Giuseppe Zangara

Not at all, but it's my favorite time to read--I've got 25 minutes each way, and it's either that or listen to music. It's also the perfect time of year in D.C.--end of spring/start of summer, before it gets ungodly hot--so I've been reading outside at lunch, too. I'm really poor at balancing multiple books at once; even in college, when I was taking 2-3 English classes at a time, I tended to go start-to-finish on one, then move on to the next. Get a man bag to handle the weightier tomes. Both Gravity's Rainbow and that Chabon book are worth the effort. I'm not much for multiple-books-at-a-time, either, unless it's a short story or essay collection.

She made him blush, which was kind of cute. The interview was okay. Didn't learn much new stuff—except for his briefly discussing what inspired The Road—but I wasn't expecting much new, anyway.

Is your commute to work the only time you read?

"I like you." Again, just put me on ignore, ok? Besides, the thread is more interesting when people talk about something else. I don't want to argue or fight with anybody. I would just like to post here without you or Virtue saying "You sure are pathetic" when I have done nothing to you. Just leave me be, ok? Is that too much to ask for? What the hell are you on? You said that I'm a "great poster," while whining that I insult and hate everyone. So it was okay when I trash talked people as long as one of those people wasn't you?

Now that you've done that, you should work on not being pathetic. And this thread was never about just you, but you certainly made it that way.

How does gary floyd's freak out stand up to the worst single instance of shitlosing by the likes of The Czech Republic (think Czech prior to 2006) and Leena?

If you die, my thread will seem in poor taste.

I like you, as well as many other people here. The idea that I hate mostly everyone doesn't hold much ground.

I haven't forgotten anything.

Now, gary, I never said you shouldn't post here!

It's true!

Posting in general is a weak point for you. You contribute nothing to the music folder other than rote regurgitation of other people's posts, and nothing here than posting wacky pictures anyone who spends more than 10 minutes on the internet could find. You also engage in some incredibly weak flame-baiting with the few people here who somehow operate on a level more submental than you. You're a fucking lump, a nothing. Just this pile of refuse festering on a dirty floor. Also, where do you get off pretending you're better than superjerk, much less anyone? As much as a pig-headed, argumentative clod that guy was, at least he had a personality. What do you have?

Christ, do you actually fucking like anybody? I never thought I was the best poster, but what the fuck dude. Sorry I don't go around saying "he's a really shitty poster" or "that's a really shitty post" or act like an arrogant prick who comes off as the ultimate obnoxius music snob. Sorry we can't all be like Inc. Your logic has little basis in reality.

I intended it as such, but the board was crapping out when I originally tried to make one. Oh well, no anonymous voting here.

The bulk of gary floyd's posts involve rewriting what other people in the thread already said. This mimicry displays a lack of intelligence which rivals luke-o's own brand of inanity.

It's simple, really: 1) You're too deep into this to be asking that now. 2) Because of 1), you're doomed.

I can usually give this band a pass, but yeah, they completely blew it by taking the emotional and surprisingly moving original and filtering it through their usual "Too Cool for the Room" pose.

Sly & the Family Stone's Stand! is a good album that could've been a great one, were it not for the mercilessly tedious instrumental jam, "Sex Machine," which is a total drag. It's been said that Sly was a jazzer at heart—a claim which I do not argue—but no one in his band appears to be one, too, something that becomes all too apparent during the aimless noodling of the track's unrelentingly dull 14 minutes. Ugh. The rest of the album is terrific, at least.

Man, dead dogs are the worst kind of dogs. Good thing mine will live forever.

"The Bleeding Heart Show" isn't really a Neko lead.

That's one of the few standout tracks from Electric Version, but it doesn't change it from being a so-so album.

Now that you are an adult, you should listen to it again and appreciate how awesome it is.

On the first two albums, Neko scored some of the best songs—Mass Romantic's title track and "Letter from an Occupant"; Electric Version's "All for Swinging You Around"—so it's sort of surprising that her lead vocal contributions to Twin Cinema are solid if unspectacular. No matter, though, as there are already great songs on the album, anyway.

Supposedly, but I've never heard it. Anyway, can we talk about just how much the Monkees' original fucking rocks?

Six Feet Under committed this to record in the most ill-conceived and poorly-excecuted cover song in the history of music. Minor Threat do a version of it that's good for a laugh.