That seems like a stretch; I interpret it to be a context from which he is saying "This, in a broad sense, is the reason for my general distaste for Led Zeppelin." When people say that they have a "massive chip on their shoulder" about something, that is a self-criticism. (The non-self-critical version is "pet…

If he took all of the lyrics from obscure local area rap songs, and then didn't credit the original writers, that means he stole it. The white/black thing has more to do with authenticity than strictly race; I mean, I think most people would agree that Eminem is more "street" and more of an "authentic rapper" than…

When one human kills another human illegally, they can be charged with murder in the first degree. They can be charged with murder in the second degree. They can be charged with involuntarily manslaughter. There are degrees of charges, that is what I am saying. To say that Laura Bush's crime was the same as Idi…

To be fair, though, Steve Marriott is fairly open that he was trying to sound like a black singer.

I did check, because I am really bored at work. Per Wikipedia (not going to check very hard), it is indeed their shortest album, but that's a bit misleading; their longest single album is less than four minutes longer than "Houses".

"It's not like it was the commercial slam dunk in 1969 that it would end up becoming."

"Many, many people have sought out recordings by artists whose songs got "ripped off" and made purchases or went to live performances that otherwise might never have known who Muddy Waters or Willie Dixon were."

Credited as "traditional" and covers, respectively.

The question isn't whether the artists belatedly made money, the question is how much effort Zeppelin went to to keep them from doing so. When The Rolling Stones covered a song, they generally credited the original writer (I have seen "Love In Vain" credited to Keith Richards in some places, though). When Zeppelin…

Being fair, though, that was a major change in how the law was applied. It isn't as though Led Zeppelin didn't understand about how writing credits work, or the law changed after their recordings were made. Hell, Page knew enough about writing credits to grab sole credit for "Beck's Bolero", which not only was not a…

They're generally talking about a time period when black musicians weren't allowed on television at all, or to play prominent arenas, so that a lot of white artists were able to make a good living off of blatantly imitating specific black singers because most of their audience was unaware of the originals. A lot of…

My favorite story is that Page & Plant used to worship Steve Marriott and the Small Faces, so they ripped off "You Need Lovin'" and made it into "Whole Lotta Love". Marriott's response was something like "Steal away, my children." Years later, it turned out that the Small Faces had basically stolen "You Need Love"…

Actually, the first job Mike did on the show for Saul was track down Walter, a job for which he charged three hours of work and "probably did it in one".

I believe there is a fallacy here; in general, yes, every show gets worse the longer it goes and the more it is tied to its own mythology. It is logical to extend this generalization to spin-offs, depending on how devoted to canon the makers are… but "Breaking Bad" already bucked that trend pretty well — even if you…

Yeah, it's almost like you added the phrase "latter seasons" there to create a straw man claim that people say that the latter seasons of Breaking Bad are a "black comedy".

They didn't even mention SPIDER-MAN, they weren't going to mention OZ.

It's because Kate McKinnon's go-to schtick is to go big eyed and smile weird, and Wiig's most annoying but also probably most often recurring character was Gilly, with the big eyes and the weird smile. Gilly seems to be the basis for almost every McKinnon character (though I do think she is funny as an actress, I…

I think that screenwriting teachers have to deal with enough bad screenplays when they are grading, they don't want to watch them too if they can avoid it.

The thing is, I'm pretty sure that whatever we get of backstory about Jules and Vincent and the Wallaces (other than that Jules used to work with a guy named Jimmie) is all set up in that first scene. And yet I still agree with you.

I agree with you, but usually the theaters are mostly empty for that sort of thing. This was a huge NYC theater with stadium seating and a balcony and it was packed, and the whole place was laughing derisively at the movie. That was the extra thing that kicked it over, say, Catwoman or Southland Tales for me.