Probably the best firstie ever. Ever.

Not that I remember. I'll ask my hook-ups next time I'm in town.

Fuck the Washington Post sideways, imho.

Are Little Anthony & The Imperials even any good? All I know is the Waits namedrop.

No, you'd be surprised.

Hey, Nathan
I grew up in Bakersfield surrounded by Bakersfield country musicians. I've got some great information/dirt on Buck Owens if you want it when you start researching.

Max Headroom was AWESOME.

That episode bums me out to much to watch. John Ritter, Warren Zevon, and Gene Siskel are in that episode and I loved all of them and they all had to up and die tragically. Dying is such bullshit.

The show is about as tightly written as The Office, so in the name of creative integrity, there really needs to be a complete series set. It boggles my mind that there isn't one.

I should say "and Artie hands him the gun."

Larry Sanders, oh man
That was my first "adult" show and I had to sneak around and watch it, set the VCR in secret, all that jazz.

Musicians That Have Since Died.
I'm not gonna pretend that discovering bands or movies any earlier than I did would have changed my life. Frankly, I probably just wouldn't have appreciated them.

Somebody add a spellcheck to the comments, damn it.

Loved him on King of the Hill.
Terrifically funny man, and I'm thankful AVclub had the decency to give him a proper, well-researched line-up. He made not have been very famous, but he was extraordinarily goddamn talented, and his performance in Blues Brothers is fucking legendary.

It's also one of only a few songs I know of where the video makes the song *actually* better. When I listen to it I picture Cash's stone-faced dramatic grimness from that video, and it helps the ethos.

I enjoy Cash's version a great deal more than Reznor's (frankly I'm not even big on the dude's music in the first place), in fact it's one of my favorite songs of the decade, like top 20, but I was mostly just joking about how Cash's Hurt is the Godwin's Law of Trent Reznor conversations. It seems to always devolve…

Johnny Cash's version of Hurt was better let's yell at each other
I continually get the vibe in this interview that NIN's retirement isn't a retirement and more like a sabbatical to recover from some shitty tours and shitty record label people and stuff. Dodging burnout.

Ghost sucked, but I still liked the dude.
When Warren Zevon was told that he had an inoperable form of lung cancer, he did every drug he could get his hands on, as hard as he could. When he went out to dinner, he carried a bag with a morphine drip and pretty much stayed high or drunk all the time.

I know it mostly got great reviews, but put me in the "Washington Square Serenade completely sucked" camp. It's really heavy-handed and the political/ideological stuff is so forced and contrived. Particularly City of Immigrants, which is where I turned that thing off the first time. And that cover of Way Down in the…

That's all true (for all the country covers he did, I'd bet he probably did more Lightnin' Hopkins covers), but I think it's tough to deny his primary impact was on country songwriters and just the country songwriting craft in general. When you've got guys like Guy Clark, Joe Ely, Kris Kristoffson, Willie Nelson,…