I enjoyed this article a lot, even though I basically thought, and still do, that grunge was mostly just warmed over punk, minus a lot of the joy and pop economy. I like some Nirvana tracks, but how anyone could know the Pixies and not think SLTS is not a lift from them. Didn't even Cobain say as much?

In the Tall Guy she has a kitchen sex scene with Jeff Goldblum in which her bare ass messily squashes a carton full of milk on the counter. Or am I thinking of Howard's End?

Fiorentino gives one of the worst film performances of all time in Dogma. Her half asleep, bored-to-death inflections drain every line of dialogue of any possible meaning and Kevin Smith needs all the help he can get. Too bad he casted with his dick. Maybe he writes with it, too. I kid Smith, I actually kind of…

i and I, you are right about radio music being dynamically compressed, and TV does the same thing, but that goes double for the commercials, which is why they sound so loud. I say "sound" because in one technical manner of speaking, they are not louder than the shows. In other words, the loudest sound on commercial…

They functioned in/around Kate Winslet just fine in Little Children.

Oh teadoust, you charmer, you're just saying that to be a colossal dick. Feel free to stuff your hostility up your juvenile ass, where it belongs.

Contra Dancers
I do this thing called contra dancing. It's kind of like square dancing, but different, more fun (IMO.) Similar in that they are called dances, and always with a live band, but with a different vocabulary of moves, and it's a progressive line dance (but nothing like "line dancing") in which couples…

Cruise is usually at his best playing dark against his image: Magnolia, Collateral, Interview w/a Vampire, Tropic Thunder, all of those are great performances. I'm not saying he'd have been better than Liotta - Cruise slick clothing just screams "movie star" in a way that would strain the movie's realism - but he…

Fire Alarm
This clip of Arcade Fire does nothing to counter my impression of them as mediocre and over hyped. The song has a boring melody and uninteresting groove. Even after reading some of the lyrics I could barely make them out through the sloppy, unimpressive vocals. The self-consciously quirky squeeze box…

Casey The Playa
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the pending sexual harassment lawsuits pending against Casey Affleck regarding alleged behavior during the making of the film. He apparently partied pretty hard and did some crazy whoring about with J.P, though that doesn't prove nor disprove the allegations, or the…

When I saw American Movie I thought it was fake, and didn't like it. When I learned it was real, I liked it even less. Discuss…

Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
I had already a big fan of their two previous CD's (Summer Teeth, and what, Being There?) I had read about the label troubles resulting the group and album switching to a new one, and didn't know what to expect. Got it home on a Friday after work, smoked a bowl and sat down with some…

Seconded. I was with it at first, then as it drifted into what felt like Hour 7 of these animals indulging Max's inane "let's pretend" scenarios, it started to occur to me that this movie really was full of it. At least that's my opinion. I understand others really love it. I don't get that AT ALL.

Yes, I was hooked by the pilot, before I had any clue of the kind of genre twists it would be taking. I just loved the setup an the characters right off the bat. Walkabout pretty much cemented I would hang with the show for a decent period even if it got bad for a while. Though there were weak stretches, it was…

I felt that way about Rushmore but Tennenbaums had to grow on me a bit, though now I love it deeply.

Anyway guitar bands are on their way out. Oh wait, that's true now…

Eh gads, The Game, I'm glad I was willing to see a Fincher movie after that one. Worst. Ending. Ever. Just ghastly awful.

David Fincher's 2nd & 3rd features.
The bravado credit sequences for both Seven and Fight Club had me convinced I was in for a wild ride filled with shocks, surprises, and incredible visual flourishes. Neither film, though they are very different, disappointed. I still think Seven is one of the great horror…

Sorry for the bad grammar. And the triple post.

Plus Gasteyer was always finding away to shoehorn in her singing. She normally tried to play it as dorky, but you could tell she had a trained singing voice and was trying to it off; similarly I thought Chris Kataan was always taking his shirt off not for laughs, but to show you how buff he was.