Two music bio-pics featuring Paul Giamatti with a bad wig in one year? There is a pop-culture God!

Heck yeah. I'm hoping that Quentin or Wes will utilize some of her songs in a future film - they would be a perfect fit.

1) I remember the harsh "Rolling Stone" review, but IIRC, the music critic for "Details" (which was at the time more in touch with '90s culture, and who didn't turn on Blind Melon after they got big) didn't think "Soup" was that great.

I'd consider "Hello Nasty" the last great Beastie Boys album. They probably could have deleted five tracks to make it less bloated near the end (and not everybody understands Lee "Scratch" Perry…)

Caught "Trainwreck" on Saturday night. Really enjoyed it, and was happy that it clocked in at two hours (not counting end credits.) Watched the latest episode of "True Detective" on Sunday (was entertained, but this season will probably never rise above a B-level crime drama/neo-noir.) Over the past week, I've been…

Present-day RDJ trying on his wardrobe/hairstyle from "Back to School" for sh#*s and giggles.

It was a pre-Internet, pre-Social Media, pre-Alternative Nation time, and it was released during the last gasp of the Reagan Administration.

So what's up with "These Dreams" briefly popping up in a scene from "Love and Mercy"?

I remember back in the latter half of the '90s some alternative paper ran a cartoon movie poster advertising "The Ultimate Indie Film", starting Parker Posey, James LeGros, Steve Buscemi, "and Don Knotts as Andy Warhol." I chuckled.

I hope the edgy humor is more "Three Kings" than "Spies Like Us."

A) Please tell me that Garofalo didn't visit Phil Spector's plastic surgeon.
B) Wait a second, duckfaces didn't exist in 1981!

I'm digging Mr. Tomine's recent work, now that his stories don't exclusively deal with 1) Bay Area-based socially awkward bohemian guys working at a newspaper/magazine pining for unobtainable women with horn-rimmed glasses, 2) Bay Area-based socially awkward bohemian women pining for shaggy-haired guys, 3) The social…

Is this the film where, in the Ozploitation documentary "Not Quite Hollywood", the director/star heavily implied that the dog perished on the set? If so, I'm watching this one alone.

Issue number 111: "Walk Idiot Walk" by the Hives is the best garage rock song from the mid-aughts, without sounding like a parody or Tarantino pastiche. Full disclosure: I'm half-Swedish.

No love for the Fleshtones, preaching the garage rock gospel during the New Wave era?

Rest in Peace. I'm guessing Mr. Maron will re-post his excellent WTF interview with him on Tuesday morning. I still think of Sam's sage advice from that interview regarding when it's time to part ways with your terminally ill dogs (especially since I will have to eventually make that decision.)

I didn't want to go through all the comments, so sorry in advance if this is a re-post - I highly recommend Bobby Womack's disc "The Bravest Man in the Universe". Between this and his contributions to Gorillaz' "Plastic Beach" album and tour, I can't think of a better way for Mr. Womack to go out.

He actually put out an American Recordings-esque disc back in 2012:

So true. It's like your best-case scenario is to have one big hit* that you can later license to commercials and film soundtracks.

Sammy Hagar's "Mas Tequila" and Gary Glitter's "Rock and Roll, Part 2". On a related note, where's the Newswire article on Mr. Glitter's pending life-in-prison term?