There was a scene near the end of the Aviator made me realize what a great actor DiCaprio is. He's talking about something (cargo planes? I forgot) being "the wave of the future", and he keeps repeating that line. And you can see in his face, oh man I'm f'ing up, this is bad and not normal, but he keeps repeating it…

Taint funny McGee. *sobbing*

"Is this the dream" is my favorite song by them and it has a nice little Wurlitzer keyboard solo in the middle too.

I wish I could like this 1,000 times. It's hard to put in words, but this band is so *white* - the arcade setting, the stupid unprounceable name, the stuffing of the plastic gun down the pants, the other guy pointing the gun at you in some weird gangsta way. I'm also white, so I'll say it's OK for me to go there.

Seconded Whiskey Train and I'm not a big prog rock kind of guy.

Listen to Sonny Boy Williamson's Bring it On Home, Zep did a note-for-note ripoff of it for their intro and outro to that song. But everybody has influences, might as well have good ones, and the middle part was something different.

Perhaps the best compliment an actor can get, that she didn't look like she was acting. She really was great in both of these, but I had a huge crush on her when I was younger too.

That was John Mayall. While Clapton showed some technique, his chops were very derivative. But you know, guitar solos are so subjective. I like Albert King from those days. Clapton copped a lot of Freddie King with the Bluesbreakers album, which is probably the best thing he did, and everybody cops from somebody.…

Johnny Costa was a great pianist, the show wouldn't have been the same without him. That would have been a very good gig for a musician - no traveling, steady paycheck, (perhaps best of all) having a boss who isn't a drug addict or psycho.

You know, seriously, which would make you more jaded: Writing a song like "every breath you take" and seeing that this scary stalker's tale was confused as a sweet love song, or writing "tears of heaven" and seeing that this pablum would win tons of awards and sell millions of records/CDs/what have you? It must have…

From the Carlos Santana "make it look hard" school of playing. Heh, he said "make it look hard". In the 60s, there was graffiti in London "Clapton is God" he's been overrated since he started. I gave a friend Keith Richard's autobiography, he gave me Clapton's autobiography which I think he got for a dollar. He got…

Ska music and dancing!

There has never been a better patsy than Elisha Cook Jr.

I'm also a Madre man. John Huston's cameos kind of make that movie. High Sierra was a surprisingly good movie, top 5 Bogie for sure, well worth a rental.

That's just sad. It's times like this when I think of that great onion video clip with the shouting journalists at a round table: "I agree with you!!" "Well, I agree with YOU!!" "Let me speak before you say something TOTALLY insightful!"

Jon Stewart is the Cronkite of our time. The Daily Show really is the best source for news, especially Beltway news, and his fake news is about the only news I trust. Does that make our age better? In many ways, yes.

I'm as selfish as the next guy, but that's quite a broad brush you're painting with. I grew up in the countryside and my dad took me to a slaughterhouse when I was eight. He was..insane. 
We also had dogs, but we also had a very long, straight street in the middle of the countryside, surrounded by orange groves.…

Edit, agree with Malingerer, love that scene and the preverts.

Yeah that Fuddruckers was what I remembered the most too, because what other association could they be going with, with that name? Even if the owner's name was Fuddrucker.

It was a joke, a bit opaque apparently.