Absolutely me too. Especially because I've already seen Robert Plant and John Paul Jones (twice, once opening for King Crimson and once with Them Crooked Vultures) and, to be sure, Page was the standout of that O2 concert movie as well as It Might Get Loud. He could play those awesome unaccompanied versions of Ramble…

I love this song too. That piano coda is beautiful. I also dig the whistling tube effect in the first minute. Amazing performance with sublime harmonies c/o Kelly Hogan!

Yeah, my copy was a Locust/Lonelyhearts twofer and they really complement each other!

Hey, I hope you're an otherwise healthy and cheerful person because a double-bill of Kingdom Come and Blood Meridian is about as serious and bleak as you can go! I found KC's subtext (we're fucked) deeply affecting, and BM is just, well, it's intense.

Yeah, his contradictions have been pretty glaring. But then it's admirable that he's as honest as he is. He admits that he was an icy cold mofo to pretty much everyone from the early 50's onwards, he relates his many petty disputes, he admits to being physically abusive & unfaithful to his partners, and yes, I was…

3/4 through Miles Davis' autobiography. It's daringly candid (he alludes to many faults) and sheds useful light on his process. Helps me better understand and contextualize his myriad artistic directions.

3/4 through Miles Davis' autobiography. It's daringly candid (he alludes to many faults) and sheds useful light on his process. Helps me better understand and contextualize his myriad artistic directions.

I think that might be my favorite Chabon novel as well. Great twist on the hardboiled detective genre.

I have only listened to it a couple of times, but… yeah, actually. Although for me it doesn't render the music unlistenable. Rather, the lyrical content serves as a constant reminder not to take the lyrics too seriously/ignore the lyrics if possible. The relateable lyrics of yore (Golden comes to mind) are long gone…

In my whereabouts there's a local country-&-western singer that often covers Clap Hands in the vein of a twangier Hank Williams. Lilting C&W swing is surprisingly effective in place of the secretive dread of Waits' recording on Rain Dogs!

Though it's still wide open to go with Culliver's Travails.

Someone has to link to this classic clip from the Mighty Boosh, & I guess it's down to me:

Damn straight!

50 Words for Snow is a helluva mood piece.

Led Zeppelin say yes, The Who say no. Personally, I reckon I'm happier living in a world where The Who continue to tour Quadrophenia.

Well, maybe his songwriting chops aren't up to par, and maybe they are. What is for sure is his voice is in stellar shape. I saw him in October and wow, his voice hasn't aged a day! Saw Bob Dylan two weeks later and… well, the same can't be said for his Bobness.

Beside the point, wanted to add a "like" for using Raw Deal as your example! I recently caught that for the first time in… over twenty years?! I stuck through the otherwise awkward, dated and muddled proceedings for performances by Robert Davi and Joe Regalbuto, the perverse fun of watching Schwarzenegger pronounce…

Indeed. The outtakes where Troy asks Abed all the questions he wanted to know about Batman are one of the best bits Community ever achieved.

Looks Sinister Six-y to me. Round the time of Spider Man 2 I had hopes that Raimi's series was heading in a SS direction. It's likely that I won't care at all if/when Kraven and the Vulture have been introduced—and man, those are kind of lame characters in retrospect—but for a while there at least I thought a Sinister…

The crescendo in The Beatles' A Day in the Life might take issue with that, along with a few other comers, but yeah, you're not espousing empty hyperbole!