I dunno if anyone has brought this up yet, but I think this pilot is waaaaaay better for people who have read the book. The book (which is great by the by) looks like it is gonna serve as more of a launching point for the series. I assume they will plow through it's content by the end of the season, if not sooner.…

I'll skip this because I think it's pretty apparent he just had a meltdown due to the money and the fans. He obviously had issues (as many famous people do) coping with super-stardom. His stand-up was great because it was so down to Earth. You can easily imagine how his material would dry up minus the everyman…

Love it, but I would switch "enchanted dust" to "enchanted juices" since nobody wants to picture a dusty vagina. Coulda been worse though, you coulda said "the enchanted sands" which is quite horrific.

Uhhhhhh….I think this one has been done actually…

After seeing clips of the American Idiot musical on the Showtime documentary about it, I wholeheartedly endorse no more rock musicals whatsoever. That was some disturbing sheeeeit.

"How To Chain Your Dragons"…great episode. Glad they bounced back after last week. They coulda cleaned some more house via deaths of meandering characters (I'm looking at you everyone involved in the Reak subplot) but this was some very satisfying TV. I was hoping those dragons would turn their master into a nice…

"Even more profound, it was starting to became harder to feel alienated."

I had a couple of friends who were pretty into Kerplunk when it came out, but Dookie will always be my fave Green Day disc. That being said, they never came close to dethroning my beloved Descendents/ALL from their spot as my personal kings of pop-punk. And that being said, I recently caught the end of American Idiot…

This best thing about this battle was all the boring minor characters it killed off. The worst thing about it was pretty much everything else. Embarrassingly bad CGI, poor pacing, cheesy dialogue, the guy with five arrows sticking out if him that is allowed to live… The reviewer nailed it that this battle needed to…

The Doctor by Cheap Trick? The Long Run by The Eagles? Mr. Machinery Operator by fIREHOSE. Don't Tell A Soul by The Replacements?
On a somewhat related note, I have an awesome idea for a They Might Be Giants tribute in which various bands would perform completed versions of all the song snippets in the "Fingertips"…

I was really, REALLY, hoping the recent box-set would include a quality audio version of Rat Patrol. I hope this is released as a special edition of Combat Rock somewhere down the line. The first side of Combat Rock is flawless in my opinion.

Yeah, the Joe Walsh stuff was the best in the doc and, what the fudge, they didn't even cover "In the City" during the Long Run portion. Laaaame. Henley and Frye speaking highly of their 80's solo-output was pretty funny as well. The best part though was the lack of any mention of Henley's lame-ass drumming. In the…

I can't remember where I saw it, but there was a great essay recently on music critics giving high regards to shitty, commercial pop releases. They even came up with a name for this phenomenon, but I can't remember that now either. They compared a music critic liking something like Britney Spears to a food critic…

The "lifestyle" fans you speak of are responsible for the sterile crap that is released these days. And that spans the Pitchfork world to the Voice. Music is more about the scene, look and lifestyle than it has ever been. For many, music isn't really about the music at all anymore.

Yes! Back before I met my girlfriend I would meet these girls who would say they are into "all kinds of music." This is always code for "I'm not REALLY INTO any music." If you really love something, you will have opinions.

That, in a nutshell, completely explains the American Idol generation.

Yeah, Them is pretty fascinating. I think Exene's comments here are waaaaay off, but there are certainly credible conspiracy theories floating around out there.

Bob Odenkirk did some great work in this episode. TERADILU THE BOB!!!

The Hess boys are the greatest.

I agree with the review for the most part, and definitely the C+ rating. It just seemed like a play shot on film, more than a play adapted into a movie. In short, the whole experience still felt way too much like a play. The fiery monologues work well on-stage, but in a film they often come across as out of place.…