Love Smiley face, that movie sold me on Faris as a real talent.

I think she did.

Well, if it worked for William Faulkner . . .

There's definitely a lot of good fresh material to be mined by focusing on Christy's recovery. Has there been a network sitcom that's focused this much on recovering addicts? Cause it feels new.

Feh, anyway, it's been good to chat with somebody willing to take pop music seriously, if nothing else. We apparently love a lot of the same shit. I think I'm just more into that visceral thing that happens with really primal rock and roll you know? That desperate tension and realease (Strychnine by the Sonics,…

That noir stuff sounds like something I'd really be into I'm definitely gonna check that out.

Do you like rock and roll? They made exquisite rock and roll. Aside from that not much of anything at all.

I think they all consciously try to avoid cliches, break barriers and do something new and different, sure. So did Pablo Picasso. That's, you know, art.

If 'look how great we are' is a turn off for you, why bother with Zep at all?

I haven't read it, but does he get into the scandalous stuff at all? Because that's kind of my problem with authorized biographies. It's understandable that Page et al just want to focus on the music, but if we're not going to get into the hotel orgies and the black magic and the mountains of hard drugs we're not…

[holds four foot inflatable toy blimp at crotch level]

It's innocuous enough. As long as his words don't get in the way. Nobody listens to Zep for the fucking lyrics.

I'm sure he has some interesting stories to tell, but, yeah, for the most part I see him as a preternaturally gifted vocalist. Decidedly not a deep thinker. Unfortunately it doesn't sound like there's anything here that you'd hope to learn if you, for instance, sat and had a beer with the guy for 30 minutes and he…

Same reason The Stones only provided audio interviews for their recent HBO docu. When they're all dead and gone, nobody's going to give a shit what they looked like at 70. It'd just distract from what people are actually interested in.

I actually really enjoyed all the expedition details, as I felt it heightened the tension and made it clearer what was at stake (mostly by reinforcing in a billion little ways just how fucking cold it is!) But once he got heavy into the fantasy / supernatural stuff, ehhhh . . . The less we knew about The Monster…

Well, there's no accounting for taste. The midway point between the pixies and sonic youth a) is pretty damned accurate and b) sounds like my idea of rock and roll perfection. Which tells me you get it, we just have wildly divergent opinions about music. And I'm OK with that.

I'm not going to down vote your comment because I'm philosophically opposed to the whole "down vote" thing. But my God are you ever wrong about this.

Yeah, I get that it changes pace a lot, but there's something about the overall production and "vibe" that just works for me. Might be pure nostalgia I suppose, but i just find that record to be more "of a piece" than any of their other early stuff. And it's short, which is almost always better in a rock record. In…

I guess I'm just equating "passive" with "boring".

It's some serious ball sweat, either way.