This article - and the pleasant reminder that their new album is out - was a nice thing to see first thing this morning. Also, I agreed with many of the choices but started getting a bit worked up about halfway through - where's Daily Nightly and Goin' Down?? Ahhh, there they are. Well done.

Ohhhh Early Morning Blues and Greens. Yes indeed. (I don't know the others and will be checking them out.)

Auntie's Municipal Court has had to grow on me; years ago, I never really registered it. I heard it again a couple of years ago and fell hard for it. And those last two songs from Head that you mentioned are among my favorites of theirs.

Two! I'm with you on all those counts. (No Margaret Colin, though, right? Damn, she's great.)

I started calling him Clench (I think I got that from TWoP) because of that walk, his jaw, and his shoulders. Everything constantly clenched in rage.

Makes sense.

"How could one not, when it was snatched away rather unjustly by a combination of forces we’ll never know about …" was it just me, thinking he was specifically trying to sound like a Deadwood script?

Did I fucking say anything about "healing the world's woes?"

Jesus, everyone, sorry I fucking commented. People were asking what the difference was, so I threw in with what the difference might be.

Eh, it's a context thing. Female superheroes going up against a big bad within the movie and getting taken down or not within the movie is one thing, but a bunch of still pictures of one particular half-naked woman getting choked reads differently.

I loved the bits of the town's sinister history. They really added a feeling of menace and fear.

Third base!

I can see how there'd be a sort of frantic, life-affirming thing going on there, sure.

Poetically said.

Me too. I get a lot of good photography out of them, not to mention they're frequently full of both art and history.

I'm so sorry.

I'm sorry for your losses. It's similar to what happened to my dad. Lots of back surgeries, endless pain for him as a result and a doctor who kept doling out the Oxycontin.

He was just too god damn much intensity for them!

Sadness isn't necessarily an extreme. It's just sadness. And when someone brings up a relatively fresh sad thing (yes I consider mid-April relatively fresh) all over again, the sadness tends to come up again.

Happy birthday!