Birthday party, cheesecake, jellybean, boom!

I'd want to see them during the Rock n Roll Circus era…or at that recording. To me, that is one of the all time greatest live performance, and they completely blew the Stones out of the film and stage.

I don't know you Clayton Purdom, but you are my enemy. Led Zeppelin…GAH.

Absolutely. And "Master of Puppets"…that's probably the best song on the fucking album, although I am partial to "Damage, Inc."

I was talking about the first three albums today at work, and how awesome they were. One thing we noticed was how awesome each album kicks off. "Hit The Lights", "Fight Fire With Fire" and "Battery" are all fucking classics.

For sadness I like some select Big Star and Badfinger, with the bare bones version of "Without You" by Harry Nilssen. Otherwise, I'm an old man with no idea of half the bands you listed.

There's DOZENS OF US! DOZENS!

Is that Freedom Rock, man? Well TURN IT OFF.

So you and I have the reverse issues: I tended to write off women authors. I loved the Zindel books because they were from a guy as a kid: my father would have mocked me mercilessly in the late 70's/early 80's if he caught me reading Judy Blume.

Pig Man or Confessions of a Teenage Baboon? I go with baboon, but I also really related to the protagonist in that book.

Depends on the era: as a boy in the late 70's and early 80's, I had a very misogynistic view of books written from the girls point of view: I would choose not to read them.

When do we get the Paul Zindel nostalgia trip?

I will…I will….I will KILL…
the economic anxiety on Arrakis.

I was more the youngest daughters age in the 70's, and much like you I was not rich but not suffering either. However, I did have friends whose Dads had lost jobs and I remember them being scared….

I genuinely liked him in Boardwalk Empire: the problem is that I also liked some of the supporting actors a lot more. I mean, when you load up a cast with Stephen Graham, Kenneth Michael Williams, Jack Huston and whoever played Mickey Doyle…that's a rough group of awesome character actors to have to compete against.

Those windows were the size of a Buick Skylark…which, in the 70's, to steal from MST3K, was "the car that thinks it's a house"

That maybe the one, yes…

I prefer 'twisted and perverted'…ya pervert. Now, if you need me, I'm going to watch 'Water Power' while wearing my rubber porky pig mask and overalls.

Only if we can beat some of it back!

I remember his introduction to "A Better Tomorrow" which introduced me to the awesomeness that is John Woo in his prime: "The first 20 minutes, you're going to think this is the worse movie you've ever seen. But stick it out, and you'll think it's the best shoot 'em up you've ever seen" (Something to that extent). And…