Sir Stewart

^ He's gonna call you Trump now.

So did Cleveland - I bet Boston protested!

This would be a terrible April Fools joke. http://www.gunsnroses.com/news/title/tonight--guns-n-roses

Oh right.

What did it look like?

Living the dream.

Or a 1988 Guns n Roses.

Does the fall of the Roman Empire count as an "end of the world"? I think so.

Final answer: 'Adore' by Prince

Pee Wee's Big Holiday is wonderful. As a huge fan of his Big Adventure, I was floored that it managed to tap into that singular Pee Wee vein and maintain a fun/weird/jaunty vibe.

I agree. I would rather see a Sanders presidency (even w/the heavy risk it would destroy the economy), and I have never been a Clinton fan (never voted for Bill for the same reasons I wouldn't want to vote for her - and those reasons have been laid out well here by others), but her winning would be mean we dodged having a hateful blowhard with a baby carrot cock in the Oval Office and we could expect basically more of the same that we'd had in the previous eight (very good) years.

Nice! My first thought was Send It On, but then I remembered it's based heavily off of a '70s Kool & The Gang song, so I can't count it (and the song itself really lost points since I found out about the near-sampling involved - just call a cover a cover. But then again it makes me wonder if I have a double standard of giving hip hop a pass where I wouldn't with a soul artist). Send It On: Sea of Tranquility: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzIWBiM0mSM Either way, Untitled is a helluva choice.

I have been hearing a lot of the "Cruz is scarier than Trump" argument. I don't see it. Yes, Ted Cruz is scary. Lately there's his Armageddon preacher and his insane national security advisor list, along with at least a hundred other terrifying things about him (nevermind that he's the Zodiac killer and the lead singer of Stryper, and - according to one tweet - wearing a rubber mask of his own face at all times). But once I assume he is electable, he's still not anywhere near as scary to me as Donald Trump. Either of them as president would have to deal with opposition from the House and Senat

If Michael Sweet is really Ted Cruz, then he's apparently in his Chris Gaines phase.

I didn't know Wilco ever played Johnny D's, wow. I haven't lived near there in a decade, but I have many great memories of that place, like seeing Brad Delp's Beatles cover band and meeting him afterward, and another time getting kicked out for drunkenly slagging off the shitty band onstage who'd just congratulated themselves for having shot a Mountain Dew ad. Great brunch place, too. Fantastic oatmeal.

I made an albums one: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FayWq-lKIJfyP3ogW6TEZrOoQ85DzVNskFy21B47XmE/edit?usp=sharing

Sweet tune, all told.

According to that, you've listened to Have You Never Been Mellow far more often than any other song in your collection.

Krokus Singer Marc Storace Would 'Certainly' Accept Offer To Front AC/DC

Given that absolutely nothing in terms of conventional wisdom regarding Trump the candidate has played out, how can anyone today claim to believe that he will be easily defeated in the general election?

You're better than Trump though.

I'm seeing a lot (on Twitter mostly) of comments reminding the electorate that presidential campaigns used to be violent and aggressive, supposedly making the point that the confrontations taking place at Trump rallies are nothing new. Just today I saw a retweet in this vein, using RFK's assassination as the example. I don't see the parallel. Yes, Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton, and someone (I forget who) bashed another's brains in on the floor of Congress. But was there ever violence like this - where a candidate (whose vague policies condone violence) brazenly cheers on his supporters'

Tempest is better than Together Through Life and Modern Times put together though.

He was very old and ill, but Johnny Cash dying nailed me, like a mountain had collapsed. I think Dylan's eventual demise will be like that too. Adam Yauch & Jam Master Jay are the other two I can think of now - they died way before their time and it was shocking/depressing. As my daughter grows older and becomes more aware of what death means, and artists we both commune with begin to die, it will probably be tough as hell not to mourn through her eyes.

I'm in the Lammy camp too - more often, when an artist in their late 60s or older passes, I just sort of nod and think Well, that's the deal. Of course Bowie was different, and there are those in that category whose eventual deaths will shake me.