Odd that you guys even ran this, honestly, since I remember Scott scoring some hilarious points off of Sasha Grey's personality cult in some review or other a while back.

>And say what you like about the film, casting Alanis Morissette as God does not count as predictable…

I'm trying to appreciate "21 Guns", but mysteriously, I keep thinking of ELO.

Thieves in the Temple is great, but Joy in Repetition might crack a Prince all-time top ten. The sense of otherworldliness in that track is just incredible. As a grammar nerd, I'm usually annoyed by Prince's anti-grammatical lyrics ("We may encounter a few turbulence") but the line "Live music from a band plays a song…

I feel bad for Mike Joyce, since he seems to think warmly of the Smiths and god knows Morrissey treated him like shit, but I think he was the weakest link and held the band back. I love them dearly, but their rhythm section never swung, and it wasn't Rourke's fault. Listen to "Still Ill" and imagine how it would sound…

It's more about his compositional talent. And I think the fact (definitely true) that Megadeth was "all about revenge" was actually part of what made them awesome. Dude was pissed. That's metal.

oh, and kirk is a solid guitarist and seems like a remarkably decent guy under the circumstances, but he's been noodling a blues scale through a wah pedal for two decades now… but then, given metallica's massive iconic status, it's probably inevitable that zillions of people who otherwise don't listen to much metal…

both great bands, metallica was more consistent even given the '90s, but megadeth at their best (all of rust in peace, scattered stuff elsewhere) was more inventive, more nuanced, and more fluid than metallica at theirs. definitely got a lot of their power from mustaine's totally batshit inferiority complex.

Yeah, Lexicondevil, I think that take on Freud is right. In some ways, he's become a victim of the vastness of his own influence. His ideas reshaped our understanding of peoples' behavior so thoroughly that his great insights (people behave differently from the way they intend to, people don't know perfectly what's…

Often Posts: no—you use "were" because you believe the condition to be false. It's the increasingly disused subjunctive form of the verb "to be." You say, "I wish I were going to the festival," not "I wish I was going to the festival." At least you do if you're an old-fashioned purist.

Actually, that should be "If your reading comprehension WERE better."

winston, i lol'd

Norma!

Yeah, same deal as Harry Dean Stanton.

except that sheila E was talented.

sign o' the times
that is all.

four contenders
The Replacements - Bastards of Young
most cathartic anthem of defeat ever penned. "the ones who love us best are the ones we'll lay to rest" etc. "god, what a mess/ on the ladder of success/ when you take one step and miss the whole first rung." a line that's been my companion through many gloomy days.

I beg your pardon. "More Human Than Human" was Blade Runner before it was White Zombie.

i liked wayne's world 2 more before i realized that roadie character was lifted, actor and all, from withnail and i.

I have ass-mark too!