The bad guy in Atlas Shrugged is a liberal named Wesley Mouch, because he's a moocher. The bad guy in Fountainhead is a guy named Ellsworth Toohey, and he ain't worth spit. Not much more needs to be said about the books as literature.

Their hair was named Charles and Eric?
What were the other parts called?

@Dogstyle and Lexicon - listen to Jimmy Webb's solo piano version off Ten Easy Pieces and it almost makes sense. However, nobody with that much talent should be writing lyrics like "Between the parted pages and were pressed/in love's hot fevered iron/like a striped pair pants" Especially if you have to pronounce…

This seems as good a place as any to ask the AV Club powers-that-be why there was no review of the new Dirtbombs album yesterday.

@alurin: Before Hearts and Bones came out the story was that it would feature Garfunkel, I don't remember if there was ever anything about it being a Simon and Garfunkel album though. Paul and Art went into the studio and began to work on some of the songs. Next thing was that Paul had decided the songs were "too…

@alurin: I should have said nobody bought it but the hardcore fans. Despite some very '80's production, I still love Hearts and Bones. BTW, I picked up the outtakes that had Artie on them a few years back and they don't hold a candle to the solo versions.

I was a big Paul Simon fan as a result of having two older brothers who were mid-60's folkies. So when One Trick Pony came out, I thought it was fiction, right up until Hearts and Bones was released and nobody bought it. I saw Simon at a smallish amphitheater (Pacific) right about then. No band, it was just him and…

I wonder if she's passing bad coupons?
Minka Kelly really looks like Owen Wilson in that photo.

Jef Tweedy is looking more and more like somebody else. Waylon Jennings maybe?

"Sorry dildo, you tiger now."

From what I've heard, if you get a good job with more pay, then you're okay.

In addition to being Elvis's favorites, there's a lot of Louvin Bros. influence on the Everly Brothers.

Dr. Stanley was at the last Bridge School benefit concert. Elvis Costello basically said regardless of who else is here (Neil Young, Buffalo Springfield, Elton John, Pearl Jam, Kris Kristofferson, etc..) this is the guy I'm most humbled to share a stage with. A cool tribute to the little old guy in the Nudie suit. …

Damn.

I Thought We Were Talking About Julie Kavner
I had way more love, sex and romance questions for her.

Based on the title, "Hit Somebody" sounds like it could be the story of Canadian farm-boy Buddy the Goon from the Warren Zevon song. Anyone know if that's the case?

"Kite" is my favorite Kirsty MacColl album. I saw her at the Belly Up in Solana Beach not too long before she died and the place was empty. She and her band were a day or so away from finishing their U.S. tour and seemed a bit giddy. She finished by saying, "this is a New York folk song," and they just ripped into…

@wrecksracer - I hadn't seen that one before, thanks for pointing it out.

Yes, I know the good sister has been dead for a long time. Stupid verb tenses.

The best of Social D's stuff is folk music. Mike Ness writes and sings about being born to lose in the same way that Sister Rosetta Tharpe writes and sings about God. You get little, if any, self-consciousness and no pretensions toward any high concept. Ness wrote about being a knucklehead in Fullerton because…