Yeah, my sister just had the albums. Didn't realize there was a show.

I'm pretty sure I've heard his version of Heroin a few times because I was obsessed with that song and at the time I thought he was kind of legit so it would be interesting.

Shit, I just looked it up to correct you and according to some random lyric site that's what it actually says.

Once you're chased out, you can return to a slightly earlier time and say the same thing, and then keep showing up earlier and earlier to try and spoil his dreams, so that you'll create this weird paradox where the later him will become aware of the earlier you but you won't and it will be COOL AS HELL and Bruce…

Hmmm… was she also into the Mini Pops in the mid-80's? Because they were just awesome.

That's not a terrible movie, actually.

AHEM - Forearm is a Marvel character, from Liefeld's New Mutants run. NERD FAIL.

I suspect that scene from the movie is my only first-hand knowledge of Mr Johansen to date. I'm an ignorant fuck is what I'm saying here.

I think it would be better if the next time you see Justin Long you say "What the fuck? Is that DJ Qualls?"

Jay Stone is (I think still) a fairly well-known film critic in Canada, but back in the day he just wrote for the Ottawa Citizen, and his reviews were one of the highlights of my newspaper-reading week. (Remember newspapers?) Anyways, his review for Mr. Nanny pointed out that a lot of movies at the time were being…

Hey, that rhymes! You should put it to a beat.

Fair enough, you seem to know more about this than I do. Thanks.

Well they're all English, have a habit of using words that haven't been spoken by anyone outside a novel in a century, are racist as fuck, and have a very similar contempt for the site as a whole, as well as a bunch of other idiosyncrasies that I can't think of now and wouldn't be able to track down if I cared enough…

And actually some of Speech's solo work isn't that bad either.

Well, in the Band of Gypsies shows he wasn't playing most of those songs, and the shows were probably better for it. But I take your point.

It's really not, though. The Tongues in general, Digable Planets, Jurassic, Kweli/Def/Blackstar, even Arrested Development, etc etc… these people were not making music so that they could sell to a white market, they were making music that happened to be easy to market to a particular brand of white people, but that…

Ah, didn't realize you were just talking about the studio work. Your comment applies there, then, agreed.

Hmmm… well, you have a point I suppose. His contemporary fame is overstated, though I really think "Fringe" is pushing it.

I demand that it gets to 1995 so we can get into Liquid Swords.

Well, I think he and the Beatles and Zappa and more than a few other groups were doing very similar obsessive work in the studio within a year or so of each other, so I don't think he's totally unique in that respect. But certainly they were unusual.