Wouldn't be the AV Club without someone making the brilliant observation that time changes us all. If they still looked like they did when Priest Driven Ambulance came out, the comments would be about their plastic surgery and wigs.

Well, I do think the best way to get someone to listen to Big Black is to play "Kerosene" for its lyrical accessibility and monster hook. A gateway song if not album.

One of the weirder things Albini did as a producer was to get in his studio with Cheap Trick in 1997 and re-record their record "In Color." I don't think it was released but apparently the band had hated their old record's sound and Albii was a fan. I got a copy and it's it's pretty great. The band sounds insane,…

That sound technique
"But I can't recall encountering that technique again in the nearly two decades since. It's the kind of striking, inspired detail you never forget"

Yeah, but my brother pointed out a continuity problem at the end when the studio boss who's gone into the Army is chewing Fink out over his script. The medals on his chest move around from cut to cut.

Icelandic salty licorice is maybe too much of a good thing. Whew. The Swedish is more palatable. I will confess to having an Icelandic music fetish: Singapore Sling, Mugison, Trabant, Bjork and Sigur Ros have little in common but I oddly love 'em all.

Ice Station Zebra! Damn straight. Is liking anything that has Patrick McGoohan a subgenre? he man brought the intensity. I think he could have asked "Pass the salt, please," and the burning weirdness would have come across in his delivery.

When you hope to make any money in music — let alone profit — you are hoping to sell out. Only the truly dedicated can succeed. Lord knows I tried.

First it's nice to see actual rational discussion here. Thanks! But second, the "left" in the US NEEDS a valid "right" and as so many have pointed out, those who like a more classical form of conservatism, stressing small government, intellectual rigor, and la less interventionist foreign policy, no longer have a…

Oh, Klaus. Bradford told me the same story… I think he was pretty het up about that incident for a long time. It would have been fun to see Corgan and Cox in a fistfight. Does Mister Cox count as a celebrity yet?

Ha, reminds me of when I was hanging out in a hallway by the bathrooms before a Norah Jones show. This was literally her first show for the tour for her first CD, the one with "Don't Know Why." I had not actually heard the record but my friend Mark wanted to go because a bunch of really noteworthy jazz players were on…

Best naked and/or embarassing celeb encounters?
I've sort of met some "names" from being in shitty bands that opened for good bands, but my best was when I was living in Asheville. Andie McDowell lives there (Rose is her name, Rose something) and I'd see her around town now and then. But one night I'm backstage at a…

Say in with a Russian accent!

That is the BEST age to meet famous people, as long as they are well… Mel Blanc. I met President Carter when I was six and it registered exactly zero to me. Just one of Dad's friends. His wife was nice, I remember.

I think I'd become a jabbering idiot if I were in the same time zone as the lovely Ms. Manson. Tho' I have a habit of being in the same room or at the same party with the famous and not having a clue who they are. I'd probably think she was a waitress.

Very cool story! He seems like an interesting person.

I actually liked that story.

Ooof yes. Machina II had some great stuff but Zeitgiest made me want to set fire to the mp3s. Unlistenable.

It's be nice to have something like that at the Plaza, as the post show entertainment — eating grilled cheese sandwiches at the Majestic and watching transvestites vomit against the plate glass — cannot be beat.

Andy K, was this back when she was at DePaul? My brother's told me things…