Really stoked they are back with Star Crunch, their original lead guitarist.  That guy is one of the greatest guitar players I've ever seen at live show.

This tour came through my town last week, and was one of the most bad-ass things I've seen in a while.  Younge's band has this fuzzed out 70s session musician vibe that is pretty amazing.   They also did great live renditions of lots of Wu Tang classics from different records.

Holy fucking shit that is the greatest drum sound ever.

Ebert was also a badass when it came to good literature.  He often referenced my favorite Cormac McCarthy novel, Suttree, in his reviews and blog posts.  For years I couldn't find anyone else who referenced or discussed that novel, and then Ebert starts throwing in these really poetic references to it in his reviews…

I think the combo of Stevenson/Dukowski/Morris wins out over just Ginn and some random drummer.  
The bigger question is why has Ginn had to burn ALL his bridges so badly.  Everybody else involved has let bygones be bygones and is friendly (hell even Rollins and Kira are amicable now).  Ginn will only talk with Ron,…

Just got back into the In My Head album and good lord that's an amazing record.  The Ginn/Kira/Stevenson lineup was slaying it when they laid those tracks down.

Cat Flag!

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I enjoy Rollins' commentary on culture now, but his evolution has been pretty funny:
Rollins 1985: I hate everything.
Rollins now: hey guys, you know what's great? Gee, well for starters Van Halen and about 6000 other things that I'm going to talk about on a creepily enthusiastic way!

The "higher power" episode had a strange effect on me, and I found myself getting really choked up when Luke Wilson apologizes to his rehab roommate at the end of the episode. The first time I thought "we'll that's weird" but I've watched it since in different situations and it gets me every time. That episode is…

SXSW in 1996 (and yes it was a lot smaller and more managable back then)
Flaming Lips' Wayne did the parking lot
experiment, and I got my little Honda Civic in as one of the cars in the
experiment.   There was also an awesome Matador showcase that year with
Helium and Yo La Tengo. 
(runs hand through receding hairline…

Good lord Akroyd's waist line was so large and out of proportion to his body. Seeing him do the wild and crazy shake thing and really only his head was moving with this big inert blob below unable to budge… man that was not fun to watch.

This bird man, an old friend of my
wife's, he was on his way to spend the night. His wife had died. So he
was visiting the dead wife's relatives in Connecticut. He called my wife
from his in-laws'. Arrangements were made. He would come by train, a
five-hour trip, and my wife would meet him at the station. She hadn't
se…

" kind of a bunch of weird elements that are maybe too incoherent to be anything other than frustrating"…  It's funny to think how much stuff today is just that exactly, but gets passed off as "oh, you just don't get it" (again a lot of Lynch comes to mind).  Another way the Twilight Zone was ahead of its time maybe.

The problem you point out with The Arrival-great atmosphere with no pay off- reminds me of one of my favorite episodes of the series. It's a late era one called Come Wander With Me, and is about a rockabilly singer who searches the backwoods for folk songs. The whole thing has a David Lynch-like creepiness that has…

aaaand there's an answer to this right below…

yeah, surprised no one mentioned that.  The Baldwin role was only added last minute for the film, so unless they transcribe it from the screen, then it won't be in the play.

Was there in 1996 when Flaming Lips' Wayne did the parking lot experiment, and got my little Honda Civic in as one of the cars in the experiment.   There was also an awesome Matador showcase that year with Helium and Yo La Tengo. 
(runs hand through receding hairline and sighs wistfully…)

Yeah, I was pretty surprised just how totally out of it and off-rhythm DeNiro was in the live setting.  He's the only host I can remember who even messed up the timing of introducing the music guest - "Puff Daddy is …. here?" I knew right then something was really wrong and it just got worse from there.

In my many years of job-hopping, this has been the movie I've heard most quoted from people of all types- like my boss at the end of the day saying "Pop I've got the black lung!" and everybody knows exactly what it's from.  
In fact, the only movie more quoted randomly that I can think of is Friday… (has there been a…