Actually, the city that I live in has banned smoking within 30 ft of any public building, residential or commercial, as well as smoking inside any commercial building. So, basically, you can only smoke inside your house or car, but the cigarette has to be out as soon as you step outside, or you'd have to be walking…

Thank god somebody had something on that: probably one of the finest Doctor Who stories since "The Empty Child" (yes, I love it THAT MUCH, that it even gets placement above "Blink" and "The Girl In The Fireplace"). Watching it was almost like watching a classic, Douglas Adams scripted episode- brilliant, off-the-wall…

Not really worth it here- the city I live in, lines don't get much longer than maybe 15 ft, and evening weekend ticket prices are $7.50 each.

I bought "Three Dollar Bill, Y'all", because the only track I'd heard was "Faith", which was kind of awesome (it had a decent-enough breakdown); if that had been the only song these guys ever released, they'd be on that eternal list of "Oh yeah…whatever happened to those guys? I kinda remember liking that one song,"…

1) I still don't understand how in the hell a gritty reboot of a character that has literally been referred to as "an overgrown Boy Scout" is supposed to work.(unless, of course, Supes is now a pedophilic scout leader).

I say "shady" because this reissue will contain "rarities" that were already released on a previous box set. Yeah, the box set was something close to a decade ago (can't be arsed to look it up), but it seems to me that this release is aimed at the same market as "With The Lights Out"; I'm pretty sure nobody let…

My local classic rock station is usually pretty much standard late 60s-mid80s AOR. But then, every once in a while, they'll put on Pumpkins, Nirvana, or (even oddest) NIN's "Closer", at which point I immediately say aloud, "Fuck, I'm getting old."

…except the "milestone anniversary box-set" has become practically standard for any major album these days. I do think it's pretty shady to put out a box-set with all these demos, etc just a few years after "With The Lights Out", though.

As a greying Gen-Xer myself, my only solace has been my 7-year old daughter asking me to explain punk rock to her, and taking an interest in my drums and mommy's guitar. With the undeniable sense of melody she has, I'm hoping this kid is the savior of rock n roll.

Don't dream it's over.

Son of a…….dammit, yeah, I misread that. I thought it was "Walker", as in Annie Walker. But I'll be damned- the name of the episode is "Walter's Walk".

Looking at the episode list on Wikipedia, it looks like yeah- they do; next week's episode is "Bang and Blame", followed by "All The Right Friends", "Around the Sun"…..the pattern holds.

I once heard someone argue that funk was "Black America's heavy metal", which on the surface sounds about right, except that disco can be seen as the ultimate homogenization of funk, which somehow makes disco heavy metal's fault.

"Waldo-esque"? Those are just are Liverpool FC's colors, I believe (or "colours"); if I recall, the match was supposedly Liverpool FC vs Manchester United (who's colors are red and yellow, I think). If I learned anything from watching Life On Mars (specifically the hooligan episode), it's that Duncan's outfit was…

Really? Lucky you. My high school was among the last to make that technological jump. I seriously remember my Earth/Space Science teacher telling us excitedly at the start of the semester: "We've got laserdisks!! They're like the DVDs out in Japan, but bigger….so I guess they can hold more." Even as a know-nothing…

A few years ago, I picked up a Selectavision with about 15-20 titles for $10 at a yard sale. (In the pile: Airplane!, Watership Down, about a half-dozen old school Disney shorts [including two discs of Donald Duck]); held on to the thing until I learned a new stylus (the only thing needed) was going to run $75. …

Saturn had some fucking AWESOME games (NiGHTS, Panzer Dragoon, Burning Rangers, and far superior versions of Children of the Atom and Castlevania- Symphony of the Night). In fact, to this day, 9 times out of 10, I'm more likely to pick up my Saturn controller than any other controller in my house. (Warning: It…

A few of my friends picked up MD discs and recorders seemingly in bulk at the end of their (the product's) life. It's a ridiculously-easy way for them to do a line-out recording of whatever gig they're playing that they want to capture.

Just wanna throw in my two-cents in the hope of a NGE write-up in the future. Still an amazing series (I feel), and I'd love to see a critic try and tackle something as insanely multilayered as that show is. But then you also have to write up at least Death/Rebirth/End as well (and then the question becomes "Do we…

LOVED that bit….the various Doctors were a nice touch, However, did I imagine it, or did I at one point catch John Smith saying something to the effect of "reverse the jelly baby of the neutron flow" as well?