It's possible that I told myself that to feel like it had been worth the effort it took to read 6000.

They leave in Bud shooting a guy in cold blood, and he is painted more heroically than Exley for it.

the full phrase is "prestige anthology show".

A Blaffair to Rememblack.

Somewhere in the middle of "At War With the Mystics", the amount that I care at all about the Flaming Lips drops waaaaaaay down.

I think it is a throwback to a time period when pop culture was more transitory, before everybody owned everything and had immediate access to it.

I haven't been paying as close attention to the Flaming Lips in the last few years. Is it still an absolute rule without exception that the more famous the song they are covering, the worse their cover will be?

Humble Pie "Drive My Car". And "Rain", kinda. Also maybe "Anna", if that counts. Not so much "We Can Work It Out".

I saw about ten minutes of "Steel" the other day, and I'd swear that whether it was actually a better movie or not, it at least actually understood the point of Superman better.

I'd say you might as well go to White Jazz to find out what happens next, but Big Nowhere (which happens first, and some of which is incorporated into the movie LAC) is also worth it.

I can't agree with this. I don't think Rover would make sense without Cold 6000. But I will say, Blood's a Rover is more great than Cold 6000 is terrible. That is to say, it's worth it.

"Why doesn't McNulty just murder the drug dealers and frame Rawls for it and then take over their business and become rich?"

It's worth seeing him live in person at least once. If nothing else, you get the exact voice and cadence to read his prose in.

Dahlia isn't bad, but it's a less good version of (more or less) the same story he has told several other times. Even Clandestine is a better version.

It is definitely worth reading to inform his later books. You can see how he still has some of the same shallownesses, but he covers them a lot better with style.

I think that the last third of "Blood's a-Rover" would be the best thing Ellroy had ever written if it didn't require reading both the first two-thirds of it and the entirety of "Cool Six Thousand" to follow it.

You remember the season where literally every decision Lord Grantham made was diametrically opposed to whatever could be considered correct in any sense?

I thought — and I may be wrong on this, I am not that big a fan it is just that I came upon them recently so it's fresh in my head — that at the time of the box set, the Third album hadn't had a proper CD release, or something like that, so they wanted to have all the original tracks on it.

Yeah, after #1 Record, I thought I was gonna be a Big Star fan, but the other two albums were a big comedown (to me), so I realized I was actually much more of a Chris Bell fan.

Pretty sure it does have the entirety of the third album (in some order).