That's an easy thing to say, but whether you're an artist or not it does cost money to be alive.

The sad truth is, most bands that succeed in the first place only have a narrow window of brilliance. Once it's over, it's over. So if you want to hear brilliant new music, you really ought to be seeking out new acts who are in their prime. That, or unearth new-to-you older bands whose primes you haven't discovered…

Well, for one… From what I've seen it's the filmmakers saying they wanted it shown in schools, but that doesn't necessarily mean any schools are going to bite. School administrators tend to be cowards when it comes to controversial material, after all.

At the risk of delving into shaky territory, I have to say I don't feel the same sympathy for latinos being pushed out of the Echo Park area that I would when other neighborhoods are gentrified.

Ugh, I wish I could take back that "like" I gave you up there..

Merve, by your own logic (which I could poke a lot of holes in, I think the "succeed in what it sets out to do" is a huge cop out) this review fails. 30 Rock simply does not set out to develop its characters, it exists purely as a joke delivery service.

As fun as it is to spot the palm trees and other L.A. detritus, the producers at Justified do really need to get on the ball with the location shooting as well.

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Do you like the Boondock Saints? Cause it's got one of the Boondock Saints.

Also if you're in an RV, Wal Mart doesn't seem to mind if you camp in their parking lot.

I'd bet you could get a big chain on board if they were portrayed in a positive light. Like, even though there's been a zombie apocalypse, their employees were still giving quality customer service.

Who cares about his role on The Wire? David Costabile will always be Doug to me.

You speak as if this can be sorted out with logic. This isn't a logic problem. It comes down to emotion, which is something that a piece of entertainment has to appeal to if it's going to be successful. If you must compare it to our food, many people in the modern, Western world wouldn't eat a piece of meat if they…

I guess so, but people don't work like that. Animals dying for the sake of a TV show just feels much more wrong. Plus the power of the media, getting people worked up and all that.

Yeah, well, if Boardwalk was repeatedly in the news for causing the death of an animal that a whole lot of people are fond of, it might suffer a similar fate. Likewise with Treme or another show that's just hanging in there. I don't buy that HBO was actively looking to dump Luck, but I do buy that when this problem…

Might I say, I'm a big admire of the style of tagline writing that goes, "This guy will try anything, from (insert one thing he did) to (insert another.)"

"Tamil Tigers" does sound a lot more like a football team than a group of revolutionaries.

Scripted radio is definitely something Americans have lost, and in no small part because our radio tends to be absolutely awful. There are some bright spots- the Phil Hendrie Show for example, which is semi-scripted and can be completely awesome.

… Because it's rural America, 1959.

My memory's a little foggy but I think Dharma was a free-spirited scientologist with no control over her bodily functions and Greg was executive director for Goldman Sachs overseeing equity derivatives and wrestling with his conscience.