Because I'm old and from Michigan, I'm gonna say, if you never saw the Stooges or the MC5 live, you'll never really get their appeal. The most overwhelming bands ever.

She is the coolest.

When I first saw Star Wars I thought it was a pretty entertaining riff on Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon. I didn't understand it phenomenal popularity at all. I mean, it's fun and everything, but come on! The rest of the movies lost that "1930's matinee serial" feeling and just turned into tired remakes of Gone With…

He owns every scene I've ever seen him in.

Personally, I don't think any version I've ever heard of Pancho and Lefty has ruined it; it's just too great a song to be ruined. The slick top 40 hit version by Willie and Merle may be over-produced, but they're damn fine singers. Emmylou's version is heartbreaking too.

Andy Griffith had a Broadway hit in No Time For Seargeants, an army comedy in which he plays a Gomer Pyle type character. That was the part that made him a star. So yeah, a straight dramatic role at this point in his career was playing against type.

The Complete Sun recordings, 1955 to 1958 is the actual place to start. You get a big dose of the Tennessee 2 and 3 sound, like a powerful train chugging along. Great stuff.