I am taking a trip to Los Angeles in October and would appreciate any and all recommendations, tips, etc. Other than one day I spent there in 2002, this is my first time there. how long are you going to be, and what kind of things do you like? (ie: do you drink, are you vegan etc. etc.) Yes, I shou...

I am taking a trip to Los Angeles in October and would appreciate any and all recommendations, tips, etc. Other than one day I spent there in 2002, this is my first time there.

Like everybody here, I am completely gutted by this. My deepest condolences to those of you who knew and loved him.

Apparently he claims the Hamas is worse than the Nazis in a new book? I dunno, I'm only seeing this second hand. I try not to keep up with him. The last time I checked in several years ago I believe he had claimed to have solved the is/ought problem through neuroscience and it turns out people are h...

Love power peace-Live in Paris 1971. This was supposed to come out as a triple album in the early 70s showcasing the entire JB revue but since he Bootsy band quit/got fired, he cancelled it and put out Revolution of the mind (also excellent) with his next band instead. The Paris show was finally re...

Although I don't think I discovered any of it until the following year, Skin Graft had a banner year in 1994. These records all meant a lot to me Mount Shasta-Who's the Hottie? Dazzling Killmen-Face of Collapse Brice-Glace-When in Vanitas Of course, a lot of what I think about when I think about 199...

I'm really only familiar with the first two, which I both really like. I also think Harvey deserves some credit for igniting people's interest in Gainsbourg in the English-speaking world. That stuff was really hard to find, at least in the US, before the first Harvey record came out. Around a year a...

Watched Poor Things . Might well be the same joke for two and a half hours, but the lead performance just about pulled it off. I saw this in the theater with my parents and my niece on Christmas without knowing anything about it. I wish I'd read a little something about it so I would have known it ...

The Slits are great, but it's The Pop Group.

I'm the wrong person to answer this because I have time for all those records, even the gothy ones Gira has more or less disavowed. But I suppose my top three here are Soundtracks For the Blind. I'm a sucker for big sprawling records that are more than the sum of their parts, and that record is a vi...