It's my birthday!
Happy Fuckin' Birthday to me!

Monty Python is still really funny…
when THEY do it.

I don't care how many stars he gave to whatever forgettable movie—
Perhaps nobody on the planet, living or dead, has had a greater formative effect on my development as a critical thinker.

I should add that I'm even now, in 2010, recognizing references in that album for the first time—And I was never more on the hipster hit list than I was in 1989, when it came out. It's still not quite a British 'Paul's Boutique', but it certainly comes from the same place aesthetically, and some of the individual…

"Can U Dig It", when added to other tracks from that PWEI album like 'Defcon One' and 'Not now, James, We're Busy', forms a pretty comprehensive late 80's Hipster Field Guide.

Got to Give It Up—also not Disco.

Madson is absolutely right, with only a few omissions—Disco was also an especially Latino Gay musical movement, so there was also that. The "Disco Sucks" movement was really a Racist, Hetero-sexist backlash perpetuated by the narrow dictates of radio programming parameters of the time.

Let me know how it goes.

"The Pirates would be a pretty easy gang to beat"

He's a Canadian and not an American because (as you should well know) he would have still been a British subject at the opening of World War I, and so would have had a stake in it. An American would not.

Going Disco—not that there's anything wrong with that…

At its best ELO was one of the few Rock acts that could simultaneously play really loud really hard and really pretty. Their best songs are among the few ever that can only be described as "soaring" (Of course, it doesn't hurt that one of the few really epic bittersweet romances in my life played out to a soundtrack…

All I know is that when my roommate Shecky and I were pushing ELO in the early 90's (and we did—we even made home-made ELO wrapping paper for Xmas presents one year), people kept mixing them up with KC and the Sunshine Band—which, to be fair, we also were pushing pretty hard. I swear to god I don't know how I ended up…

My older sister bought—and so now I own—all the singles released from this album, for $1.99 each at Murphy's Mart as they were released. I hadn't seen it until maybe two or three years ago, but damn if it isn't the sparkliest movie ever made.

lice?—do you mean leeches?

No man, being a good Liberal is a pain in my heart, which is right there bleeding on my sleeve. Boo hoo, right?

I haven't done it, but I've been considering making 'El Dorado' the record to put on after 'Dark Side of the Moon' while watching 'Wizard of Oz'. If I still had access to weed, anyway.

One of the few examples of a Romantic Comedy with universal gender appeal. I suppose it would be an ideal date movie, if anyone who would see it on a date was under 40. You, know, I would be interested in the woman who would watch this on a date.

There's a little bit of Postcolonial unease about this movie—it was partly filmed in Uganda (which was still a British protectorate), itself a pretty adventurous endeaver at a time when similar films were always setbound—but the whole issue of a missionary presence and any actual Africans is well behind us by the time…

Similar apocrypha I've no interest in verifying: Humphrey Bogart was a textbook case of the functioning alcoholic. The story I heard was that he never drank when he was working, but always had a drink mixed and waiting at 5 O'clock when the shooting day was supposed to end—often just off set and in sight of the actor.…