Good piano player, too. I like "Nightswimming".

Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing (And Other Stories). Best album of the year for me, so far.

One of them is asking to be snuffed. And the other is likely to be subjected to the sexual abuse he both committed and had done to him. They deserve to suffer, not to die.

Just watched this. Have to admit I don't really remember this when it was in national headlines, because I'm not a habitual news-watcher. Had to pause many times to walk off the mix of rage and sadness I felt. It's even silly writing this, because it didn't happen to me. Maybe the selfishness of that is what I need to…

Even making a sanitized version of the story will get the film vilified to an extent by right-wing media, and still get picketed by those Phelps fuckers.

And he might be on to something. Some stories, famous or infamous as they are, really aren't meant to be seen on screen.

Or is he???

Plus I don't think I'd want to survive being shot in the neck.

An elephant holding a gun seems like the most overt anti-Republican stance this show makes. I bet they do it.

I maintain one of the best scenes of the whole series is when he consoles Lafayette (in the 2nd season I think). You had some sense of him being a vet, but you really felt it without given a whole lot of exposition, that he could spot PTSD like it was a sixth sense of his.

Unforgiven is the only Best Picture winner that's genuinely one of my favorite films. No Country, The Departed and Hurt Locker are all great in my book too, but Eastwood getting nearly his due that year (should have been a clean sweep with Clint getting Best Actor, and Peoples winning for Best Original Screenplay too…

I didn't hate it when I saw it. I preferred (and still do) Magnolia and Traffic, both of which are obvious strong influences in this movie.

Freddie sang "Imagine" at a Queen show in Wembley Stadium (I think) the night after John died.

The line about exchanging a walk-on part in the war for a lead role in the cage really doesn't have much to do with Syd, but part of Roger's world view. He explains it more completely on the recent documentary about the album.

@avclub-58238e9ae2dd305d79c2ebc8c1883422:disqus It's been established by now that The Who got back together around this time in large part to help John pay off his debts. When the band broke up in '83, he continued to live the lifestyle he maintained in the 70's, to his financial detriment.

"Old Red Wine" is a damned good song, too.

He was long divorced when he died I believe.

"Tonight's The Night", too. More people should write songs about dead roadies.

"Shine On" is directly about Syd while the other songs are somewhat related but also more universal in scope.

Countryside.