Joseph Spence's version of "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" tops my very short list of enjoyable Christmas music.

The story behind Messiaen's "Quartet for the End of Time" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wik… is nuts.  The guy was captured during World War II and composed this piece while in the POW camp.  The only other musicians he could find were a clarinetist, a violinist, and a cellist.  Putting himself on piano, he wrote the…

True story: I used to be in a band with the lead singer there in college.  Glad to see him doing great things!

Puma Man was my first one, too.  It wasn't until much later that I realized that Puma Man himself was one of the lead actors in Fitzcarraldo, too.  

Inconsequential, yes, but still awkward.  Most of the film was admittedly tame, but those few moments really stand out as being uncomfortable for me with my grandmother sitting inches away from me.  Also, she hated the movie. But then again I also saw "Citizen Kane" with her and she hated that, too.

Mine was definitely "My Cousin Vinny."  It would be a PG-13 movie if not for all of the times Joe Pesci says the F word.

I was sitting right next to my grandmother on the couch for "Lost in Translation."  There were several uncomfortable scenes, but the one that really stands out was the brief time in the strip club.  So many nearly naked and acrobatic bodies all at once…

Henry Mancini
Around the time I started college, my mom and I had to make the 10-hour drive up to Wisconsin three or four times for various orientations, move-ins, tours, etc. Every single one of those trips, she listened to two separate Henry Mancini greatest hits albums on repeat for the entire drive. The two…

As great as Chareth Cutestory was, I would vote for Leslie Knope's made-up niece, Torple.

Right, I should have clarified that I was agreeing with your first paragraph, that the 7th season does not deserve to be dismissed as it so often is. I could even agree that the last scene of the 6th season made sense, but all of the events leading up to that scene didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Maybe I'm…

I'm going to have to agree with Cliffy. The 7th season was certainly less snappy than the previous six seasons and had a noticeably different feel, but the characters actions (for the most part) felt much more realistic than in the 6th season. As others have noted, Amy Sherman-Palladino put the show in a real…

That was…literally…one of my favorite moments on Parks and Recreation ever. His delivery was perfect.

For me it was the scene in Lady and the Tramp where that sinister rat is sneaking into the baby's room and gets into a fight with Tramp. That was more distressing than any other Disney villain to me.

Once in a while it's somebody I know, but generally yes—just a telemarketer.

Perhaps I'm in the minority, but I answer most of the "unknown number" calls I get. There's a certain appealing mystery about it—somebody is calling, but you don't know who it is. I answer to satisfy my curiosity. I suppose in the world of this film, though, my curiosity would be my undoing.

It took me longer than I care to admit to understand that there were specific musicians and bands that made the music I heard on the radio. Until then, I was under the impression that it was all just music—it didn't occur to me that somebody had to make the music. That being said, whenever "Get Off of My Cloud" came…

Exactly, UtzTheCrabChip…it is so real that it looks fake. A new paradox for our modern age.

I haven't watched much HD or Blu Ray, but the stuff I have seen I haven't liked. Maybe it's just several decades worth of familiarity with other formats, but I feel like HD movies look too real. It makes it seem like it isn't a movie. Part of the joy of movies (for me, anyway), is that it looks like a movie—it has…

Count me in the ranks of those who deeply prefer the tangible presence of books in bookstores to the cold sterility of shopping online. I might go a step further and say that part of my love of used bookstores is that you won't always find what you're looking for (though there's always something good to stumble…

Hey, I live in Adams Morgan, too!