" Back In Training is also noteworthy as the first Police Academy movie to be shot largely in Toronto, which the filmmakers barely try to conceal."

The documentary is kind of boring but it does have some nice footage of the recording sessions and is particularly entertaining if you want to watch Jeff Tweedy trying to act sort-of nice while actually getting increasingly annoyed by Bragg.

I'd agree with underrated if perhaps a bit too self-conscious of its own LOUDNESS, but I'd say New Adventures is by far the most underrated thing in their catalogue.

It's about like death and stuff, isn't it?

The little bit in there were Stipe talks about the "Michael Stipe" mystique reminds me of the great bit in Chuck Klosterman's book where Stipe says that Thom Yorke is now on a level with great songwriters like Dylan, Joni Mitchell and himself.

For sure - they're not totally ignored but, yeah, I remember being at that 1992 Canada Day show and they OWNED 8,000 people basically from club shows and airplay on one radio station, which isn't something you can say about most of the other bands in there (not to attack, say, A Neon Rome).

I just posted the same above. For such a great book it skips over the biggest indie band there was (save BNL, who became not-indie). Heresy.

…or Lowest of the Low (who got kinda short thrift in the book) or hHead etc. buuuut it's still a pretty cool list, all things considered. Takes balls to cover "Shaved Head."

This is also about 30 seconds of joy…
http://www.youtube.com/watc…

I haven't been able to listen to Downbound Train the same since I read Dave Marsh (I think) pointing out that the narrator is somehow working at like 4 jobs.

The studio musicians were largely different from the touring band, actually. Oh, and Randy Jackson (yeah, from American Idol) played bass on a bunch of the album tracks.

Worth mentioning, I think, is that he really seems better on this, loosening up over the past decade. You can see it in the release of live 1975 and 1978 videos as well as the spontaneous, looser feel of the Seeger Sessions, and even some of the vocals on Devils & Dust.

So, Ridley Scott's late-career move is to do a series of movies that relate, with varying degrees of indirectness to movies he did 30+ years ago? Oh, and a Monopoly movie?

If Malick was even 1/10 as concerned with other elements of film (I'm thinking, like "story" or "character") as he is with "aesthetic," he'd be maybe the best director ever.

Hopefully the "Whitebeard" reveal will play on TV.

It is impressive how they amped up the terribleness, starting with the B-level cast they couldn't bring back.

A whole huge thing on the movie's sheer Torontoness for people who care about Toronto….

no, it's not the refresh rate. It's a setting on the player that knows to ensure films go at 24FPS.
I had second thoughts buying my BR player when I was standing in the Sony Store getting it and a TV was playing Spider-Man 3 and it looked like home video.  The fools in the store should know better but the point is:…