I've been vacillating on whether Wilde deserves an Emmy, but her scene walking away from Richie last episode moved the needle to yes, and the laughing/crying with Ingrid in this one has pegged it.

Don't count that out.

That's the spot where I started looking for clues he was dead people.

Yeah. Almost getting rich really turned him bad, didn't it…

You think Jagger is doing plotting? He's probably just helping get clearance and giving his kid pointers on looking craggy and pouty. Scorsese supplied the principal crew and money, and went back to his yurt. But, um, he did also back Boardwalk Empire. So….

PolyGram was going to buy them. Led Zeppelin used them as a beard to get their label to back their spinoff label. They thought Robert Goulet was a huge deal. They're getting all twisted up over a punk band. Of course they're hacks.

She's about 80-20; some of her distraught is a little over the top, and the editing isn't helping because it can linger beyond the point you get the point. (Although the point in the scene with Hannibal is that it has to go long to get on everyone's nerves including Richie's—when he's deliberately trying to let her…

I noticed something while digging into the IMDB entry: just about every episode has been written and directed by a different team. That leads to big differences in tone and pacing and dialogue.

The real musicians/artists are period flavor. The fake ones can be used as real characters with story arcs that change at the producer's whim. They can be made to do things that never really happened, or would get the show sued even if they were based on the truth.

Unless he stumbles onto …. disco ….

And getting darker. Coke was still a boutique drug, herpes and AIDS hadn't been released by the CIA yet, we were still in Viet Nam, Watergate was still an investigation, the mob ran all the basic services in Manhattan (restaurant supply and garbage removal are more key to a city's quality of life and economic health…

He's listed as Executive Music Producer, but he failed to produce any Led Zeppelin music, not even a cover. And we aren't hearing a lot of Stones, either….

We haven't seen what it's like without Duck. Could still be a winner.

You know who else has that problem? Olivia Pope. Billed as being invincible she spent the first season of Scandal getting her ass kicked by everything. But I had to stop watching that show for other reasons related to perfectly good supporting players being assassinated for no reason other than the usual Shonda Rhimes…

No. They had zero noise, huge dynamic range and insane frequency response. Brothers in Arms sold every player it was demoed on. Turntables and tube amps came back because people like the nostalgia and the slightly defeated sound, though not quite Victrola regressive, gives a nostalgic quality.

Only necessary on cheap turntables without adjustable balance.

She said "rockcrits". Just for your card catalog.

Did Lou Reed ever emote that much, much less on stage?

I've just been pointing out I ate a Chipotle burrito, and they realize they may be liable.