Yeah, after reading this intro, I immediately searched "One Foot" to see who would be the first to comment on this. I don't want to speak ill of anyone, but I often find that one particular music byline here seems better suited for Pitchfork.

I love Costello and I love that song, but I agree that his performance on it seems like someone doing a heightened, snarky Elvis Costello impression rather than the real deal. It's waaaay too much.

Counterpoint..

Your countdown is too late. Look above you.

The jokes from the pilot just sound lazy and cheap. That tweet Sulkin sent is legitimately cruel and heartless. There's not even a pretense of a joke there. I'm surprised he didn't get more flak for that.

If I had seen Looper before I had kids I would have thought "that was a bad-ass little movie." Having seen Looper after I had kids, I couldn't think thoughts because I was too busy crying my damn eyes out.

The music choices during the big montages are justifiably lauded, but I was equally pleased by the subtle use of Squeeze's "If I" playing out on the patio during that slow tracking shot towards the bathroom with Hank. The chorus is repetitive and somewhat robotic. "If I didn't love you, I'd hate you." Appropriate, to…

This last album didn't spark for me as I'd hoped, but this was the one song that I immediately wanted to listen to on an endless loop. The fact that it was singled out for a PTA video makes it that much better. Almost as excellent as their "Across The Universe" video.

I really wanted to love this collaboration, but that track isn't doing anything for me. Oh well. At least I have the gazillion other records both artists have released to console me.

Yeah, it was a cheap headline to grab viewers a la the "Jennifer Lawrence is a filthy racist" one or whatever it was, and it worked, because here I am.

Well, my father produced several records in the 80s/90s (none that you've heard of, so don't ask), and my brother is a very successful studio musician/sometime producer who has worked with many of today's top producers, and one of my closest friends is a Grammy-winning record producer who's sold millions of records,…

Fair enough, but he remains anamolous in the industry, doesn't he? Every successful producer I've ever been familiar with has general been able to play at least one instrument really well (usually multiple instruments). Good on him for parlaying his musical taste alone, but it does remain strange to me that he pulled…

Isn't that how he's always produced records? You can't deny his track record, but does Rick Rubin actually play an instrument or have any demonstrable musical ability? Again, his track record speaks for itself, but he's kind of the ultimate guru/consigliere, right? It's not like he can jump in there and start adding…

This is how famous people should use crowd-sourced funding on the web. Check out the various  rewards for the different tiers of donations, all Kickstarter-inspired (You can even get a Cranston-autographed "Leaves Of Grass"), the difference of course being that you're actually helping someone who needs it. Further…

* Waves from Brentwood because I need my kids in decent schools. Get it together, Metro!

True, but the only time I successfully stalked them was on that one 2000 tour stop, and it was easy to get their autographs because my uncle was a professional autograph collector at the time so he told me where to be and when in order to beat the rush of other fans. So, technically, he did the stalking research for…

@avclub-85d8ce590ad8981ca2c8286f79f59954:disqus Well, I'm not an anchorman at least. Can we be friends now?

A solid and well-deserved dig, no doubt. But I was actually really, really lucky in high school, and despite my avowed nerd/teacher's pet status, was never bullied and had a large group of friends. I even managed to date a super hot girl my senior year. I know high school is hell for most people who enjoy A.V.…

The most important television show of high school for me. My intense devotion to KITH in the mid-90s yielded the following:

The last minute of that song encapsulates everything I love most about Josh Homme. Presumably, if that slinky little riff had been allowed to ascend any higher every listener would have been shown the secrets of the Universe. Or, at the very least, gotten super pregnant.