See also: Billy Gibbons.

I've been listening to constant Lou Reed/Velvets for the past three weeks :(
so my answer is: Pale Blue Eyes…Oh Sweet Nuthin'…Sister Ray…Foggy Notion.

Dr. J, I would guess that Chomsky responds to the charges because he thinks that the underlying issues are important and worth discussing. E.g., the tendency for the mass media to throw quality control out the window when it comes to reporting the atrocities of our enemies, and to ignore or apologize for atrocities…

Two cents on the new design:
1) It's impossible, apparently, to sign in on Firefox, or even to peruse the site (no search bar?). I'm now using IE, which sucks balls. Signing in was a serious pain in the ass.
2) I used to be able to tell at a glance what was new. I could easily see that, say, five new album reviews…

"Would never endorse murder": kinda funny, when you put it like that. Of course he wouldn't! Unless he's just insane, which is probably what the anti-Chomsky crowd wants to insinuate. I wonder what that crowd imagines would be the appeal of the Khmer Rouge for Chomsky. He thinks they're great…okay, why, exactly? …

I think Chomsky might reply: let's say that it's all true, and I act like a douchebag toward some of my students. Okay…who cares? The essential thing is my work (whether what I say is true or false)…who gives a shit about whether I'm a nice guy 100% of the time?

"A lot of explaining to do": seriously? Chomsky has explained his position about 10,000 times, because the charge that he loves the Khmer Rouge comes up so often, as it's such an easy way to smear Chomsky as a crank. The explaining becomes unnecessary if you read what he (and Herman) actually wrote, rather than what…

I hope there's a chapter about that time when he listened to records, and wrote about them.

history: Revolution (Pacino), Reds, that TV miniseries on Peter the Great (as I recall, this one ate up a whole week of class time)
English: The Red Badge of Courage, A Separate Peace, Taming of the Shrew (Burton/Taylor)
French: Jean de Florette, 3 Men and a Baby (the French original, whatever it's called)
social…

I have to balance your "go watch the movie" with the "avoid at all costs" warnings I've heard since it came out.

This is the first time I've seen McGann as the Doctor, since I never saw the movie. (Nice to meet you…and now you're dead.)

I really don't get why people hate this record. It's not the first album I'll choose when I want to listen to SY, but still, it's good! "Front-to-back dud": no.

I'm just like Don Draper, too. Not successful, charismatic, or good-looking…but I sure smoke a lot.

A good summation of why this show is getting totally ridiculous. It's especially excruciating when there's a big serious event to deal with, but the show perversely chooses to focus on matters that I can't believe anyone would care about, e.g., the Irish guy wondering what to do with his life, the pig farming stuff,…

A little off-topic, but my pet peeve is guitar tab websites, which are terrible for these same reasons. Searching for a tab means wading through 10,000 versions of the song that are all plainly and obviously not even close to the original.

$4 for a rental was such a rip-off (or so I thought the last time I went to Blockbuster, circa 2008). Though my biggest complaint about Blockbuster is that they could never be trusted to properly credit me for returning the movie. Over and over again, I got late fees for movies I returned on time. Fuckers.

"Gleaming the cube"?

I picked up the basics from Rory Block's Robert Johnson video. Now when I play those songs, I sound like a Rory Block clone, rather than a Robert Johnson clone…which is perhaps the best I can hope for.

Hey, I'm also trying to learn "Red House" right now, and I'm also getting my ass kicked. It's not hard to get it kinda sorta right (if you're proficient with pentatonic noodling), but copying the nuances exactly (bending to exactly the right note, etc.) is a bitch. There's a ton of information to digest, packed into…

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