That’s where I was introduced to Garbage’s “Only Happy When It Rains”!

Country music was a last ditch effort for her to succeed in the music business. She had been singing in St. Louis area rock cover bands like Baywolfe since the 1980's, where she had years of experience singing Heart covers.

It turned out that Downey’s drug problems made him a very rich man. Because he was considered such a huge risk, his contract was written so that he go paid almost entirely on the back end. If the movie failed, he would have walked away with almost nothing, but as it was, he made over 50 million in revenue sharing. The…

That’s an unlovely part of Grohl’s personality...he has a long history of popping off, just ask Courtney Love. He kept poking the bear, and when it came time to make decisions about Nirvana’s music, she absolutely fucked him and Kris, all because he couldn’t stop being a snot to her. Everybody knew she was mentally…

I was always disappointed that they never gave him an episode of Hawaii 5-0 where Kamekona could use his underworld past and connections to be the hero of the day while rescuing some or all of the team from immanent peril.  I think it would have been a really fun one-off.

I was always disappointed that she didn’t have a bigger career in Hollywood. She was wasted in Blow. She was great in the Bourne Identity, but I was super pissed when they killed her off(contrary to the books) since she was the main reason that I watched Bourne anyway. I thought a lot of her European stuff was really…

I watched this at the Tivoli in the St. Louis Loop, then imediately afterward walked down the street to Vintage Vinyl and bought the soundtrack.

I still have my $600 Cannondale R600 road bike from 1996 that I upgraded with Spinergy wheels and converted to triple front chainrings, and have put over 25,000 miles on. My other bike is a 2006 Cannondale R1000 that I bought new for $2,000. They are both more than enough for the Ultramarathon riding I used to do. At…

My mom had a fair amount of biographies of people who were the first to do things, and also books that were like one chapter each devoted to “heroes” like her, Babe Didrikson, Annie Oakley, etc. It was probably one of those. My mom was not a “strident” feminist (She did grow up in a very small town in Alaska, after…

I remember reading about her when I was a kid 45 or 50 years ago, but I have no idea where. I do remember that whatever book/article it was referred to her as “Gertrude”, not Trudy.

Loved the original movie, not even slightly interested in this.

I’m just disappointed they didn’t do it 20 years ago when Chenoweth and Menzel were still young enough to do it. I know Cheno was wanting to film it before it got too late for her.

That is so terrible! I took my 1987 Toyota Tercel wagon to a Test & Tune night once, and it did the quarter mile less than a second slower, and less than 5 mph slower through the traps. If it can barely beat my Tercel wagon grocery getter, it is not deserving of the Camaro name.

Wow. I didn’t know Condor Airlines was still around. We flew on Condor Airlines in 1973 to Frankfurt and back from LA for our 12 week Europe trip that summer. Considering all the churn in that industry in the last 51 years, color me shocked. I remember that we flew them instead of Lufthansa proper because back then…

Not specifically flat-chested, but the whole waif thing in general. He was not only against shapely upper bodies, he did not appear to like shapely lower bodies either. That’s why he hated Charisma Carpenter so much. She offended his idea of what pretty was.

Yes, he was never the White Savior or hero of the story. Toranaga was always the hero of the story. Blackthorne was just our viewpoint, but his function in driving the story was as a catalyst, not the hero.

Yes, there was a whole bit in the novel about Ishido having had his fortune read when he was younger, and having been told he would die a very old man. It’s part of why he was overconfident enough to try to take over. He did die a “very old man”, just not in the way he thought he would.

I definitely got a Yojimbo era Mifune vibe from him...except that unlike Mifune, Yabushige just stepped on one rake after another.

Considering how many rappers have shot each other over words, I fail to see the “playful competition” of it all. More hip-hop artists are murdered by each other every year than in the entirety of Rock, Soul, or Country music history.

Just the final chase scene rescues Death Proof. Honestly, IMO a top 3 or 5 chase scene all time. Zoe Bell was amazing!