"Emotional Levy" is one of my very, very favorite songs of all time. I sure hope they keep after it!

Yeah, I think y'all are kvetching a bit too much about the "Transference wasn't their best moment" opinion in the review. They went from a "being all we can be" album with GA GA GA GA GA to one that was intentionally more slapdash. This one, in turn, is slicker and more worked on. That's what's up dudes.

I saw 'em live back when they were touring Girls Can Tell (with just Britt and Jim and then the opening band played as the rest of the band - maybe, uh, "The Oranges", if I'm remembering right), and, after playing "Me And The Bean" (which was my fav song by them at the time), Britt badmouthed it by saying "Man, we're…

AA Dowd: "It stinks!"

Finally a movie Dowd doesn't like! (Seriously; he's like the Victorian Critic on SNL.)

Hey, SPAM.

That's not to sell the cast in this short though; the four main actors all do a really great job in their parts.

I liked Would You Rather (mainly because of the cast, particularly Mr. Jeffrey Combs!) but it had a little bit of a Saw thing going on that was lame. This movie is definitely a better idea and is more entertaining and it really feels of a piece with a lot of the "Mumblegore" movies as of late.

I'm hoping it's not Dowd; he will just nitpick the science.

Amazon Prime had The Keep recently and I watched it, but, their version was pretty clearly an old VHS transfer and was pretty rough. Also, speaking of rough, the edits make it not quite work in that it feels really cliff-notes-esque. Still, it often looks rad and the score is tremendious, AND, you get to see Gandalf…

I actually really like Wild Life! (I kind of decided to start checking out Wings just about 4 months ago, so, this is a pretty fresh impression.)

I've always seen "Band On The Run" as the moment where Paul really just lets loose with his Beatles-Thing; his previous solo and Wings albums definitely are more low key and seem to try to deflate things in a laid back/cool way.

Counterpoint - it sounds like Bruce Hornsby. It's a terrible cover and he needs to think about what he has done.

…you're disregarded.

I think the right answer is he's a terrible musician, but an amazing songwriter.

I am also looking for more information on what happened to Lethem?  Too much pot?  Not enough pot?  Too much money?

I think they haven't caught on more because they don't really write 'singles', the way a band like Spoon (another "perennially good to their detriment") band does.  Hell, they barely write choruses.