Well, I was alive then but I was nine years old, so…

I love 'Remain In Light.' It's so exquisitely paranoid, among other things.

'Younger Than Yesterday' is such a bang-on excellent album. I feel like it doesn't get as much love as it deserves.

I've held for a while now that Dylan hagiography actively prevents lots of people who might enjoy his music from getting into it in the first place. They're unable to listen to it and appreciate it for what it is because they've been told for too long that they Have to like this, because the man who made it is a God.

An argument I keep encountering…
…is that not only do you not need to have heard of things that happened before you were born, but strangely there's no way you even could have heard of them. I work with a lot of people a good ten to fifteen years younger than me, and I hear this shit all the time. A lighting director…

I suspect this will produce some awesome writing, and simultaneously recognize that just typing that dooms at least Me to endless, crushing failure…

Keerist yes with the Paralell Lines.

Interesting distinction. I always describe 1981 as the year everything changed (and this is at least partially due to my great love of the movie "Urgh! A Music War"), but you're right about '83 being the year the weirdoes took over the big tent.

And thank you for taking a brave stand there, you fearless culture warrior you.

And the other part of the joke being that she is currently too "smart" for MTV. Which happened because of a general dumbing-down of entertainment at large, at least partially due to Lauren Conrad. Or whoever decided it was a good idea to make her famous.

Well yeah, you're probably right about the actual reason why MTV won't put her back on. But it's great that the reason they gave was that her story is too complex. First time she's heard that one, I bet.

You may have missed the point there, Guy.

Oh, Burl! Is Burl here?

This definitely ends up in the Magnificently Appropriate column…
… of methods of punishment for people like Ms. Conrad. Existential comeback of the highest sort.

Why does every troll I've ever seen eventually congratulate themselves on being a troll? It's not like it's a fucking skill.

Men's Ejaculatory Nature Sparks Adumbration?

In 'Ronin,' the establishing shot that lets you know we're in France now has the camera sweeping in over the sea, coming up on a port town. Suddenly, the word "Nice" appears at the bottom of the screen.

I think you mean Mazes and Monsters!
NOT Dungeons and Dragons! This has nothing whatsoever to do with any sort of copyrighted game!

I'll admit I'm out of my depth on this one, but wasn't "The Elder" some sort of New Romantic experiment?
I'm asking. I've never heard the thing.

And you're a closet papist! PROVE ME WRONG!