First they came for the lobsters, and I did not speak out because I was not a lobster…

True enough—but that's why I think holding up an objective Truth is problematic. After all, there are different kinds of Truth—for example I do not accept that the Creation story in Genesis is factual, but I would argue that it contains a kind of mythopoetic Truth that exists independent of facts. It's a matter of…

I too dismiss whole genres out of hand.

Lobsters—read what I actually posted. I never said Bush was a Fascist, I said it's the closest we've come, and I stand by that. Unchecked, over time things could have been much worse (and were Obama really a Socialist things could maybe be much better). But you're answering observation with the kind of hyperbolic…

I'd like to see a crime scene reenactment done by Guy Madden.

I don't think it's that simple. There are facts, but Truth is only an interpretation of those facts agreed (or disagreed) upon. Agreement can be refined by the introduction of more facts and greater agreement, but we are each of us still always left outside of objectivity with our own particular point of view. If…

Best Sex Pistols cover is 'Substitute'—"Ya don't need permission for anyfing!"

No, Lobsters, Bush wasn't really a Fascist—wouldn't really know what one was—but consider this:

Don't you judge me—half of you are high right now.
So nobody's going to mention how both 'American Dad' and 'The Cleveland Show' were about the evils of drugs AND both made specific points about how acceptable weed is.

But it's just another in a long line of pointless Simpson cameos.

Grace Jones:

Camper Van Beethoven has a terrific cover of 'Wasted'.

On the one hand I'm proud to say I got to see Miles Davis live in the 80's—because, hey, it was Miles Davis.

Best thing on 'The Whitey Album' is Mike Watt's straightforward 'Burning Up'.

I don't know if they ever recorded it but I saw Thumper do a wicked frantic cover of Ozzy's 'Crazy Train'.

I used to play Laibach for all my Hippy friends. One of them described the vocals' on 'I Me Mine' as being performed by a demonic muppet. I agree.

I just remembered another one—
Royal Crescent Mob did an incredible live version of LL Cool J's 'Mama Said Knock You Out'.

The first wave of Fascists to be known as such were very definitely aware of what they set out to be—they were the political expression of the Futurist movement in Art and Literature which was pretty explicit about its view of modern society and a human being's subordinate place within it. I believe Hitler knew what…

Here's the only problem with the bit of capital "R" Romantic Pop perfection that is The Cure's 'Just Like Heaven'—it's so wedded to its premise that every woman who you'll ever date who's ever heard it already identifies it with some other faded love light in her past. It's true for men, too, but we're not above…

I would never have been man enough to admit it at the time, but George Michael put out a lot of great music in the 80's, alone and with Wham!. His voice was clear as a bell but expressive at the same time—and the melodies were inescapeable.