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Papa Roach - Between Angels & Insects Still one of my all-time favorite songs, 7 years later.

600,000 to go. If Ye can't do it, I don't know that the million seller week is ever going to happen again, what with the CD market falling apart.

That's another LonelyGirl sort of thing... Right?

Marianas Trench are a good pop-punk band from Vancouver. Well good enough to attract the interest of someone who wouldn't otherwise listen to it, at least. <_

I heard nothing of KT Tunstall outside the singles (and even those without much great interest on my part), but I really dug this record. Exciting, nice and varied, and she's got a great ear for melody. Sort of like John Mayer, in that they're both infinitely listenable when they're on. Best tracks: If Only, Funnyman, Hold On, I Don't Want You Now, Saving My Face and Someday Soon.

In the battle between the Leafs and the Habs, there are no winners. Only two disappointed fan bases taking whatever they can get.

I'd love to hear a full fledged Wu-Tang/metal covers record. The collabo's on Loud Rocks with System of a Down and Chad Smith/Tom Morello were great.

In fairness in terms of CD sales he could. Fiddy is still the last person to sell more than a million copies in a week, whereas I think Kanye's first week sales for Late Registration were a few hundred thousand copies lighter. All depends on whose audience has held up the best. I'd bet Kanye's has percentage wise, but remember that by those stats Fiddy's got more to lose.

Just enough to finish in front of the Habs again this year.

The first time I listened to the record I was a bit underwhelmed, but it's a grower in a BIG way. Even a track like Barry Bonds, which along with Drunk And Hot Girls was one of the biggest problems, has grown on me. I completely disagree on the idea that Kanye didn't have any lyrical departures this time around. What about the "I Used To Love H.E.R."-esque take on Chicago with "Homecoming"? Or the earnest tribute to Jay-Z with "Big Brother"? What about "Everything I Not", where he essentially cops to every criticism people have of him because he refuses to put up that hip-hop bullshit front? And yeah, there're the songs about success, money and women. I'd imagine that all three are particularly relevant to life as he lives it at the moment. The lyrics are still more genius than anyone in the mainstream right now. And I'd say he took a bunch of BIG risks with the production here. With the exception of a few tracks with the traditional "Kanye sound", a lot of these tracks are more electro-influenced. Hell, he did a track with Chris Martin. And I'm damn near certain that the first track samples "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" by Elton John. If that's not risky for hip-hop then I don't know what is. Right now I'm in pretty much full Kanye addiction. Great record, and I love all three so I don't know where it ranks, but there's definitely not a big dropoff if there is one at all.

The show's gotten considerably better since a shakey first two episodes. Still not a drop in the bucket to Mad Men or Flight of the Conchords as far as great new summer shows go.

Having heard AF cover The Clash and New Order, they'd do an awesome covers record.

Good for her. I can't see why this would impact their careers in the slightest, seeing as its basically been public record for years and on top of that, what percentage of the movie-going audience actually identifies with specific directors? I mean, "From the directors of The Matrix" is one thing, but does "From the Wachowskis" really carry all that much wait with your average movie fan?

Recently: The Simpsons Movie - 8/10 Superbad - 8/10 In the Land of Women - 6/10

Wow, when I saw Hot Fuzz I figured that was just a joke trailer tagged on. One would hope there's a lot better in the movie than what they put in the trailer, but I'll gladly settle for some Michael Ian Black meta-comedy.

At this point Judd Apatow is a legit mogul. I bet if he did another TV show people would actually watch! Anything that makes John C. Reilly a star is good by my books. The trailer was funny, and the cast is fucking awesome. Apatow is pretty much untouchable in the meanwhile.

This whole thing just keeps making Kanye look less crazy.

"Gonna Fly Now", especially in the first Rocky movie. It was good whenever they used it, but like everything else about that series, it was better the first time around.

He's like 2pac, rushing to record as much music as he possibly can before his impending death. Or in R Kelly's case, imprisonment for statutory rape.

Elton John hasn't been interesting in 20 years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnop4eqmqRQ Much betta.