Give Em Enough Rope is a great fucking record. Tommy Gun, English Civil War, Guns on the Roof, Drug Stabbing Time, Cheapskate, and Stay Free are all as good as anything on the first record or on London Calling. Especially Tommy Gun and Stay Free.

Kurt Vague
"intoxicating brew of ambient drone and Bruce Springsteen-style bombast… embedded looping, loping guitar lines in a fine-grained matrix of buzz… retains the drum-machine patter and stoned shit-talking that give him his dozy menace… more focused production dovetails with more traditionally structured songs."

At least he HAD an office. At least it wasn't a cubicle under the bridge.

I also saw this in the theater when it originally came out. I admit I don't specifically remember whether my friend Chris yelled out, "That's so warped!" at the flare gun scene, or whether my stoned teenage sister guffawed so loudly at the flare gun that Chris' parents glared at her. But I think that's how it…

That's why this movie needs an ending where it is revealed, Angel Heart style, that the psycho guy actually WAS innocent and actually WAS getting his constitutional rights violated, and that Dirty Harry was a paranoid fascist who was just fantasizing all along about how this guy was following him around, taunting him,…

Warren Harding had a pretty frat-like atmosphere going.

The lyrics to The Card Cheat are far worse than the lyrics to Lover's Rock. That song is just embarrassing.

Because Gene Simmons was rude to Nathan Rabin in a telephone interview in 1999.

And the little boy in the KMart grew up to be…

I believe the answer to Lobsters' question, at least as to why Nathan Rabin in particular writes so much making fund of KISS, has to do with the fact that Gene Simmons was rude to Rabin when he interviewed Simmons on the telephone in, what 1999 or something. So if are ever interviewed by Rabin and you don't want him…

No shit. As more and more inside jokes get encrusted on top of each other, the comments section is about as enjoyable to read as a random high-school yearbook belonging to someone you don't know who grew up a city you've never been to. "Remember fifth period? Nice suspenders!" "What's Mr. Smith's name? Ha ho!" or…

Harper's
Harper's gave Frank the job of writing the editorial essay after Lewis Lapham retired, after a few months, or a couple of years, I guess, of having various guest columnists write it. And Franks essays have been really fucking great so far. It makes me excited to get a new issue. He's one of the only writers…

Owl: I think there isn't much outrage over "White Minority" because it isn't a racist song, except maybe "reverse-racist" or something. It's about WANTING whites to be in the minority so that they feel inferiority, i.e., like blacks and Mexicans do now (or in 1978 or whenever it was written.)

Misogynist band I love: FEAR.

It's no coincidence that he said that everything happens for a reason!

(47) Vegetarianism
(82) New Age mumbo-jumbo
(93) Animal rights, or did someone say that already?

Will the financial failure of this movie be evidence that the free-market system works correctly as a measure of the value of art?

Is that a quesadilla in your pajamas or are you just, um… greasy?

Good luck!

You're going to be Hipster Legbag pretty soon, dude. Go to the doctor.