It always amused me that despite how obvious it was nobody ever called him “Ham.”

San Dimas High School Football Rules!

Blondie - Parallel Lines, Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream of Trains, The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America,

That was rathergood.com. Way ahead of their time. They also gave us “I Bought the Wrong Bananas” and Laibach kittens.

Taylor Swift and Katy Perry are Pops Staples? That’s just weird.

“heteronormative romance bro”? 

No disrespect intended to Mr. Colburn, but I was sort of hoping O’Neal would show up to do a guest obit for Scott Walker.

One of life’s simple pleasures is playing “Who Is this America” for people who have never heard it.

We saw Springsteen on Broadway and it was incredible - the intimacy of the setting and the framing of the songs ... but Nick Cave at the Forum in L.A. was my favorite show this year by a mile. There’s still a sense that he’s working through grief issues on stage but there’s nobody currently touring who can command and…

I’d be good with getting Keith Richards to host it.

People talk a lot about Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford of Squeeze being the best songwriters to come out of that era, but Pete Shelley is well up there. R.I.P. Pete. 

She could have been super-heroic and thrown a tomato at him.

My wife and I saw this show last January. The Kerr theater is super-small as it only seats 960 or so. I’m a Springsteen fan and was happily expecting an “Unplugged” kind of thing, like, “and that’s how I came to write Born to Run.” It wasn’t like that. There’s a narrative arc and the “complicated relationship with…

You’re thinking bunnies should sing it?

“Two pints of lager and a packet of crisps please and I’ve got all the right money and all that, please, thank you.” That’s a spectacular soundtrack.

I respectfully assert that the best song from the movie “Bodyguard” didn’t make it onto the soundtrack. When Kevin Costner takes Whitney Houston to the cowboy bar, they’re dancing to John Doe’s far superior version of “I Will Always Love You.”

They fired Tamron Hall and gave her time slot to Kelly. Hall was one of the best hosts that show ever had - she had gravitas when she needed it, was funny *and* she talked to Prince most mornings about what she was going to wear. We have the Today show on in the background most mornings and if I’m still home I always…

I haven’t listened carefully to anything he’s released since Bish Bosch. I just found the Walker and Sunn o))) album and have it on now. Thanks for the heads up.

So, this looks like an alternate universe where Madonna never went faux Brit. On the other hand - the soundtrack is really by Scott Walker? Wow. Where’s O’Neill when we need him?

Good for her wanting to be a vet or an actor in Paris. After all she can’t expect to wield supreme executive power ... never mind.