For all its faults (and there are plenty) that movie does have Thornton disguising himself as several different iterations of Neil Young. I found it pretty entertaining just for that.

Um, no. Hearsay is when you repeat the statements or accusations of others. "She told me that Bill Cosby raped her" is hearsay and can't be used as evidence in a criminal court (it might be acceptable in a civil suit; I'm not really familiar with civil rules of evidence, but they're often looser than in criminal…

I think they're on Bass Girl 3.0 at this point. Melissa Auf der Maur played with them after D'arcy left.

But the genius here is the inverse: nothing's art unless someone's there to tell us it is. I realize that's a first-order corollary to Duchamp's point but it's still interesting to put it in those terms.

I'll just leave this here because it deserves to be said every time the guy comes up: James Blunt saved the world in the nineties. About 200 Russians were occupying Pristina airport in Bosnia and, in his capacity as Supreme Allied Commander, Wes Clark ordered British and French paratroopers to take the airport - by…

I hope they hire Kate Beaton as a script doctor:
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Should we be talking about this? I really don't think we're supposed to be talking about this.

For all that Manhattanites consider themselves worldly and sophisticated, they are often the most provincial people on Earth. The outer-borough renaissance has got them to rediscover Queens and Brooklyn (mostly because rent's too expensive in Manhattan for anyone who's taking real risks these days), but they still…

Does anyone know if they've secured the rights to Love Goes to Buildings on Fire from a few years ago? Fantastic book that looked at punk, disco, early hip hop, the loft jazz scene, and a bunch of other stuff. It could really make the basis for a great sprawling, ensemble show.

Sorry, the Pogues. Who he featured pretty prominently in the Wire.

David Simon of the Wire is working on it. I think it's going to be more biopic than you're describing, but it's happening.

Even better were all of the A&R guys roaming the country looking to find the "next Seattle." For a few weeks in 1994, Columbus, Ohio was full of record label junior executives who were convinced they'd found some new sound. From what I've heard, lots of other cities went through the same phase throughout the '90s.

I was home alone the day that Joe Strummer died and spent the whole day listening to the local alt rock station, which was playing three or four Clash songs an hour. I distinctly remember "Spanish Bombs" being the moment when I thought "Okay, I need to pick up a copy of London Calling." I think I got it the next day…

Except that computer thing has always bothered me. The show made a big point of how the day that Stan needed these reports, the FBI has just installed a computer to replace the file cabinet that Stan could've just rifled through by himself. There's got to be some kind of record that Stan printed that stuff out.

I doubt individual soldiers were any better or worse on one side or the other, so in that sense your grandfather is almost certainly correct. But the Japanese brass had a policy of horrible atrocities that @redsxfenway:disqus is alluding to and some of those higher-level commanders are honored at Yasukuni.

Has any actress ever played a drag impersonator of herself in a movie? Because that's what Kirstie Alley looks like in all of the promo stills for this show (ex: http://www.imdb.com/media/r… ). I know 30 Rock did something like that with Jenna's character at some point, but I'm talking a cameo where J.Lo or someone…

I can't stand his music either, but it's hard to hate on James Blunt, considering he did prevent World War Three that one time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

Both of the Shins' first two albums, plus I think the third one.

Real Wildling like!

Not that they're necessary exclusive, but is there anyone who believes that @avclub-e57f718840a576abbb40a7d046c4e3b0:disqus isn't the Gilgo Killer?