OH MAN MORE LOCKE AND KEY ONESHOTS! That is exactly what I wanted to hear. He is more than welcome to have finished this one long story arc, but the universe he has created just begs to be examined some more. That is the best news I've heard all weekend.

The problem with that analysis isn't that it isn't a great song and a great performance, but that Joe Cocker's version of "You Can Leave Your Hat On" is even better. Maybe that came out after your Dad finished his list.

Why do assertively "demonic" lyrics seem to so often map to grating black metal/death metal musical sounds? (yeah, I know, "black metal" and "death metal" aren't the same. But to someone like me, whose taste for any "metal" goes about as far as Led Zeppelin and KISS, they sure sound the same.) Are there any bands who…

Specifically, it is the ocean on the planet if I remember correctly. I haven't read the book in years but I remember thinking it was so good that I have intentionally avoided watching either movie.

Callahan in a walk. Will Oldham's psychotic hillbilly schtick wore out for me after about one song.

or "Stand Down Margaret" by the Beat. Thatcher inspired better hate-songs than just about anyone.

The Keith Moon record is also notable for the inside sleeve having a picture of Moon's ugly naked ass framed by a car window. The whole album cover has a Ken Russell/early '70s Playboy look to it and is about the best thing about the album.

Check out, if you haven't already, the Superman/Swamp Thing crossover story by Alan Moore. In which Swamp Thing saves Superman's life when nothing else can. That's my favorite Moore Superman story.

I don't think "Every Picture Tells a Story" was related to the Faces breaking up in the way this list suggests. It was Rod's 3rd solo album, and he made more before the Faces called it quits, which didn't happen until years later. I think Ronnie Wood joining the Rolling Stones had more to do with the end of the Faces,…

I watched some of this (esp the part from the guy who thinks Kubrick's voice repeats the word "shone"  at moments when he means to suggest ESP is at work) on youtube. Maybe I have a higher tolerance for people who are wrong, but I thought it was a somewhat interesting depiction NOT of The Shining, but of how nutty…

"Jokes and the Unconcious" by Sigmund Freud. "The least funny book it would be even possible to write about jokes." - my friend Al Witz

I'm going to guess this translates into about an A- for old farts like me. I bought Life's A Riot (on vinyl, as an import) when I was a freshman in college after seeing a video of him doing his busking with an amp strapped to his back thing on MTV. I loved his music then, have loved it all along the way, and will…

I'll do that typing!
"I Often Dream of Trains" is atypical but is one of my all-time favorite records and a work of sublime beauty.
"Black Snake Diamond Role"
"Element of Light"
"Invisible Hitchcock"
"Moss Elixer"
And a lot of his more recent stuff has been pretty fine. Avoid the mid-period stuff like "Queen Elvis",…

I don't want to go negative at all, but I think there is something a little worrisome in the exchange "I thought you were going to burn me alive" / "I wouldn't do that to my boyfriend." Sort of suggests that if there comes a time when he is NOT her boyfriend, then burning alive would totally be an option on the table.

As my kids said when they saw the trailer for this, "he was ok in that Witch Mountain thing." Which is true. Between that and "The Mysterious Island" I am starting to think of him as a kids-movie actor.

That book, combined with the fact that Ariel Dorfman is considered an important intellectual, permanently cured me of idolizing lit-crit types.

Wait, is total THB really a thing? I collected the THB main story and assorted life-on-Mars stuff in the original comics when they came out, but I've always wished for the whole thing to be together in one place. Oversized, I hope!

Plus, Steve Winwood on organ and various shouts and moans!

No A+ and no F make sense from the reviewer's point of view, but they create a real problem for the casual fan like me who wants reviews to be useful. I just don't consume NEARLY as much pop culture as the reviewers, and I actually rely on the reviews to point me toward things I might really want to pay attention to.…

Anton Chekov.