You should stick to using the word "to" more often. Perhaps this is a comment you can't engage with because you find it a tad unlikable or hard to sympathize with?  I apologize, I should have been telling you how smart you are and tried to have your babies.

I think all the people whining about how they don't want to be BFFs with the characters in movies from people like Lena Dunham, Whit Stillman, Noah Baumbach, etc., should stick with their soap operas and leave films to the adults.

Ha! That onion article is great.

Also, nearly everything released by Royal Trux related acts (and I think this is especially true of Neil Hagerty's stuff) is immediately panned by the professional press, yet years on, those same releases are used as excuses to crap on whatever the current album is.  For Neil Hagerty (the male half of Royal Trux) so…

What can I say? I've recently been enjoying the format of the letters to the editor in The Economist.  Sweeping generalizations, willful misconstruction, and character assassination can all be tolerated, but there is no reason to be impolite.

Ignore the review.  This is by far the best album I've heard yet this year.  It sounds like a combination of Ted Nugent and New Kids On The Block, or if Prince had hired Motley Crue to perform the Batman soundtrack.  A surprising and brave juxtaposition of sounds with little to no precedent.  And somehow it sounds…

Audio-Technica makes the best cheap turntables on the market.  They have a belt driven one with a built in pre-amp that is surprisingly good-sounding for something that you can buy for $100 or less.  Sure it's a plastic platter, but it doesn't skip around as you describe.  Or if you have some more money to spend,…

If it was I didn't read it.  I was close to writing "white people" instead of country fans, but really most white people are too up on hip hop for that to make much sense.  If someone else came up with the same thing, I'm not surprised, because it is that obviously terrible.

When I read the initial reviews I think Tyler's music was described as a kid with a cool voice rapping over spooky John Carpenter soundtrack-ish samples.  Imagine my surprise when it turned out to be some average sounding teenager whining about his dad over the sound of a washing machine being hit randomly with a…

Art Garfunkel sang like an angel, man.  And I'd take any Simon & Garfunkel record over any Simon solo album. Not saying Paul alone is bad, but Simon & Garfunkel were great, and Paul Simon back then was actually the closest thing to an American Bert Jansch there was.  He really let his guitar playing skills atrophy…

If the Stranger is considered great, why do I have like 5 copies sitting untouched in the dollar bin at my record store?  Also, Graceland's okay, but Rhythm of the Saints is better, and the self-titled first solo album is better still.

If it's so easy to make a beautiful movie, why on earth is every new Hollywood comedy attaining purer and purer levels of digital ugliness?

This woman was so awkwardly beautiful in her prime, just a wonderful presence.  Maybe close to being a Shelley Duvall for the nineteen eighties.

"Trans" is 2/3 of a great record, which is better than "Ragged Glory" (1/2 of a great record), and especially "Freedom (the home of "Rocking in the Free World" and 1/7 a kinda good record).  No joke, I'd much rather listen to Trans than those other two.  "Computer Age" is an awesome song.

Well let's just say Neil's disguise for "Everybody's Rockin" was very very effective.

Icky grammar
Listen, I know it's technically correct, but "band name"/its is never going to read as well as "band name"/their. Bands are made up of people, and grammatically implying they are not gives a whole Kafka-esque spin whenever you want to talk about the Beatles.

Seriously
Okay Bill, so maybe you've already thought about the whole touring thing blah blah blah. But come on, a series of stripped down new records of just Bill and his guitar and/or piano a la Johnny Cash's American series. Have you thought of that? Because it'd be just about the best thing ever. I'm willing to…

Awful title
There have been some pretty great country music movies out there. Altman's "Nashville" is the obvious one, but I personally prefer Alan Rudolph's "Songwriter." Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, and Rip Torn are quite a trio to have as leads, and the whole thing breathes authenticity. This movie, on the…

Record of the year
This is number one for 2010 for me, no question. Sure, the last three songs may be the best on the record, but that speaks a lot more to the quality of those three than any lack in the others. And saying that some of the stuff on the Congress EP was stronger isn't really the dig it seems like—I've…

I'm looking at the soundtrack LP right now, and Isham is credited with trumpet, saxophone & electronics. Pee Wee Ellis is also credited with saxaphone as well, so there's definitely sax on it, not just muted trumpet.