Snobbin: Beautiful Trash in the Pop Culture Gutter

79. Breakfast With Hunter (2003), Wayne Ewing 80. Blow-Up (1966), Michelangelo Antonioni, MGM 81. The Case of the Bloody Iris (1972), Giuliano Carnimeo 82. Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx (1972), Kenji Musimi, Toho 83. Spasmo (1974), Umbero Lenzi 84. The Case of the Scorpion's Tail (1971), Sergio Martino,  Copercines, Cooperativa, Cinematográfica, Devon Film 85. The Trouble with Angels (1966), Ida Lupino, Columbia 86. Do Not Disturb  (1965), Ralph Levy and George Marshall, 20th Century Fox 87. The Central Park Five (2012), Ken Burns, Sundance Selects 88. Torso (1973), Sergio Martino, Joseph Brenner

The first time I read Lester Bangs' Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung , I hunkered down for the long haul on the floor of the bathroom at my old house and read and read and read. Bangs' manic prose and uncompromising taste enthralled me, sucking me deeper into rock critic fandom. It was definitely the late '90s, and I was in the early, heady stages of compulsive record collecting. I had already worked my way through a large chunk of the Greil Marcus catalog, but I was mostly known for my love of Flipside , MRR , and later Punk Planet , the bigger punk rock fanzines, which I would read front to back in study hall, poring over obscure record reviews and tantalizing columns, not forgetting the letter page. As I read over his many obsessions that night and into the early hours of dawn, while I should have been preparing for some exam or other, I felt like a kindred soul. Though I never entirely agreed with Bangs, or always understood just where he was coming from, I un...