Just throwing it out there for the ending - did the Shadow King touch Syd and they switched? That's what I kind of interpreted but am probably wrong.

this is a pretty bad album by a really great band, hopefully it translates better live.

was just gonna say that about one season not ending with that song, but the final song should probably be townes van zandt's poncho and lefty the more i think about it

Can I borrow a feeling?

You'd think Russia would want The National to record whatever the hell their probably gloomy national anthem is

I give this episode an A+ one million

The band had a one album lull, and it started and ended with Backspacer. That was not a Pearl Jam album , sans the band's name on it, in almost every sense. Yield might be their greatest. Binaural is criminally underrated. Riot Act has some gems on it as well. Self titled might not be their best, but front to…

"Friends don't let friends listen to Good Charlotte" is my mantra

That's the problem with the tape. It wasn't very clear, but they made it seem like the whole conflict was not recorded, just the part where Sammy had to subdue her because she attacked him. So yes he would have been in trouble for the tape, but it most likely did not tell the story in full. I am  not condoning…

Ben didn't know, he was on the phone and only caught the occurrence of the conflict, not the beginning of it. So for all he knows, he really did attack her. At least I thought that was how they played that scene out.

Ok this bothers me to no end, and maybe I'm the only one that sees it this way, but I thought Sammy was CLEARLY attacked by his ex wife. Not only that, she egged him on to have her new boyfriend record the incident to bury him. It was all premeditated and I thought that was clear. I don't think painting Sammy as a…

My biggest fear is they kill off Art this season. PLEASE DO NOT KILL ART!

if you go back in the av club preview it does say an hour. something is askew, obviously. i think the episode felt like it got cut up too

Wasn't this supposed to be an hour long? I thought when it was first announced that's what they said, and even thought it was advertised at one point as an hour long episode. It really felt like this was supposed to be an hour long and they cut it down and jammed it into half an hour.

I've said this a bunch of times, but it never gets old because he's a moron. He LITERALLY called Obama the n word at a concert of his I attended (I really love the riff to Stranglehold, sue me).

More like Band of Boring Live Shows, amirite?

This is the brownest timeline

Suck a cheetah's dick

Oh yeah that was the part I left out. The Tall Firs were so bad, even they knew it. Briars of North America were great I thought.

I saw him in Pittsburgh a week ago. I must say, he was really enjoying being out there performing. Made quite a few jokes to the crowd, one even about being a shut in for so many years. He really put on a great show. His voice is spot on.