Great piece on “Wayne’s World.” That was the last time Mike Meyers will hysterical without utilizing fart jokes and gross-out sight gags for 90 minutes (“So I Married An Axe Murderer” doesn’t count).

I listened to the new Jurassic 5 record and it reminded me of “Elephunk.” I can picture the label looking at them in a vast conference room, saying “Ok guys, um you haven’t really sold ANY records yet and we’re getting impatient so…” Instead of bringing aboard a useless white girl with 86 piercings, they called Scott Storch and DMB. And this album will brick and they will get dropped like Dilated.

Why do these hugely successful indie rap artists (Dilated, J5, Little Brother, Slum Village, Apathy) feel the need to go to a major, only to put out 2-3 albums that almost go gold combined then get dropped?

And thanks for the namedrop homie. It’s greatly appreciated.

2. That was an excellent think-piece about “Wayne’s World.” The only other films that come to mind that have that over-the-top brilliance as well as the dry wit are some of the screwball comedies from the thirties and early forties (“Bringing Up Baby” and “The Thin Man” as two that come to mind). When they made “WW”, everybody thought it would suck, even those of us who thought the ongoing series of SNL sketches with Wayne and Garth were tremendous. It had one extremely unfortunate effect, however, along with “The Blues Brothers”: it gave them the idea they could do this, when it was Mike Myers’s writing that was the underlying reason for the film’s success. Stan Mikita Donuts? Who else but Mike Myers would have had the temerity to make an in-joke that only Canadian audiences would get? (That was indeed a talented bunch at Dana Carvey’s show. Writing counts for something, huh? Who would have thought?)

3. Finally, “Miami Vice” . . . Frankly, the series sucked, and the idea of the series sucked, and reviving it now is another idea that sucked. Pastel suits? Okay, but that’s not quite enough to make a show, is it? You’re surely right about Colin Farrell. The only thing I can remember seeing him in is “Daredevil,” and that’s only because I saved my money and didn’t watch it until it came on TV a couple of months ago. And he wasn’t particularly good in that; if you can’t look particularly good acting next to Ben Affleck, I’d say you ought to be considering another profession.

Read your article at Stylus: very cool. W.W. is one of those classic movies that is good to be reminded of every now and again. Plus, it was interesting to learn that “The Dana Carvey Show” had such a crazy talented group of writers – Wow! – but maybe, like the Lakers a couple years back, their lack of success with the show was due in part to there being too many all-stars on one team.

At any rate, I’ve added you to my sidebar.