nonsense.
the lp is still a valid, and perhaps more than ever, necessary tool for music artists.
i was thinking this the other nite @ a party & people were jumping to & fro changing the ip[ods & putting stuff on random when all that was really called for was someone to put on Exile On Main St & let it be.
obv that's a singular context, but albums still have their value & are capable of creating & telling a story as fine as any other medium - tv/film/books. (so do songs, but with the opportunities albums afford by their length it means people with something genuine to say have the space to do that.)

edit: now having said that, i believe nearly all GnR releases could benefit from having at least one track culled from them (AFD maybe coulda lost either or both anything goes/you're crazy - but defo NOT TAY whereas UYI & CD could stand to withdraw maybe two or 3 songs.)

& of course the two greatest albums ever, Funhouse & The Stooges only have 7 & 8 songs respectively..

as a whole, & not having yet read the books - or really been much aware of the existence of that series or even the tv show until i watched it, except for very brief hype-beast mentions in the press that i tended to gloss over - i loved the first season.

i didn't too much care for episode 10/the season finale tho. far too much emphasis on plot development & not enough action & bloodshed!!
it was almost like what traditionally would have been the first episode of season 2. it felt like episode 9 was the 'real' end of the season & that 10 was interested in tidying up the storylines for the start of season 2.
i thought they coulda went out with a bigger bang.

"having said that" as larry david would say, episode 10 was actually p fuckin cool as per usual outside of it being an anti-climax for a season finale. for the last wee while it's been on this sort of knife-edge tipping point in tension. having said that, episode ten kinda lost that momentum slightly when you realised there wasn't time left for nor emphasis on some kinda action/dying/sex - but obv regained that momentum by it's class ending.

it's just a fuckin great tv show.

wish there were more than 10 episodes tho. i'm gonna miss it terribly. (& i don't really wanna read the books 'cause it'd ruin the tv show for me! how often do you get to say that? most always it's the other way around..)

i watched Sympathy for Mr Vengeance last week & i thought it was truly one of the best films i've ever seen

i thought Oldboy was good but hadn't prepared me for the impact of Sympathy for Mr Vengeance which totally blew my mind.

gonna watching Lady Vengeance tonight or tomorrow.

wtf is the point then