A glaive is a bouncing projectile weapon used by mutalisks. It bounces between three targets, with diminishing damage output after each hop.

When Krull came out I actually paid money to see it in a theater. I thought it sucked! I haven't seen it since. Perhaps it's ripe for a reappraisal. Probably not.

Perfectly competent and perfectly stodgy band. Plenty of people have no problem with punk-rock classicism but it's always made me a little queasy. It just doesn't feel right.

Western pop culture was a lot cooler when colorful unscrupulous characters like Kim Fowley were major players. Now the players are equally unscrupulous, but they're boring assholes with MBA's and expensive suits, not authentic weirdos like Fowley.

To me, Ramones music is analogous to Star Wars movies. They're both flimsy childish things of small artistic value that everybody should have let go of decades ago.

When ska got mixed with punk was when it really turned to shit. I disliked ska before then, but it wasn't a visceral loathing like I felt for the punk-influenced garbage. I knew people who were into that stuff and was forced to listen to it at times. I can sit through terrible music, but not when it's that…

The guys in Iron Maiden are also Montrose fans. Montrose is one of those names that comes up as an influence for lots of people.

That first Montrose record is absolutely badass, and Sammy was great on it. The VH guys were big fans of that record too. It was also produced by Ted Templeman, who later became VH's producer. I think the idea behind hiring Sammy to replace DLR was that he and Templeman could recreate some of the badassery of the…

Ska — where "Come On Eileen" is still cool and always will be.

When I go to hell I expect to hear plenty of ska. It's not my favorite music.

No. Sabbath is the king of rock bands.

I was about to mention Gehlen but you beat me to it. He was the Wehrmacht intelligence chief for the east front. Late in the war Gehlen had established a effective network of spies and informants inside the Soviet Union and eastern Europe. The western powers had nothing comparable at the time, so they bought…

It's Sabbath, because the Ramones weren't a great band, or even a good band. The Ramones will never have a challenger for the title of most overrated rock band. Nobody else even comes close.

GnR's dangerousness perversely accelerated hair metal's trajectory towards the soft and poppy. With a few exceptions, I suspect most of the hair bands and their management looked at GnR and felt unable to play GnR's game at GnR's level, so they ran even faster in the opposite direction, which is where things had been…

Are you area man Ross Hudek?

I didn't know that either, but I know enough to be sure to wear some flowers in my hair if I'm going to San Francisco.

Black Sabbath - "Hand Of Doom."

Carmela makes a good chicken parm.

Finished The Wire, season 1. Dat shit be off tha hook.

"Artists" like Kevin Smith are the pop-cultural downside to the internet. What would a boring hack like him do to keep his brand alive and semi-relevant without the internet?