#RetroView This was filmed on September 1, 2001, the second of two performances at the Castle.

#CultShelf And 25 minutes in, we FINALLY get star/writer/director Takeshi Kitano as Otomo, very much not dead after getting stabbed in prison in the first movie.

#iLikeToWatch Also (shameless plug), if you want a good hour of Springsteen live, check out this #StewARama playlist for last month for his classic Darkness On The Edge Of Town album:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxF5IrRUwFIPlcdYKD82M6Z9w-GjGVKPN&si=Vk11W9ebpSaUrnTc

nostr:npub1j7ace8f8yl77yty9qvm7vwkvvjextmd5k7das038d46lluf59aaslqp393 “Kid, your dad looks like the white version of The Red Skull with a lab coat, you don’t need to see that.” #StewARama

#CultShelf The killer by the way is uncredited, but apparently it’s Neil Clifford, who also popped up in a movie previously on here, CLASS OF 1984.

#StewARama This title gives you a hint how much you may need tissues for the end…

#StewARama This rather dark clip of “Something In The Night” is from a performance of the song done in 1976, just a year or two before they recorded it for the album.

nostr:npub1j7ace8f8yl77yty9qvm7vwkvvjextmd5k7das038d46lluf59aaslqp393 One hour long?

#FridayThrillerClub Ernest Cline wrote the novel READY PLAYER ONE and it’s sequel, READY PLAYER TWO, which came out in 2020.

#StewARama I would call this “Psychic Girl’s No Good Very Bad Day”, but sure, you go with that, show.

#StewARama 🎶I went out the back door

And I threw away the key🎶

#StewARama “The First Time” is a U2 ballad I don’t think gets enough appreciation. It’s an insanely sparse song on the Zooropa album.

#StewARama That statue is a pivotal location for WINGS OF DESIRE.

#StewARama This was the period also while they were still touring and Bono played as a character, Mr. MacPhisto.

#StewARama “Lemon” is another song where they leaned more into the techno influence that had made its way into their previous album, the mammoth Achtung Baby.

#StewARama The Zooropa album grew out of the time doing their ZOO TV tour, which was all about commercialism and technology.

#StewARama The first single off the Zooropa album was this song sung by The Edge, “Numb”. It was a odd choice but made sense for an experimental album in their catalogue.

War was the band’s third album. Some have considered this their first album to really deal with political issues, like with “Sunday Bloody Sunday”. #StewARama

#StewARama So this year marks the anniversary of two U2 albums: War from 1983 and Zooropa from 1993.

nostr:npub1j7ace8f8yl77yty9qvm7vwkvvjextmd5k7das038d46lluf59aaslqp393 We will not have chloroforming in next Friday’s movie, BUT we will have Linnea Quigley! Thanks! #CultShelf