I think one reason why a lot of us are bitching is that we've seen this movie before.  When things get promised--say an album---and it doesn't show up and
there's nothing but lame excuses or silence, it saps your enthusiasm for the brand name.  At some point it would be nice if they did stuff like a normal band and just released material every few years or so.  I'm not even talking about new music either.  By all accounts, Axl has an entire shitload of live GNR performances in his vault.  Why not release a two dvd set of live performances?  One would feature original GNR and I'd prefer to see the last show in Argentina, but I wouldn't complain if he picked the Ritz show.  The other dvd would be of new Gnr live performance--RIR  III, Hammerstein 2006 etc.  It would give the fans--old and new--something positive to talk about and he'd make a lot of money and make people happy.  It'd also tide over fans until the next supposed album.

But I think it makes too much sense for the band to ever consider this.  Sigh

State of Play--it was a lot better than Body of Lies.  A good film burdened by overplotting and a crappy performance by Ben Affleck.  Jason Bateman, Russell Crowe, Helen Mirren, and Rachel McAdams gave good performances.  I thought they explored the theme of traditional news media (newspapers) going by the wayside pretty well.

Shout it out loud.

This commercial has been on a while (since last month).  It's just a promo for espn for their NASCAR broadcasts.  They play the intro to Jungle for like 30 seconds.  It has nothing to do with a tour or reunion.