and that song..it's so straightforward and not innovative at all, yet it's fucking amazing. it's some mad genius shit.

that's so wrong it's just dumb. you may not dig them, but all the fuck they do is rock.

i love in your honor.

i think the first record is one of their weakest.

like everyone i know who likes rock music in general loves that song—and i'm a huge foos fan and think it's one of the weakest songs on the record and never liked it.

so indie, much hip.

would it be horribly cheesy of me to say that, if that's you in the picture, that you're super pretty?

i notice you left out sheryl crow. well played.

eat my shorts.

that was the year—we;;, perhaps it was '93, but right around then is when hip-hop started to change in a way i couldn't abide.

my theory (short version) on the chili peppers is that they started really evolving as of blood sugar sex magik and the more melodic, acoustic/frusciante-driven sound should have been really fruitful, but anthony (clearly, to my ears) took some manner of voice lessons, became a marginally better singer from a…

i'd agree that as they got less interestingly stupid, their chief fanbase did kind of become mostly the lunkhead crowd.

how old are you, out of curiosity?

i still haven't, and it still bothers me. probably in my top 10 white whales as far as artists i would really love to see live but have not as yet.

nah. just honest.

you didn't come in here to wash your hands. you came in here to take a shit.

i was really into her for the first few years and then got away from her..and i got it in my head (because i didn't try hard enough) that the later records—scarlet's walk, beekeeper and american doll posse specifically—were all overlong and monochromatic and lacked fire or sharpness, while those first 4 or 5 albums…

i have that problem too. big time.

"Veddar"? is it extra-sharp?

what if you also think that A LOT of that "different treatment" (in the western world) actually benefits women, and that women have it "easier" or "better" than men in a whole lot of ways, and that a lot of avowed, outspoken feminists seem to want to rectify those imbalances to the extent that they are detrimental to…