I'm a little bummed out that it isn't the Sinatra "High Hopes", done Springsteen-style:

To: Arcade Fire
From: Bombo
Re: Your request

The sets are amazing. I was the last man on Earth to get an HD TV, and two of the first things I noticed upon watching it were 1) how fake and cheap some of the Game of Thrones sets looked, and 2) how even more impressive the BE sets looked.
Also, Lou Reed.

I have a good friend who has worked for 20+ years in movie publicity and she says Josh Brolin is the most unprofessional asshole she has ever met. Also the drunkest. So ends anonymous uncorroborated internet character attack.

Goodbye Broadchurch, I'm gonna miss you, you idyllic seaside den of seething corruption, moral decay, and slow motion.

The New Testament - Jesus

I just hope they find a way to shoehorn T-Dawg into the finale.

Thirding the love for the Kojak Variety bonus disc.  It's ridiculously great. I especially like the 10 or so songs that Elvis recorded as demos to send to George Jones as his idea of the type of stuff GJ should have been doing (and who wouldn't kill to have heard GJ sing "Brilliant Disguise"?).

It's incredible, and makes me wish there was a video of all the guys wheeling the camera and hauling cables, god bless 'em.

I would have thought drumming in a sweater vest was reason enough for being banished from Black Sabbath.

Pete's sparing him because he needs Bob on GM to keep Cutler and Ted happy. He's feeling increasingly marginalized, and by replacing Ken as the point-man on GM he's back to feeling (being?) important.  The leverage he now has with Bob is the icing on the cake.

See you there, Cookie.  And now seems like a good time to ask if you were at the Neutral Milk Hotel show in August of '98 (aka the first show when Maxwell's reopened after being shut for several months after the brew-pub period of which we shall not speak)?  The reason I ask is the club had not yet reacquired a liquor…

I've lived in Hoboken for 23 years and I've seen somewhere in the neighborhood of 1000 shows at Maxwell's (including 60 of the 72 Yo La Tengo Hannukah shows, which I am sure says something about me), the most recent one being last night, and the next one being tomorrow.  Plus who know how many additional nights just…

Same old Ziggy!

I saw her about 10 years ago and she was onstage for over 2 hours, and I swear 30 minutes of it was her telling us between songs over and over again how much she was in love with her husband.  It was really uncomfortable.

I can't tell Natalie Portman and Anna Paquin apart.  So far that hasn't inconvenienced me much.

Finally got around to watching this episode, 20 minutes later here's all I remember:
 
Governor: Let her go!  Look, I'll put down my gun and make it nice and easy for you!
Michonne: I nevah, evah do anything NICE…and easy…
G: Aw, c'mon!
M: I only do things NICE…and rough
G: Please?
M: So I'm gonna start out treating your…

Finally got around to watching this episode, 20 minutes later here's all I remember:
 
Governor: Let her go!  Look, I'll put down my gun and make it nice and easy for you!
Michonne: I nevah, evah do anything NICE…and easy…
G: Aw, c'mon!
M: I only do things NICE…and rough
G: Please?
M: So I'm gonna start out treating your…

Agreed, you could make a checklist of the major plot-points tonight and it would sound like it would be insanely (get it?) entertaining.  So why was this was perhaps the most boring episode of television I have ever seen?

Agreed, you could make a checklist of the major plot-points tonight and it would sound like it would be insanely (get it?) entertaining.  So why was this was perhaps the most boring episode of television I have ever seen?