It already sounds less appetising, the company I used to work for has a cookbook series called 500… One is Pizzas, I had given a copy to my mother and am going home this weekend, I'm pretty sure there will be something more interesting in there (they had to do silly things to reach 500).

Dessert pizza sounds awesome! I wish I lived in the US…

I refrained from having too long a list (I initially just wanted to mention the Grosse Fuge which to me is the musical work that most fits the perfection criteria) as it could make for a very very long post but it's hard to argue with that, although from the second Viennese School I'm more familiar with Berg so I'll…

Yes to anything by Jacques Tati, it's all so elaborate yet so simple, perfection is really the most accurate word to describe it.

I'm purposefully keeping it for last in my Pynchon odyssey because of its reputation as an unreadable masterpiece. I figured everything else would prime me for it, and there have been a few occasions when I've started on a incredible high from an artist and nothing then came close (mostly Bergman as stated above,…

If we're going to include classical, just for Beethoven, I'll add the third symphony, the Grosse Fugue (and the late quartets in general), and my all time favourite piece of music, the piano sonata in C major, op.111.
Most of Brahms would also qualify.
Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique

You can't take a girl to see it on a first date (I've tried…).

I probably need to watch those two again, I've only seen them once seven to nine years ago, I remember finding Scanners a bit disappointing, I probably had already seen Videodrome and Naked Lunch by that point, so it wouldn't have been as impressive to me, but I can perfectly understand how the first Cronenberg one…

How so?
I've only read it about a year ago, but it instantly became one of my favourite books, I'm now reading everything else he's done (so far Vineland, V, just started Against the Day), with a few other books in between (someone had already mentioned Wodehouse, I guess I could have inclused Esterhazy or Kertesz,…

Yes, and if ASP wanted to develop a love triangle and show that Jess was a mistake, but the mistake Rory had to make at that age, a kid from Chilton would have been perfect for contrast, rather than Dean who somehow had forgotten how to read and developed an interest for Monster Trucks (IIRC).

Some (great) chefs are happy just to have their own little thing, and don't necessarily want the hurdle of a big operation; the line where she was (mock?) offended to be judged the best chef just after Alain Ducasse might have been a bit too much, but as she's relatively young, I can see it being the kind of…

David Cronenberg.
Shivers, The Brood, Videodrome, The Fly, Dead Ringers, Naked Lunch, M. Butterfly, Crash, Spider, A History of Violence and Eastern Promises are all perfect. You could also make the case for Existenz and Cosmopolis

Fanny and Alexander - it pretty much ruined the rest of Bergman for me as nothing was as good
The Emperor's New Groove - the funniest movie I've ever seen
Lubitsch's Bluebeard's Eighth Wife, Design for Living, Trouble in Pradise, Ninotchka, To Be or Not To Be, and Heaven can Wait. That's right, all of them are damn…

@avclub-4c1b274e8befa9cbcd35ae8bdd5f1085:disqus I never got the gay vibe, for me the awkwardness was more that he was only sixteen and didn't quite realise yet that being good looking wasn't enough, or, more in line with the rest of his character, had trouble understanding that not everyone thought he was god's gift…

I'm not from the US, so I'm quite curious about all this, I knew college tuition fees could get ridiculous, but that you could have to pay that amount before is quite shocking I find (I think they also say it is semester's tuition, not for the whole year). Anyway, it's probably best not to look at it too much, that's…

Yes, a thousand times yes. I find Emily's stories far more touching than any other on the show. Rory and Lorelai go through their little relationships, but she has a lifetime of hurt and wondering where things went wrong.

It makes sense, I initially watched season 6 and 7 as they were aired, as they went along, I was dreading more and more what would happen, as things went, I was unable to watch an entire episode in one stretch, and I didn't even finish watching season 7 then.
When I rewatched the complete series a few years ago, the…

@avclub-0edf30a984c91fe16daa1a9d45f2e08f:disqus I'm guessing the lots of zeros meant that Chilton would be 50,000, but that always seemed ridiculous, and 5,000 while by no means easy to find, probably wouldn't cause that much distress. Anyway, no matter how much it is, there is no reason Lorelai shouldn't have…

I don't think Gossip Girl ignored class differences, it just very much flaunted that it was better to have money as it was the most important thing ever and ewww! poor people!

I'm happy to ignore it as the series is just great and they had to find a way to put all the elements into place, but I always found everything leading to starting the Friday night dinners artificial. I'm also quite surprised Lorelai wouldn't have known how much the tuition cost and made provisions.