Impossible Germany would be a great song if it weren't so tossed off and half-baked lyrically and melodically. The instrumental parts are nice and Nels Cline's guitar is as good as ever, but a lot of that song feels to me like the rest of the album - a little bit pat.

Metallica fandom and drinking in the woods. Nature in harmony.

And Mike Patton's inexplicable boxing gloves in a few shots. He punches himself in the head.

I had a similar experience. I think Jack White has kinda run out of steam (as I kind of always expected he would) but there were a few years where those guys had pretty much no competition as my favorite current band. I've seen them three times, and I am the kind of annoying douche who goes around saying stuff like…

Right after Renner screamed at him "BUT GODDAMMIT I GET RESULTS"

In reference to Katherine Bigelow being a hardass and married to James Cameron at one point. Not to your Keanu/Matrix comment.

Holy shit, I totally forgot about Krippendorf's Tribe. I saw that in theaters at a very young age, and that movie has the stench of death all over it. I think it was doomed from the moment they decided to call it "Krippendorf's Tribe."

Frailty is a ridiculous, ridiculous movie. I don't think it's a piece of shit, but it is most certainly a fiasco. The ending makes no sense, or if it does make sense it does so in the most credibility-straining, ludicrous way possible. And does anyone remember that the axe had the name OTIS carved in it? What the FUCK…

Hey hey ho ho this penis party's got to go.

"Vasquez, you ever been mistaken for a man?"
"No. Have you?"

The ending of Near Dark does *somewhat* invalidate all that which came before it. However, the motel shootout, and the bar scene, dear god, the bar scene. That is one of the single most effective sequences I've seen in a film, no bullshit. It's NOTE PERFECT in every respect, and Bill Paxton is just out of control. So,…

I'm gonna come back and check on you and yo' momma, and if you can't give me a reason why you don't like clowns, I'm gonna kill your whole fuckin family!

They are pentatonic dudes through and through. I think maybe what he was getting at was that Barlow tends to play melodic lines that kind of stick out (especially since he plays with a pick) and work as counter-melodies to what Mascis plays/sings. That might make them sound minor to someone without a background in…

Me Dicks Hard is ripping off something Lester Bangs once said about Felix Pappalardi and Leslie West from Mountain. It definitely applies here, though.

Not only would I pay to see that movie, I would do everything in my power to work on the set with the purpose of observing Crispin Glover in the wild.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRTTT STAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR

I feel that way about so much shit these days. Two, MAYBE three good singles and the the rest of the album is just utter shit. I know people want to go ahead and get their shit out there, but jesus christ, people, can we work up a full set of solid songs before releasing an album puh-leeze? And maybe learn to play…

Black Mountain does 70's guitar rock and takes it to original places. Wolfmother is cliche city. Only slightly removed from Jet, really. And I'll take some "gay ass shit" like Grizzly Bear over a collection of reheated, just-add-water insta-Zep riffs. Fun to play on Guitar Hero does not equate with good music.

I regret saying Dude G. was right about something earlier, cause he sounds like a dick. However, he was totally right about Fever to Tell, which I stand by. He is deeply wrong about metal as a genre.

He is, sad to say, half-right. Show Your Bones is decent, but Fever to Tell trumps anything they've done after it, ditto for the EP, and that's because Karen O's shriek is in fact a lot more interesting than her straight singing voice, which is honestly kinda meh. I wish Nick Zinner would go back to playing guitar…