I keep trying to write it out in one or two sentences, but it's way too complicated. Some of it involves his insecurity because his fame peaked in the 50s and only echoed through the 60s and 70s (all the musicians list him as an influence but the kids buying their music thought he was a joke). A lot involves his…

That scene suggests strongly that Clark will end up leading his mailroom cohorts in a c-suite mutiny, complete with a cardboard sword and a necktie worn as a headband. When what should happen is they find out in a meeting that he was knifed by a mugger and didn't make it.

"Hot" is okay. "Foxy" was bigger in the disco days, but they're playing loose with chronology, so they could use it liberally and get away with it. Plausibility for it goes way back to the late 60s and Hendrix, and we're looking at the people who should be originating its spread, not lagging on it.

nb. that fripp quote is from a bowie doco that i recorded off mtv over the weekend. i'm not trying to imply that i hang out discussing music philosophy with the guy. even if i did that would be tacky.

Goule_t_. The 't' is irrelevant. Like the rest of the name.

Story of that here: http://www.cmt.com/news/153…

Ehhh, I think he was. Or at least was sincerely trying. Then fate handed him a reality-check. He never had a real shot at Elvis. Even if it hadn't been quashed immediately it would have been Led Zeppelin all over again, with Parker using ACR as a stalking-horse to get RCA to pump Elvis' (or at least his own) cut. Then…

I'm afraid it could just resolve the plot issues yet keep being a dramatic meatloaf.

The king of rock and roll is singing about lettuce!

He loves his kids and cares about his company and the music. And he buys his buddy hookers, and takes huge risks to save everyone.

The cops are the plot. Someone has to pay for Buck. Richie's going to be arrested and somehow all this stuff has to resolve as either Richie gets off due to some miracle or he goes to jail and we get to see what the company was like in the 17 years that Cookie was away from Empire.

Fuck that. Richie is rock 'n roll!

People watch UFC. They pay fifty bucks extra to watch it on their own damn teevee. Unlikable characters and uninteresting storylines don't stop you from hoping for broken noses. And rock and roll "will fuck you up" (got that from Robert Fripp). So there's expectation. Just wish it was met a little more often, with…

I turned off HCF at the lightning incident and didn't go back. And I really wanted to see an episode a week about wire-wrapping and BIOS codes. Did it stop jumping every shark it could invent? Can I go back and watch it? Is it big-endian or little-endian?

Just to get it straight: Him gambling the money away wasn't the asshole part. Zak suggested trying to win it. And Richie had that number stuck in his head and knew he wasn't going to make any money from Stepford Elvis. That was stupid, but it wasn't asshole.

I was scrolling through the HBO listings looking for movies to record, and it occurred to me their average rating must be infinitesimal, if they show the same movie several times on several channels over the course of a month or three. They sure would like for every show they make themselves to score like the…

The way I saw it, the universe was making the point that hope based on pareidolia ends up being deprecated to nothing but the marks of condensation left behind when the real parts of the world are removed.

He wasn't there to develop his character. He was there to develop Andrea's. And Zak's, but mostly to show Andrea isn't record-company arm-candy.

She basically told her mother to fuck off, empowered her Aunt/whatever to stop being a puppet, and pushed Clark down into the mailroom emotionally, which is where he needs to be to stop being his parents' discarded plans.

I'm sorry, but nobody forgets that song.