Well yeah, Ricky Gervais created Extras, a show (with the willing participation of some very famous people) that is basically the anti-Entourage, along with Party Down. Did anyone at the Press expect him to play it safe? He had an episode about the idiocy of Holocaust films, for fucks sake.

rdj propositioning the women makes sense if you look at his tony stark role: fun, quick-witted womanizing playboy. he's just doing the role that gave him a comeback, so lighten up.

hey
johnny depp seemed to think the tourist jokes were funny (although he may have been just trying to kill gervais using his mind.)

pee wee
and andy samberg were hilarious together. And Anderson Cooper sitting on Chairy: "get the fuck off me!" demented weirdness.

i just took your wallet! you still want to be a supervillain?

best parody of scared straight
from venture brothers: "you think you're hot shit, but you're really cold diarrhea in a dixie cup!"

Jeez, I forgot she was in Being John Malkovich, she was great. Gangs of New York she's not bad in at all, she holds her own (I kind of want to see the directors cut Scorsese apparently has in his archives).

"that shit was real? i thought it was just a movie."

This movie's so confusing, Kennedys possessed, he's not possessed, that rack better be stacked!

its
not a sure shot. i apologize, i had to do that

Greg Ginn is a genius, but a total dick;

trakball: ive always been curious about how mould got that AMAZING guitar sound , sort of like a dozen chainsaws revving, bees buzzing and folk rock guitarists howling. ive tried to find out if it was his playing, or the amps, but i couldnt find it in interviews. maybe ill check again.

fair enough, but i think azarrad is charting the development of "alternative rock" until it becomes a mainstream thing. it's a good tentpole to build a book around, these guys like the mats and dinosaur jr. who almost make it, almost have a hit but never quite get there.

mumford and sons is for douchey college kids.

most of these books suck, which is why i enjoy the power of libraries: reading stupid rock books without spending money.

i'd argue that as much as mould was a more "realistic" songwriter hart wrote the best husker du song "pink turns to blue".

try
playing "i'll feel a whole lot better" by the byrds, then "don't wanna know if you are lonely." these really angry relationship songs decades apart, but the same structure and the same feelings.

man
it's criminal that husker du's discography hasn't been reissued with new songs, remastering, etc. considering how amazing mould's guitars still sound, a piercing clanging wall of thrash. as much as music geeks will bitch about reissues where songs are left out, etc. they also keep bands alive. hopefully mould and…

favorite lines
"ssshh..inside voices"…
"it's not possible that you're still standing, but somehow you do"
"my playdate cancelled, so i was wide open."

good episode
i like carm bringing up charmaine's "i slept with tony" thing years later, so spiteful. but tony's heartbroken, quiet stare at the fish that his daughter got him is so damn sad. like the scene in season 6 (and this theme popped up more in season 6) where he finds a tooth from a violent encounter embedded…