As a genuine pinko commie dual American-Canadian citizen (which means, of course, that I support the terrorists), I like Moore precisely because he's not all nicey-nice and worried about what the conservatives might think about him. There aren't that many of those on the left side of the fence, although there are…

Another fan of that LCD Soundsystem/Arcade Fire pairing. I wasn't in the front row, but holy crap on toast what an amazing evening (and almost exactly two years ago, btw….)

I kinda wish that in high school I'd gotten into some of the bands certain of my friends liked (mostly classic 80s alternative/postpunk) rather than simply worshipping Rush.

Swiss Chalet is tasty, but it's rotisserie, not fried. More like Boston Market (wish we had those in Canada).

So is 7 of 9 female? And does she have giant burlap ta-tas?

Exercise One is actually much closer stylistically to the songs on Unknown Pleasures (not coincidentally—they were recorded around the same time in 1979.) Curtis' suicide was not imminent at that point. While quite dark, the lyrics seem less personal and more detached than the Closer lyrics to me, and like most of…

It wasn't even Will.i.am. It was apparently someone from his entourage.

I don't care if it rains or freezes…..

I'd love to hear it, too, but he apparently is old-fashioned and doesn't just want to put it out on the interwebs. It might be teh fail but it at least would have Peter Hook on bass somewhere, theoretically.

Esoteric, why don't you p**s off?

kingink, you mean Hitler's One Big Ball.

A colleague of mine goes by his last name (fairly common East Indian surname) because his first name is Dikshit.

I've been a New Order fan for decades. But Joy Division didn't click with me until relatively late. I liked a couple of their songs (including Ceremony, which for some reason I always had pegged as a New Order song because it was on a New Order album), loved the Unknown Pleasures album cover, but that was about it. …

PoT also has the Kevin Costner Butt Double. Always wanted to name a band that.

You know, reading this now that the whole LadyDisdain thing has been squashed is much like reading "Garfield without Garfield."

Lemur, I'm with you on the 1980 Olympic Hockey team bits—although Miracle does it for me as well.

You have your choice here in Ontario. You can buy cartons, but if you want to buy a whole buttload of milk, you can buy a bag that contains four 1L individual bags. And you use a 1L pitcher made for that purpose - you put the bag in the pitcher, slice off a corner, and voila.

The current Conservative party in Canada was a marriage between two right-leaning parties, the Reform Party (primarily in Western Canada) and the Progressive Conservatives (primarily an Eastern Canadian phenomenom). The old PCs were generally fiscally conservative, socially liberal. The Reformers were closer to the…

Thing is, no one I know in Toronto refers to the city as T-dot or the Big Smoke or any other suchlike douchebag nickname. You will occasionally hear the term "TO" (although with that other TO now within shouting distance in Buffalo, we'll see) but it's usually just "Tranna".

Remember, they're Canadian. $18.99 is a pretty average new release price for a CD in a brick & mortar store here.