Remember the days (okay, the Seventies) when Eno was this weird, terrifyingly cerebral alien figure? When did he get so goddam lovable?

With Rock 'n' Roll Animal do I refute thee. The Hunter/Wagner guitar team was at the heart of one of Lou's best — and best-beloved — bands, and those guys were loud as hell.

Smashing Pumpkins North.

Agreed. This Conan appears to be trying to give a naturalistic performance, and throwing his lines away—but a line like "No man should live in chains" is inherently theatrical. Slow down. Let it ring out a little. That's one reason the performances in the LORD OF THE RINGS movies (mostly) worked; they were played in a…

Dunno about that, but I loved how, as he was giving the "dignity" speech, he took just a moment to straighten his bow tie.

Yeah, this is gonna end well.

I was, ah, actually…
…I was on the show, at a taping in November. It'll be on this week - Wednesday the 28th, in fact. I got on by doing the online quiz. Among my fellow contestants, it was about a 70/30 split of those who had tried out online and those who did the live "Brain Bus" events.

Rhymes with "schmipster."

I'm all for jumping on racist dipshits like Johnny Rebel. Repeatedly. With hobnailed boots.

Urban legend. "Johnny Rebel" was a nobody named Clifford Trahan, but stories keep circulating that he was actually a well-known musician incognito. Johnny Horton ("North To Alaska") is sometimes put forth as a candidate, too.

brooding over past hurts never solved anything
Very mixed feelings about this. I'm glad to see Alex Cox return to the scene. I've always had a lot of time for his work; but honestly, WALKER is not a good movie.

daaaaaaaamn

…
So *that's* what that feels like. Huh.

Yeah, but it'll never be as good as the…
…first.

this was the first bond i read…
…and somehow I managed to read it before I saw any of the movies. It always surprised me that people described the Bond movies as frothy, or glamorous—my impression had already been formed of "James Bond" as something grimy and sordid.

@snide guy: I'll admit it's been a couple of years since I saw Brian; but what really struck me is that it's much less a religious satire than a political one.

Yeah, but c'mon—it was an interview, not a friendly lunch.

IMDB is telling me it's Scorched.

hm, let's see…
…Life Of Brian is the most determinedly British film the Python troupe ever did, centered as it is on inside-baseball satire of English leftist politics, with occasional whacks at the English educational system… and somehow it never became a favorite in America. Huh.

And had he stolen them from Carl Perkins, perhaps?