The Pooh Sticks are a big notch in the Welsh column. Also Druids and their chanting.

Soup Dragons!
Maybe TOO geeky, but they had a buzz bin hit with "Divine Thing," and later contributed to more respected Scottish bands. Also a good example of the tension between idiosyncratic personal stuff and chubby populist grooves.

Smokey's name
Is Cosmo. That is all.

GODAMMIT!
Bilbo left his light on in his hobbit hole again! Does he think energy just grows on trees, or what? Effin' lazy-ass halfling.

Apple withdraws Atari Teenage Riot app due to utter lack of redeeming worth, is more like it. Humbug.

How can a book that shows the afterlife really be about loss, though? Doesn't death lose its meaning when it's not the ultimate end? I could be wrong here, I haven't read the book; mainly because I have trouble believing in the stakes when there's some kind of recognizable heaven involved.

R0bin Williams is never not performing. Except when he's out of his mind on coke, or in the midst of auto-erotic asphyxiation.

If you throw up every time you see a garishly made up middle-aged woman, Thelonious, you must lose a lot of nutrients. Maybe you should just stick to porn and cackling at Family Guy reruns.

TV and movies have a fundamentally different relationship to time; movies are a self-contained unit, television stretches out over years. You see the actors age, and you age along with them. TV, like comic strips, are bound up with the rhythms of everyday life. Few TV shows recognize or capitalize on this, but the…

That's kind of the thing: they're all talented musicians and interesting dudes, and their stuff is streets ahead of many indie bands—but there's still some lack of spark (or Sparks, or Sparxxx) a lot of the time.

I hung on to a Sharks Keep Moving LP from college, and still occasionally listen to it—it's a little overly buffed, too (too much Karate worship, is my diagnosis,) but it sporadically hits the spot.

He looks more like The Man From Another Place, to me.
Stay away from the speed, kids!

They based a Nintendo game on that movie, too. NERD!

I believe Pizza Hut pronounces it "P'zoned."

I attended a party in Seattle around 2000 in which the host put on Pinkerton. It was like that scene in The Big Chill. About 100 scenester types started dancing wildly. One of the dudes from Blood Brothers gave me a huge hug mid-pogo. It really warmed the cockles.

I think what you're trying to say is that we need some family trees and Venn diagrams.

I like all three of those bands too, but I honestly think they're fairly far apart as far as sound goes. D-Jr. has that whole 60's spazzy guitar god thing, Husker Du had that aggro midwest edge, and the 'Chunk were much simpler, hookier and pop-oriented…more like the Buzzcocks. I don't think Superchunk was haunted by…

Get Up Kids
It's important to note here that Get Up Kids were a straight rip-off of Superchunk, and that the 'Chunk influenced a TON of the latter-emo bands, for better or for worse.
Also, for laffs, nostalgia and even some hawtt jams, check out "Nowcore! The Punk Rock Evolution" from the good folks at K-Tel. It came…

I'm not sure what the zine was, but I'm reasonably positive that piece was by Camden Joy, who O'Neal mentions above. I believe it can be found in his collection "Lost Joy."

@Ricin Beans, that is quite true. It also leads to weird dancing and arguments!