He's got a pretty vast and varied discography; my theory on Patton is that if you don't like one of his projects you can just wait for the next one, which will be wildly different.  His solo album from a few years ago, Mondo Cane is just marvelous — it's his take on Italian pop songs from the '60s and '70s, performed…

Here's another vote for Lanegan.  He's got the best voice for rock (and folk, and blues) of his generation.  I'm also partial to Mike Patton and Greg Dulli (who's been aptly described as the best worst singer in rock).

"Mercy, what a grueling line of inquiry."

The Lyle Lovett "Mack the Knife" is so wonderful.  I spent years wishing I had a copy of it; it was like my holy grail of songs I heard in movies that I didn't have on my ipod.  Then, embarrassingly recently, it occurred to me to look it up online, and sure enough it was easily available pretty much this entire time. …

The drunk uncle guy looks lost.  Like he wandered onto the set, had no idea what was going on, and just decided to make his best stab at "looking cool" while everyone else glowered douchily at the camera.  Is he actually in this band?  If so, I can only assume his musical (or "musical", considering this is Limp Bizkit…

I'm so glad to hear shared hate for Cassadee.  God, she was just AWFUL.  And it was especially galling for how many truly talented and actually interesting female vocalists fell by the wayside during her reign of terror.  (The Avril Lavigne thing was hilarious.  Of course she was Cassadee's hero.  ::massive, painful…

I'm SO excited for The Voice.  After years of successfully avoiding all the "American Idol and its spawn/copycats" sort of stuff, I stumbled onto The Voice at the start of last season and fell deeply in love with it.  I blamed it on the NHL lockout, that it was the closest thing I had to competitive sporting events on…

It would not be an overestimation to say I quote this movie at least once a day, and have done so for the last 19 years.  "We can't all be Bozo the Clown", "Dan, what the hell's 'egregious'?", "You promised me that panel show!", "You wouldn't know the name of Paul Revere's horse if he took a crap on your lawn" and on…

I couldn't agree more.  I don't care how legitimate the gripes about pedestrian direction are — I love, love, love Quiz Show and refuse to believe it's anything less than perfect.

The sound design on the ship is so spectacular.  It's just one more item on the laundry list of "things that are perfect about Master and Commander".  There's something about the pacing and the attention to detail throughout that film that makes me feel like it's the closest watching a movie can come to the experience…

I was hoping we could count Master and Commander because, while Bettany was technically a doctor, it wasn't like he was using modern medicine.  Sure, that's a reason that makes no sense, but I just like it when Master and Commander gets some love.  What a great movie.

Quick, to the QOTSA Newswire!  Your prayers have been answered!  :)  (Although there are admittedly fewer beefcakey object-of-crush-nibbling-puppies pictures there than there are here…)

Maybe no one else will notice, and it'll still be available at a reasonable and less crowded time the next day?  ::crosses fingers::

@avclub-6beb5f589a9fd04c21fcd50db3d9c80c:disqus If only I would start celeb-crushing on celebs who are not obscure and often conventionally fairly unattractive, I too could play along with all the lascivious commenting.  But alas.  My tastes are well-established.  Mmmm… obscure and unattractive.

I agree!  And also hate being in crowded stores.  (But… I aspire to being a Mark Lanegan completionist.  Surely that doesn't include having to brave a RSD crowd to get the 7" of his collaboration with Moby, does it?)

People who were in first grade in 2001 are allowed on the internet?  Aren't they too young for that?  Do their parents know they're here??

This is always the first thing that comes to mind when I think of Bradley Cooper.

Any movie that features a mascot dying in an industrial strength dishwasher is a great movie.  ::wipes away a tear::

Nice work!

Do we get to know what kind of costume this is?