the Lush mini-album 'Scar' is my favorite thing from 1989. 6 perfect songs. to me it was the sound of the future.

warner archive releases
i know they aren't *genuine* mass-produced new dvd releases, but i still think the weekly new additions to the Warner Archive Collection should get mentioned in the list too. Interesting never-before-on-dvd curiosities are added to the library nearly every week.

sorry, i have to disagree with you (and the general consensus of the AVClub critics). i thought the ending was PERFECT. i wouldn't have ended it any other way.

i love this movie too. i agree parts of it don't work very well, but it's got several true laugh-out-loud moments, and that insane conspiracy theory storyline is genius.

possibilities for fap?
i don't care about nintendo gaming, but i'd pay big bucks for any portable that could let me see 3D holographic scantily-clad ladies bursting out of the screen. realistic 3D boobage without glasses is my porn holy grail. let me know when that happens and i'm in.

thread of the week

Season 6 of Lost is misunderstood and underrated, much like late-period Bowie.

my favorite Ant ballad is from 1981, oddly enough. beautiful song with dirty lyrics.

as for X, i like 'Under the Big Black Sun' ('82) much better than 'Wild Gift'.

'81 was a great year for female rockers. The Pretenders had some great singles that year and were at their peak as a live act (before half the band died), as were Siouxsie & the Banshees, whose album 'Juju' came while they had their best guitarist and were at a creative peak.

Whale had some other good songs besides 'Hobo'. 'Deliver the Juice', 'Pay For Me', 'Four Big Speakers', and 'Kickin'' all have earned a permanent place on my ipod.

'Tinderbox' has 3 classic Siouxsie songs - Candyman, Cities in Dust and This Unrest. the rest of the album doesn't do much for me. not sure why. The songs are maybe a bit too midtempo blah, but i think it is mostly the production - too mid-80's sounding, in a bad way. it rarely lets you forget it was made in 1985.…

nah, the only logical Siouxsie gateway is Juju. Catchy as hell, and it rocks just as hard as their earlier punk stuff. Kiss in the Dreamhouse and Hyaena are good too. my favorite is Kaleidoscope but i probably wouldn't recommend that as a starting point if only because it has an unconventional production style that…

it's okay. i don't *get* a lot of popular hipster music. everyone has different tastes. i automatically gravitate toward any band that sounds even remotely like early JAMC or The Primitives, and also female musicians in general, so i started loving Dum Dum Girls almost before i even heard them. (yet they almost lost…

early Raveonettes were possibly as good as Dum Dum Girls are now. but then the Raveonettes decided to stop rocking and start sucking, in a crappy Europop kind of way. Dum Dum Girls rock hard and they don't suck yet, so they win.

Chile is awesome
haven't been there yet, but if Flickr is any indication, Chile is full of cool places and hot women. For some reason a huge percentage of Flickr users are from Chile, and from what i've seen on that site, i'd definitely consider moving there if i knew Spanish. it seems like a fun culture. At the…

"Loveless was a groundbreaking classic for sure, but, for me, Jesus and Mary Chain, Cocteau Twins, Spacemen 3 and others would slightly challenge the "wholly unlike anything that came before it" assertion." -dwayneshintzy

"Isnt Anything sounds best when played on cassette in a beige Mercury Capri in the mountains outside Morgantown WV, circa 1992." - Donaiphi

Ride were the best live band of the bunch. i think to fully appreciate their albums it helps to have seen them play live during their heyday.

EVERY film Lloyd made from 1921-1927 was GREAT. there isn't a stinker in the bunch. even his shorts were consistently great. i wouldn't hesitate to recommend any of them to a newbie. I wish i could say the same about Keaton's output. and Keaton stole some of his most famous gags from earlier Lloyd films, so in some…