I've only read two of them, but from what I gather the premise can vary from one to the next.  For example, the one on "In Utero" was a pretty straightforward chronology of the events prior during, and immediately after the recording of that album.

I'll definitely read "The Lady in the Lake"; I don't plan on skipping the next two and never reading them.  The first three books had basically no continuity to them, so I wanted to make sure there wasn't any reason I had to read TLITL and TLS first.

I recently finished Raymond Chandler's The High Window.  So far I've been going through the Philip Marlowe stories in order, but I'm thinking of jumping straight to The Long Goodbye next.  Any reason not to?

If you're looking for a newer band that sounds similar to the old SST bands, I'd recommend checking out Milk Music.  So far I think they only have a six song EP, but they draw some comparisons to bands like Dino Jr. or Soundgarden.  Their sound might skew closer to grunge than hardcore, but it might still be worth…

IT Crowd for sure. I'm kind of amazed that the AVC hasn't done Blackadder yet, and Black Books would be nice too.

Both YLT and Belle & Sebastian are playing the same day at Bunbury Festival as well.  Along with The National!

YLT is fantastic live.  Kaplan was insane when I saw them as well.

Speaking of budget, one thing that stuck out glaringly to me this week:  they re-used a zombie.  During the prison scene attack, the Governor at one point stops shooting, turns behind him, and nonchalantly caps a male, flannel-wearing zombie in the head.  Then, not a minute later, that exact same zombie is shown very…

"It's not the Stig, but it is the Stig's zombie apocalypse cousin!"

Did not even know Will Oldham had another album in the pipeline.  I'll have to check this out.

Completely agree.  Jubilee Street and Higgs Boson Blues are my favorites thus far.

"But it’s also true that the last original member to leave, multi-instrumentalist Mick Harvey, was in many ways the backbone of the band—as well as Cave’s right-hand man, a relationship that stretched all the way back to the ’70s and their previous outfits The Boys Next Door and The Birthday Party."

Yeah I'm fortunate enough to have a great library where I live.  As long as it's a movie that I don't mind watching on DVD instead of Blu-Ray, I'm good to go.  And for Blu-Ray, I have Netflix.

Yep, some girl talked into it like it was a microphone.  That was… something.

I just watched the original Hara-Kiri for the first time a few weeks ago.  I need to get around to seeing the remake soon.

What really kills me about Hulu Plus is that it costs money but they still make you watch commercials.  No thanks.

Read all of When the Women Come Out to Dance, which is the first Elmore Leonard book I've read.  I chose it because I love Justified and I wanted to read the source story, "Fire in the Hole".  A few of the stories were really good, and none were bad.  The main character of the "Tenkiller" story was a little too…

I re-listened to the new Soundgarden last week after not hearing it for some months.  I was disappointed to find I liked it a lot less than I remembered.

I should re-watch them all soon, but series 4 always stuck out the most to me (due in no small part to that final episode, I'm sure).

A lot of people seem to consider it a weaker Wes Anderson movie, but I've always liked it a lot.