I shall recommend Shallow North Dakota. If you want less poppy.

Only guitarists and vocalists that can't be easily written off as having drug or ego problems get to complain about being cheated out of royalties.

It's really good to hear that he's pulled his life back on track. Now if I can just start hitting the treadmill and eating nothing but salmon and fruit… eventually.

I would expect that his lawyers are adults with an adult appreciation for intellectual property, Scharpling had a radio show that he was never paid for and you were able to listen to for free. The only real difference between him and Howard Stern is the fact that his radio host never had any pretense of owning his…

The whole dumpster thing can be chalked up to a mistake made in the heat of the moment, and I wouldn't expect diplomat or super spy to immediately know all the mundane technicals of a space station. A prince wouldn't have been kept out of battle to maintain a bloodline especially since it was an all or nothing battle.

Yah, it's hard to imagine that a 'Prince' who is playing liasson for a rebellion, and a leader of the rebellion, wouldn't be extremely well trained and secretly badassed. I keep using Morgana from Merlin as an example because it was it was simply expected that she'd be well trained with a sword, and leading an army.…

Unfortunately, the person who owns one CD gets to be the music fan, and the person who listens to the radio all day and reads about pop stars gets to be the music lover. Anything more than that and it becomes socially unacceptable.

I've started using Foobar to retag and then move/rename my mp3 files.

I use Foobar2000 which is a nice media player, but also a very powerful front-end for tagging and renaming files.

One of the greatest moments on the Daily Show is when Jon Stewart interrupted Kramer and said "this song ain't about you."

I'm regular WFMU listener and can attest to the fact there is suprising amount of premium music on the FMA. Liz Berg dedicates a segment of her show to it ever week, and you'll find a lot great lives sets for FMU and KCRW as well.

I didn't care about Justin Bieber before because I wasn't a 9 year-old, and I don't care about Justin Bieber now because I still have zero interest in pop music. As far as I'm concerned, that's not snobbery and it' that's no different than not being interested in cricket, or owling. I Bieber made a good album, then he…

I think it's a mistake to assume that this attack was about French people being French. It seems to have a lot more to do with the fact that ISIS is losing territory and this is what it looks like when they desperately lash out.

The funny story was she obsessing over Inspector Gadget and I finally asked her why and she said it was because Penny was a girl like her who solved all the cases. So I smiled and added, she also rescues herself most of the time.

Sure, the original trilogy wasn't mean to be a cerebral as "Wages of Fear" but that doesn't mean it should be compared with "Transformers: The Movie."

The general rule of thumb with George Lucas films is the less control George Lucas has the better the George Lucas film will be. It's not that the original series took risks, it's just that it drew from a deeper well of inspiration (Episode IV is basically a Tarantino style homage to early sci-fi) and there was a well…

It's not like the princesses in Once Upon a Time, Merlin, and Game of Thrones would have worked well when the movie came out. I think Buttercup is supposed to be playing the role of sweet and naive farm girl. There is no way that could be written today without some relief. Without some Buttercup is depressed, or…

My daughter (who is 12 now) has never really liked the movie because Buttercup appears to do nothing to stand up for herself.

When I first read it I was well into my thirties and didn't bother with skepticism until I finished the book. It was a bit more rewarding thinking about the massive original novel. There is also a bit of nostalgia for how things we experienced as kids were modified by our parents.

Skinny Puppy "Too Dark Park" (1990) It's definitely not happening but it's a stone-cold classic and a good reminder that these guys watched and listened to a lot of horror movies.