Anne Boilin'

Last night, in keeping with Easter weekend tradition, I set aside five-and-a-half hours and watched ABC's showing of the most epic B-movie ever made: Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments.

Even after all these years, the terrible dialog, the overacting, the non-Jews playing Jews, HESTON! -- it's all just overwhelmingly awesome.

But as I've said here once before, nothing -- and I mean nothing -- gives me more reason to watch each year than the chance to bite my fist with unquenchable lust every time Anne Baxter appears on-screen as Nefretiri. She was seriously raw sex personified in that role, and my early boyhood crush on her likely set the stage for a 30-some-odd-year addiction to vengeful, duplicitous, treacherous, cuckolding -- but smokin' hot -- women.

Here's to you, my queen.

Kid A-hole

This is damn inspired. And -- can we finally speak the very necessary heresy, please? -- while I still believe that even an average Radiohead album is better than most bands' best, it's time to admit that they've essentially been recording the same record over and over since Kid A. Every Radiohead album has at least one or two great songs; the rest is basically amorphous, experimental beeps, pops and clicks.

OK Computer was a masterpiece. Actually, so was Kid A. But ever since, with the exception of maybe In Rainbows which had some much-needed shape to it, their stuff has been pretty much the same.

Yes I still love them and, yes, King of Limbs isn't awful by any means -- but I've never wanted so badly for a band to surprise me and return to their roots.

Easter Sunday Sacrilege

Happy Zombie Jesus Day!

Jesus: Don't let him get your brain.

Listening Post: Happy Hour Lounge Edition

It's been a while since I've done one of these, but we've had a good week around here so -- Happy Friday, everyone.

Hope it's a great weekend.

Here's Lisa Shaw -- Tomorrow.

Assistant Quote of the Day

"This guy is like if every College Republican chapter president in the world and the most insufferable students in your undergraduate philosophy class, plus fifty-thousand copies of Atlas Shrugged, combined into a Voltron and started a blog."

-- Adrian Chen of Gawker on Dilbert creator Scott "I can't stop digging this hole for myself" Adams

Gawker: Scott Adams Defends Gwyneth Paltrow from Privileged Black Woman/4.22.11

Quote of the Day

"Officers heard a gunshot, approached the vehicle, asked Mr. Jones if he was OK. He was, and they also observed he had a gun in his hand."

-- Lt. Nick Loussia of the Southfield, Michigan Police Department describing the moments after Koran-burning pastor Terry Jones almost shot his foot off with his own .40 caliber handgun