My first concert was The Everly Brothers at the Brockton Fair in 1970 or '71. RIP Phil.

Looks like you can get the complete series non-barrel blu ray set through (but not from) Amazon for $179-ish. Don't know how that price compares to suggested retail.

They are out of stock at every Best Buy in my area. That's actually my first choice for where to get it, since I've got a $75 credit there.

This is sort of off-topic, but now that I didn't get the Breaking Bad Complete Series bul-rays for Christmas (thanks for nothing, family), does anyone know why it's not available anywhere? At least, it's not available anywhere that isn't selling it for well above suggested retail ($600? Seriously? I don't think…

That's not really the case is it? I suppose if you can make an explosive device big enough, but things like the Newtown massacre require semi-auto guns for that 100% kill ratio. If that guy had just, say, thrown a grenade into a classroom and moved on, he wouldn't have definitely killed all his victims like shooting…

I really hope that Drexlor an amalgam of some Lovecraftian horror and the guy that Gary Oldman played in True Romance.

I recently met an amazing guitarist who, back in the day, was in a band that actually stated in their promo stuff that they modeled themselves after The Outfield. Man, the '80s were weird.

So does this person think that ZZ Top is a christian group, or is there an actual christian group called ZZzz Top?

My best friend has a serious heart condition (failed triple bypass operation, days in a coma, etc. — the docs all say he could live another 20 years or could die tomorrow). Since finding out he could die any minute, he's been (more of?) an asshole. Most people have been cutting him slack, which leaves it to me to…

Comcast's DVR let's you do it as well, but you have to program a button on the remote. You can google instructions on how.

Mrs. Initiative wanted to see it. Afterwards, she agreed that it was utterly unnecessary, but she's incapable of not finishing things she starts. That's also why we saw every episode of Dexter.

Oh, and I also started reading Nathaniel Philbrick's In the Heart of the Sea.

Got a new, fancy TV on Friday, so I watched mostly big, blockbustery stuff:

As good as Steve Hunter and especially Dick Wagner were, when they played with Alice Cooper, they were just pretending to be Glen Buxton and Michael Bruce (who rarely get the credit they deserve).

EVH solos are the definition of masturbatory. They almost never have rhythm, feel or melody, substituting "look what I can do" for musicality. Having said that, he may be the greatest rhythm guitarist alive.

I love Buck's solo on Seven Screaming Dizbusters from On Your Feet. It's so perfectly captures Buck's style.

The solo on My Sharona is amazing. One of my all time favorites.

I wrote a song with roughly that same riff years before the Papa Roach song came out. When I wrote it, however, it was much slower, as I was stealing it from the main theme from Silence of the Lambs.

Our school rented the film and videotaped it using the most primitive video tape system I've ever seen — the thing was reel-to-reel. Of course, it was 1977 or 8, so at the time, it was the most modern video tape system in existence. I was, thankfully, in the first class that got to see it, so we got to see the film…

Your friend's wife sounds awesome. (Full disclosure: My wife is hot and used to sell sex toys. She does not, however, stalk NKOTB.)