There is constant debate in fandom around a lot of the points you mention. That said when you decide that the premise of your show is 'alien with a time machine' you have sort of already defined your audience or at least their expectations.

You know, I didn't catch that those were all debut stories for their respective Doctors. And, yea, Harry Sullivan was great. I got to meet Ian Marter when I was 12 at a Who convention. He passed away shortly thereafter.

Some real stinkers coming up
Robot? Time and the Rani? Most of Twin Dilemma? Those are some, uh, interesting choices. Curious to read the rationale.

UMD, you silly fucker, Into The Pandemonium is their best record. And the US version or Morbid Tales has 8 songs and the record spins at 33 1/3 RPMs so that makes it an LP.

Man, how can you guys not mention:

DH is definitely Voivod's best album. I have a copy in the car right now. The big influence that was mentioned from Killing Technology onwards, in terms of their sound, is Die Kreuzen. In fact, Killing Technology felt like path that Die Kreuzen could have followed in lieu of their take on traditional hard rock. Of…

A Cowardly Lot, do you read much Blake's 7 slash fiction? I bet you'd love it.

More white whiners
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Hey El Sabor Asiatico, all true, probably, what Sirota says. But the actual show had very little cutting commentary for either side of the political fence. Which is odd considering that 'political friction' was the primary conceit of the program. I watched a couple of episodes fairly recently and was a little…

Crazy drop in productivity/quality
I just realized that Metallica released 4 pretty damn fine LPs in the space of just over 5 years in the 80s. In the subsequent 23 years they have only released 5 LPs and these are of debatable quality. I guess it just never really dawned on me before what a compressed time frame it…

Skippy used to do stand up. Wasn't too bad because a lot of was how the 80s sucked. "There used to be sex drugs and rock'n'roll. What happened? Now all we have is masturbation, crack and Madonna!"

Hey, wow man, phodreaw, that's some crazy stuff!

Gabby, what Louie and Black Ice Hockey Player say is not a joke. You find it funny, and that's great. But it's not a joke.

"Upper frontal nudity" - Doesn't the word 'topless' cover this with less typing?

My wife and kept rewinding the "Happy birthday bitches!" bit over and over. So fucking funny. I just say it to her as a non sequitur now and we stil bust up.

1) there are a LOT more in stored these days. They're great. The last show I saw was an in store on RSD. Brought my son and everything.

Asinus - Is going to a show cool? I don't now. When I was watching , say, Xerobot in the smoky basement bar of a pizza joint, it didn't feel very 'cool' compared to the lounges downtown playing trip-hop and feeding drinks to, I assume, very hot women. I mean, I knew *I* liked it and was having fun. But there was…

You know, in St. Louis, the show-going public isn't that young so there aren't a lot of people texting or doing Gen Y/Millenial type things because they simply aren't there. At 38 I only skew *just* over that side of the bell curve. But maybe it has to do with the acts I go see. There's a whole basement show scene…

Re - Corporate Drugstore Muzak:
My first job out of college was as an assistant manage at a Walgreens. This meant a lot of overnight shifts. It's quiet during these times so you could really make out what they were playing. This was how I discovered Air. 'Moon Safari' had just come out and they would play the tracks…

This. I meant to mention this as a response to being old and perhaps dismissive. My bullshit detector is a finely honed machine at this point. And I may have had time for a little bullshit when I was younger but not anymore.