I knew there'd be a run on it, so I got to Blockbuster by 5 today to rent Walk the Line. Nothing but hundreds of cardboard slots, all product gone. A Blockbuster dude found one copy behind the counter, I got the last one. Couldn't wait to watch it. Just finished watching it. Here's the deal. Good movie, not great by any means. Phoenix does a ( Read more... )

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OK, when I finally get from High Street to the shuttle on Carleton and then finally to the Trico lot on Goodell, for the drive home, I just want some hard driving r'n'r. I often listen to Q107 out of toronto; they have their faults, but they're not bad at all. The Lake is ok, but, gosh, really, I hate corporate radio, and the water lapping and ( Read more... )

It would have been your 74th. Say hello to June.

And thank you Rick Ruben and American Recordings for capturing the best of the Man in Black before it was too late.

"The Man Comes Around"

And I heard as it were the noise of thunder ( Read more... )

Rust Never Sleeps. I can't believe how great this album is (except maybe one unfortunate song, Welfare Mothers -- BTW, bet you didn't know Neil's a conservative, maybe Republican -- that's ok, great artists often don't know sh*t about politics and policy; one of my favorite Southern writers, Walker Percy, was a very conservative Catholic no doubt ( Read more... )

While we're in this vein, early and simple, but I still like it ( Read more... )

"Remember the Words That You Said ( Read more... )

I wrote this one for my wife ( Read more... )

What's this about Bush putting an Arab (Dubai) company in charge of our ports??? Isn't that where two of the hijackers were from and where their money was laundered???

Here's one I never quite finished ( Read more... )