Wes Phillips

Bagheera demonstrates how to supercharge the obliques. That girl is flexible!

Huckleberry decides to add exercise to his regimen. He's already on the Atkins diet.

The guy who invented TV-B-Gone ought to get a Nobel Prize. I don't mind being at bars or places where people are actually watching TV, but I resent being the only person in a waiting room with the TV blaring inanities. And when you ask the receptionist to turn it off, you get answers like "Other people like it."

I love the way the interview begins with a line that echoes the opening line of Burgess' Earthly Powers. The man who gave us The Quiet American also had some prescient things to say about future conflicts America might participate in.

But this one's the Best Summer Music Reads from Pitchfork. And the only one I've already read is King Dork.

This segment covers plating and pressing. Audiophiles should note that this example uses the simpler (and less replicable) one-step plating process, which is why there's no mention of an archival "mother," just a stamper.

How records are made: This segment covers making the lacquer and then cutting it.