Vendela Vida was Horsefellow. 

Miller, the experience of the Dark Tower gave me the perspective on Song of Ice and Fire that I would rather it be good. If he never finishes it or it takes 20 years, I'd rather have that than the last three books of the Dark Tower. They just went downhill fast. Wizard and Glass was an interesting diversion, but not…

That's good. 

I really wanted to like the song about Michigan, because I'm that kind of idiot, but I couldn't get there. I guess I've got Sufjan Stevens for that. 

Yeah, leeharvey, I don't give a shit if Corgan molests children while dressed as Hitler/a clown and listening to Hootie and the Blowfish. I don't need to hear to him being a douche in interviews, I just need to listen to Bullet With Butterfly Wings or Mayonaise or Drown or Today or Cherub Rock or Quiet or Silverfuck…

Umm, Buzz, I've run into plenty of liberals who say things like that. And am one.

From Hell ending on a bit of a happy note, at least for From Hell, really affected me. 

I didn't see that one, but Gutzon Borglum was actually a member of the 20s Klan. (20s Klan was a huge, expressedly Christian fraternal organization that was also anti-Jew, anti-immigrant, anti-union, anti-Catholic, pro-prohibition and was huge in the 20s all over the country. It wasn't the 10 chinless rednecks image…

Wow. That sounds truly hilarious.

My theory is that Can't Hardly Wait would be thought of as a classic on par with Dazed and Confused if Jennifer Love Hewitt had read his letter and gently pointed out that he didn't know her at all and, as such, his letter was insane. And a longer Jenna Elfman angel stripper scene.

Well, so far.

Wait, what? I don't have that bit as a trade. Pray explain why he's Stan Lee. The poet dude in the Cassidy's New Orleans flashback arc is obviously Neil Gaiman, though Ennis apparently denies it.

Honestly, I like him. I can't stand his show, because the majority of the episodes take the tack of entertaining obvious bullshit and investigating it. I don't need 44 minutes of investigation to tell me that I shouldn't be afraid of a rosicrucian conspiracy. He probably needs to be more smug and just dismiss nonsense…

1491 and 1493 by Charles C. Mann. Sort of a short summing up of what archeology and newish research tells us about the Americas before Europeons. Lots of fascinating stuff, if you're me. I actually didn't get to finish 1493, but the first one was awesome.

Mild, first book spoilers.
A friend of mine from work had essentially the same reaction, though Drogo was his last straw.

Pretty sure he didn't intend to kill himself. While ODs are a known danger when doing heroin, junkies aren't the best risk-assessors.

That's pretty good. Lots of good bands have twice as embarrassing beginnings as Silverchair, they just didn't get released by major labels. 

I don't blame the guy for cashing in or trying to earn a living, but nobody wants this album. If he'd play a bar or festival in Kalamazoo, I'd go see him. If it's good enough for G. Love (w/out special sauce) and for the Gin Blossoms, it's good enough for Art Alexakis. 

You're holding Corgan to a higher originality standard than seems reasonable to me. Sure he owes a debt to My Bloody Valentine, but not more so than a lot of punk bands owe the Ramones, for instance. Maybe you only listen to a very few bands, I don't know.

Indeed. Sparkle and Fade is an excellent record. And their hits from after that are pretty good, but this sounds like the album the AV Club staff would invent in their contest to come up with the most inessential album ever.