Oh, I'm sure he was being modest - I just needed a punchline.

A few years back, my bartending friend Great for the Party would continually put the question of "Who is the Greatest American Rock Band" to his customers in person and me via texts. After many such discussions - which included The E Street Band, The Byrds, and my contention the Pearl Jam deserved at least…

Yeah, I learned that too late after perusing the entry on beatlesebooks.com (and revisiting the entries on that site took up much of my evening and now morning).

Ringo gave us at least two distinct drum beats that have been reused throughout pop music: the off-kilter beat of Ticket To Ride (repurposed, for example, in Guided by Voice's Motor Away), and the quick double beat of Tomorrow Never Knows (in the Chemical Brothers' Setting Sun). (I'd say three, but the drum pattern of…

Exactly right that Luhman's nationality wasn't necessarily the reason for any apparent tone-deafness in his adaptation of The Great Gatsby.

Los Lobos will have to take it up with the screenwriters of Ishtar - the source of the quote - although I believe there's a long line of people ahead of them who are still chewing out the screenwriters over the film's bombing at the box office.

Look - telling the truth can be dangerous business; honest & popular don't go hand in hand. If you admit that you can play the accordion, no one will hire you in a rock'n'roll band.

Public Enemy gave a shoutout to Radio Raheem during their performance tonight at the festival on the National Mall celebrating NMAAHC's opening.

Yeah, I'd trust Google over my memory right now, and while that seems right that Dick liked the movie in general, I don't think he liked the suggestion of moral equivalence between Deckard and the replicants.

My understanding is that Phillip K. Dick thought Scott's sympathetic portrayal of replicants meant he had missed the point of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Dick had conceived of the story as an allegory about Vietnam, asking: What if, in our struggle against a potentially subversive menace like communism, we…

The story is: the Cohens wanted to start the film with an old Yiddish folk tale, but they couldn't think of one that worked, so they just made one up. As far as how it relates: I took it as just another example of how life is indeed random; others suggest the participants in the opening segment are ancestors of the…

Watching the movies as an adult, Threepio struck me as so cowardly as to be untrustworthy. I could easily picture him selling out the rest of the gang in a panic - something that seemed possible in The Empire Strikes Back between his accidentally discovering a storm trooper on Bespin and getting blasted.

Dantooine With the Stars

According to the Washington Post, that theory is dubious in light of Trump's more lighthearted response to Obama's jokes and - more importantly - Trump's previous declarations of interest in the presidency.

Well, now I know where the Emperor Norton record label gets its name.

More like Project Redlight, amirite?

This seems to be the best place to insert this AP headline from 2007:

I like the theory, but Ronin came out in 1998, four years before this article suggests DeNiro started phoning it in.

I took the second scene interspersed with the footage from the raid on the helicopter as showing how much the Munich attack affected the psyche of Israelis like Avner.

They're only equally qualified if you discount Kanye's claim that he's God.