Yes, the whole Big Cock Inn thing epitomized the film's fearsome commitment to quality. "The Pleasure Drivers" also conferred what I've long suspected: Lauren Holly is a terrible actress, perhaps even the worst Jim Carrey has slept with, which is no mean feat considering he's currently hiding the Afikhoman inside…

I ain't got me no book-learning. Ain't never pretended to, unlike some sissified city folk I know.

you and me both friend.

point noted, comma added.

Against the Dark was a tough one. It reminded me why I haven't been excited about the prospect of a Steven Seagal movie since the early nineties.

I think he's a dead ringer for unfrozen caveman lawyer. Much like him, our ways apparently frighten and confuse Tommy Wiseau.

I haven't heard Merle & Willie's version yet but Emmylou Harris' cover kicks all kinds of ass. At least two or three.

"Shotgun Willie" is a great place to start. Great, very seminal album. Also you could do a lot worse than "One Hell Of A Ride", which is only fifty bucks (or much less if you buy it used) for something like a 115 songs.

Thanks. There's a three-page stretch in the recent 500 page recent biography of Nelson where he is compared, without irony, to Jesus, Buddha and the Dalai Lama. The author also prints the lyrics to "What Would Willie Do" in their entirety and recommends 40 "must own" Nelson CDs at the end. Good Lord the man has made a…

I am going to change the holy living fuck out of the spelling then. Cajun-style!

On a related note Frank Sinatra's character in "The Man With The Golden Arm" kicks heroin so that he can tour as a jazz musician. Cause heaven knows nobody abstains from drug use—especially heroin—quite like touring jazz musicians.

Willie is, in fact, still smoking, just like that Cheech and Chong Movie, "The Corsican Brothers".

Hey Isis Uptown, Color me intrigued. What was the answer-question/question-answer in question/answer?

I am in Chicago and I am the Big Foot of taste tests. All will be revealed in due time (he writes cryptically). Oh, and Gordo's our man in Madison. Me and Keith left about eight years ago.

Never speak ill of fried cheese.

Sugar is good. About the least cliched baseball movie I've ever seen. It's the rare film that could actually stand to be more cliched.

yeah, I'm thinking the Davis will definitely be for Silly Show-Biz Book Club. I've been reading almost exclusively country biographies for obvious reasons but I look forward to plunging into some Silly Show-Biz Books soon ,as well. Superhead has a new book, after all, and an also-ran at Bad Boy wrote a Diddy tell-all.…

I will read the holy living fuck out of Tom Davis' book. But you knew that already.

yeah, I was going to point out that for its touring and recording band Belushi and Aykroyd cherry-picked some of the best musicians in the world. I certainly didn't think the Blues Brothers' band were all rank amateurs. I think you misread what you perceived as my misreading. In the piece I explicitly refer to Aykroyd…

Yeah, "Electro-Shock Blues" is an amazing album that captures the essence of suicidal depression and mourning on an intensely visceral level. I love it but I've never gotten into The Eels otherwise. It's strange how you can sometimes passionately adore an album by a artist but be completely indifferent to the rest of…