"Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown."

Do the Pitchfork critics take bribes?  That's the only plausible explanation I can see for the over-the-top hype around Sleigh Bells.

Cherie Currie still looks pretty good and she turns 52 in a month. 

Roadies don't count.

Weymouth had a miniskirt phase that was pretty awesome.  She had great legs back then.  I remember seeing her on the Letterman show and liking what I saw.

No "You're No Good" or "You're So Vain"?  

Fuck him.  He sold out Rambo.  Never forget, never forgive.

So sad to hear of his iDeath®

Radiohead.  Pretentious as hell, and awesome.   Nothing wrong with being pretentious if you have the talent to back it up.

I don't at all mind bombast and pretension in rock, but when you mix in world-weariness then it starts to grate on me. Tenacious D does a great job of celebrating rock bombast minus the dreary weary I'm-so-sad-and-tired attitude you hear in Floyd sometimes.  70's Sabbath and Bowie were about as bombastic as humanly…

Courtney Love should write a GnR book.  She was never actually in GnR, but she shouldn't let that stop her.

Prohibition created the modern mafia, which gave us The Godfather, Goodfellas, and The Sopranos.   Which means Prohibition was a smashing success.

I don't agree.   It's true Burns favors capturing the vibe and emotional impact of events and eras moreso than dispensing large amounts of information.  But that's fine.  I would bet there's an enormous number of people who were inspired to read some books on the Civil War after watching the Burns documentary.   I'm…

Meh.  I'm kinda lukewarm on the whole penis thing, unless it's Richie's.

I don't know anything about him.  Does he have a penis?

Bryce Dallas Howard is hot, but it's a little weird being sexually attracted to someone who looks so much like Richie Cunningham.  Maybe I was always attracted to Richie and never knew it.

The lyrics in "Everything Counts" are as subtle as a sledgehammer.    Social commentary is cool and all but you have to be at least slightly oblique about it.  "Everything Counts" utterly fails that test.

"Everything counts" is like those fossilized dinosaur droppings you see in museums.   Today it's in a display case and people pay money to stare at it.  70 million years ago it was just a pile of shit.

I'm always skeptical of WAR of players of Pierre's type.  Real sabrmetrics guys like Beane wouldn't touch Pierre with a 10-foot pole.  They don't think of Pierre as average.   Look at what happened when the Dodgers dumped him.  To find a taker the Dodgers had to eat $10.5M of the $18.5M owed him over the next two…

He is a success, financially anyway.  He's made a shitload of money from a career of playing mediocre to bad baseball.  He STILL makes good money.  But as a ballplayer he truly is utterly worthless now, even as a bench player.