He tried to do his best, but he could not.

Yo La Tengo loves them some ba ba ba ba's. It's great to see someone else single out "Slaves and Bulldozers," Cornell's vocal on that is just beyond. And as for my stance on Crazy Horse harmonies…

Sci-fi mixtape
This sounds rather like a dozen or so sci-fi novels and concepts put in a blender. Instead of getting the best of everything, you just end up with sludge.

If Klaus Kinski taking that motherfucker's head off in Aguirre: The Wrath of God is not pure ownage, I do not know what is.

@ taint

Something Wicked This Way Comes
Is anyone else annoyed by the fact that these carnies pretty much stepped off the page of Something Wicked This Way Comes, and that the Samuel character essentially IS Mr. Dark, tattoo powers and all?

My ex-girlfriend
Fucked her guitarist. Just thought I'd put that out there.

Oh man. Wu-Tang. Now there's something I needed to get into earlier.

Definitely would have loved Mr. Show when I was younger, only really caught up with it last year. I was into Monty Python from a young age so it would have been right up my alley.

Origin of Symmetry is a good record, esp. if you are a guitar nerd and like bombastic 70's prog and hard rock. I mean, it has a song called "Space Dementia." C'mon!

Yeah, I agree that the long songs on Visiter are the best, esp. "Jodi" and "Paint the Rust," which are easily the highlights. These guys are exceedingly awesome live, and the heavy drums and fast fingerpicking are even more exciting. Their encore was kind of like hearing all of Led Zeppelin III over the course of a…

Would you call Tom Petty "Jim"?

Shit, I have been proven utterly wrong and he's heard on the Velvet Underground Live at Max's Kansas City. Apparently this is what I get for using a fragmented oral history (Please Kill Me) as a reference and guessing from there. The stuff about usage of "Jim" I will stand by, though I will acknowledge that the…

I heard that "Jim" was a kind of jive thing adopted by downtown bohemians, a holdover from the fifties. Saying "so and so, Jim" was kind of like "so and so, Jack," sort of a generic term like dude or man. And Jim Carroll had some Factory associations but he wasn't a regular during the Velvets era. Also, by the time…

I'm imagining the line "Don stepped outside…" in a Liverpool accent. Glorious.

"Have a good time…all the time."

I sat Robin Givens at the restaurant I used to work at.

Also forgot I had dinner once with David Sedaris (and a couple other non-famous people), and he is both modest and hilarious in casual conversation.

Irving Walsh = Irvine Welsh's non-union Mexican equivalent.

You gotta be fucking kidding me.