I always think of the scene from Nip/Tuck where the coked-up defrocked doctor attempts to cut his own face off in an experimental plastic surgery procedure…

About a decade later, but Guy Moon and Wayne Brady did a great retro-pop theme song for "The Weekenders" that synthesizes "Roam" era B-52s with New Wave era Elvis Costello.

For a few months it's been Todd Rundgren's "Something to Fall Back On." If anyone other than Todd had recorded that song, it would have been a huge song, one of the defining pop songs of the Eighties.

The Pikachu squad chooses slightly off center Western pop culture for its dances; for every obvious thing like Bruno Mars, there's sixties power pop revivalists McFly or the original Broadway cast recording of Hairspray.

"There is no Urinetown! We just kill people, okay?"

Casting a famously unattractive and strange-voiced singer in the role lent it a touch of realism subtext; Paul Willliams was an ace songwriter but was held back by being short and a little grotesque looking, with a limited voice and (for most of his career) no ability to play an instrument or read music.

It was always just "I'd like the bacon clubhouse burger, thanks" when I ordered it. Was it a secret menu item elsewhere?

My best friend performs live action porn at SNCTM. She says that occasionally there is opera, but the fat lady is skinny and centerfold looking, and she gets fucked while she sings.

Seven Springs Ski Resort serves a ham, egg and cheese sandwich where the bread is replaced by tater tots waffled together, and then the whole thing is slathered in beer cheese.

Elton John had some great death story-songs, mostly focused around gunslingers or American Indians, both at the point of cultural extinction. But "Ticking" is a later one and tells a contemporary story of a man who, one day, went on a rampage for no reason. It's chilling.

But what's the alternative? Round them all up, track them down and hit them with sticks until they die?

Anybody remember Paul Reubens as coked-up, eccentric game show host Troy Stevens on "You Don't Know Jack?"

Paul ALSO mastered the "schticky game show host alter ego" bit fifteen years ago.

This is a homage to the much weirder "fish murder poem" in "Through the Looking Glass."

When a well-known composer turned in the demo tape of a stage musical adaptation, he allegedly said "It'swonderful. Thank you for showing me. But if I say yes once, I'll have to say it again and again and again."

It could be an ending like the "happy ending" of Little Shop of Horrors, where Seymour kills Audrey II, escapes to the suburbs with Audrey… and does not notice that a whole crop of Audrey IIIs are growing in the garden, vastly outnumbering him.

Like The Who, where just about every album contains at least one reference to child sex abuse trauma.

Joel is the Cole Porter of the second half of the century, writing songs in pop styles which are more deeply informed by classical and jazz structure than straight pop.

I listened to that whole album the other day… it's kind of different in 2017.

The weed made her hungry FOR HUMAN FLESH!