Shit, the avclub can call me up and I'll do "Seven Nation Army."  With that feat of honest contrarinism, I will expect to be carried around on a virtual golden palanquin, with white rose petals scattered before me.

IS THIS MAN RUINING ARSENAL?

IS THIS MAN RUINING ARSENAL?

Wrong forum. Derp.

Wrong forum. Derp.

Later tonight I'll need you and your friend to hold my hair back.

Later tonight I'll need you and your friend to hold my hair back.

What odds can I get for "at least one band member dies on stage before the end of March"?

What odds can I get for "at least one band member dies on stage before the end of March"?

Sounds cool.  I definitely have to take a Beatle break, but I'll check that out once I recover.

Sounds cool.  I definitely have to take a Beatle break, but I'll check that out once I recover.

Just finished Dominic Pedler's 800-page monster Songwriting Secrets of the Beatles.  Despite its get-rich-quick title, it's a maniacally-researched thesis on how the Beatles synthesized disparate and disorganized chord patterns, cadence tricks, and melodies into a coherent, almost mechanistic framework.   Pedler makes…

Just finished Dominic Pedler's 800-page monster Songwriting Secrets of the Beatles.  Despite its get-rich-quick title, it's a maniacally-researched thesis on how the Beatles synthesized disparate and disorganized chord patterns, cadence tricks, and melodies into a coherent, almost mechanistic framework.   Pedler makes…

There have been some claims, and I don't know if they're true, that  Tarantino took that Superman speech from Jules Feiffer's "The Great Comic Book Heroes" (1965).  This would certainly explain the time-capsule-like quality to it.

There have been some claims, and I don't know if they're true, that  Tarantino took that Superman speech from Jules Feiffer's "The Great Comic Book Heroes" (1965).  This would certainly explain the time-capsule-like quality to it.

My first DeLillo book was Libra, and I thought it was fantastic.  My second, and so far last DeLillo book, was Underworld. After the Prologue (which I had read before), I got about 20 pages in before giving up.

My first DeLillo book was Libra, and I thought it was fantastic.  My second, and so far last DeLillo book, was Underworld. After the Prologue (which I had read before), I got about 20 pages in before giving up.

It still makes me wonder what the message is.  Shouldn't "good" comedy break through these barriers and speak to all kinds of people?  Are we really living in a bifurcated reality where everyone in the suburban hells is already living in Idiocracy?

It still makes me wonder what the message is.  Shouldn't "good" comedy break through these barriers and speak to all kinds of people?  Are we really living in a bifurcated reality where everyone in the suburban hells is already living in Idiocracy?

oh, man, I could totally see Lanigan saying that stuff to Bamford.  I remember watching him host the wuab prize movie in the afternoons- all he had to do was spin a wheel and read a name, and he still radiated a dickish vibe.