I think that double-album CD is one of the oldest CDs I own, but it's still one of the best-sounding, maybe owing to John Fry's original engineering. "O My Soul" is even in mono, but it sounds great — a far cry from the Pro Tools flatness that we get a lot of currently.

Nice work, as ususal.
I'm going to listen to some Big Star while I make dinner; check out more stuff from Beulah and Bill Lloyd; actually get the couple of Black Keys albums that I've been meaning to buy, instead of just listening to all their songs I've downloaded for free; and maybe give Billy Joel a more…

Holy shit. I suspected something was wrong when there were no comments displayed, but not this wrong.

Being first just makes me a more noticeable loser.
It goes without saying that, at the very least, most of these album covers are amusing in a kitschy, ironic way, but for some reason the Steely Dan artwork just makes me downright angry.

Give him a break. He's always getting hassled by The Man even when he's just out minding his own fucking business.

What about cartoon goldfish? Because I've always been weirdly attracted to that one in "Pinocchio."

Cool. I've been looking for a good date movie. I mean, date-rape movie.

Definitely try to see this in an Imax theater.
The screen makes Bono look nearly six feet tall.

Quick, we've got to firewall this hacker, before he uses his VCI to blog into my hyperlink! ICANN has nothing on this guy — his DNS records are off the cybermap! He must be using an SSH to flood our system, and pretty soon we'll be slashdotted. I'm gonna jack into the blogosphere and cover both Internets.

Truthful and amusing
This is one of the best-ish Hater entries I've read in a while.

By my wife's mysterious standards, Malkmus is barely more tolerable than Berman. A Pavement song like, say, "Shady Lane" might elicit the tiniest bit of enjoyment from her, whereas pretty much any Berman-sung tune would cause her to go into another room and shut the door behind her.

I wish that I knew what I know now when I was younger. You should have pretended to be really "into" vegetarianism too, in order to get laid. Then, when it got to a point where the sex was no longer worth putting up with her personality, you throw her hypocrisy in her face and use it as a good reason to dump her. …

If you can find me a hot girl who likes the aforementioned musicians, Marx Brothers movies, and old underground comic books, then I'll leave my wife for my ideal hipster-douchemate. Until then, or until Patton Oswalt gets zapped with a gamma ray that transforms him into a smokin'-hot female, my wife is cool.

We like more or less the same sort of contemporary pop/rock music, which I won't name specifically because of the inevitable "gimme a break, you hipster douchebag" comments (cough Death Cab For Cutie cough). I'm a weirdo, though, the sort of person who listens to Nat King Cole one moment and Opeth the next. For her,…

My wife cites my enjoyment of Cohen, Richard Thompson, John Prine, Beefheart, Zappa, Waits, Loudon Wainwright, Townes Van Zandt, Graham Parker, et al., as evidence of my horrible taste in music. On the other hand, I introduced her to singer-songwriters she now loves, like Nick Drake, Neil Finn, Freedy Johnston, and…

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You were the guy in high school who took it upon himself to "call people out" on shit? I'm surprised any girl even let you speak to her.

Can't wait to see him live.
However, my wife recently walked out on a Dylan concert we attended, so I think she'd threaten to divorce me if I dragged her to see Cohen. I've already pushed my luck on a few occasions by taking her to some Richard Thompson shows, although I think she just won't admit that she thought he…

Perdita Durango
Javier Bardem is amazing (and sports another peculiar haircut) in "Perdita Durango." The film is definitely worth seeing for its depiction of two psychopathic killers who are head-over-heels in love with each other, and it even tops "Wild at Heart" in that regard. The bowdlerized U.S. version, "Dance…

At the end of the story, I imagine AJR walking into the school cafeteria, catching sight of the girl biting into her chicken nugget, then crossing his arms and nodding with a prideful smile while saying to himself, "Well done, sir. You get an A+ for helpfully pointing out others' double standards."