Richard Pryor Addresses a Tearful Nation
Is this the biopic that singer/songwriter Joe Henry had a hand in writing? I thought I read somewhere that Pryor's family had asked him to work on it after they heard the song "Richard Pryor Addresses a Tearful Nation" from his album Scar.

No.
I cannot and will not share in any optimism, cautious or otherwise. Not where Jim Breuer is concerned, my friend.

Good call!

A little surprised here…
It's understandable that people would raise an eyebrow at Bob Dylan recording a Christmas album, but these two seemed to take it to the next level, reveling in their cluelessness Bellona-style.

The Stax Museum and the Sun tour are both insanely great (although I recall that my Sun tour guide was a really cute, charming brunette). Don't discount Graceland, though, as far as seeing how a wealthy man with little aesthetic taste would decorate a house in 1974.

Virtually everything about Slate is ridiculously lame, but Rosenbaum's a special case. Did anyone read his thing on crossword puzzles? The guy's dedicated large portions of his life to researching whether Hitler had one ball, and yet he accuses other people of wasting their time.

Fireproof 2: Nerds in Paradise

Sandler and Young
There is a chance that this is all an elaborate metajoke:

She attributed the Water Music suite to Haydn.

Shut up, you guys - my cousin's an ass baby!

No kidding, Jorge? I thought I was the only one who liked Backbeat.

Unborn Child
Regardless of your stance on that issue, Seals and Crofts are nowhere near songwriters enough to pull that off. Astonishing in its ham-handedness.

Beck was a disappointment for me. I guess I was hoping that collaborating with Danger Mouse would have led him to perk it up a bit, but it's a little ploddy. I'll keep listening, though.

Yeah, the 'yawn' really drove the point home.

Come on!
All this Dark Knight jibber-jabber is going to be MOOT in October, when David Zucker's "An American Carol" opens and SMASHES all existing box-office records!

I will back you up on its lack of terribleness, and I'll go so far as to suggest that there was a time when the Goo Goo Dolls actually didn't suck. It was so very long ago, but they were like a thousand other little hometown Replacements wannabes. And then it all went a different way.

And yet it should have been so good, being the same group that worked on Hiatt's Bring the Family album. Looked good on paper, I guess.

I'm sure that vote of confidence does him a world of good.

Common theme
A common theme here is that he comes across as someone who can have 50,000 people screaming for him at a concert and he's pissed because some rock critic says mean things about him. I think a lot of us have that tendency to focus on the handful of people we can't please, but when you bellyache about it on…

I should point out…
that Meet Dave is well on its way to cracking the $10,000,000 mark! And it's still in the Top 15 fully two weeks after it's release. Way to bury your lede, guys!