Number 11 blew my mind!

My favorite song off that album, "Hurricane" included. It should be a movie, except that in my mind it already is. I always get really drawn into the narrative and still, after all these years, that last verse is like getting startled out of a daydream.

It was an spectacular experience in the IMAX theater, but I don't know if I'd see it on a standard screen. The Rob Hall story is well told, the Beck Weathers survival narrative is sort of truncated, and everyone else, with the possible exception of Anatoli Boukreev and the helicopter pilot, gets short shrift.

What's the source for the statement that Sidney Pollack agreed never to release the film without Aretha's approval? I've read there's a 1969 personal services contract that purportedly gives Warner Bros the rights to the film.

Hearing "Downeaster Alexa" was the first and only time it ever occurred to me that I might be an "islander" in the sense of someone who was raised on an island so I think I owe it to Mr. Joel to be offended by references to "douchey" Long Island voices. Those voices were the soundtrack of my yout.

What about a sheep and a goat?

"Sweet Young Thing-gah"

The weird thing is they test them on rats.

Last night something pretty good happened.

I thought crotchety schadenfreude was sort of like knitted schadenfreude, but a little different somehow.

Well some folks are born assholes, some achieve being an asshole and some people thrust into … wait that's not right.

We did, but I couldn't keep up with her.

The Beatles were big Lord Buckley fans too. When the apostle Jude wants to walk on water he asks, "Can I make it Nazz?" The Nazz yells, "Make it Jude!" Paul sings it pretty much the way Lord Buckley did.

Dig Infinity!

Tramps like us and we like tramps!

I get what he's saying. I was 15 when this album came out (yeah, I know.) I would turn to punk rock a year or so later, but this was the first rock and roll that felt like it belonged to me and not my older brothers and sisters.

"… I'm too hairy for this shit."

"Here Comes the Daybreak" was a pretty good song though.

I was wondering about the ethics of that when I read the stat. If you assume the $12m is the advertising budget for the TV spots (and not exorbitant salaries and expenses) and further assume that advertising brings in far more cash than would be collected without it, is it justifiable? Is distributing $16m out of…

He might have originally been from NY, but you couldn't tell that from his choice of stickball. Nobody with an ounce of self respect brought anything but a spaldeen to a stickball game.