Punk was originally about ignoring the rules and doing your own thing. There wasn't a distinct sound and there wasn't a uniform.

He's all over "Fade Away and Radiate" on Parallel Lines which was Blondie's big breakthrough.

He finally got there with "Stone Cold" and "Street of Dreams". I guess they sold better. I preferred the mania of "Can't Happen Here" or the ballsy "All Night Long".

I bet they could just shoot someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue.

I used to have a pair of reddish oxford docs. They were very comfortable and could double as not-quite-dress shoes. They were also sturdy enough to offer protection from the assholes with heavy boots in the mosh pit. Believe it or not there was a time when nearly everyone in the pit wore converse Chuck Taylors and…

West Side Story for the win. Both Bernstein and Sondheim.

They were based on Leopold and Loeb. Queer and murderously fucked up.

Why should gay people be any different?

If we have to have a gay clown can we at least get clown in a gown Bianca del Rio? She's actually gay and is funnier than Eric Stonestreet.

One way to read Rebel is to see Mineo in love with Dean. Another is to see Mineo as the child figure to Dean's father figure and Wood's mother figure. I think both are correct. All three of them were searching for parents.

He's turtle all the way down.

Why would they do that? Tilda Swinton is right there.

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I hope they don't cover his hometown because it's also mine (and Scott Walker's - not the cool one) and there's no way they'll get it right. There's a historical marker in front of the parking lot where the house he was born in used to be. When I lived there it was between a theater and a bank which is absolutely…

Once you bet on black…

@abnormalfescue:disqus might be a fig tree. Jesus yells at the money changers first but he just zaps fig trees.

I love fontina on pizza. I learned that trick in southern France. You know those awesome Rhone wines? Or Valrhona chocolate? There.

Condolences.

Guten tag!

A whole bunch of beers whose names I couldn't pronounce if I knew how to spell them. I just got back from Poland (and Austria). The beer was good and so was the vodka.