There are two things that I came away with after seeing "Death Proof:"
Thinking "Hold Tight" was the best song used in the film
Inspiring me to seek out "Vanishing Point"

"The eagle picks my eye

"Blood on the Tracks" was the first Dylan album I got into outside of the familiar 60s songs that I had on the first volume of "Greatest Hits."
I bought it on cassette, say circa 1987 and the song order is different than it was on the vinyl album (or CD, which I now have as well). "Tangled Up in Blue" will always be a…

"I didn't do nothin'." ***BURP***
*I didn't check all the comments to see if this was already used and even if it was, don't have a cow, man.

Having recently got into watching the series "Justified," I am going back to the Elmore Leonard stories with Raylan Givens. This month it is "Pronto," the first novel with that character. (Three months ago I read the short story "Fire in the Hole," the basis for the "Justifed" pilot episode.

The Big Lebowski:
"He fixes the cable?"
Just thinking about that line makes me crack up.

Turned out the two most carefree years of my life were spent at the U of I…*

I'm sure XRT was still playing new Old 97s songs when the "Satellite Rides" album came out in 2001. IIRC, that's when I heard "King of All The World" and possibly "Designs on You." It was the first 97s album that I bought.

Always safer to go with a talk show host over being questioned by a real reporter.
Can only imagine what would happen if, say, James Risen or Jeremy Scahill or heck even Matt Taibbi were to interview the president.

I'm not going to defend everything that Paul McCartney has ever done post-Beatles, and I am not in any way a fan of "Wonderful Christmastime" but I don't think it would even enter my top 10 of bad McCartney songs. Thankfully there is only about four weeks out of the year that I even have to hear it.

"Let it Be" vs. "Let it Be"
Actually, I've never even heard the non-1970 version of "Let it Be."

No, it has never been made explicit that Rod and Todd do not attend Springfield Elementary. I always took it that they did, and pointed that out in a long ago comment in another Simpsons thread about the inconsistencies of the Simpsons universe.

Doesn't seem to have had much luck with that over 25 seasons, has he?

***Started reading "Perfidia", the latest novel from James Ellroy. Gone is that staccato, rat-a-tat-tat style of "The Cold Six Thousand" and "Blood's a Rover" with Ellroy back to writing real paragraphs. Enjoying the sections on Kay Lake and (future Los Angeles Police Chief) Bill Parker the best. The Dudley Smith…

Isn't it odd that if Rod and Todd don't go to Springfield Elementary that Ned is so involved with the school?

I visited Legacy Effects last year and saw this dinosaur. Of course, I couldn't write anything about it because of an NDA but there was plenty of other stuff to see and write about, like the Robocops and the pieces to the "Iron Man" suit.

I was at Ringo's ceremony and the (posthumous) one for George Harrison the year before that. I knew someone who used to work for the Hollywood chamber and they were able to get me in within the metal barriers for Ringo's ceremony.

Getting some reading done:
Close to finishing "The Talisman." Not one of Stephen King's stronger efforts. I can see why I haven't read it since first published back in 1984.
"The Martian" - now this book defines page turner. I don't know if all the science adds up but I am willing to suspend my disbelief. Finished…

Saw "Jurassic World." Maybe it's because I saw it in IMAX 3D but I found it fun, entertaining and edge of the seat suspenseful in the scenes with Indominus Rex. True, it doesn't have the wonder of the first JP but blows the second and third sequels away. Nice call backs to the original, and even a quick scene borrowed…

Or dig up the conspiracy theory that Ronald Reagan had the CIA kill John Lennon…