One area I think has merit is that Thicke has a history of ripping off/sampling Marvin Gaye. I use the split, because in some cases, he has credited Gaye as a writer. That's typical as a way of avoiding expensive lawsuits and is usually part and parcel of sampling the work of others.

Thicke is full of shit. I have an MA in Musicology. (Not that you need that to be able to hear the similarities, but I figured I should give bona fides since they sometimes bring in musicologists for these trials) The groove is the same, melody is similar. He's an ass hat, rip-off artist.

I got into the VU my senior year of high school. One of the kids I went to school with was a huge VU and Lou Reed fan. During our sophomore English class we listened to the Reed version of "The Raven." One of the first albums I bought at the record store my first year of college was White Light/White Heat. I also got…

My favorite Krabappel line:

According to her IMDB page, she's in the Captain America sequel.

Showers were optional for my gym class except for when we did the swimming unit and we just showered in our suits.

It might also be because the wedding is taking place over the Memorial Day Weekend, so perhaps leaving the city early was an attempt to avoid traffic.

Paul also credited Ringo with it in a 1984 interview. I'm not surprised the source is under dispute. The Beatles are pretty unreliable when it comes to specifics.

Actually, the working title for Help! was Eight Arms To Hold You. I understand the confusion, Eight Days A Week sounds similar to Eight Arms To Hold You. Eight Days A Week was another Ringo malaproprism, like A Hard Day's Night, which became the title of the first Beatles film, so you might have jumbled those two…

Buenas noches, mein Führer!

A relative of mine used to cut heroin for the mob. They called him Georgy the Hook.

Their complaints might have merit if Italian-Americans were still a marginalized group, but they're now considered white, so charges of racism don't really fly. I'm of southern Italian extract myself. It's not like these stereotypes do anything to hamper my daily life to the same extent of stereotypes of actual…

Really happy that Marty Robbins played a role in the finale. It finally hit me about two weeks ago that "El Paso" might be significant to the last episode. I think it was "To'hajiilee" and "Ozymandias" that did it. The ending of the former reminded me of the last scene of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. And I know…

I got into The 'Mats my freshman year of college. That spring the Rhino reissues of the Twin Tone stuff came out. There was a thread about them on a message board I posted on, so I picked up Let It Be on a few posters recommendations. It ended up soundtrack my last month at school. My first year of college didn't meet…

I'm in trouble.

I'd say "Lawyers, Guns, And Money" by Warren Zevon.

I half expected it to end like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Or with a fade to black with the sounds of gunfire.

"Rene and Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After The War" is a great song. I first heard it in a music history class I took in college. I was a Simon & Garfunkel fan and I'd heard some of Paul Simon's solo stuff, but that song made me want to delve deeper into his discography.

I remember listening to that song for the first time at 4 or 5 in the morning after dropping my grandfather off at the airport. He had come to visit for my brother's high school graduation. Ended up dying about six months later. I was the last person in my family to see him alive (he lived across the country from us).…

I felt that way for a while, because my main exposure was to the biggest hits of the decade, but then I took a class on pop music in the 70s & 80s, started listening to bands featured in Our Band Could Be Your Life and realized how great the 80s was. The popular stuff is pretty damn great and so is all the indie…