A band who's blown it awfully is Ministry. Fascinating from about mid-80s to mid-90s, but came to be just a bowlful of riffing turds.

"Even if you ignore everything post 1978 …. I don't get the whole "they tarnished their legacy" idea."
Well, by your own admission, you're insisting on ignoring those bands' terrible years, which is pretty obviously why you don't get the whole idea.

How is he dumb? What is he "so unaware" of?

Drop a bunch of acid and think about it, here I come!

15. L.O.V.E. Machine - W.A.S.P.
16. The Oath - KISS
17. A Dead Song - The Birthday Party
18. Seven Souls - Material
19. Foxy Lady - The Jimi Hendrix Experience

I think that's an interesting take, because I thought he was being sincere and not self-deprecating.

You know nothing whatsoever about my eating habits or my level of awareness about where our food comes from.
I referred to hunting as violence that is "99.99% needless," not as what you read it as.

I've never understood why anybody anywhere enjoys listening to or watching Howard Stern — but furthermore, the woman who co-hosts (or whatever) just inordinately drives me crazy with everything she says. Her whole personality is fingers on a chalkboard to me.

How much American 'news' TV have you seen?

He would be just a harmless goof if he weren't held up as some sort of paragon of modern entertainment.

It's hard to argue with anything he said in that video. And I'm completely there with him about hunting. I grew up around it, and later, when I worked for my hometown newspaper, families would routinely submit pictures of their kids, out in some field outside town, in camo, kneeling next to a deer or some other…

Exactly. They're made of metal. They can penetrate skin.
Though the idea of masks to block the facial recognition does seem good.

People are such fucking douches about language.

What are you talking about? That was two whole years ago.

That shit about how the mass wouldn't work unless each recruit had knowingly acquiesced to it just didn't make sense, and was too obviously shoehorned in for the sake of the requisite moral ambiguity.

Outside of Slaughterhouse Five, his two novels that stick with me the most are the outlandish sci-fi Sirens of Titan and the I-almost-never-hear-anybody-even-mention-it, relatively straightforward but just all-around-nice Jailbird.

I remember they used it once — the sound and the static image — in the middle of an episode of Oz, which turned out to mean that the prisoners had gotten HBO in the lounge and were watching it for the first time. Completely gave me a panic response for a second that something had gone wrong with the DVD.

I know it's a reflection on me, but man, I just want to smack him right in the douche.

You're really into the upbeat, comedic episodes, or…?

Holy fuck.