This was in 2008. He was very much the opening act, so it's possible he was constrained by the schedule or tour budget or just wasn't particularly into it for whatever reason. I can't really come down too hard on him, especially since most people were probably mostly there for The Police. (It can't hold a candle to…

"I’ve seen Elvis Costello several times live in concert, and he
always gives the audience its money’s worth, going deep into his
repertoire and performing for hours at a time."

I went to listen to this album this morning and lost interest after 3 tracks. I loved Open Your Heart and this just sounded like decent but bland dad-rock. I went back just to listen to Supermoon specifically because of the Canned-Heat-meets-Hawkwind descriptor and it's both apropos and fucking awesome. Basically the…

My interpretation was that he lives, but he has to give up any chance of being with the woman and the boy. Because even though he took out the immediate bad guys, it's hardly a clean break, and he's going to be pursued by the rest of the mob that got burned by the whole scam. Although maybe he did make a clean break,…

Eminently.

Nerd Addendum: There were, however, 33.3 modems in between, although I don't know how common they ever were. Point remains, tho, 28.8 wasn't outdated when the movie came out, although it would've been as soon as a year later.

I think you might be mistaken, sadly. Hackers came out in 1995, while the standard for 56.6k modems wasn't even INVENTED until 1996 and certainly wasn't common in home usage until around 1998. So 28.8 would definitely have been pretty cutting edge, both at the time it was filmed and at the time it came out.

Joke post, I know, but it seems as good a place as any to address the Asperger's thing: Asperger's is a hot diagnosis-of-the-moment, and while it is also a very real syndrome in its own right, it should be viewed with at least some degree of skepticism when the diagnosis is being applied to kids who are already…

My dad is inordinately fond of a joke about a snail with a racecar and the snail paints an S on the side, and whenever he drives past all the spectators say "Look at that S-car go!" And now it sounds like this joke has been optioned for a movie.

Since this is "a recent talk," it's entirely plausible that this interview could be a week or two old and I think the Reddit stuff only happened like last Thursday or Friday?

In most areas of the US (no idea about other countries, but the UK sounds similar), the coroner doesn't actually do anything but sign off on things. I guess you still wouldn't want a total idiot doing it, but it's generally not a job that requires any actual medical or legal knowledge I don't think.

"Though Greenaway had served as a barrister and a solicitor in Australia
before being appointed by her husband, London Coroner Andrew Reid,
investigations revealed that Greenaway had never served as a registered
lawyer in the United Kingdom."

I haven't listened to the whole album yet, but Pitchfork's review does seem pretty on the money. However, it is a little funny to me that they mention the huge hype that built up over LDR  while entirely glossing over the fact that they were one of her earliest and biggest boosters and the source of a pretty decent…

Conspiracy shit of this nature pisses me off because it ignores actual, real, provable conspiracies to chase down some nonsensical supernatural bullshit. This is actually the perfect example: the banking scandal referenced is Banco Ambrosiano/P2, a very real banking scandal involving a very real secret group,…

He also had a cooking special where he went back to Les Halles to work his old shift, the entire point of which was that he a) couldn't really hack it anymore and b) was never some amazing gourmet chef to begin with. Bourdain spends most of his time glorifying cooks better than himself, especially in his books. His…

Granola, you're right, there wasn't anything phony about it and that was a poor choice of words on my part. What I was trying to convey was that the bloodlust was something entirely separate from the just like overwhelming human sadness that came to people I know who WERE directly affected, and I think it sucks that…

An acquaintance I knew died in the towers and my father worked in the WTC up until 2 or 3 years before 9/11 (he's a broadcast engineer and there were numerous TV transmitters on the 110th floor). I was in 11th grade and I remember having no ability to contextualize what was going on or in any way absorb it; at some…

Badass dwarf singing is essential. Here's the Rankin & Bass Hobbit cartoon version of the same song they sing in the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watc…

I'm reading the interviewer's questions in James Lipton's Inside the Actor's Studio voice and it's really improving this article.

"If you're middle-aged, I don't know why you'd want to hear the songs you loved date-raped like this."