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Johnny Depp is rumoured to be The Riddler in the next film. I hope it comes to fruition.

It was a music venue?

Bring back the Manor to Kingston's "best kept secret".

I'm going for both days. BTW, the festival is next weekend: August 8th and 9th. I hope I can meet-up with everyone here that's going.

Strombo's show is excellent. He's an enthusiastic and well researched interviewer and the show can be surprisingly funny. However, the best interview show on TV by a mile is Charlie Rose on PBS.

The Black Keys are on my list of bands I haven't seen yet but must see along with The Stooges.

That new MGMT single, "Electric Feel", has one of the catchiest bass hooks I've heard in quite some time. I've heard that they have trouble staying in key vocally a la Anthony Kiedis.

I believe The Kills are playing on the 4th. I'd totally check them out.

I watched the show tonight. I loved Ray's set. Ben was good too.

They have only released season 1 so far... hence my dl'ding of the rest... So many 'RP episodes destroyed: That Russian "Tiny Dancer" show was ruined (the Elton John song was substituted by canned music) as well as the funniest episode ever, the one where Les was on the ledge accused of being a "homo"; in later edited versions, Herb called Les "a gay".

WKRP In Cincinnati Deadwood Firefly Rome The Honeymooners

If I didn't have the flu I'd be all over those tickets.

Parsons for sure and some others from the "cosmic country" genre. The Eagles (not a cosmic country band) were pretty influential, even if everyone is sick to death of their music.

In fairness to The Eagles, they did tee-up the alt-country genre quite nicely.

Here's Toronto Star columnist Greg Quill's take on their first ACC show from two days ago: IN CONCERT Eagles' notes perfect but feeling's not so easy Jul 22, 2008 04:30 AM GREG QUILL ENTERTAINMENT COLUMNIST It's hard to reconcile the sterile, state-of-the-art band that performed the first of three sold-out Air Canada Centre shows last night with the Eagles who elevated country rock to an art form in the late 1970s, with their characteristic high, tight harmonies and richly arranged guitars. They captured the decaying twang of the West Coast zeitgeist in those years so perfectly with their monster album Hotel California. Back then drummer/singer Don Henley, guitarists Glenn Frey, Don Felder, Joe Walsh, and bassist Timothy B. Schmit were at the very centre of a cultural confluence that had been gathering in American music for almost two decades. They were the harbingers of a perfect musical storm that fused elements of country music, pop, rock and rhythm & blues embellished with lyrics that were alternatively melancholy, sarcastic, intelligently romantic and often sour. Their numerous hits were – and still are, given how many of them brought fans to their feet last night – intrinsically infectious, instantly recognizable and musically sound. And while the songs might not have the same cultural resonance they once did, they have become enduring favourites, golden and timeless. In the first half of last night's two-part show, divided by a 20-minute intermission, the oldies provided ample proof of the solid connection between the Eagles (minus Felder, who was sacked in 2001, and whose distinctive guitar work is now being replicated onstage, note-for-note, nuance-for-nuance, by an expert mimic) and their fans. Those songs included "Witchy Woman," "Lyin' Eyes," "Peaceful Easy Feelin'," "Hotel California," "The Long Run" and "Take It Easy." But with a few exceptions – notably hot and loud solo turns by Walsh ("In the City," "Life's Been Good") and Henley ("Boys of Summer," "Dirty Laundry") – nothing caught fire. The reunited Eagles – augmented by a virtual orchestra that includes three keyboardists, a horn section, a fiddler and a spare drummer – seem so intent on delivering 30- and 40-year-old goods in mint condition that the songs have the sheen of preserved relics, pretty, elegant and almost lifeless. Moreover, the corporate look the four front men have adopted – grey suits, white shirts and ties – is uncomfortably close to the appearance of a brace of Wall Street bankers. Only Walsh's long blond hair, slicked back but still ungovernable, suggested they were about to crunch guitars instead of numbers. And despite the generous length of the program, a solid 2 1/2 hours of music, there's something odd about the pacing. Both sets opened with a bank of songs from the band's current CD, Long Road Out of Eden, which, to be kind, lacks the potency of the Eagles' best work. An all-acoustic run-through of a terminally soporific medley whose high point was "Waiting In The Weeds" was not the way to ratchet things up after intermission.

I'm all for "Breat feeding".

Better broken glass than a sick Trey... the baby Trey that is.

How about switching to glass baby-bottles? The plastic ones are toxic.

It's true that Ryan isn't getting that much work, but closers don't normally have a long shelf-life to begin with.

Great news Bob and Mellie!

I love the Criterion. You can't go wrong with any Akira Kurosawa films like The Hidden Fortress, Seven Samurai, Yojimbo or Throne of Blood.

And I have to help him move out of his friend's garage on Saturday.

One thing I don't like about Stern (other than his love of Bon Jovi) is that he's an enabler. Case in point the trainwreck that is Artie.

If you can see that he's finished (and I agree that he's done), then every scout in the Majors has known that Ryan is finished for months; good luck getting anything of value for him. When does Arcardo come of the DL?

Howard is repeatedly on record as being a Bon Jovi fan.