Well, I for one am breathing a little more easily. Thanks Marc. And yes, it hadn't escaped my notice how your top five are all rock or kind-of rock records. Interesting evolution on your part.

I will await Kyle's reply to my note of a few days ago (since he promised that one was forthcoming when we bumped into each other at Dora's the other night) before re-jumping in with my somewhat nebulous take on artistic longevity.

(Though I will say that Derek's note had me one step from suicide, or the 2005 equivalent - channel surfing - until, incredibly, I found God, in the form of the SI Swimsuit Model Search. TV, at least, continues to shoot for the stars.)