Best Beatles cover = "Tomorrow Never Knows" covered by Brian Eno/801.
2nd best = Rolling Stones covering "I Wanna Be Your Man".

1954. Old, and late to this topic. And just about everything makes me feel old. The most recent thing was Wednesday, flipping the channel and came across those two Disney kids singing on the American Idol elimination show, and the boy was wearing a sharkskin suit and skinny tie and trying to look all James Dean/Bobby…

Miley Cyrus might be the daughter of a "star", and a product of the Disney star machine, not really very pretty, and a medium talent (or not quite). But she doesn't seem stupid, and she appears quite self aware, I think. Overall it isn't such a bad combination for success in the entertainment industry; not in front of…

A print of Signs of Life
I think that either Carnegie Mellon University's or the University of Pittsburgh's film studies department has one. I recall seeing it there sometime in the late '70s.

JDL, I have mad envy. The only chance I had to see LJ, I couldn't go. This discussion branch sent me on a 45 minute tour of LJ/McKee, followed by Syd Straw fronting The Golden Palominos at the El Mocambo in '87… this is a must see, btw.

It is depressing to realize that Maria McKee would probably never get anywhere near this far in AI. And that almost none of the people watching American Idol knows who Maria McKee is. Nor India Arie. Nor Wynona Carr, for that matter.

I sort of thought it WAS mean even for Simon, Claire. Mostly because he started by saying he wasn't going to pile on. After having said that, it sounded like he was then cruel to her for his own pleasure. I enjoy him when he's snide and sarcastic, but that was so gratuitous and self serving; his delight in his own…

Anyone notice increased use of the god card this week?
"I pray before I go onstage."
"I say a prayer."
"I teach gospel at church."
"Come to church with me."

And you know what, kudos to Seacrest for that. He felt some real empathy for her. She's the cryer, she was really trying hard to hold it together. And Cowell starts by saying he's not going to say anything meaner, then says the meanest thing he possibly could.

"Misunderestimate"
"I had underestimated you incorrectly, until now; now I can underestimate you the right amount."

"I said it before and I'll say it again - name any pop idol with a noticeable physical deformity. It's the sad truth of the business."

I agree with Simon
It was a mistake to cut paralyzed face girl. There was something about her. She was hot, and could sing, and looked a little crazy. America would have voted for her.

The music staopped resonating with me. And with the reunion tour, it wasn't just that the music had no soul to it, it was again that it didn't speak to me any more.

I stopped smoking weed when I was 26. About 7 years later, I was in Jamaica, and I decided what the heck, let's give it a go. Your description is perfect: it made my heart pound, and I felt nervous and anxious and awkward. I don't know any potheads any more.

I was much older than high school when those movies came out. They were still awesome on first viewing, even at lat 30s/early 40s. You had good taste in action movies as a teenager, is all.

I was thinking about Asimov as well. When I was 14, everything he wrote was awesome. When I re-read the Foundation Trilogy years later, it seemed really stupid.

I hate to say it, but
The Velvet Underground. I remember looking at the records in the local hippie record store, and wondering what they sounded like, but still buying Beatles records because a 14 year old's entertainment budget is pretty much limited to the $5/week allowance. When I went away to college, I heard…

Just my opinion
I'd take off WALL-E and put on "In Bruges". I don't get the WALL-E love, sorry.

THANK YOU.
Thank you so much for this entry. For years I have been trying to tell people about this amazing singer. Most of his '70s and '80's stuff is hard to find, but a good place to start is his final [i]Live at Billy Bob's[/i]; just about everything worth hearing is there, except "(A Case of the) Blue Ribbon…

For 26 episodes it streaked across the tube and then vanished.
Buffalo Bill. Never before, never since has anything on American TV been as uncomfortably funny. Maybe that one episode of The Office; the dinner party episode. Otherwise, it's Buffalo Bill.