I saw Cabin Boy opening night with my friends and proceeded to keep the ticket stub in my wallet for all of high school. To me, Adam Resnick is a living legend. Can't wait to check out his book.

O'Neal's take on the entertainment pursuits of the extreme religious right are always gold, and clearly come from a place of deep, personal experience. If I were to guess, I'd say Southern Baptist, Texas-style.

There are few shows I've loved as much as Parks in its heyday, but my interest has been waning for a while (Ben/Leslie's wedding is the series finale to me). Even before I had kids, I recognized that nothing on TV is handled with less realism than parenting and babies. Now that I actually have young children and know…

Great Divide is the best Semisonic album by a wide margin, and I agree that "Closing Time" is among my least favorite tracks he's written. That being said, FSF and Chemistry have several awesome songs on them (I think Chemistry is really underrated by Semisonic fans overall).

Love Phish. Listen to every show I can get my hands on. Hate going to the shows. Can't deal with the majority of their fans. Too old, don't do drugs. New songs don't do anything for me, but every tour in 3.0 has improvisational moments and melodies I love as much as anything form their heyday. I've made instrumental…

Well, it certainly doesn't look like much, but I have a great affinity for director Phil Alden Robinson, who wrote/directed Field of Dreams (which is weirder and funnier than most remember), Sneakers (which is non-stop fun), and All Of Me (c'mon!). He doesn't make movies often enough, as far as I'm concerned.

I tend to be pretty good at separating the art from the artist. For example, I know Mark Wahlberg is a goofy gus, but I genuinely love his on-screen persona, and I've seen and enjoyed the majority of his movies. But Gwenyth Paltrow, who is in several films I truly love, is a goofy gus of such magnitude that it's…

I'm in TN as well, though I lived in NYC during the Seldom Seen Kid and Build A Rocket Boys tours. In both cases, they came through town shortly after my wife had given birth, so I opted out. Huge bummer given that Chicago is the closet they're getting to my neck of the woods this time. I hoped for at least an Atlanta…

I know it's mostly Little Feat backing Robert Palmer on his debut album "Sneakin' Sally Through The Alley," but I believe a few of the Meters are on there as well. If nothing else, that has to be George Porter Jr. on that slinky bass line. The opening three-song suite on that album is as good as it gets.

Giving her what exactly? A reasonable explanation as to the justified existence of this odd Newswire entry? If so, then why is there so much grunting involved? Just lay it out for her in simple terms, give it to her plain, O'Neal. She can take it!

What am I missing here? Robin Hood: Men In Tights is the second movie on the list of "notable" additions? I never expected to see "Capote" and "Cosby Show" in the same Newswire headline, either. Again, why? Is O'Neal napping right now?

I don't have an affinity for emo, or power-punk, or whatever else you would generally classify Jimmy Eat World as, but I have two of their songs on my iPod, the expected Middle and Sweetness, and I'll be damned if I've ever skipped either when they came up on shuffle. The Sweetness is an awesome, awesome pop song.

That's a great story. I had a somewhat similar experience when the Coens re-releasesd Blood Simple. My wife and I went to see it and there were only two other people in the theater. As we were walking out, the other couple started engaging us in conversation, because how could watch such an awesome movie and not want…

Yeah, it doesn't suffer from lack of ambition. But I kept thinking how stretched the whole thing was. Admittedly, it was gonna be awful at any length, but I'd wager that had that exact same video unfolded in 60-seconds, Casino would have been equally happy and the people laughing at Casino would have been equally…

The Red Hot Chili Peppers are a supremely talented band with the exception of Kiedis, who essentially makes them awful and unlistenable. Kudos to Chad Smith for simultaneously distancing himself from that awful performance while also helping people out. Crafty move.

Admittedly, I have not given this a ton of thought (as with all things internet-related), but my memory of that movie (and i even owned the Laserdisc, so I did like it a lot) was that, as with most Tarantino creations, the "bad" guys were so obviously fun, and clearly given the best lines and most creative juice by…

Haven't seen it in a long time, but loved it as a 17-year old when it came out. I don't imagine I would find the Tarantino character's penchant for lady-killing sit well with my stomach anymore, and I don't have faith in Rodriguez' ability to make that trait work in an episodic series, but I will say that the moment…

My first apt. in New York was on 112th, home to Tom's Diner. I only lived there for 3 months, but I swear I saw the "real Kramer" doing his Seinfeld tour outside the diner at least a dozen times. I cannot imagine the level of excitement I would have felt had I seen Jerry and George casually strolling by (George in the…

The answer is not as awesome as Doberman's version. In this case, I had interviewed for a job at Comedy Central, and I wasn't the right fit because my background wasn't tech-y enough, but the hiring manager and I hit it off really well so he gave me some referrals and fed me people who needed basic video editing…

When I first moved to NYC, my initial video jobs were editing footage for random people in their homes. One day I was working in a nice apartment in lower Manhattan, and the woman who hired me was being very hospitable and making small talk. She asked what my plans were for my new life in NYC, and I immediately…