I think he's one of the funniest and most articulate musicians around. I first learned about him through his writing, before I'd really heard much of his music. Back in the 90s he used to write a column for Guitar Player magazine— it might have been called "Frippery", or maybe it was more clever than that. This…

"Pop career"? That's a bit of a stretch, to put it politely. She had two singles that managed to get onto the Billboard charts. I doubt if one person in a hundred today could name both of them without looking it up. And if you honestly think "Hell in Paradise" is a "stellar" pop tune, you have very unusual tastes.

Since they made a point of showing the picture of the newspaper, I'm guessing the *date* of the newspaper will be important. If nothing else it will reveal to Chuck that the "repair guy" was the one taking the photos.

I got a good laugh out of the description "it had several songs". Talk about damning with faint praise.

This is great, but I'm stunned that he didn't discuss the most famous bad accent in cinematic history! I refer, of course, to Dick van Dyke's Cockney in Mary Poppins.
Can someone give this guy his own TV show? He could travel around the country coaching different actors, maybe taking them out on field trips so…

It's also very, very reminiscent of another season-ending cliffhanger. A central character is puttering around in a rented room, there's a knock at the door, and when he opens the door he's shot and left for dead…

Their discography is kind of a confusing mess. Wikipedia lists fifteen different "best-of" albums— this for a group with only five studio albums to begin with— and it's not even a comprehensive list. Some of the arguably-essential tracks, like Blues Run the Game, are *only* available on the overpriced box sets. The…

Yeah, I'm not sure that I agree with (or even entirely understand) Nick's point here. The two questions ("Can analysis be worthwhile" and "Is the theater really dead") are meant as examples of sophisticated small-talk— the sort of thing a culturally aware, young to middle-aged New Yorker would plausibly trot out at a…

Yes, Paul Simon once said that he hates this song because "it sounds like a
college student wrote it". It's hard to articulate exactly why this is… maybe it tries a bit too hard to sound "literary". "Shadows wash the room" is a bit much. "A stranger now unto me" is also a bit much (self-consciously archaic, and…