The British band James is like that. Alice Cooper started like that, but the singer adopted the name later because everyone kept calling him that. I think maybe Marilyn Manson originally was the band's name, not necessarily the singer.
Where do you stand on giving band names to what are essentially solo projects, like…

I loved it, and I remember being surprised after seeing it that some people thought it was real, and others were insulted that someone had tried to trick them. Before seeing the movie I had read a long interview with the filmmakers in Spin where they laid out exactly what they did and how they did it, so idea that…

Yes. A non-alcoholic cocktail is often described as "virgin." So the joke is that adding booze to the virgin cocktail is like taking its virginity.

Unless we *are* the resource, and they're here to eat us

Luckily, your rule only eliminates, like 10% of your options.

I'm pretty sure @JonGorski was being sarcastic.

I've seen him get a bit testy from time to time, but nothing ban-worthy. He gives Mohd a lot of shit, but who doesn't?

Steve Buscemi getting *stabbed*?! Holy shit, I hadn't heard that.
On the other hand, the Dennis Hopper thing sounds pretty cool.

My recommendation: New record from Hurray for the Riff Raff, The Navigator. "Living in the City" is my favorite new song. Very V.U.

And someone ended up dying on that set? Huh, go figure.

Shit, I missed my cue, didn't I?

Thanks for noticing!

So you've met these people IRL? That must be fascinating, frustrating and frightening all at once.
I guess as conspiracy theories go, this one is relatively harmless. If your job requires knowing the earth is round, you already know this. It's not like the anti-vaxxers, for example, who are doing real harm.

If she's truly a YouTube star, they probably can't afford her.

Oh cool, you're one of them. Maybe you can help me with this.
So you believe there is a massive conspiracy to convince people the earth is round. So my question is, what's the point? Who benefits from the conspiracy?

Not a "horrible" monster. Just the regular kind.

Straight whiskey. Although it was Mardi Gras here, so technically I was celebrating, not self-medicating.

I've come around to thinking GWB was basically a decent guy who wasn't up to the job and listened to the wrong people. Not that that makes anything his administration did OK, but I don't feel the same hatred toward him that I used to.

Lots of decent country and country-ish music is fairly popular. Sturgill Simpson just played Saturday Night Live. Although I doubt he gets played much on commercial country radio. Not that I would know.

Everybody Hurts is lovely, imo, but it does more or less repeat the same verse multiple times, which is a sin REM commits often (I say that as a fan).
Mainly I wanted to second your love for those three songs. The first two in particular are just perfect.