I had been kind of following the story, but it seems like different sources are reporting different sentences: People.com says he got 29 years, with the 2 kids' mothers getting 15 and 16 years respectively. The BBC, though, is saying he got 35 years, and they got 14 and 17 years. I mean, either way, he'll be lucky…

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Really? Because I was pretty sure it was "Women and Children First". I mean, "Fair Warning" is pretty great, but you don't have DLR mumbling stuff about moonbeams in the lyrics to "Mean Streets".

This just made me want a thing I didn't know I wanted at all: that being, can we get a Christopher Lee album of Polkadot Cadaver covers?

Even though it really is kind of a terrible movie, Man With The Golden Gun was my favorite Bond flick as a kid. In fact, if you'd asked me for my top three, they would have been that, View To A Kill and Diamonds Are Forever.

Not necessarily that song (as awesome as it is), but I said to my wife at one point, "If 'The Clash At Demonhead' were an actual band, I would buy every one of their albums." I've yet to actually pay for a Metric album, but I am at the very least aware that they exist now.

This movie actually feeds into a rather lengthy theory I've had on Muppet movies wherein, essentially, the "standard 'Rich and Famous' contract" they sign in the first film (or rather, within the story of the first film) is basically a five-picture deal, which allows for the making of the film-within-the-film of The…

Up-voted for the Caravan of Courage reference alone.

Spamalot was hardly the first stab from Eric at that sweet, sweet Python money. My best friend and I, in high school, drove 3.5 hours to see "Eric Idle Exploits Monty Python" at the Chicago Theater. It was a great performance, but where new material is concerned: it always kind of strikes me as a Police or a…

Add in the fact that he did seem, to a degree at least, enjoy playing with gender identity (how many different images can you find by doing a GIS for "Kurt Cobain in a dress"?), and you're very likely onto something here.

To be fair, if you woke up one day and realized that, on top of all the pain you are constantly in, you're married to Courtney Love, and neither one of those things is going away, you'd probably shoot yourself, too.

"If they have more than 2 good singles, buy the album" was the rule that got me through most of high school (though, towards the end of the 90s it got bumped up to 3 good singles: it felt like there were suddenly a ton of bands that learned about the 2 single theory, and would drop an album with 2 great songs and 9…

Look, I can understand the band's viewpoint, but too much of Mercury's history has already been super-sanitized, to the point where you would almost believe, reading official literature only, that he was asexual. I know they want to be respectful to him, but 22 years past his death, the best way to be respectful is…

So, we've got this long-standing tradition in my house: Sunday morning, I wake up the rest of the house with side 1 of something from my vinyl collection. I love pulling out Jazz, just because "Mustafa" is an amazing opener. But, at the volume I tend to play stuff at to wake everybody up, I'm always a little…

Nice. Always appreciative of going for a deep cut, (Not that anything of Jazz is particularly deep, but…well, it's neither Bohemian Rhapsody nor We Will Rock You, which seems to be all anyone remembers anymore, thanks to "classic rock radio".)

Zeppelin is going to take both categories they're in, but they really should go to Bowie, who should also be up for Album of the Year. I mean, this time last year, anybody would have told you that, even if Bowie ever did record again, he'd be coasting on fumes and past glories. The fact that an artist can take as…

I read a fascinating theory once that, after Paul made his solo album announcement, John decided to reconvene the band and replace Paul with Klaus Voormann, but for some reason it didn't work out. Can you imagine the strength of that band, had it continued, with George coming into his own as a songwriter at that…

Wait….Benedict Cumberbatch was the fifth Beatle?

So, wait…if LeBron is truly trying to follow Jordan's career, when do we get to see his "mediocre as even a minor league baseball player" phase?

About like you'd expect from a film which the soundtrack contains Seal covering Steve Miller Band, R. Kelly, and Spin Doctors (and those are the three best tracks).