It's been a week and only now do I realize my mistake. I like Eric Roth. There is also Tim Roth so I guess that's why I'm confused.

Saw the Name of the Rose again. Great movie. Sean Connery delivers a masterclass and then F. Murray Abraham comes in at the end and manages to upstage him. Movies deserves to be longer though. Could easily add another 30 minutes.

F. Murray Abrahams didn't have a bad career but I feel he has been criminally underused. What a talent. He can play anything with complete conviction. Christopher Plummer in the last 30 years is what Abrahams should have become.

That could be, but both songs being registered on ASCAP recently hints at something beyond just a coincidence.

Admittedly none of this makes much sense so it's hard to predict what it means, if anything. Could merely be some fuck up in the GN'R camp.

Shotgun Blues lyrics are the most immature.

Get in the Ring is funny in an adolescent way.

Me too, but that's not saying much. Never really gave it a chance.

While not a great album it does have some great songs. At least 3 would go into any PF playlist. I'll take it.

I'm turning 40 in 4 days and I notice a distinct change in my musical taste. When I was 15-20, bands like Faith No More and Rage Against the Machine were the shit. I turned on a few of their albums yesterday and hated it. The melodies and the riffs are still the same, still good, but for some obscure reason I now hate it. The best reason I could think of was that a guy like Mike Patton, while very talented, is not really an artist the way I see it. His solo work for example is mostly nonsense. Doing weird shit just to do it, like he has no musical compass. Good band, but perhaps not a real band. And I want real bands. It's like they had me fooled for all these years.

With other bands like GN'R and Pink Floyd the opposite has happened. I like their stuff more now. Used to be I thought Move To The City was a mediocre song, now I love it. Same with much of Final Cut etc.