Love Spaced
But it really doesn't take off until "Battles," and after that, is pure comic gold.

That Was Definitely The Strokes
No doubt about it. Seemed more fun and loose than the last album, though I still think that "Juicebox" was a pretty fucking great song.

While I know that there has never been a conversation in the entire history of the internet about whether or not "X is (or isn't) punk" and therefore this is new ground, it has struck me that perhaps "punk" (and "Bob Dylan") means different things to different people, and therefore this is an unresolvable dilemma.

Agreed on YOUNGER THAN YESTERDAY: "CTA-102" is one of my favorite novelty songs, and "Why" might be the greatest Byrds song that isn't about flying to London.

Both DON'T LOOK BACK and EAT THE DOCUMENT (if you can find it) (or the excerpts in NO DIRECTION HOME) definitely back the theory that Dylan invented — or at least inspired — the confrontational part of what we know as "punk rock."

2010 is easily one of the best years we've had in a couple of decades. Not quite as awesome as 1991 or 1987 or 1993 or 1980, but still awesome.

1983 was pretty great: MURMUR, VIOLENT FEMMES, WAR, SEANCE, MORE FUN IN THE NEW WORLD, POWER, CORRUPTION & LIES, THE CROSSING, MUMMER, SNAP!, METAL CIRCUS, PORCUPINE.

Ah, I've seen that we've gotten to the point in the conversation where "super catchy" songs are used as a put-down.

Cool Job, Wrong City
Not so far off from what I'm doing now. Damn.

I saw U2 at the Oakland stadium on the Joshua Tree tour, with a dozen+ of my friends who had traveled a couple of hundred miles to see the show. I'd already seen R.E.M. the night before, and seeing U2 was a last-minute idea (they'd just added a second show a couple of days before) that turned out to be transcendent.

Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl
I was there, and it was just like you might have seen in the film: a huge coming-out party for Python geeks who — even with the success of "Holy Grail" — didn't quite realize there were so many others who were equally as obsessed.

Yeah, the first time I saw him was on THE RIVER tour, and when he turned the house lights up it turned into a giant party, 10,000+ people singing and dancing to "Born to Run." Wonderful.

Extra-Long Teasers
Is it just me, or are Cougar Town's teasers essentially just the first act? They're always 8 or 9 minutes long. I keep waiting for them to do a MONTY PYTHON in reverse, and do the opening credits just before the closing credits.

How to get into Robyn Hitchcock:
— UNDERWATER MOONLIGHT
— GOTTA LET THIS HEN OUT
— I OFTEN DREAM OF TRAINS

Jonathan in Concert
I've seen him a couple of times, and no matter what his current album is, he understands how to connect with an audience like no one's business. First time I saw him, in 1987, he brought a club full of jaded, druggy hipsters — who would have preferred that he do MODERN LOVERS from "Roadrunner" to…

What sucks about WKRP was that they had soooo many jokes that depended on the songs that they were playing, my favorite being Mr. Carlson's confusion about Pink Floyd's "Dogs."

I just wanted to pile on with all of the TAXI love. And despite being in syndication a lot, it WAS underrated — in every possible sense — while it was on.

Long Term Parking
Just watched that episode a couple of nights ago, and without getting into any spoilers for those who somehow haven't watched it yet, it and the one that follows: "All Due Respect," go a long way towards making Season 5 utterly gut-wrenching.

@seniorbagocrap

Here's What We Are Going to Do With The White Stripes
Argue over:
— Which of their albums were the best (ELEPHANT)
— Whether or not Meg was a good drummer (Yes)
— Wonder if Jack's pretensions were too limiting (no)
— If they were going downhill anyways (no)