Who do you think you are, the Lone Ranger? You’re Jack the Lad!

They don’t want to do the long, slow, sometimes painful and embarrassing work of growing into a person that others want to spend time with and who finds real fulfillment from friendships and partnerships. Faster and easier to impress other fuckups by hating on the innocent, unwitting and defenseless.

So I guess the Passion of Joan Arc game is imminent?

Why isn’t the album title “I Thought About Killing You” with a closeup of Kanye at his most disdainful on the cover?

Highly recommend the excellent remasters of Wire’s first three albums released this week (Pink Flag, Chairs Missing and 154). All related singles and demos are included, but no live or radio performances. Some of the best music of the ‘70s, let alone the punk era.

Kind of a metaphor for all the toothless bands that took over the radio after alternative imploded. The ‘90s became a dispiriting decade for music that wasn’t hip hop.

Ed Sheeran? The guy can’t sing a long vowel. Plus the worst thing that happens to a buddy in that song about growing up on the hill is that his sibling ODs. Not quite the tragic caliber of “Tonight’s The Night” or “Dum Dum Boys.”

The dumping on Meghan and Harry reads a lot more snide than righteous. The Royals may no longer have political relevance, but they are a cultural institution. And despite - or maybe because of - the centuries of colonial exploitation and murder rightfully laid on the door of Buckingham Palace, welcoming an African…

No “Police Cops”? Guess I’ll be catching up on a lot of reading this fall.

I’m sure supplements will include a short of David Letterman with a chef from Hotel Delmonico trying to prepare London Broil, while Dave goofs on his work and proves an unhelpful assistant.

The early ads with Jack were pretty funny - absurdist and weird without crossing into creepiness. The Salchow Era:

That makes it a lot less ridiculous and racially ... clumsy.

Tommy Lee Jones said that? Remember, he and Al Gore were college roommates:

Now that I know there’s a scene in Batman Forever where Chris O’Donnell’s Robin blasts Offspring while imitating Speedy Gonzalez, I want to ... nah.

Marc Bolan was flamboyant and highly extroverted but was by all accounts a genuinely great guy still missed by those who knew him.

I disagree. The balance between art and entertainment was much stronger 40 years ago. I wouldn’t blame a movie like Jaws or Star Wars, but it wasn’t always this hard to see a substantive non-blockbuster Hollywood movie before Oscar season. We shouldn’t settle for a few each year. For what it’s worth I would pay full…

I think “Andy Warhol” would have been a better choice for Bowie, but good list. I also like Dylan losing it toward the end of “Lo and Behold” on The Basement Tapes - Raw.

I was riffing off the comment I was responding to, but if I’m buying more than one ticket at a Seattle multiplex I’m spending close to $50.

You hit on the deeper, sadder, issue. When you consume music or movies, you’re ultimately consuming art. And art contains a multitude of intangibles that connect to you and maybe no one else. That makes them special, something you take to the grave. But the only way you’re going to connect is to see a lot of movies…

But will you continue to peruse and purchase what they fund or leave the crap behind?