Don't forget Vanilla ISIS in Oregon.

I would not recommend looking to comedians for your moral compass. Harvey's double-takes and slow burns on feud are actually pretty good. Foxworthy has a good joke once in a while. God help me, I actually like a few of those "here's your sign" jokes that the other guy does. Ron White seems to be the Foster Brooks of…

It's a fine line between clever and…well you know.

I know some traveling musicians. Going from bus, to hotel, to gig, to hotel, to bus is not as fun as it sounds. If you are 20, groupies might be a fun fringe benefit, but if you are married to one of these guys, as my sister was, that's not a blast either after 10 years. I got to fly to Singapore for my job last…

Our choir was in some weird reality show in San Francisco seven years ago or so, with Tommy and Ludacris. Ludacris was very nice and polite. One of our choir members is blind, Ludacris helped her to get her food from the craft services buffet table. Tommy was smoking like a chimney and acting like a rock star,…

007 (shanty town) rocks too, but my favorite song is "keep a cool head". Dress up in a goat's head! RIP

Wow that was what he got from goodfellas, that we'd like to be like that? I'd rather not end up being shot, moaning, and stuffed in a trunk, or even worse, forced to move to the Southwest. That was some horrible writing.

"Popcorn pictures have always ruled. Why do people go see these popcorn pictures when they're not good? Why is the public so stupid? That's not my fault." George Lucas in 1997

Shimura makes ikiru. He's also in godzilla, which is kind of weird.

I'm going to sound like andy rooney here, but it's sad that the youtube generation knows him best for "aaaa the french!", frozen peas (which admittedly is hilarious ), and a few jokes on a Seth McFarlane cartoon show that will have all the staying power of a carton of milk. On the other hand, i envy anybody who sees…

Also, a lot of his Mercury Theatre players, like Joseph Cotten, went on to be in his films. Interesting hearing their earlier work.

I'd put Ikiru on there, just for the premise, the greatest question we have, even more than "what happens to us when we die": How will we be remembered when we die, and what prism will our life be put through by others? Rashomon could go here too. Heck, I'd put Kurosawa right up there with Welles in his ambitions and…

Right. I can't remember which director said this now, but as he put it, "one for them, and one for me." Although this isn't fair either, as Touch of Evil was really "one for them", but still done remarkably well.

For a drummer, that could be grief, a puppy, or something shiny.

Oakland A's fans have had a hard time with Dave Henderson, one of the nicest athletes you'd ever see. RIP, Hendu.

Ya, I'm glad the question was asked, because I thought it was just common sense: He was rock n roll. He never put on airs, pretty much spent his life on the tour bus, worked hard at rocking his whole life, knew and hung out with his fans, was obviously a fan of hard drugs, and seemed to enjoy every second of what he…

He just said "no suffering".

I heard Paul Simon making this argument with a bunch of agitated New Yorkers right around when he did that thing with Ladysmith Black Mambazo. His riff was basically "Hey I actually introduced them to a much wider audience". Which was true! Whereas, the white people of the '50s wouldn't listen to the Kingston Trio and…

My feeling comes more from who they appealed to, like my Uncle who was a John Bircher. Even Harry Belafonte would be too dark (in all meanings of that word).

I always think of the Kingston Trio like Pat Boone, basically soulless white guys who appropriated black music and made it safe. I mean, listen to Mighty Sparrow sing "Good Citizen", with lyrics like "Why when the ordinary man disagrees with the establishment, They call it treason?" The Everlys were carrying on a long…