I was hoping you'd write this kind of piece, Will. I know the proposed book with Rocco would have been strong and shared your disappointment when he changed his mind. Your #1 Canadian fan.

This season has been odd for me as it's the first one that doesn't seem truly connected to its time. There are references to actual events, but for the most part the characters have lived independently of the upheaval around them (albeit often creating their own upheaval). Given what a non-stop shitstorm that 1968…

Hypnomatic wrote: "so he throws as much mud as possible at the prevailing theories to drag them down to his level"

I think it was in Stone's companion book to the movie that he makes the claim that he isn't asserting a certain truth, merely a plausible, in his perspective, version. And while there are elements there that are intriguing and persuasive—e.g., Oswald was an extremely weird dude who was in far more notable places than…

It's another lazy misreading of Stone and JFK. LBJ is presented as someone philosophically opposed to JFK re. Vietnam, something that the plotters counted on to achieve their goal.

That's why the "anti-Revolver" remark is ambiguous at best. Revolver complements the Banana album far more than it contrasts with it. An effort by the reviewer to seem historically informed, but he ends up exposed as anything but.

That's why the "anti-Revolver" remark is ambiguous at best. Revolver complements the Banana album far more than it contrasts with it. An effort by the reviewer to seem historically informed, but he ends up exposed as anything but.

What on earth is the "anti-Revolver" claim? How is VU & Nico the opposite of Revolver? Revolver can't "be any number of things depending on what listeners are looking for"? It's not "something for everyone"? If the contrast is going to be raised, the reviewer actually has to establish what exactly Revolver is supposed…

What on earth is the "anti-Revolver" claim? How is VU & Nico the opposite of Revolver? Revolver can't "be any number of things depending on what listeners are looking for"? It's not "something for everyone"? If the contrast is going to be raised, the reviewer actually has to establish what exactly Revolver is supposed…