I don't think they'll ever reunite either, but Michael Stipe seems a lot more cut up over it than Mike Mills, who's always been a deeply matter-of-fact guy, from the interviews I've read.

Totally agree, Up and New Adventures got unfairly savaged and are pretty rewarding, whereas Reveal and ATS were the most middle-of-the-road albums REM ever did.

I actually think I went to that bar when I was over in New York with work. Boss said we should have a quick drink on him, and we ended up spending about $500 in this crappy karaoke bar in midtown.

Lot of "mere"s there, man. It's almost like you're a character in a heavy-handed polemical novel from the fifties.

Sorry to go off-topic, but Sean, if you're not snarking on the fact that the producers of Atlas Shrugged have been forced to recall the dvd because the box text describes the book as a "novel of courage and self-sacrifice", you're just not being used to your full potential.

Someone called him out on Twitter for his cavalier approach to the word 'mong'. His response was that the haters were jealous of his success.

Quick Canal is great, though.

Deerhunter/Atlas Sounded isn't particularly suited to that kind of listening though, it's hard to just dip into.

This works even better because I'm imagining Philippe rapping it.

The enthusiasm of this Scorcese fella reminds me of a young James Cameron.

Ugh, that's the most depressingly accurate paragraph I've read all day.

Tam Lin, brah

It's a really great book. And I'm excited about this adaptation, but I can't help but feel like it's a hoax to create the ultimate Stuff White People Like entry.

He's gone all populist cheese now though. Boo, Alex James! We require our celebrities to make artisan cheese to be enjoyed be other celebrities, not this chicken tikka cheddar nonsense.

I remember back in the day, when Bush was enough of a thing that there could conceivably be this sort of rivalry, Gavin Rossdale got into a feud with Billy Corgan.

Don't worry man, I know things look bleak now, but in a couple of years it'll transpire that his 3% stake in Gucci Gucci is worth billions of dollars.

He's the Eduardo Saverin of Kreayshawn.

It's Tom Cruise, dude.

The Financial times interviewed Saverin a little while back, and he mentioned that he had dinner with Sorkin once, who he described as one of the most tic-y, neurotic people he'd ever had the experience of meeting.

Some gaming site had a Let's Play of DNF, with a time code for people looking to see how bad the terrible misogynistic stuff was.  I was never going to play the game, so took a look. And wow.