I can already tell it will be well-revisited for years to come, so it might be worth the purchase if you can't compel your local system to go for it. Really helps solidify the special place the Meat Puppets occupy in the rocknroll pantheon. The Kirkwoods have some insane stories to tell!

He manages to finagle official capacity, but yeah, he's basically just a tough bastard.

Yeah, before reading The Glass Key and The Thin Man last month, Red Harvest was favorite hardboiled crime novel. An awesome book full of kick ass action, somehow less dated than Spillane.

It really might be his best pure ideas book. It certainly seemed the novel where his non-fiction research was most incorporated. The feisty mood helped too. Problem is it took me four or five months to read, so I'm less inclined to revisit for now.

I like the looks of your bookshelf. Similar to the contents of mine. Against the Day is great, but from my recollection of reading it six years ago, its best parts are already behind you (I loved the Western genre elements), but there's still more Chums of Chance ahead so you're good to press on.

After devouring Dashiell Hammett's novels—particularly stunned by how awesome The Glass Key was, especially as Miller's Crossing is one of my favorite movies—I'm splitting time between Greg Prato's Too High To Die (awesome oral history of the Meat Puppets that I finally was able to acquire) and Penny Simkin's The…

That's why I try to maximize my Fun House listening in the car. That way you can feel Loose, huh! and still be going where you're going.

That's my guess.

Yeah, all of those songs cook live, as does Yadnus. My fave !!! album is still Strange Weather—just top notch production plus The (almighty) Hammer!—but the other day I listened to their first album and it still holds up.

Apart from the way they appear to have brazenly fucked Bill Ward over in the process of reforming, I'm pretty stoked about this. Always wanted to see N.I.B. and other classics performed live. The UK setlists from last year were very promising.

I had picked up on the costume references, but you took it beyond the next level or two. Keep it up!

Great read.

Certainly, the biggest part of my enjoyment was John Romite Jr's art. That said, it was the first run that I followed and there are a number of memorable, awesome issues, characters and setpieces that stand out. Great use of villains like Typhoid Mary, Bushwhacker, Bullet, Blackheart. The Inferno tie-in issue is one…

With these series running concurrently, it's been the most fun I've had as a Daredevil fan since maybe Miller's Man Without Fear miniseries or possibly Ann Nocenti's run (no disrespect to Brubaker and Bendis' high quality respective runs, especially Bru's).

Well, he was certainly the best part of that movie. I thought it was pretty cool (but heck, I don't mind the DD feature film and he's my fave comic character period so I'm not an impartial viewer).

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it is. It, and the dj's sincere dancing, makes this the best premiere clip ever.

Hear hear. Close to Me is where I finally "got" the Cure. If they'd only released that one tune they'd still be hugely significant to me.

Yeah, I was going to comment that the live album was my gateway to DP, and the tour/disc probably served to build their base considerably. They went from band with bangin' radio singles to vaunted electronic artists. I am stoked about RAM.

Wow, Mullholland Drive is a very apt comparator. There's so much shown yet so much more left unresolved and unseen. The glimpses we get are enough to let our imaginations run wild, but not enought to find tidy closure.

I just caught it myself and I'm pretty sure the lack of tidy reveal is the biggest point. Even the resolution that is achieved is perhaps misinformed or misguided. It's not likely that the protagonists will ever find out what happened to them.