Got to Get You into My Life – The Beatles Rock’s biggest love affair ended when Paul McCartney married Heather Mills. The jilted lover who this song was dedicated to was left behind by McCartney, who for some reason decided he felt too old to be sneaking into bathrooms to smoke marijuana. Thankfully, Paul has …
The Dave Clark Five somehow were just chosen for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It’s an absurd choice. Styx belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as much as the Dave Clark Five. They innovated nothing. They influenced no one. Their music evolved not at all. It’s just a joke. My …
“They got a bag of loot!” My life was destroyed by a gun control argument so I’m on treacherous ground here, but …
I was a big fan of Kevin Spacey’s from the second I first saw him play Mel Profit on Wiseguy, but the guy irritates the hell out of me now and it has nothing to do with K-Pax. First, he spent an outrageous amount of money to buy an old Oscar for the purpose of …
Rocket 88 – Jackie Brenston, with His Delta Cats So Jazz is trains and Rock and Roll is cars, which adds credence to the notion that this was the first rocker ever. From what I’ve read Ike Turner wrote this and then Sam Phillips credited it to Jackie Brenston. See now if Ike had beat …
Bear Because there’s nothing quite as special as a magnificent beast being taken down by a 5 year old with a shotgun.
Doug Stanhope likes to brag about the fact that even his AA friends have to admit that he’s funnier when he’s drunk and that drinking is essential to his job. “You should really quit, but not tonight because we have tickets.”
Just watched the last half of Robert Redford’s Quiz Show. If you watch movies on television, you see the end of them 20 times and never see the beginning. Anyway, the best thing the movie has to say isn’t about a loss of innocence, it’s about how the soldiers take the rap and the corporate …
I don’t know how, but I’d bet my savings account.
Not professionally, physically. When I saw him at the ARMS benefits in 1983 I was pretty sure he’d be dead in a year. From the clips I saw of the O2 appearance he looks pretty good for a senior citizen. He should call Eddie Van Halen and tell him how to clean up.
I used to be a big fan of self deprecating humor, but I’m giving it up. People as a whole aren’t smart enough to deal with irony. You tell a funny story about one rare time that you acted badly or stupidly and they just assume that you are totally bad or totally stupid. Meanwhile, …
Here’s when the internet becomes fun. I just heard Dave Attell on Howard Stern mention that John Wayne used to smoke 200 cigarettes a day. I could only find that he smoked five packs a day, but I also saw someone mention in an Amazon review of the Quiet Man (Dave made me watch it …
I have absolutely nothing intellectual to say about Jim Gaffigan other than he annoys the hell out of me. I could listen to his numerous hit CD’s that for some reason people love and give you a point by point breakdown, but that would be a lot of time that I could spend raking my …
AMC, despite decrying the fact that Blazing Saddles probably couldn’t be made today proceeds to censor the N word from the movie and ruins its funniest scene, ignoring the fact that the movie is anti-racist and was co-written by Richard Pryor. Lenny Bruce said that a slur’s suppression gives it its power. Banning words is like banning colors …
He then set out on his own to play music. For three years, he worked menial jobs and failed random drug tests for even more menial jobs.
