talk about having the wrong thread
a pseudo thread ey?
this is fun tho
i’m glad you decided to let go
yes the ozzy croc hunter
punctured heart
jack bauer
at war
with
dogs
and
EDGAR ALLEN POE

It’s true, even that dog in Tishamingo Blues gets it. It’s something most writers are warned to stay away from by publishers. I never would have really noticed, but last week I got a dog. Changes my whole view.

If the publishers are agin it, well I change my mind, I’m for it. Bring ‘em on, kick ‘em to death.

It’s like the discussion we had about research assistants (& guitar technicians): if Robert B. Parker is agin it, I’m for it.

(Though I have to say I’m a dog-owner myself. Mine’s called Boudine, which is a kind of sausage, so naturally enough she’s a dachshund, sister of the one smiling in my icon. I think if you spend much of your life sitting round reading, a dog is an essential accessory, something to keep you in touch with the living world going on around you. Something that doesn’t interrupt.)

Just back from a quick stroll round the Net. One thing I was doing was looking round for a Harry Dean Stanton site. Well, there isn’t one. There’s what you might call a potential site, an address called Rotten Tomatoes where you can start your own forum about anyone you want, but Harry Dean’s forum has only 1 member & zero posts.

Of course this only confirms a feeling that he’s my kind of guy. If it was 1980 & you were 16 & confessed an admiration for an actor called Harry Dean Stanton you’d definitely get called a pseud. As it is you just have to think of him as a cult actor.

So which is his best film? I guess it’d have to be a toss-up between The Missouri Breaks (because it’s a seriously great movie) & Cool Hand Luke (because he not only ‘acts’ [you always have to use scare quotes with ‘cult’ figures] but he sings & plays guitar [tho’ it’s probably dubbed. Not the singing - he has a very fine voice]). An outsider would be The Green Mile, a Big House picture where Harry Dean plays a trusty who has the role of the condemned man every time the guards do a rehearsal for an execution (the chair). You have to be a serious HDS pesud even to notice he’s in the film, that’s how low-key he is.

I suppose many would name Repo Man which I saw & enjoyed but now can’t remember anything about. I’d love to find a way of hearing his band.

Repo Man is okay, but I’ve got to go with Missouri Breaks.

What about Straight Time?