Thanks. I made it myself.

But I've gotta say, the ads that make it seem like the movie is about an American DJ saving British rock, what's that all about? Do they really think that U.S. audiences will only watch movies with heroic American heroes saving helpless foreigners?

It's at least above C level
Sure, the movie avoids anything that vaguely looks like a fact, and the number of montages is absurd, and the gender politics are wonky, but a C- is pretty harsh. It's a fun, slight movie with a great soundtrack, a great cast and a closing act that's so shameless in its boomer myth-making…

The Beatles and Lego, you mean.

'"Thirty-eight years of work, and this is the thanks I get?" said Tyler, who was set to retire in just 18 months.'

It's also on the cover, so… probably not a spoiler?

The Barney issue
Hey Noel, did you find it weird that one of the movie's more serious moments is when McGregor talks about how the media turned the Barney thing into a joke, when the movie turns basically makes a joke out of the source material, too? I mean, the movie does have teeth in a lot of places, but that still…

The Colour and the Shape
I always thought that was an incredibly solid album all around, although it probably helps that (outside of Columbia House) it was the first CDs I ever bought, so there's at least a little sentimental attachment. (That's a fact, not a firstie attempt — J HO beat me there)

I'm not the one who did either of the interviews (it was one of our freelancers), but the writer who did the Chad interview has met him a few times before. We're his hometown weekly, so I think he just felt more comfortable all around — he's definitely not big on talking to the press in general.

Shameless plug, but my paper did a similar piece with Women at the start of the year: http://bit.ly/mwFOh
But yeah, would definitely like to see more bands' reactions.

TomWaits: You might want to check out moviereviewintelligence.com. The most ridiculously comprehensive aggregator site I've ever seen (although for some reason it says Benicio Del Toro was in Where the Wild Things Are, so maybe it's less accurate than I think).

You mean…
Not everyone ends every road trip with the entirety of Weezer's blue album?

Bitchcakes: He didn't just tunnel into the one. He spent a decade tunneling into every cell in the solitary block.

Not to give away too much, but it involves some ridiculous fake moustaches.
It's kind of a silly movie.

Foxx definitely isn't the villain (even though the trailer looks that way), and Butler is almost super-villainish at times, so it's not quite as clear-cut as endorsing an eye for an eye. But, even if the movie acknowledges that Butler's character has gone off the deep end, it does seem to sympathize with him to a…

I've always liked that…
the tag line for On the Town was "Twice as gay as Anchors Aweigh!" If I didn't already have a complex about watching old musicals, that'd probably give me one.