Oh, and not that anyone's still reading this, but he just played a solo show in Iowa City and, after the show, came and hung out with me and my buddy (and after we left the rest of the bar) for at least 20 minutes. And let me get a photo with him.  And signed my ticket.  And wasn't at all a dick.
Also the show was…

What would Ayn Rand say about this review if she was alive today?

And now, after a brief foray in to serious threads, back to the silliness!

See I was pretty sure that I saw a girl with a strap-on going to town on some dude while he went to town on some girl and thought, "Romans had strap-ons?"

I am thrilled to hear that the hold steady will be (trying) to do a series of two-night runs in smaller venues.  I am also thrilled that I will be attending these two-night runs in smaller venues.  I'm one that is totally addicted to the celebratory nature of their live shows, fists in the air, singalong songs, beer…

I had a nice little chat with Craig about the Twins outside a venue in Iowa City.  He initiated it, too.

She said, "I've laid beneath my lovers but I've never gotten laid."

I would second Cults.
Also consider Iron and Wine.  
As for best new artist, I'd like to suggest Dirty Gold.  They had a really sweet ep that contained the catchiest summeriest single in a long time.
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—I'll be in my room.
—What kind of catchphrase is that?

A solid effort/follow-up to Astro Coast.  
I wish they would have waited a minute and put out a proper album, though.  Four new songs is a little too much tease and a little too little satisfaction.

I invented a Fisting Machine called the Fistomatic 5000.

Now now now, Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking is a ridiculous album that has some really amazing parts.  Plus the whole story of dreaming while half asleep over the course of like 45 minutes is pretty impressively batshit.  Plus Jack Palance.

Sweet merciful crap!

Aim low. Aim so low no one will care if you succeed. Dinner's in the oven. You want some butter, it's under my face.

While maybe not really "songs", all the tracks off of the three "Shut up and Play yer Guitar" albums and "Guitar" are pretty straight-forward rock.  He culled a ton of solos from a ton of live shows and cut out all the lyrics, presenting just the guitar work.

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See I used to really like this show but noticed that this season seems to be much meaner than previous ones. Clips of crackheads getting thrown, jumping off buildings; dudes breaking their legs skateboarding or getting hunks of wood stuck in their face while motocrossing. None of this is funny to me and "jokes"…

For what it's worth, the first three seasons of Muppet Show are on DVD now. That's the only "children's television" my 2 year-old gets to watch.

Thompson seemed to pretty much have lost his mind/focus in his last years. Hey, Rube is almost painful to read, especially compared to, well, everything else he wrote. It's hard to imagine that the same journalist who lived/wrote Hell's Angels ended up banging a laptop at 2am for ESPN.
I love him but if he was still…

Speaking of Sy Borg, during the surveilance footage of Barry falling from Archer's feet, didn't he say Goose's dialogue from when he dies in Top Gun?