Our Unabashed Dictionary defines a night with ANS as "climbing the Twin Peaks."

I knew a guy who was a bandleader for a semi-big band. He said once, "I don't care if these are nice guys or not, give me 20 assholes who can play". At the time he told me, it was 20 years ago and I was 30. I completely disagreed with him. But 20 years later, having gotten some wisdom, and knowing what I know now…

That's why they have free laundromats there, including free soap, and the free meals. They work you to death so you really don't have time to do anything but work and sleep, and you don't even have to go home to eat. Neat, huh?

Ace in the Hole was amazingly good, Wilder at his most bitter - was he going through a divorce or something?

I take offense, sir. You give our breadth of stupidity far too little credit - the valley is but a small part. The State of Jefferson would like a word. As would the Inland Empire and Bakersfield, and the entire Southern California basin, from the mountains to the sea.

Ray Charles was more accessible and did a lot more genres, was popular to a wider/whiter audience, and was more consistent and popular for longer. But, who cares really, why write about this crap, when you can be getting funky like a bald-headed monkey! This music is what makes me proudest to be an American and I'm as…

Funk is Not About the Grammar (Pull that Stick Out)

Love that song. Anybody who likes American music has to get up and get down with bad man Brown. Hard to pick a favorite but, from his old days, it's "Think" and Night Train, and for the more funky years, it's Sex Machine. Oh yeahhhhhhh!

Good knowledge! I was a little worried about the AV club post-Rabin but we've still got the same smart posters on here. I've been through the big D in the States and the tax-deductible part is also true here, at least for alimony (we didn't have kids, thank God).

I really liked this piece, well-written. As it said, even if the sketches didn't relate, the characters in the sketches got more fleshed out as time went by. Also, I really like KITH.

There's a piece on here about that, he never did stand-up until he had to, to pay off his alimony. You sure about him not paying alimony when News Radio was on? Because that's what this whole article was about, his alimony was based on what he made there, and he was running a deficit with the alimony after that. He…

You know, Ewoks are descended from the Moors…
Edit: oh wait that was Dennis Hopper. I'll let it stand.

Joey Ramone singing Wonderful World always did it for me.

And Lester Bangs wrote a piece called "Come Back, Lou Reed's Liver, all is Forgiven"

Great article! If I may quibble, although I'm know it's coming from your forming young mind, jazz is not the musical equivalent of Lovecraft. If you want to make literary comparisons, I'd say Richard Wright or Ralph Ellison. There is a lot of anger in post-war jazz.

You know who else wears quiffs? Suedeheads.

But he's right, they are easy to avoid, although I still have that stupid rap song they did in the '80s stuck in my head. "I'll steal your honey like I stole your…socks!" I hate it when my brain does that.

Morrissey < Belladonna

C'mon, Baby's in Black? A song about a woman who is in mourning for her boyfriend/husband, and the singer is pissed because she won't give him none? That's more punk than most punk songs.

If you want to actually ride a motorcycle with a motorcycle jacket, most now have plastic armor in the elbows and shoulders, and sometimes a back protector to protect from a broken spine.