Last one I saw was Liars ten days or so ago. They are great live, they're pretty much a dance band now, quite different from the records but a great night out. Was in a very small club (400 people tops and I'm probably being generous) where the music was very appropriate.

I second the recommendation of solo Barrett.
There's also a third album called Opel that was basically a collection of outtakes and previously unpublished songs when it was released. I've never listened to it so can't comment on it.

If you like psychedelic stuff, start chronologically, Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Saucerful of Secrets, you can then go to the more popular ones.

Miossec - Que Devient ton Poing Quand Tu tends les Doigts
The Smashing Pumpkins - Behold! The Night Mare
The Beatles - She Said She Said
Miossec - Combien T'es Beau Combien T'es Belle
The Smashing Pumpkins - Shame

You Don't Mess With the Zohan, that's pretty much the only thing with Sandler I like, but I absolutely love that one. It goes all out for the silliness, it's just one one crazy scene after another, and I find it consistently hilarious.

I've tried a couple of rye whiskeys, namely Sazerac and Pikesville. Both were nice, I was vaguely reminded of Bulleit (which is after all 30% rye). I'll be happy to have a glass every now and then, but it didn't really make me think ryes in general was something I should be investigating.

I'll have to look that up (I don't know much about American criticism). It's always interesting to see how things travel, I'm not saying it's a bad movie, but it's very much middle of the road popular fare (French target demographics usually skew older than in the US).

Colour me surprised to see La Cage aux Folles receiving the Criterion treatment. French doesn't mean arty.

Oh, the session was great, I'm definitely not complaining about that, I mostly went to hear him talk, the book is a bonus.
And as much as I love him I wouldn't have taken the day off just to have "to @avclub-1982161d0fe636d1caabd47a2ac23e12:disqus"added to the title page (he was apparently not signing anything else).…

I'm pretty jealous.
I went to the London event yesterday, you could buy the pre-signed books, which are therefore not personalised, and there was no possibility of meeting him/getting another book signed.
It was cheaper, and there were almost a thousand people, but still.

I remember seeing and liking L'Incoronazione di Poppea a few years ago, but I think that was it for Monteverdo in about five years of fairly intensive concert going (I rarely listen to recordings, and for baroque, I wouldn't really know where to start anyway). There has been countless Handel though, half of it has…

Have you been (it reminds me I should check when to apply for tickets this year, I'm probably still about seven years away but I'd rather not go to the back of the queue)?

I love Gaiman, but the weak points in all his novels are the uniformly weak endings. It might have been more annoying in American Gods than the others, but I thought it was because the whole thing was more epic and it was more of a letdown than usual.

American Gods was his third novel after Neverwhere and Stardust, which are both much tighter and funnier.
But he considers American Gods as his first pure novel; Neverwhere started as a TV series (missable, a recent radio version is apparently pretty good though) and Stardust was going to be illustrated.

Yes, we never got to see the whole thing :(

Do you not like Billy Zane? He's a cool dude.

If it makes his dad feel better, very few ballet dancers are gay, and because of the schedules, most of them end up with ballerinas. I'll let him judge if that's an acceptable prospect for his son.

Yeezus vs. the Holy Grail, I'm almost surprised they didn't go head to head and release them on the same day.

I must be a bad googler (probably just lazy), I couldn't really find anything I found very interesting. I might pay attention to the wiki for a re-read, but the little I've seen of it didn't really seem essential. I'll probably get the Cambridge companion once I've read them all.

I love going to half price/second hand book shops, you can always have amazing finds, but I end up regretting it as I barely read half of what I buy (I also once managed to buy England's Dreaming twice as I had forgotten I had bought it a few months before (it made someone else happy)).