I am (and always have been) indifferent on Soul Coughing, but good lord the interview this guy did with Marc Maron is one of the most outright cringe-worthy things I've ever heard.  His level of bitchery about his former bandmates is just insane, especially when even from his version of events it's clear that his own…

I saw them open up for Sonic Youth in 96 and their weirdo angular way of playing guitar riffs has stuck with me ever since.  They pretty much blew the other opener, Unwound, off the stage, although I guess now Unwound is "The Best Band of the 90s" according to some.

I'm also anticipating this…

The Coffy soundtrack by Roy Ayers is great from start to finish- it didn't leave my turntable for a month after I got it.  A few of the tracks from it were used in Jackie Brown I believe.

But when he was 18 he had a ssssilver dollar collection!

It's go time!

Conway, Arkansas- about 30 minutes away from Little Rock. Also,  all the US Capital building scenes were filmed in Little Rock, as the capital building there is modeled after the one in DC.
The production in Conway ended badly, I think with the city suing the film company for damages to several buildings downtown.

It was filmed in my home town, a small enough southern town that everyone was excited about "The Boz" being around.  One day I was walking home from school by the set and saw a man with Boz-looking mullet hair lying on the hood of a smashed up car.  I got all excited until I realized it was just a random dude in a…

Yeah, I would never normally throw around a term like writing skill, but it just seems right when describing how Carver is better than Bukowski- theme, characterization, execution, holistic effect, etc.

Would highly recommend the biography about Carver by Carol Sklenicka- which puts to rest the Lish influence myth that has sadly dominated so much of talk about Carver.  Basically Lish wanted from the start to take the credit for Carver's identity and style- he would even put his name as big as Carver's on the book…

Sounds like vague memories of both?  Carver's stories are some of the best of the 20th century- particularly the Cathedral era ones.  I loved Bukowski as a teen, but man he does not hold up at all for more than novelty value, and the two aren't even in the same universe as far as writing skill.

Or good lord just get a glimpse of the photo for this article.
Urge to punch… rising…

Could there be any scarier movie title for a girlfriend to suggest to the guy?  "Honey, I think you'll really like…The Patience Stone (guy prepares for two hour nap)."
Reminds me of Seinfeld where Susan drags George to see "The Muted Heart".

Yep- it really did happen and it was a weird but strangely great time to be in high school.  I graduated in 95 in a completely suburban southern city, and saw the girls who wore Guess jeans and poofed their hair in junior high wearing torn jeans, flannels, and Nirvana tee-shirts by senior year. 
My older sister, who…

In a weird low-key way, that is almost the most fucked up Hollywood story I've heard.  I would've been on a bus back to Oklahoma the next day.

Yep- he taught me how to play guitar.

"A little bit of Douglas goes a long way; quite frankly, episodes suffer
more when he has too much of a storyline over none at all"
As much as I love Matt Berry, I've got to agree, especially in IT Crowd seasons 3-4.  It seems like this was Berry's one-note "Is he havin a laugh?!" character like Gervais's bad Brit…

It's also sad because it's totally counter-productive to protecting his legacy.  Due to all his batshit crazy behavior (keeping Black Flag music out of the SLOG movie, suppressing the Black Flag tour doc, basically suing or threatening to sue whenever possible for years now) Ginn's legacy now is more for being a…

Man, wish I could have seen that. And speaking of the last tour- that's also something Ginn has threatened to sue about!  The great documentary of that tour- which has tons of awesome Ginn footage, ironically- has been kept out of print for years by a Ginn lawsuit threat against the filmmaker Dave Markey.  Anyone who…

I dug seeing the Ginn Black Flag because the guy is still pretty blazing with his chops- even the opening band Good For You had some pretty great riffs that reminded me of late era Black Flag.  Chavo's delivery is also pretty fierce. 
But man, I gotta say now that it's hard to see anything but deluded asshole when I…