Late Career
Has there ever been another artist who was relevant in his youth and then turned around and made such great albums in his advanced years? The Rolling Stones turned to shit. Springsteen has made some good records, but they don't equal Darkness or Born to Run and I would argue that Love and Theft or Time Out…

Wasted Talent?
Is Harper the most talented guy we can think of (good singer, great player, unique twist with the lap steel, wrote some pretty decent songs) who somehow just never seems to put out a great album? I like everything about him in theory, but somehow I listen to the albums twice and never hear them again ….

For me, Man in the Long Black Coat (or anything on Oh Mercy), Highway 61 Revisited (especially live with Al Kooper tearin' that shit up), Not Dark Yet, Mississippi ….. can't think of another artist who was so relevant when he was younger who then put together 4 or 5 albums like this so late in his carrer.

I always wondered what happened to Neelix. I have always traveled a lot and one time i jsut came back and Neeelix wasn't on the show anymore.

Really? Today, guys sit in vans in Las Vegas and use what is basically a playstation controller to fly remote-control drones over Pakistana nd Afghanistan where, invariably, they kill more civilians than they do "terrorists." During the active part of the Iraq war, guys got up in Missouri, drove to work, flew B-2s to…

I remember walking out of Generations thinking "So, Picard and Kirk are in the Nexus and if they succeed they get out and save the Universe, but if they fail, they go right back in the Nexus where they can try again, and again, again. Hmmmmm …. seems they's have to get it right eventually."

I watched a few of the first season TNGs recently and … holy shit …. much worse than I remembered. OTOH, I watched the last 4 seasons of DS9 (while stuck in a place with no TV or movies for a few months) a couple years back and they held up great. All of the long form story-telling today from Lost to BSG seems to owe…

Doesn't it say something if one looks at grotesque, money-obsessed Ferengi and sees a Jew? Honestly, I watched every episode of TNG and DS9 and it never once occured to me.

And …. I can't believe no one else has brought this up, but isn't the best episode of TOS "Mirror, Mirror"? Spock's Beard>all seventy something other episodes.

It coulb be conservative at times, but it was a very odd - unrecognizable by today's meanings even - sort of coservatism. Very in favor of diversity, isually non-violent, but always very pro-American, seeing America as the birthplace of these ideals, therefore American (i.e. Federation) violence was usually ok as it…

"I put it across in snotty joke fashion but now I'm genuinely interested in what, if anything, LA might have that would make for a good, interesting, recognizeable movie backdrop that you couldn't find on the outskirts of 6000 towns all across America. "

Runnin' down a dream did indeed rock? But, seriously, what the hell is that on Mike campbells' head? A string of dead rats?

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What the hell happened?
I listen to the new albums and there are solid songs there. I thought, as is usually the case, there was a truly great single album lurking in the 3 CD set he just released but the songs just don't stick with me. I enjoyed it listening to it, but I truly cannot remember a single song from it…

That story Eddie Murphy's brother told onthe Chapelle show still cracks me up ….

I have always wondered that also. There was one interview in guitar player years ago but mostly he seems not to be talked about for that. He gets credit among guitar players, i.e., when you mention him to people thay always say he's great but he never seems to make it on to best player lists. He can flat-out play…

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Concur … you ahve the best ones. I was going to write that Decoration Day was great, but looking at track lists, DD has Hell No I aint Happy and Sinkhole as two I love. B and C has World of Hurt, Aftermath, Feb 14th and Aftemath so I think I actually ahve to give it the nod.

I saw them in Charlottesville with the Avett Brothers and they blew the roof off the place. Well, it was only a tent but you ge the point. They were incredible. Great cover of Rockin' in the free world, 18 wheels of love with a story twice as long as the normal version, Let Ther be Rock, etc. Definitely in my top ten…

I like Edelstein. I often don't agree with him but he has an interesting opinion and expresses it clearly and, generally, has a consistent point of view about what he likes and doesn't. Therfore, I can often see a film from a negative review because I know what he doesn't like.