you'd be miserable too if you had to listen to U2 every day.

the album has passed my dozens-of-listens-over-many-weeks test. Good driving music, fun to sing along to. i love the loose live-sounding production style.

Rowan Atkinson gets a lifetime pass from me too, but as much as I love the original Mr. Bean TV series, i can't think of anything he's done in the past 15 years that I've genuinely enjoyed. The Mr. Bean movies are just not all that funny, especially the mostly awful 2007 one. i remember Johnny English being okay, but…

i'm sorry, but no way Sandra Oh is "40". i'm betting she's at least 43.

Michelle Yeoh is 49, and she doesn't seem to mind if people know.

for a contrasting opinion, check out the review in USAToday. 
http://www.usatoday.com/lif…

famous hollywood actors are contractually obligated to date and marry other famous hollywood actors. it is all part of the publicity game. 2 famous people together is great cross-promotion and keeps the tabloids interested, which feeds the fame, which drives up demand for both actors. if Johansson hooked up with Joe…

My one and only attempted conversation with Bjork was after a Sugarcubes show in '92. She told me my city was a kinky place, before being promptly whisked into her tour bus by her entourage of elves.

Daydream Nation is hands down the greatest SY album. All other SY albums ultimately get compared to that album.

seems like it should be called No. 1

but do you think about only yourself when you are going at it? No. there's always another person in the fantasy.

Solution: make Dave Foley the new president of NBC. NBC will finally get someone in charge who might know *something* about how to make hit TV shows (at least he's been in a few), and Dave Foley gets a lot of money so he can finally get out of debt hell. win-win all around.

a pet peeve of mine is trailers for foreign language films. They are easy to spot because you never hear the characters talking, and instead they overdub the scene clips with music and add a voiceover in English giving a really vague description the film is about. "A young couple fall in love, but circumstances keep…

he collaborated with Juliana Hatfield on one of her more interesting albums, Juliana's Pony - Total System Failure.

while i respect Pink Floyd, i've never been much of a fan. still, i think this '68 pre-Gilmore live TV performance of 'Astronomy Domine' was pretty awesome. 
http://www.youtube.com/watc…

i believe the Pink Floyd catalog was just added to iTunes and Amazon mp3, so that might have something to do with the chart position.

I'd argue that mainstream exposure to Pavement in the 90's wasn't as rare as some people remember. they had videos on MTV, were near the top of the bill at major music festivals, were on magazine covers, had songs on modern rock radio. they weren't exactly some underground secret. if they didn't sell a lot of records,…

ever since i've had a car stereo that let me plug in my iPod, that is all i ever listen to in the car. In the 3 years i've had it i don't think i've listened to the radio once. i guess i'm spoiled now. To me, rock radio is like an ipod playlist that has only 30 songs (20 of which i hate) + long ad breaks every 3…

"Showtime is still Cracked to HBO's Mad"
bad analogy. Mad has been treading water and repeating the same stale jokes and same stale comic format since the 60's, and meanwhile Cracked reinvented itself and got awesome.

i listened to a modern rock station back in the late 80's, and you'd be surprised how much old stuff they regularly played - Blondie, 70's Bowie, The Knack, The Motels, Elvis Costello, early Cure, early U2, Echo and the Bunnymen and tons of other British New Wave acts from the early 80's. i don't think "modern rock"…