the ass from Cucamonga (which is located in San Bernardino County near Los Angeles) all the way to San Francisco, and that's quite a few kilometers....
@bubi as for recommendable albums, Ubik’s suggestion is excellent because Uncle Meat marks the transitional period between Zappa’s anarchic early works and Zappa as a "composer." If you say you like pieces like Stink Foot, then you must check out "Apostrophe" and "Overnite Sensation." For Zappa's more wacky stuff like "Peaches en regalia," go for "Hot Rats." Anyway, I’d also point out the double live CD "Buffalo," released last April, taken from a 1980 concert, which is a real Zappa juke box. And Steve Vai is in there too, who c'è really hates because he plays on the next Ramazzotti album. Greetings to all those who love to smile.

Wow, something happened that I could have never imagined: sharing a love for an album with Rivoli! In college, Tolman and Blair also played Stewe Wynn and Kendra Smith, who later formed the Dream Syndicate and became part of the Paisley Underground movement, which true West fully embraced. This album, which I also own, is actually a creation of the French label New Rose, a compilation featuring the 45 rpm "Lucifer Sam," along with a mini LP and three tracks specially recorded with the help of the rhythm section from Thin White Rope to complete the length of the EP. A lysergic compliment to Rivoli; his proposal was a surprise.

@poletti, in my opinion "The Infernal Quinlan" is a detective story just as much as "Apocalypse Now" is a film about Vietnam.

@kane, precisely because it happened to me, I'm asking you.

galakordi, tell me, galakordi: doesn't this fall under your definition of pure cinema "at the very moment it refers to a film with an exclusively entertaining purpose"?