I actually worked on a Fort Minor dvd extra, with Jay Z and Mike hanging out in a hotel room discussing the project's future prospects. What sticks out (besides everyone being refreshingly polite and easy to work with) was how sadly obvious it was that mike and jay occupied completely different levels. The nadir was…

Ewoks are great.  I saw Return of the Jedi when I was a kid and loved them.  Everyone loved them.  I was sad when that one Ewok died.  I laughed when that one hit himself in the face.  My friend named his cat Wicket.  It was only when I got older and read one too many message boards that I discovered that I was…

Ewoks are great.  I saw Return of the Jedi when I was a kid and loved them.  Everyone loved them.  I was sad when that one Ewok died.  I laughed when that one hit himself in the face.  My friend named his cat Wicket.  It was only when I got older and read one too many message boards that I discovered that I was…

No, I'll consider ten bands of wildly varying success and quality spread out over a whole decade to be tumbleweed-worthy.

No, I'll consider ten bands of wildly varying success and quality spread out over a whole decade to be tumbleweed-worthy.

You know what?  The Replacements aren't a very good band.  Paul Westerberg simply did not have the songwriting chops of his hero Alex Chilton, so he tried to compensate by emulating what he mistakenly thought made Big Star great: the bad luck and self-destruction.  If the band didn't have any bad luck going on at the…

You know what?  The Replacements aren't a very good band.  Paul Westerberg simply did not have the songwriting chops of his hero Alex Chilton, so he tried to compensate by emulating what he mistakenly thought made Big Star great: the bad luck and self-destruction.  If the band didn't have any bad luck going on at the…