There was definitely a point in the last 5 years in which I noticed in my limited reading of Rolling Stone that they'd changed their editorial approach regarding weed from "yeah, it should be legal" to "you should be consuming this," which seemed like kind of an odd choice that reminded me of clubbing/dance titles…

Extrapolating from my own experience, this isn't true for test screenings of movies. When I lived in LA I participated in 4 or 5 test screenings (which included comment cards, ratings, and even a couple focus group discussions after the screening), and all of them were in the evening.  The most memorable was a…

Remember that one time when this dude yelled "Shut up when I'm talking to you?" That was not awesome.

I'll try harder next time, just for you.

Yeezus, Take the Wheel.

Kanye West's new record, "Self-Parody", is, in fact, out June 18.

Yeah, I had that thought after I posted this … I read it straight through in a couple days, so maybe that was part of the problem.

I would contribute if someone did this exact same project, except with the talking cat puppet from "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" as Darci instead of Ms. Hart.

I'm from Atlanta, so maybe I'm a little bit more sensitive about the bit. But Holmes starting with the premise that *all* of Atlanta is a "bad neighborhood" and then implictly tying the joke to the prevalence of black people he was observing basically sounds like the kind of "dog whistle" statements you commonly hear…

I might go see this guy if he did a package tour with Saracen's At-Home Nurse and The Would-Be Rapist Piped To Death By Landry.  Lots of value for your dollar.  Maybe even throw in a quick acoustic set by Santiago. Call it "The Discarded Plotlines Tour."

"A chunk on trying to escape a bad neighborhood in Atlanta encapsulates the panic of a privileged fellow in a situation he doesn’t need to be in, without feeling preachy or overly dark."

I'm fairly certain whoever wrote this episode didn't put as much thought into it as the writers in above discussion.

I think it's a good book, but the authorial intrusions I referred to became very tiresome. 

If "Our Band Could Be Your Life" had been an oral history, at least I would have been spared Michael Azerrad's boring, repetitive references to the Reagan administration, how much DC sucks, and how atrocious mainstream rock supposedly was in the 80s.

I think you're right that the format is currently overdone … that was the thought I had when I stumbled on a recent SBNation oral history of the company that did those posters of pro athletes in the 80s that mixed sports and pop culture (e.g. Jim McMahon as "Mad Mac the Grid Warrior").  I mean, yeah, I remember those…

Back when nobody freaked out if people blew whistles or somebody got on the mic to get the crowd going …

We're one step closer to the Peter Principle being re-branded as the "Lorne Principle."

Made me think of this:

And they all learned a lesson that night … nobody disrespects superstar DJs like Judge Jules and Lee Burridge.

I honestly stopped learning the members' names and biographical details of 90 percent of the bands I listen to once I got out of college.  Is there a chick named Melody in Melody's Echo Chamber? Probably, but it doesn't really matter that much to me anymore.