American Psquirm
The Patrick Bateman in me would like to point out that Huey Lewis plays harmonica on "Born Fighter", which seems as incongruous as Phil Collins playing percussion on George Harrison's "The Art of Dying".

It's going to be a lot different from Smiley Smile, to answer the OP's question, as the fraction of Smile material that appeared on Smiley Smile was mostly in inferior, rerecorded form.

Wild Honey is a great album, but the production is pretty lacking and muddy-sounding. As the liner notes on the twofer point out, you're not having speaker trouble; that's just the way "Country Air" sounds. It could really do with a remastering.

I hope he recovers so he can go out like Steve Irwin instead, except with a shard of smashed watermelon rind piercing his heart.
What did go through Gallagher's heart as he collapsed was a pang of regret that he'd still left so many things unsaid about gays and Muslims.

I think that this is closer to the truth. It's less that Mike doesn't like the other housemates, but more that they don't like him. He is far and away the shadiest person in the house, despite last night's debate as to who should hold that title. By now, he's probably crossed everyone at least once, and they've caught…

It's particularly amazing that Deena didn't call out the Situation (and I was momentarily impressed with her detective work until realizing that the dogs probably reeked of macho cologne and effeminate facial creams) given how unconvincing his excuse was. He literally said something like "I was asleep the whole time."…

I could have put up with the miscasting of a thin, creepy-looking Ozymandias if he hadn't also sounded like the sinister Republic serial villain he claims not to be. Matthew Goode played the character as simply a malevolent madman, whereas it's more complicated than that. Ozymandias is a utilitarian pragmatist…

"Conspiracy Theory" is worth mentioning if only because many of Mel's subsequent statements have called into question how much of his crazy jibber-jabbering in the movie was actually just acting, and how much was the man himself speaking frankly into the camera. A lot of the scenes where he's in his taxi raving to…

I've never seen her look better, actually. It's probably some combination of the French pop music and her round moon-face, but she reminded me pleasantly of Mitsou.

In addition to her other non-Bridget books, Fielding also co-wrote "Who's Had Who?" a historical "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" kind of thing, except about fucking. I recommend it.

Plus, she's one of the few women who have managed to make jowls sexy.

Seeing the poster for the movie ahead of time must have ruined the movie, though, since you'd go in assuming that the movie was about the invention of the hula hoop that Robbins is brandishing in the picture. When I saw it, I'd never seen the poster, so I was baffled every time he held up the piece of paper with the…

Also surprisingly still alive is Mamie Van Doren. Even more surprising is that, thanks to a regular regimen of plastic surgery, she's still bangable at age 80, in a Madame Tussaud kind of way.

Jane Russell AND Tura Satana gone in the same month …
With penises at half mast, breast men mourn after a sad February.

I'm pretty sure he doesn't HAVE to pay for sex. He LIKES to pay for sex, in that it is (to him) a more honest, no-strings-attached transaction. Hooker shows up, hooker gets Charlie off without complaining about lack of effort on Charlie's part, hooker goes home.

I was expecting Ronnie's dad to look like a larger silverback version of the son: bigger, greying, still jacked but running a little to fat. Instead, he looked kind of like their boss from the Shore Store with a fake mustache. I think we've been played.

I sort of assumed that it wasn't a hologram, but rather, that Ted's phone conjured up Ghost Marshall, who's stayed in touch with Ted despite his untimely demise at the hands of Wendy and Meeker.

All that said, Ronnie's "look at me" approach to cheering up Deena not only made him seem a little more recognizably human but was also much more effective than The Situation's nonsensical spouting of platitudes. I was waiting to hear him say, "A penny saved is a penny earned" and "To be the man, you've got to beat…

I'm only going to say this one more time (until next week):

I didn't even realize Roy was in there. In fact, after the episode, I commented that it was too bad that the only character obvious by his absence was Roy. Where exactly was he?