Robert Pollard's bizarre Phantom Tollbooth experiment. "2002: ROBERT POLLARD of GUIDED BY VOICES laments to Off Records how he wished he had sang for Phantom Tollbooth, one of his favorite bands." So they erased their vocals so he could sing completely new stuff over the backing tracks (via largehearted boy).
After the film Phantom Tollbooth was first seen on UK television, c. 1974, it became the subject of furious and fevered discussion in the playground, the "water cooler moment" of its day. It was our psychedelic happening baby and it freaked us out!
I heard someone use the phrase "water cooler TV" recently and wanted to laugh, so I did.

Seeing Jack White on Conan O'Brien (now I have 500 channels) - he could double for Michael Jackson.

News just in (35 years too late): Cream had very bad hair. Thin, wispy, crinkly. Split ends galore. They probably didn't have conditioner back then.

Lucinda Williams makes for a great interview in Word mag (print not online), reducing Mark Ellen to middle-aged fanboy. But he should know better than to write a lengthy preamble about the landscape he sees on the flight to LA. "The arctic waste is peppered with steel-blue lakes and the odd patch of forest". Oh really. I've got a laptop and I'm gonna use it.