Even the Promos Looked Awful
I mean when The Cape swings his cape at the fucking camera? What the hell is that?

Look at his Choices

For the record, I loved both albums. And thought that both albums were growers.

And Not Only That
"I really liked that Broken Social Scene album, and feel like it got totally screwed in all the year-end critics' polls."

Snider on Meeting Bob Dylan
Poignant and hilarious piece in last week's Village Voice. And a great reminder of why I'm going to need to pick this album up.

Anybody Ever Seen Hearts of Fire?
Hearts of Fire was Dylan's late-80s attempt at defining his life as a rock musician in a fictional way, and a film that got such dire reviews that I still haven't seen it. I guess that part of that is due to it never having a theatrical release in the U.S. and never being released on…

Or "Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl"

That Nico Song
I'd never heard it before, but I kinda loved it. All that sunny pop vs. her almost tuneless drone. Pretty amazing.

I'da gone with "Premi"

Also in Newswires from 1982
— "We're Not just One Hit Wonders," promises Modern English
— Lucas Reportedly On Track To Have Star Wars Prequel in Theaters By 1985
— Men at Work Just the Tip of the Australian Invasion
— Leslie Neilsen Disheartened From Police Squad! Failure, Pronounces Foray into Comedy "A Mistake"
— The…

I watched GLEE for the entire first season, hoping that it would get better, or at least consistent. And after a couple of episodes in the second season, I realized that was a futile hope, so I bailed, deciding that GLEE doesn't want to get better.

Who Needs Mad Men?
When, instead, Lionsgate will give us the Booty Parlor!!

"In that while neither one of them win, but we all lose."

A Slight Neil Young Point
1989's FREEDOM was his comeback record, not RAGGED GLORY.

I Know This Is Late
But I love this show, and it gets as close as you could possibly imagine to the actual little details of being in high school in the late 70s / early 80s.

Yeah, but I stay away from the internets at night cos I live on the West Coast and ya'll like to spoil shit.

I think that she has such an amazing, melancholy voice. Love her.

Well of course
Last night, I was freeze-framing the TiVo to see the individual items on the pyramid when I thought "why bother? It'll be online tomorrow."

Star Trek will have minimal value in syndication. Hell, it can't even get decent numbers on a broadcast network. Who's going to watch the repeats on cable?

"Country belongs with fast food as America's two worst contributions to the world."