It must be nice to live somewhere where radio still plays music like Gorillaz.

Like a great rock band, the Chemical Brothers managed to live beyond the mid-to-late 90s "next big thing" hype and remain consistently relevant and still produce good-to-great music. While their first three albums are impeccable, their recent output is still pretty interesting and good, in my opinion.

How 'bout that Batman guy? He was a detective …

Hopefully this becomes a "shared universe," which is all the rage in films these days, I hear …

The first two seasons were terrific … then starting in Season 3, the show began to swing wildly in tone.

Equal in the eyes of the law. He also refers to the racism taking hold in Maycomb as a "disease," when talking privately with his brother.

The Lord of the Rings trilogy are a towering achievement. Not sure if the books are considered "Literature," but I do think they could be considered modern mythology.

My wife and I watch this show with the subtitles on … Christ, everything is so whispery and mumbled.

I think he's particularly winning in his small role in Into the Wild, which is only five years or so ago.

IS the answer to this question "ON the CW"? Flash and Arrow seem to get it right, for the most part.

… oh, and a wife, too.

I always felt that he playing Alec Guiness more than Obi-Wan … which was a great take on the character.

Two things that were absolutely, frustratingly wasted in the prequels: a perfectly cast Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan, and Darth Maul.

I'd like to optimistically believe that these films because kids and teens can see through movie studios cynical attempts at copy-cat franchise money-grabs … but then I look at the music that is popular among young people, and lose all faith in their pop culture taste …

Theoretical dialogue:
Space Princess: "I love you."
Space smuggler/Scruffy Rebellion General: "I know."

The lesson is … never try.

Yup. I bought a Samick Strat knock-off in high school forever ago, and I still have it. Nice clean sound … if I remember correctly. It mostly sits in its stand in my office now, silently judging the older me for giving up my teenage rock-n-roll dreams …

Man, that's been on my "To Read" shelf forever … I really need to get to it.

Wired Magazine did a cover story about a year ago on this thing, declaring that VR is finally here! Paradoxically, they also ran a sidepiece to the article summarizing 25 years of Wired cover stories … declaring that VR was finally here.

Whatevs … I don't see him wearing an American flag pin in his lapel, carrying a copy of the Constitution in his pocket, or blasting Obama for incorrectly saluting while getting off of Air Force One, like the true patriots in our Congress …