That's definitely true of Northern Soul - any of the Northern Soul djs I know worth their salt only play vinyl. It strikes me as a self-editing community.

Joaquin Phoenix is my current pick based on his lanky appearance in The Master.

A friend of mine saw them in a bar the other week with a run-down Tara Reid who she mistook for their mother. Do with that what you will.

There was a follow up short story to American Gods, and if Peter Jackson can spin the Hobbit into three films, I'm pretty sure HBO can make at least one series out of that.

Does anyone around here watch 'design あ' by any chance? It's a great show and Cornelius does all the music too. It's endlessly inventive and pretty understandable even if your Japanese is only so-so.

"Check out what they did to my forefinger at the nail salon!"

It's worth the trip to Japan just to see the zoetrope the museum has. I used to live a couple of train stations away from the museum. Mei and the Kitten Bus was absolutely delightful. I think they have several films that are exclusive to the the museum and they play different ones on different days - I was just lucky…

Community was making drum circle jokes in 2009.

Isn't NIN, at least half the time, already Industrial Pop Music?

Polysics would have been great! Also I would like Fishmans and Boningen. Can't win 'em all.

That's her!

A friend of mine managed to appear in several British tabloids getting her breasts signed by Lady Gaga recently. It was odd to see so many strangers commenting on her cleavage.

Prisoner Christmas?

Shows my age, but "Mistadobalina" by Del The Funkee Homosapien. Also still have it.

I'm thinking they should just commission Pyongyang to do the stadium filling soundtrack, since those guys seem to be going by the descriptor 'Space Conquerers' now and have the epic and outsized down pretty well.

I think it's an imperative. The new mandate is that all nerds must become sexy.

I remember reading Easy Riders, Raging Bulls when I was 12 or 13 and hadn't seen a lot of the films yet. It spurred me on into arthouse cinemas throughout my teens and made me familiar with a lot of people I wouldn't have known about at the time. Still, I found Biskind to have an irritating habit of using a first name…

How about that Josh Hutcherson kid? He seems pretty sexless.

so… kind of like Wainy Days?

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