Just so you know, Jason and I are typing on the same laptop while spooning on a bed of roses. And we're listening to Jesu, but he's gonna let me put on a Band Of Horses CD next. Isn't he darling?

I don't think I was "attacking" Jason. (I did start off by professing my undying man-love for him, after all.) If it makes you feel any better, Chip1, I already regret 10 percent of what I wrote.

Chip1: No.

I'll be right there, boss!

No
With all due respect—you know I love you—but your post supports my theory that '80s and '90s punks are the new hippies. When I say "hippie," I mean "dudes who are all too quick to remind everybody how great and dangerous and virtuous "their" music is (was), and how "bland" the music that supposedly came after is."…

I really like this album
That is all.

I haven't seen Health Inspector but I did review Delta Farce for The AVC, and Witless Protection is on another level of badness. If I could have given this movie an F- (or a G), I would have.

I like The Black Crowes
I own all of their albums and even enjoy four of them.

In all fariness to Asshat, at least he knows he's an asshat.

Peary
It's nice to see Danny Peary get his due. I used to love reading the plot synopses in the Cult Movies books and pretend what these weird movies looked like. It was fun to see a lot of them later on, and compare my imagination to the actual films.

The original video is not subtitled. I think this clip is from Mexican TV.

That's an interesting interpretation, Danrimage, but I think you're wrong. For one thing, I don't think it's an "angry" scene, especially compared with what comes before and DEFINITELY with what comes after. The way camera lingers on Travis staring sadly at the screen, and where Scorsese cuts into the song—it's the…

Oh, "Jump In The Fire" is great, and you're right about it being the backbone of that sequence. I was just saying that those Stones songs really jump-started my fandom back when I was a wee lad.

I LOVE Swervedriver. But this Silversun Pickups song was just OK to me. If you're saying the rest of the record is Sweredriver-esque, maybe I need to check it out.

Yes! That should be corrected shortly!

Wow, you totally busted me, Rkeane. I totally didn't listen to this record, nor read any of the books I reported on in high school. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some more lyric sheets to review.

Point taken, Rkeane. Though I think you get at least SOME idea of what the band is like from the review. I mean, you didn't think this was another NYC art-punk group that just discovered African music, did you? At any rate, please mentally insert "from southern rock's present standard-bearers" between "behemoth" and…

The Beta Band
Hey Noel, while it might have "the" dumbest album title ever—and I've read every album title ever just to be sure—The Beta Band's "Hot Shots II" is really, really good. Definitely worth checking out.

I'm not ragging on U2 because they've been around for 20 years. I'm not sure I'm even really ragging on them. U2 has documented every tour on film or videtape since the WAR period, and most of those include the same 4-6 songs. My problem might be that I've seen too many U2 concert videos in my day. so I'm bored by…

For the record, I liked U2's last album, and I like Steel Wheels. They both are solid, listenable, and not particularly essential records. The Steels Wheels comment was intended to convey that U2 is now at the point in its career where fans come to see them for the old, over-performed hits, not the solid and…