The Singing Detective. Not the movie but the British series. It's on DVD, I found it at Costco of all places one day. Life is full or serendipity sometimes.

And Wally Ingram played with David Lindley. So Timbuk 3 weren't all bad. Wally's good but I could have done without the crazy drum crap, like the bell tree. When he plays it straight he's very good.

See: MTV

Best left unsolved.

It's always described as being "My Pet Goat" but the actual title of the book is "The Pet Goat". http://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

I know some atheists whose vehement belief that there is no god is as annoying as religious fanatics' belief that there is. Not much difference at the extremes on either side.

See that Errol Morris doc Mr. Death for a perfect example of this. He took a bit of knowledge in the field of making execution devices and suddenly became a tool of the Holocaust deniers. Morris knows how to pick his subjects.

Yeah, the fact that you were with your golf buddies makes that story a lot less creepy.

Don't settle for walkin. Why, of all the things that are great that I can't remember anymore, do I remember that horrific Lou Reed ad. I think people hated it because it sucked.

Alan Alda was the ultimate sensitive guy of that time. Gould always reminded me of this sweaty New Yorker - kind of disheveled, like an unmade bed. Not seeing milquetoast.

My favorite boast of all time is Sir Mix-a-Lot saying "hugging more girls then Bela Karolyi"

I dig that "First Class all the way" tryptich, it feels loose and funny and of its era. He has a lot of different styles and a lot of different media. This guy could get pretty damn good, his work reminds me of an artist friend of mine.

The "don't look back in anger" film, where Belushi was the only one who lived to a ripe old age "because I'm a dancer!", was funny-backwards, in that it's now kind of sad.

I don't know karate, but I know kar-aazy!

Mayfield on all cards, but that's no hit on Hayes - I'd put him above anybody in American music. As Hairy Cruise wrote, the master of the Stratocaster. I'm in a gospel choir in Oakland, and he copped that style from old gospel trios and quartets whose only instrument was a Strat with no pick, strummed just like he…

I always got the Bar-Kays and the Mar-Keys mixed up.

That movie was way, way better than it had any right to be. Thanks for reminding me, I'll fire up the DVD when I get home.

Don't forget his use of Tom Waits in Down By Law, both as an actor and on the soundtrack.

Forgot about Steve, good knowledge. A fantastic drummer in this. Keith isn't exactly underrated, but he is at his best as a rhythm guitarist, and that whole band backing up Berry was amazing.

The Staple Singers! Mavis just tears it up when they do "respect yourself."