I concur, my friend. I was really disappointed by the film, and the book was on sale due to the film tie-in, so I picked it up. Very interesting, and focuses on many more "public enemies" than just Dillenger. The book does a good job of painting a picture of several years of this country's history when these…

Did anyone read the cover story about him in this week's NY Times Magazine? Tough to criticize him, since he really seems to be selflessly working hard in Haiti … but wow, does he seem like a really angry, misanthropic man. To quote: "That's the way it is. I love humankind; I don't like humans. I don't get along with…

The Carousel
Any excuse to watch The Carousel speech is alright in my book.

i definitely think that there is a market for this, if done very carefully. I did not think that Dennis Miller-on-MNF was the apocalyptically worst idea in the world, but it was so heavy-handed, that it just didn't work. But if Norm can be like the Sports guy minus the self-importance, or like a sport-radio host…

Yeah, Eddie Vedder and Thom Yorke. Both continue to carefully consider putting out quality music and albums and tour tirelessly for their fans, long after their legacies are secured and they don't have to. And both think up new ways to present their music, albeit not always successfully, but to satisfy .. what, a…

Perfectly put! People that still lament the "I hate being a rock star …" pose haven't checked in with PJ in about 10 years. Starting with the self-titled album, and continuing through Backspacer and all of this PJ20 business, it seems that the band has never enjoyed themselves more than now. Most interviews reflect an…

Was't this streaming on NPR or something about a month ago, when the download was available? Furthermore - don't many bands stream their albums on their websites for free during the weeks leading up to their actual release? Is this still such a novelty? I know that it's Radiohead, and they're supposedly reinventing…

Huh, wha? That column was written by Wil Weaton?

"Extra! Extra! Jonny Greenwood Smells!"

Harry Ellis, you are so correct on Jesse James. The book is very good, too.

Teacher in his 30s here - the first one is really good, but I thought that the second one was pretty redundant, and the idea behind the third one really wasn't executed well, in my opinion.

Man, after all these years, Eddie Murphy Raw still holds up as absolutely hilarious. I saw his Inside the Actors Studio, and he mentioned wanting to go back to stand- up again. I wonder what this would produce …

I agree with MCM - I've always thought that AIC got the same rap that a movie like Trainspotting got back in the 90s: people thought that these pieces of art were glorifying drugs, but really, if you just watch/listen, they presented a pretty horrifying world of hopeless addiction. I thought the point of their music…

All fair points … but I really think that The Slip, Year Zero, and With Teeth are well crafted, well made albums … I dare say that they stand on equal ground at least with The Fragile …

The 40-year-old version …
I was a casual NIN fan way back in high school, when Downward Spiral came out, but I find Reznor's music (and the man himself) much more interesting today. Is it weird that I admire the diligent, hard-working, technophile (not to mention clean and sober) Reznor much more than the…

Agreed - this write-up really was laugh-out-loud hilarious … good work.

One of my favorite MST3000 episodes … didn't the theme song go something like "Ma-ma-ma-ma-MITCHELL"?

I, too, will somewhat sheepishly buy this, and then, like every other album since Morning Glory, I will play the shit out of the inevitable handful of fantastic songs for a few months, ignore the rest of the album, and then in a few years wonder why I ever bought this entire album.

Can't imagine why the record industry is in shambles …

Cameo?
Can it be too much to dream of a Jason Giambi cameo?