It's funny, HAL, in an interview with Jann Wenner around the time Nashville Skyline was released, Dylan claimed his voice changed because he'd just quit smoking. My personal (unsubstantiated) theory is that he wanted to sound more like Levon Helm. (It worked for the guy from Molly Hatchet, right?)

In a somewhat related story… when I was 19 I lied my way into scoring a full press pass for the Aspen Comedy Festival. I got to spend the week hobnobbing (making smalltalk over HBO-provided danishes) with people like Trey Parker, Catherine O'Hara, Michael Richards(!) and Louis C.K. 'Twas a young comedy nerd's dream -…

If you really had perfect pitch you'd be able to hear quarter-tones or eighth-tones (or any frequencies) as particular pitches, and you could then learn to appreciate dissonance as simply another form of harmony.

Didn't Fox just pull this shit with Futurama?
And didn't it kind of work? (And isn't this thread starting to resemble that 'questions only' game from Whose Line Is It Anyway?)?

*a message from 2014 for Tom*

Yes, well done.

Yes, yes it is. Although not completely arbitrary, since, according to Pandora, every artist is within six degrees of Jack Johnson.

He was actually Oswald. It was broad and obviously a ratings ploy, and at the last moment they copped-out by having Sam leap into the secret service guy who shielded Jackie K., saying that in the 'original' history, she had died too. Plus, everybody knows there was a second shot fired from the grassy knoll.…

Take me to the station, black up my hands
Trail me down 'cause I'm hangin with the Snowman
What an I gonna do, I'm backed and I'm trapped
Smack me in my face, took all of my gap
They have no clues and they wanna get warmer
But Shan won't turn informer

Alas, KJ, where have all the forward-thinking, egalitarian sluts gone?

Mystery Dance - Elvis Costello

I first became aware of Jane in that movie where he played Neal Cassady. From what I recall of the nude scene, his dong didn't approach 'neck on a giraffe' proportions. I guess that's why he's a great actor.