Coincidentally, today (April 3) marks 31 years since Warren Oates' death. Even though he exits this movie after about twenty minutes, he made an indelible impression on me. The look on his face when he's considering the deranged Martin Sheen, just before he becomes the film's first victim: anger, fear, confusion,…

John Mahoney - he was in his 50s for most of Frasier's run and looked a good 10 years older.

Ramis once quipped, "Doug probably fell while he was looking for a place to jump."

He did, truly, only live once.

Drain STH, there's a name I've barely heard since the turn of the century. If memory serves, their lead singer married Tony Iommi…

A friend of mine in high school did a parody version of Everything Zen and called it "The Navigator's Lament." The chorus went "There's no maps in your glovebox…"

Ever notice "Comedown" has basically the same bassline as Bon Jovi's "Living on a Prayer"? Or is it just me…

Saw Turbonegro in 2003 at a festival, during the long drawn-out vamping intro to "I Got Erection", they suddenly broke off and Euroboy went straight into the riff of Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing." Crowd went wild.

Dream Theater did an interesting, slowed down, almost swing-jazzy type version of it when they covered the entire album live (available as an official bootleg)..

Seeing Noni Hazlehurst pop up as heroin-addicted Abbie Cornish's mum in "Candy" also caused some cognitive dissonance..

Just the fact that TYA played Woodstock should make Alvin obit-worthy.

I'm bigger, I'm back

Stacy Keach on co-starring with Warren Oates in "The Blue and the Gray" (1982):

"I got you a part in a snuff film. You'll be killing Stacy Keach!"

I don't know, I think a lot of people still enjoy seeing OJ get the shit beat out of him in those movies..

He directed that movie, but didn't write it, for whatever difference that makes.

Fucked On Race Day!

I watched a bit of Alien Ant Farm at the Sydney Big Day Out in 2002. Saw them play two songs, neither of which were "Smooth Criminal", so I moved on. Drowning Pool played that festival as well, a few months before their original singer drowned in a waist-high swamp of vomit (I don't have the energy to look up his…

Those post-rehab work hours are apparently still in place to this very day.

John Cale's 1982 album "Music for a New Society", which has languished out-of-print for a decade now, unavailable on CD or iTunes or anywhere. Cale owns the rights to it so I guess it's not out there because he doesn't want it out there, but it's such an amazing record. Its absence is tantamount to going onto Amazon.co…