I’m personally rushing in to see if this was really an idea that nobody knew was happening? I mean, employees at Verizon stores have told me that Apple does this on multiple occasions.

Kind of cool how he threw a couple of punk songs in there.

*slow clap that gradually turns into thundering applause accompanied by slowly building strings*

I read East of Eden for the first time last year and thought it was OK. Cathy/Kate is probably the weakest part of it — there’s no justification given for why she acts the way she does, she’s just evil for the hell of it and that’s that. That’s a big flaw to me, and in a central character no less. A good book, but I…

I’m going to need someone to explain to me why Bon Jovi can be considered “good”.

We’ll be back with more Faces of Illiteracy after these messages.

Yah but that came out in 2004.

The guy from the Yardbirds.

1. LCD Soundsystem, American Dream. 2. Slowdive, s/t. 3. Kendrick, DAMN.. 4. Drab Majesty, The Demonstration. 5. Demen, Nektyr. 6. Charlotte Gainsbourg, Rest. 7. Oddisee, The Iceberg. 8. CCFX, s/t EP. 9. Elsa, I Still Think Of You. 10. Shabazz Palaces, Quazarz vs. The Jealous Machines.

Well Section.80 doesn’t beat DAMN but being worse than those other two isn’t really a slight.

They are still going on Disqus.

The writeup for “Spirit of the Beehive” deserves a goddamn Pulitzer welded to a Presidential Medal of Freedom.

I would swallow my mind
I would choke on my pride
But I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness
Starving, hysterical, naked

BOOZE THREAD

Honestly, when I heard the description “Lady Bird is an affecting look at the relationships that shape us, the beliefs that define us and the unmatched beauty of a place called home” on NPR promos and saw it in the press materials, I decided that the movie was as awful as that sentence and have not yet tried to prove…

Actually, the neighborhood of LA you refer to is called Hollywood.

The album’s not eligible. She could possibly have been included for some of the singles that were released earlier, I guess.

PREDICTIONS:

“Despacito” wins everything, possibly including categories they weren’t nominated for.

That Charlotte Gainsbourg album is really good — a lot better than 5:55 or IRM, which were pretty spotty IMO. That’s one for the collection.