I like Turn It Up, but not at the expense of For Tomorrow or Oily Water, for starters. This list might turn out to be premature, since it completely ignored their new album, which sounded pretty good at first listen.

I just discovered that site two weeks ago. I feel out of the Internet loop.

Music: Picked up Broadcast and The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age, which more or less completes my Broadcast collection. Thank you, Warp Records, for rereleasing albums I never thought I'd be able to purchase for a reasonable price. It kind of sucked not being able to listen to Haha Sound for the…

I kind of liked Season 1, but gave up halfway through Season 2. That theme song…ugh. Oh well.

I was pretty sure that wasn't going to be mentioned in the article, but he was pretty good in it. Too bad it looked like a guest part, because a show with Bob Gunton and Walton Goggins (and his beard) as regulars would be one I'd watch at least once.

Nip/Tuck had its moments early on, but in the end it seemed that the people making the show seemed to advocate that it was better to be shallow, rich, and hateful than it was to be fat and/or ugly. It may not have been their intention, but it sure as hell seems like what they really believed.

I liked the bluntness of his answers. And even though he didn't come out and say it, I got the sense that he's not a big fan of Nip/Tuck.

Hopefully John Oates' memoir will show that he, and not Daryl Hall, was the driving force behind the duo's success, and that he was every bit as abusive as "Yacht Rock" made him out to be. "What are you going to do, Sara? Smile?"

Listening to Steven Seagal speak Italian was a high point for me. If I'm not mistaken Dominic Chianese was the lucky actor who got to experience it first hand.

I promised myself that I wouldn't go to any record store this weekend, but naturally I broke that promise. At first glance none of the releases held any interest, but then I saw Steve Reich's "Music for 18 Musicians" and a minute later I broke down and purchased it. I also picked up Broadcast's "The Noise Made by…

I clicked on this link hoping that they'd bring up "Cutter's Way", and I was happy to see it pop up early in the article. I haven't seen it in years, but only because it seems to have vanished from view.

"The Book Lovers" by Broadcast is also on that album. Every time I listen to Broadcast I get a little angry that Trish Keenan died so young.

Most of these cast suggestions are amusing and kind of dumb, but for some reason I can see a pre-Veronica Mars Tina Majorino as Arya. Obviously she wouldn't be as good in the part as Maisie Williams, but the suggestion didn't make me cringe as much as most of the others.

The first thing that popped into my head when Mark Kozelek called The War on Drugs the whitest act going today was that the Red House Painters covered "Silly Love Songs". It doesn't get any more white than that.

Maybe they haven't seen the Seinfeld episode where Elaine tells her boyfriend that "Witchy Woman" should be their song, but the boyfriend tells her that "Desperado" was already his song.

THOR!

Skip Spence looks more like Seth Green than James Franco. I guess Franco could produce the movie.

Funny you should mention Belle & Sebastian. Quietus interviewed Stuart Murdoch a while back, and he mentioned that one of his favorite records was Forever Changes. He also references The Left Banke.

I've always seen "Shiny Happy People" as a gateway song to REM's catalogue. I know a few people that discovered REM because of that song, and ended up as fans of the band. Sometimes a less than great song by a great band can spur others into discovering their superior material.

The scene where Paige changes the channel from the news of Brezhnev's death to a Jeffersons rerun was a pretty neat sound collage. "When Radio Moscow announced that Soviet President Brezhnev died, the reaction of much of the world was…I'm seeing if I can fit under the sofa."