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This song's been stuck in my head since HESITATION MARKS came out. It got re-stuck seeing Trent and the Industrial Funk All-Stars in Brooklyn last month. It got RE-re-stuck thanks to both last week's COVERT AFFAIRS season finale and a NIN-themed, grotesquely work-unsafe pinup shoot I did this past weekend. Mr. Belew, if you please? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLfMd70xYNQ

The Ford "'And' Is Better Than 'Or'" commercials - dear God, kill them with fire.

And what does it say about us as a species that there's a bigger outcry on the Intertubez because the goddamn dog on FAMILY GUY was knocked off the same night as Richard?

Seems like, all the back to THE SOPRANOS, Home Box has been adhering to Joe Bob Briggs' First Rule of the Drive-In: "Anyone can die at any time." And how symmetrical that, two seasons in a row, both Nucky and Chalky lost someone they loved in a speakeasy tragedy. (As well as the second time this year that HBO has ended an episode featuring unexpected corpses with silence (or at least, no music) over the end credits - the better to hear the sounds of our bitter tears and our hearts breaking...)

One of the "dangers" of attending the Great Dickens Xmas Fair in San Francisco is that this little earworm will be performed. Ladies and germs, "Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow-Wow."http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cOteOeUSRM

And unfortunately, the NJ Elephant Party isn't the political extreme that wants to disarm the entire fucking state, so my choice was already made up. Pretty sure I'm officially an Eisenhower Republican, just like my late parents...

Anyone else catch the Stealth Pun of the dickish FBI agent referring to Dana and her psycho boyfriend du jour as Romeo and Juliet - and Carrie (who in the real world WAS Juliet!) snapping "Yeah, remember how that worked out!"? I laughed, anyway.

I gotta admit, at the end of the ep the words running through my mind were Chalky's, from Season 2: "Purnsley be done."

A recent Facebook convo re: Gene Kelly's SINGIN' IN THE RAIN inspired me to locate this circa 1978 NYC post-punk obscurity. Ignore the blatant Knack-isms of the band, because I dare you not to have a goofy grin on your face by performance's end.

I remember marking out when I realized both Lauter and quintessential "hey it's that guy" actor Dick Miller were part of the JFK hit squad in EXECUTIVE ACTION.

My fear was - after seeing several live streams of the summer festival tour - there'd be no surprises at the Brooklyn show. WRONG. New lighting rig. New band members: hellOOO, Pino Palladino and backup singers! New set list (mercy-killing "Closer" in favor of a large swath of HESITATION MARKS? I approve). First time in concert-going memory I actually banged my head (modestly) in places.

After paying seventy-five bucks a pop for tickets to see Mr. and Mrs. Reznor's side project How To Destroy Angels this past spring, I broke that record by shelling out two C-notes (plus LiveNation vig) so me and my date could stand on the floor of Brooklyn's new Barclays Center to witness Nine Inch Nails proper. I did not regret either purchase. If you have ANY interest in NIN past or present, the current stage production and touring band will shear the top of your head clean off.

Probably THE most strip-mined cast in TV history, as both JUSTIFIED and SONS OF ANARCHY are in a nuclear arms race to see who can cram the most DEADWOOD alumni into their storylines. Hell, I even marked out a bit when I realized Trixie was Ray Donovan's wife.

Bobby as the moral core of SAMCRO has been absent for far too long. Welcome back, Mr. Munson. And welcome back, too, Ms. Venus Van Dam, whose sudden appearance was once again a "holy shit" moment of the best kind.

The episode with Screaming Females was awesome. Especially because THE CAMERA CUT THE BASS PLAYER'S HEAD OFF THE ENTIRE SHOW. I also saw Chris host a live Screamales concert this past summer near the Rutgers campus - including interviewing the band during another band's sound check. Awkwardly. And Marissa gave him crap the entire time.

I like that she's singing "Six Underground" with less helium in her voice than on the original. And you're not the only one who gets fifteen-minute, logic-defying crushes, trust me.

They've been playing the bejeezus out of the 30-second version of this ad recently - and it's fun and all, in a bite-sized-portion kind of way - but the SuperBowl-length original is a fucking work of ART. And who else besides Willem Dafoe (perfectly cast here, BTW) has played Jesus and Lucifer? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu8aT6bcjFY

literally had me SCREAMING WITH RAGE at my TV set. Even I was kinda shocked at my reaction. Really?Cause that was my favorite part of the season. I fucking hated that character and was happy to see her die. You're probably still pissed that Lucy was put on a bus (on the show and in real life). As a refresher, here's Billie's "Crowning Moment of Awesome," from a few scenes prior in the same episode:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnV3YQeSoNs

Trust me, that GIF highlighted Taeler Hendrix's single best move.

This trailer scare the ever-lovin' SHIT out of fourteen-year-old me when it popped up on my television screen.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHreWveYP0Q

Another day, another clutch of photos of Screaming Females' Marissa Paternoster. This little lady is a hard-core guitar hero.

Dexter is now at the same point Nip/Tuck was after they wrote out the Eden Lord character: I'll watch it to the bitter end out of a sense of...duty?...but holy shit, put this puppy to sleep already.

As I said on the old board - and the trailer hints seem to be backing me up on this:Van Alden's gonna be involved in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. I'm betting good money on this.

Speaking of DoND briefcase girls, her next-door neighbor/Briefcase #24 (Meghan Markle of SUITS) sez hi.

Marissa from Screaming Females, a coupla winters ago on their (New Brunswick) home turf: