I have never heard this guy's music, and I say this as a Canadian (and Canada falls all over itself to showcase middling talent) who spends stupid amounts of money on music. Pop music has never been easier to completely ignore than it has been for the last decade plus.

I didn't know this until now, but I really want a throwaway shot of his skeleton with the rope in his mouth still holding up those spiders at some point in the new series.

Polanski is a Holocaust survivor whose wife and unborn child were famously slaughtered by the Manson family. This in no way condones child rape, but I have no doubt that losing generations of family members to two of the more notorious events of the 20th century probably has unimaginable consequences on someone…

Shortly before the 2012 election, I saw a Michelle Obama latex mask in the window of a sex shop next to the Village Vanguard and felt sick. This was my first time in the US, and it disturbed me that she was treated in such a way.

For whatever it's worth, Was (Not Was) used the line "Smile like you mean it" in the song "Smile", which came out 22 years before the Killers' album.

I was just going to say the same thing, but then realized that the news story revolved around the writer thinking an entire book had somehow been printed and nobody noticed this stuff was in there.

First time I saw them was in 1995 with RL Burnside opening. I saw them again in 1996, and interviewed Jon before the show. It was the second night of the North American leg (they had just come back from Europe), and he was exhausted. Because the show sold out, the promoters booked a second gig that same night, so he…

Tom Waits was actually backed up by Judah and Russell on Letterman in 2004. https://www.youtube.com/wat…

There's actually 4 Heavy Trash LP's. Three proper ones and an odd collection that came out in France a year or two ago.

I managed to snag the self-titled first CD (not included here) and Königsfort used for $10 a piece. This was around the time that the CD box set came out, so I always assumed someone sold off his original copies and bought the box. Shortly after, I read that the box set version of the first album had some radically…