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Erik Charles Nielsen
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I know. Over and over and over again, and nobody gets the pizza, and would someone do something about that gnome?

If anything, the reverse is true. Yoshimi/Soft Bulletin-era Flaming Lips is good… not my thing, but well-crafted at least. The '90s stuff was pointless shock-value stuff. And "She Don't Use Jelly" is like the audio equivalent of that bullshit Soundgarden video.

If inducing a state of mild nausea is awesome, then… sure. Sure. My god, it SOUNDS like a stomach churning.

FOX-RELATED MUSIC I LIKE MORE THAN THIS

I'm apparently ahead of the curve on knowing what sounds foxes make, though.

Perhaps. I love all three of the "canonical" BtS albums (and a few things before that, and around half of what came after), but I did hear "There's Nothing Wrong With Love" first, and I do still want to know what they might have done if they developed along those lines.

My issue with it is that he got the words of "Cortez the Killer" wrong.

What, no Amelia Fletcher?

For me: sketch comedy. So much sketch comedy. I bought the Kids in the Hall boxed set a couple years ago, got eight episodes in, and never went back. My wife is always on me to watch The State, but same story — saw three or four episodes, liked them, never got around to going back. And for that matter, it's been five

It's overrated.

I just hope he's preordained to finish the Internet video series we did a pilot for a few months back. Ah, who am I kidding — the other lead just got a Comedy Central pilot. It'll never happen.

I had a joke in my act for a while which was just, "My Joanna Newsom impression is surprisingly good," followed by no attempt to actually do the impression. It did… pretty well at certain alternative comedy shows in Los Angeles, but I knew better than to take it beyond there.

Tell that to Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer.

Train? How about that helicopter nonsense? Harrumph.

Aw… he could have cast Matt Jones in this one and called it "The Badger." But no. Good news for Matt Jones, I suppose?

Oh, god. This Mike guy is going to kill Garrett, isn't he? Garrett is going to die.

Smoking Magritte's pipe.

A lot of people say this show's title is nonsensical. It is. But it's a holdover from the original version of the show, which was slated to use another comic book character until they couldn't get the rights. People who have read the script speak surprisingly highly of "Howard: Turn Off the Duck."

HBO executive: "I don't know what we were thinking, greenlighting a show about horses and calling it 'Spider-Man.' We were originally going to call it 'Terriers,' but it turns out that was taken."

Hey, remember when this was a show about an ADVERTISING AGENCY?