And it will make a serious dent in my wallet. Happy times.

Beyond hope
Rakim: That last album sucked balls and who took the bass out of his voice?
Rushdie: The fatwa understandably destroyed his mind.
P J O'Rourke: Nowadays sounds like a cranky asshat. He used to be a funny asshat.

That Dylan kid
Idiot Wind is the diss track that makes all rappers look like the pussies they are. So I look forward to it being on.

Hex Enduction Hour
My favorite Fall album.

This is a job for Hunter Thompson
who remains stubbornly dead.

Minority opinion here, but I expected this season to be a letdown, and so far it hasn't done much to change that opinion. It just has too many sub-sub-plots and chess pieces to resolve in one season. I am waiting for the inevitable "bang, you're dead" episodes.

So, really this is just nerds be nerding in accordance to their annoying subcultural customs. These ladies don't deserve any more hate than the stupid fanboys.

And thus, the classic Six Feet Under opening sequence comes to life.

To get mothballed usage clown in this piece, anxious is closely related to anxiety. They mean eager.

Damn indeed. Jazzmatazz 1 on the loop today.

Rabin has been inexplicably kind to the Dude who's been coasting since To tha X-Treme. Dude's "signature love for the women" even by rap standards is often straight-up hate.

The End of the Beginning
Was aptly titled. 3:16 was good, but a step down and Murs for President was garbage.

…and it never felt organic
Deserves serious hateration. That expression is worse than ninja suffixes, $7 cupcakes, movies about ninja babies eating designer cupcakes etc.

Please try to articulate. I hate his fiction, especially Man in Full. I am genuinely curious about a different POV.

Slaughterhouse-Five
The introduction as well as the book.

You know what would make this film better?
If they put Spiderman in it.

There are many things to pick / tear apart here, but will stick to the "condescending" biz. The poster wasn't commenting on Animal Farm, but the act of sending a classic to a college-educated person. And if it's brevity you're after, why not stick to his essays, which often surpass their fictional cousins?

Enkidum,
There are many reasons to hate Pi. James Wood who specializes in hit & miss gets it mostly right here.
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v24/n2…

As an underground hiphop douchebag, UMD's appearance here warms my heart.
In other midwestern whitey-related news, Copywrite is also supposed to release an album in 2010. Beats by RJD2, Marco Polo etc.

Amesoeurs is guilty of shoegaze and general non-heavyness (by metal standards), but I liked it.