have you seen season 6 of 24?!

i kid of course. cromwell is immense, one of my favourite american actors. but he hams it up ridiculously on 24 - in a weird way he seems to be having the time of his life while playing the stupidest role he's maybe ever had. it's really bad. really bad.
he was great in babe tho...

anyway, re: BW - gyp rossetti cracks me up. shame he's really just there to die but he's great fun nonetheless. that hat was fucking otm.
inspite of the CRAP involving the brothel & richard harrow i thought last nights was alright.
again, it was heavily indebted to the soprano's - instead of medicating tony, we get a concussed nucky. but in fairness, the writing & directing was superb & had lots of great moments (nucky beheading the birthday cake for one), especially in conveying the distortion of nucky's world - (tho i did notice an unintended(?) displacement at the very very start when he tries to get up out of bed they use a shot from later on, as he's not dressed in his pyjama's for the close-up, it's a close-up from when he tries to get up later).

w/gyp not getting the backing from masseria (who can't die for a couple of yrs yet - & @ the speed this show goes at, prob won't ever) i can't see the 'war' being given as much attn as it could or should.
who is gonna rescue nucky? harrow? rothstein? eli?!

show needs more chalky white.
good, cheap joke when a confussed nucky said about shining his shoes. it was an enjoyable episode, i hardly fastforwarded thru any scenes for a change..

i'm unconvinced - specifically with what this has to do w/his being able to mix the band live any better than someone equally qualified.
as far as i'm aware, CD's tracks weren't recorded live, in that the band wasn't in the room doing the songs in the same take.
i don't understand how it's supposed to be his work w/the band translates into his being better than everyone else @ mixing them during a live show.
it's not actually a big deal, really. i just got tired of the condescension & hype from a hypocrite bottomfeeder. it'll happen, unfortunately. so it goes.

http://www.muzu.tv/therollingstones/one … o/1611540/

this one's just street fighting man except nowhere near as good.

tbpfh i'm a tad underwhelmed.

there are tons of great moments & riffs don't get me wrong, some really groovy shit & some epic sabbath stuff.
BUT i was expecting more. after thayil's work post-SG i thought the reunion would be more on his terms, rather than the songwriting of cornell. i am definitely more interested in what he brings to the table than cornell & i'm a tad disappointed that he sounds some what constrained - basically some of the songs should be much longer to accommodate his workouts. especially over 13 songs, the album does coalesce unflatteringly, becomes indistinguishable & samey at times, comparable to cornell's work since Superunknown really, rescued by the performance & ingenuity of the inspired band. they do bring a groove & a ruckus cornell has failed to fill since, & one that suits his vocal's best. for all the disappointment it is still great to have them back & there is a LOT to enjoy on here despite me wishing for more.
that's really my problem, it is good n all, i just wish they're was more, that they didn't think they had to stick so rigidly to the previous songwritery + metal riffage formula & let in a little more of that doomy/psych/drone bleed into the material.

what about civil war mate?
i actually thought myles & slash sucked the life outta SCoM. can't rem them doing RQ when i saw them.. i think slash kills them on CW, & would kill them on just about everything if he tried (but it seemed to me he wasn't really trying w/SCoM when i saw him, like he was just throwing it out there w/no energy)..