At one point, we lived in the country and had three acres, and we were letting as much of it as possible be wild, though we had the lawn tractor to keep the edges and the fire lanes in order, and the front yard for the sake of the neighbors. Anyway, one afternoon hubs decides to take the lawn tractor away from me and…

I adore banjos. There can not be too many banjos. Banjos are the sound of joy, distilled.

George Jones is brilliant. Also, when I had a lawn tractor, I adored it, and never wanted to climb off it to do anything, even eat.

Neither did I know that. Worse still, I carry a mixed CD in my truck, it contains an album titled "The Best of PPL" and guess what, it does not include Let me love you tonite.

If I recall correctly you like banjos. You may have played this. I may have played this. Either way here it is:

"Trying Your Luck" by the Strokes...

Word.

Yeah, probably. There's always good music, you know? It's just not always in the main stream. I mean, in the eighties and nineties I felt completely like what you just said, I felt like popular music was a wasteland and it was a tragedy, but now I don't actually care any more, possibly because the internet has made it…

All that cat needs is a massage.

Yeah, but the sheer epicness of the devotion and singleness of purpose deserves all the stars we can dispense. At least, that's how I feel about The Honey Badger of Queefcore.

These guys were the absolute best.

De La Soul at their most poetic.

QUEEFCORE!

"It's mildly hard to believe that Jane Fonda, daughter of actor Henry Fonda, could be so naive about the workings of celebrity and awards season, but oh, well."

We have talked, from time to time, about folks in the music world who have left us too soon. Right at the very top of my own personal list is Lowell George. Here is a raging cover of "Sailin Shoes" from Sam Bush and John Cowan.

One of NYs finest.

I was gonna say. I think people are confusing celebrity now with celebrity in the 70s. It was a very different place.

Good memory. I remember what a big deal it was that Cher had all her dresses designed by Bob Mackie back in the day.

Actually, at that time—until the mid-80s and Cher, really—all the celebs just bought dresses off the rack and did their own makeup for the Oscars. (ETA: Occasionally, a costume designer they worked with would make something up for them—like in the Edith Head studio days.) Many of them talk about it—Meryl Streep, Jodie…