When you Neil Young ate it.

Look, he's always explaining what his imaginary daughter likes, now you are hearing from his imaginary wife. What's so hard to understand?

A friend convinced me to give Waiting For The Sirens' Call another shot, his position being "new(ish) New Order is better than no New Order". I gave it my level best.

Hair of the dog, I hear.

It works every time.

Yeah, the way AIDS was initially treated by the US govt. was a serious fuckup by any measure, moral or practical. Fair enough, I think I get where you are coming from now. I'm just an old man who actually remembers both the 70's and 80's, and I can tell you that phrases like "malaise" in the US and "winter of…

Well, I guess that's what I am asking. Who is this "certain small percentage"? Obviously, nothing, anywhere or anywhen, is "great for everybody". I can say that my family was lower-middle-class growing up, and we struggled mightily just to stay there; but the 80's were still a damn sight better than the 70's, by…

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When you someone smelt it, dealt it.

It was tough to find a band with a worse name than "Archers of Loaf" to do the cover, but they managed.

Yeah, that's about where I quit too. But I kept reading the Jack of Fables TPB's for a while - they were really funny and it was such a great insight that "Jack" (posited as the same trickster across so many tales) is both A.) a self-centered egotistical huge jackass and also-not-coincidentally, B.) a never-ending…

Cool, thanks, I just ordered Season 1. I generally like to start at the beginning, but for example Fringe's first season is mostly painful and pointless, and when I recommend the show to others I tell people to watch the first ep, then the last 3 or 4 eps of season 1 and then go straight into season 2.

I'm biased because Sandman is probably my favorite written work - I'm not saying I think it's the best thing ever written, but it's the one that I get the most out of revisiting (I re-read the whole thing every two years or so, something I don't really do with any other written work; even other books that I really…

It's a Gaiman-approved spinoff of Sandman, using the (duh) Lucifer character, written by Mike Carey, who's a really good writer in his own right. I won't say that the whole thing hangs together quite as amazingly as Sandman (which I am on record as calling Gaiman's masterwork, the main thing he should be remembered…

If you like girl groups and shoegaze/indie pop/noise pop, you might enjoy this post that talks about that nexus and has lots of examples:

If you haven't already, check out One Kiss Can Lead To Another, (Girl Group Sounds Lost and Found) a 4-CD collection of girl group deep cuts.

"You call this Adventure? I feel like we've been spinning our wheels for an hour going nowhere! Do-ho-ho-ho!"

Live at the Old Statler and Waldorf has a good performance, but the constant heckling is distracting.

Do I need to start with Season 1 or is it better to skip it?

I kind of got tired of Fables after a while - I started it thinking, as you did, that it would satisfy my Sandman jones, but it just lacks that kind of depth (though the periodic Jack of Fables trades are hilarious gold).