You can't see this, but as I was typing that I was sneering and texting and tweeting all at the same while listening to Skrillex.

I go back and forth on The Silmarillion.  On the one hand, the prose is pretty impenetrable, but on the other hand, he's writing in a style that is making clear allusions to various ancient creation myths and poetic cycles that are really cool to see if you can spot them.  I think the biggest problem with the…

I was actually kind of protected from having that happen because my parents were hyper cautious what movies I was and wasn't allowed to see until I was like 12 or 13.  As a result, I only saw Jurassic Park in discontinuous bits and pieces when it was on TV and my folks weren't around, when it was playing in the…

I'd watch that.  I'd watch the shit out of that.

I'm in the same boat.  I've really come around to Adore, which is a pretty big surprise considering how dated the production sounds now and how harshly I rejected it when it came out.  Machina, on the other hand, just isn't very good.

I'll probably get into a little trouble for saying this, but Skyward Sword has been my biggest video game disappointment of all time.  I knew not to expect another OoT, but this was the first Zelda game I gave up on from boredom rather than frustration.

Moon is far and away my favorite Modest Mouse album (I think it's nearly perfect), but it does break with the sound they perfect on their first albums, which I also love.  I won't ramble about why I think it's brilliant, but I would encourage you to give Life Like Weeds another try, which is my all time favorite…

Is Sabre light compatible with my pyramid tablet?

Hey, thanks!

Just so you know, our musical histories are more or less identical.  Props on the King Buzzo avatar, also.

Oh god, I can't believe I didn't post this myself.  I discovered music in 1996 when I was in 3rd grade and fell in love with everything about early to mid 90s alternative.  By 8 years old, I was really excited to become a teenager, listen to grunge, and adopt whatever lifestyle I thought sarcastic, counter cultural…

You know, when I saw Phantom Menace in theaters, I think I was 12 years old or so, and while I knew it wasn't great, I thought it was pretty darn good.  As I get older and older, I find more things to dislike about it, but being pretty young, I found it pretty easy to get swept up in the adventure.

When I was 16, my parents put a Ticket Master envelope in my Easter basket and I got really excited because I'd been dropping hints that I wanted to go to Lollapalooza to see Dinosaur Jr.  As I was opening the envelope I actually said out loud "I can't believe I'm really going to get to see…Zwan?"

Even that first album was pretty spotty.  I got around to putting it on my iTunes a little while ago, and the good songs have really held up, but a lot of the B Sides have gotten increasingly bland.

Yeah, I agree.  I don't know if the nostalgia factor is what tips Ghostbusters II over for me, but I've always liked that movie plenty.

The Simpsons decline was made all the more painful by how gradual it was.  Sunday nights were kind of special in my house because we would all gather round at 7 and watch The Simpsons together for years, and I remember as the good episode to bad episode ratio got bleaker and bleaker, fewer and fewer family members…

That was such a let down.  The singles from that album were positively everywhere when I was in 6th or 7th grade, and when a friend of mine bought it, we listened to it with insanely high expectations and were just crushed.  I've heard from more than a couple people that it actually is a good album if you listen to it…

I can't remember my first pop culture disappointment as a child (although the second batch of Power Rangers was a pretty harsh let down, if I recall correctly), but Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls was by far the most severe.  Like plenty of people, I adored the original trilogy from as long as I…

I thought the exact same thing.  I like the idea that even At the Drive-In isn't going to bullshit us about how At the Drive-In still hates itself.

There's nothing damning about liking that song or that album.  They were the best post hardcore band and that was their (arguably) best album.