I want to hear the alternate version where he sounds like Raphael Saadiq.

If you people learn nothing else here, know this: Taylor Swift does NOT play the banjo. She's got one of those fake-ass banjos that has six strings, is tuned like a guitar, and that she can strum on with her microphone turned all the way down so nobody ever has to hear that it sounds like something you'd make with…

"C!?!??!  We're a goddam miracle!" - Producer of "The Canyons".

That would have been an epic mistake. Unless he was going to hate on every Ringo song ever.

I agree - thoughtful, detailed, and personal.  And 100% absolutely, objectively right.

Possibly the wrongest thing I've ever read on the Internet.  At least close second to the thing about those pills that were supposed to, um… help out downstairs.

So I've learned reading this thread! It really is a great day to be me.

Interesting that other outlets, absent such strong opinions about what sort of movie of this almost completely unfilmable (and fantastic!) book should be, are saying it's pretty good.  Love me some zombie fiction (or ghoul fiction if your as gets all puckered) and I'll be seeing this one, too, when I get a chance.

Only this one?

+1 for this, +100 for Steve Motherlovin Gadd!

Sax solo by Wayne Shorter plus amazing Steve Gadd drums puts Aja on top for this album, all due respect to dying behind the wheel. I thought I might be the only person ever to like Caves of Altamira and its insane horn parts. And, Anthony Jackson playing bass on The LA Concession from Gaucho is one of the things that…

That scene in Bad Taste is the first time I ever felt my stomach turn over watching a movie, and that after what should surely have been enough hack-and-slash horror films to properly inure me to it. The little girl eating her mother in Night of the Living Dead had put me off chicken thighs for weeks, though.

As the founder and editor-at-large of blowhard.net, I want it known that we think Ryan Adams is the greatest, and have a terrabyte's worth of archives stored in our secret off-shore data center that proclaim exactly that fact.

Just downloaded - cheap on Amazon, btw - and so far so good.   To me, it definitely moves in Summerteeth and YHF territory.  I liked several of the songs on Wilco(The Album), and am always surprised a little when I put it on at how many have stuck with me, but it's not as strong an album front-to-back as the rest of…