The opening lyrics to Thunder Road are among the best in rock history. In the era (but not exactly rock), the most amazing two lines are from Paul Simon's "America." "'Kathy, I'm lost,' I said, though I knew she was sleeping." If you've not seen the live performance of this by First Aid Kit, go here immediately http…

The millions of words written and spoken about Bruce Springsteen over the years (my favorite remaining Jon Stewart's Kennedy Center Honors speech) leave most of us who've been paying a lot of attention searching for the minutiae that might reveal something new, something unique, some unnoticed work that is important…

oh MAAAAAAN… there was a DC meetup?

Happy Holidays. Oh, and it was an excellent joke; I'm sorry you don't understand that the child (Jane Krakowski) in the joke not actually being native was required to make it work. I'm not going to explain it to you because while you clearly have the intellect to get it, you don't have the desire,

You too.

I've considered that issue and I don't come out looking so well. We're all "not quite right" in our own ways, though.

If you can find a bootleg of the movie Superstar (Todd Haynes, I think but I'm not sure my memory is right), it's quite eye opening. It's fictionalized (Karen and Richard are played by Barbie and Ken dolls) but based on a lot of real research and interviews.

No one seems to know… he's a fairly unusual man….

There's no question that he's brilliant. Listening to the vocal arrangement on their Bacharach David medley alone proves that (Ba-Whop is amazing? That can't be right.). But he was also a shitheel who totally exploited his sister's amazing talent and, along with their parents, kept her from getting the help she…

When I was young in the 70s, my brother once threatened my life for playing a Carpenters record. I think it was "Hurting Each Other." They were fairly reviled.

Had she lived and gotten out from under the thumb of her sick fuck of a brother. Imagine the record Karen could've made with the Rick Rubin treatment.

I wish Carpenters had also recorded "Sub Rosa Subway."

I wonder if my wife's ex-husband would fear Karen's voice. As God is my witness, this is true: he has a genuine fear of butter.

Have a heart, Waltz Nazi. It's Christmas and Jane's story was so, so sad, and now it's an online Horatio Alger tale. Plus, she's stuck with that Polish domain, which makes her story even more moving.

Who determined how big the Olympic sized stacks are? The NCAA stacks everyone knows about. Now THERE'S a story!

Bruce. I don't even know how to discuss this. The Jackson Five version is just a bit… twee.

See, this is the downside of having a discussion like this without knowing one another (I'm not proposing that, only noting it as a problem with boards; I'm old enough to remember when Godwin's Law was new). I can loathe, despite, hate, revile and abhor someone on a personal level and still be willing to keep an open…

It's the yeast we could do.

There are many things I don't ask. In this case, I fear Daniel Radcliffe involvement.

He's on public record saying he'd love to date Ivanka if she weren't his daughter and that she has a great body and should pose for Playboy. This isn't fodder for one of those "happy ending" Lifetime movies. This is for one of those "happy ending" Vivid videos.