Six live albums. Knock 'em out in a week's worth of shows. Don't bother rehearsing; it's still technically a live album if you're playing to a roomful of cats. Send 'em off to Sony management with a plate full of cookies where all of the sugar has been replaced with salt.

Having read through this thread (and having decided to comment on this one of your comments just for the sake of readability), it strikes me that this discussion is sort of orbiting around a central issue, which is that the legal system in use in the US (and everywhere else that I've heard of, really) is completely…

This is the furthest thing from an expert opinion, but I think that the big comic companies are going to have to both a) broaden the market, as DC attempted to do, and b) be willing to lose money on that for quite a while. The big two depend too much on their lifelong fans and have done so for a long time. Picking…

As an extremely small-time musician that's hoping to put out some recordings in the foreseeable future (gaze upon my cred, ye mighty, and despair), can I just say that the effect of widespread piracy on the music industry has been kind of awesome? Fuck these giant labels. They've been schmoozing people into awful…

I just checked McKelvie's Twitter and I'm honestly not seeing the scorn. Perhaps this is because I agree with his point (making comics just for the people with longboxes is a good way to make sure that your audience slowly dies), but it seems like a pretty reasonable response, both in content and tone. Is it just…

"What's the word, Bert?"
"Ho weyell, Miss Mary, yew just wouldn' believe 'ow many fascists theah ahh 'round Lawndawn these days! Can't 'ardly sweep a chimney without trippin' over a black shirt."

The origins of rock are a bit murkier than that, but I think that's about right as far as the historical moment goes. Its mass market appeal certainly depended on teenagers in the early going.

Did you watch it through opera glasses?

"Posers". Use it against any group at any time. Guys with Honda Civics, kids with skipping ropes, Korean war vets, middle management at the office, whatever. Works every time.

I honestly think that rock being world-spanningly popular was just a single period that has ended. It was a niche when it started and it's returned to being a niche. Nothing wrong with niches. Sure, rock bands have retreated to the bar circuit, but isn't that where the music always sounded best anyway?

Sparks are, like, a music band. No genre could ever hold them.

I have no love for Twitter. I've never had an account and don't intend to get one. All of its good aspects seem to be overshadowed by its inherent and intentional reduction of ideas. (When your platform requires people to use twenty numbered posts in order to express a meaningful argument, your platform has flaws.)…

Being Erica was a good show, too. Ooh, and Robson Arms!

That seems about right. I'm nearly 32, but all that means is that it was released the year I was born and I had basically no chance to catch it.

The language barrier is huge. I've enjoyed some Quebecois bands, but that's because I don't mind not understanding the lyrics on first listen. For most people, not knowing what anybody is saying is highly irritating, so Anglophones aren't going to get a lot of out anything that isn't subtitled (and you know how some…

It isn't the only choice that they have, though. This whole controversy is happening because they've chosen something else and it's basically working. From my point of view, mass protests of various sorts are a fact of life. Decrying their use is fine, but of no more effect than being sick of people driving cars,…

Apparently!

Big Bang Theory, man. When I showed a Garfunkel and Oates video to some acquaintances around my age, their point of reference was that both of them had apparently been on that show. It's a juggernaut.

George Ufgood Lucas?

Entirely possible, honestly, but there is a pretty big financial disincentive for cancelling shows. At a very rough estimate, I'd imagine that Morrissey's shows are a nontrivial part of his financial security. There's a lot of potential profit in those. Cancelling them, depending on one's contract, means both…