There's nothing wrong with the original "Immigrant Song" but the live one off of How the West Was Won is awesome.

It's one of those songs that everyone has heard the live version so many times that it's basically the definitive version, that you're generally shocked when you hear how bad the original is.

A Viking funeral!

The big moment in the first few chapters of Elvis Costello's memoirs is the momentous first time he went to the optometrist and picked out a pair of glasses.

When US civilization is collapsing and at it's death knell before being overrun by Chinese armies, I'll just bring up that fact, and be like "Yeah, we had it coming."

Yeah, I looked it up after I wrote that and that one was called Casa Tranquilla and had a more desert-looking exterior.

Is the Sandpiper nursing home that Jimmy is going to the same one that Tio ends up in and has the infamous scene with Gus Fring in Breaking Bad? Because, that would be some interesting context.

Yeah, it's funny to think of that era where big summer superhero/comicboook(and even sci-fi comedies) films had to have a soundtrack with funky R&B soundtrack.

I liked Roger Ebert, though I can remember reading his reviews as a kid and getting pissed because he'd give bad reviews to films I loved where it seems like he didn't get them. I remember he gave a 2 star review to Die Hard and then somehow gave Die Hard 2 a review of 3.5 stars.

My memory of seeing that Bond film was going to an empty midweek theater in August in Canada and seeing that actually more kids were paying to go see Yahoo Serious in Young Einstein. Meanwhile a couple theaters over people were still paying to go see Batman and Indiana Jones for the second or third time.

"I really think I can play this part Al, just give me a shot!" said the aging psychedelic rock drummer.

Also Kenneth Branagh's Henry V.

Is this ride opening at Universal Studios: West Hollywood?

On His Majesty L. Ron Hubbard's Secret Service

I would from here on out like to be called Joseph Joe-Joe the 2nd Shabadoo.

Is it too soon to make a joke about the Big Bopper…

Yeah that's an interesting point. The US had a period in the early 2000s where everything hype d was back-to-basic guitar rock like that, but since the mid-to-late 2000s there's been this anti-rockist element among the hip music critics, where everything that gets a lot of press is either weird guys with synths,…

I though this was where we wait for the port-a-potties…

It's interesting because at other points in music history, it seems like the UK was more receptive to electronic music or black American music than the very guitar rock-centric US.

That's kind of silly, you buy tickets before they even announce the bands? I mean, there's a ton of big music festivals in the States, but usually they announce the bands and then tickets go on sale.