These certainly aren't major celebrities, but I've had some cool encounters with heroes of mine. The best was meeting Bill Callahan after a show in Charleston, SC. I was inside paying my bar tab and when I walked out he was standing next to my girlfriend. Bill is notoriously reclusive, but he sought us out because he…

@Arsenio: is it just me or is Jay sarcastic as hell on "A Star is Born"? Clap for 'em. Clap for 'em. Tap-tap-tap-tap. Yeah that song blows.

OBFCL2 is absurdly good for a 2009 Wu-Tang effort. A lot of the beats are recycled, but if that doesn't bother you (it shouldn't) then you'll love the album. The J-Dilla beats are the sickest; the Dr. Dre beats are the lamest. Rae is on fire on every track. Ghost goes psychotic all over the place. Method Man drops…

I'm with Mr. Soilblab. I'm a huge Jay-Z fan, but Hova makes two kinds of albums: personal, intelligent, hard-hitting classics like REASONABLE DOUBT and BLUEPRINT 1, and willfully lazy bubblegum rap mistakes like BLUEPRINT 2 and KINGDOM COME. AMERICAN GANGSTER was a return to form; BLUEPRINT 3 is so terrible you…

"Mr Tough" is the one YLT song I can't stand. Incidentally, YLT is a good band to gently dance to, not a good band to mosh to. At ATP New York last year a 300 pound-bruiser got a little too amped during their set. Never have so many scrawny, bespectacled music critics and record store clerks (self included) smacked…