The title alone made this the high point of my afternoon. Bless you O’Neal.

I know! Clearly it’s slightly MORE interesting than Wilco.

I don’t really want fame on a grand scale, but it would be nice if I got some encouragement now and then (like an album sale once in a while). It would be nice if like 15-25 people came to a show? And it’s not so much fame I’m craving as a way to make the only thing I enjoy doing sustainable financially, which I know…

That’s the weird part right? I’d imagine being a famous gives you all kinds of great material. But pretty much every album like this just wants to luxuriate in the cliches.

What did Cleveland get for Wade? An autographed picture of Pat Riley?

Why doesn’t he write songs about working on X-Files? Or being an actor? Or being famous?

My particular frustration is as a songwriter who has been struggling for about 15 years, I’ve dedicated my life to music, no one really cares or listens to it, no one comes to shows, I don’t get any downloads or sales. So then Duchovny who is 1) not a good songwriter and 2) is not very passionate about music can just…

Would you ask Tom Petty if he wants to believe?

As a musician who is over the moon if I sell even one album a month, I always look to things like this and think “Well, if David Duchovny [or insert any other celebrity or, hell, Merzbow] has fans, there’s hope for me yet.”

Dawes meme too unwoke for new AVClub

Sorry, Dave.

I can’t believe we’re four comments in for an article that mentions Laurel Canyon and nobody has asked if it sounds like Dawes.  And I imagine it does.

I got a “come back to me, across oceans of time and the Laurel Canyon” notification for THIS?

Incorrect. Some of us read this article only because Sean O’Neal wrote it. Seriously, you could write an article about frozen concentrated orange juice futures and not even mention Trading Places once and I’d still read it.

I really hope Donald Glover’s Lando gets so much love and hype from this movie that they are basically forced to call in Billy Dee for Episode IX. It’s a damn shame he hasn’t been in any of the new movies yet already...he was a General in the rebellion in RotJ and blew up the damn Death Star 2.0!

It’s got that sweet Beggar’s Canyon sound.

Streaming would be great if the same selection was always there forever, but rights issues and “Here’s what’s arriving and leaving Netflix this month” articles remind me that what is there now isn’t guaranteed to be there later.

I was hoping the headline stopped at Best Buy is giving up.

Yes agree with this fully. American Gods told a terribly boring story within an amazingly interesting world; I can fully understand why the show runners wouldn’t want to dedicate five episodes of season 2 to Shadow standing around eating meat pies. I’ve always thought the book could have benefited from a very heavy…