See, I would have guessed that Jack & Avery hate that "born in the USA" escape clause, because it allows children of immigrants automatic citizen status. They have always struck me as the type who worship blood & family connections over technical legal issues.
Not that I expect logical consistencies from my fictional…

@Jesus T. : Well, no — '69 here — but maybe that will make you feel better.

Carolina Chocolate Drops are incredible! The woman singer can do R&B songs alongside Irish style ballads, all backed with fiddle and banjo as if it were completely normal. I'm so happy to have found them; I can't wait for them to tour north, as everything I've read/seen online says their live shows are amazing.

so damn funny
This should be moved up some on the web real estate — Newswire, even. It's that good. More people should see this.
Unless the plan was to make AV Club scan the entire page for new content like an addict, thus increasing eyeball time for the advertisers, and making me enjoy things more 'cause I had to…

It has been ages since I read It, but the effect it had on me was so strong, I can complain about that book as if I had read it yesterday. It is a text-book example that I use for the exact premise of this Q&A, and I was happy to find someone else started an It thread before I went off on this P.O.S. book.
The ending…

Can't vouch for how he looks, but I absolutely loved the Baroque Cycle and Anathem. I know that style-wise, Stephenson isn't writing the same kinds of books that he did when he started out, the stuff that got me hooked. But so many of his early works didn't have a good ending. Lots of well written…

She's got a sexy voice, and is not stereotypically attractive. (I agree about the chest, though. A bit of a downer — unless you like pre-pubescent teens. No comment.) I like that she is some kind of "star" — but I'm not sure to whom.

YMMV is totally right. I've met her twice now — once a librarians convention; once at an upstate NY summer festival. I think the context matters.

what I show my kids
One of the many reasons I love AV Club — and Undercover in particular — is that I can show my kids what it's like for people to actually play music. No flash; no quick cuts; no aesthetic considerations about what's cool right now, etc. Even live footage on youtube doesn't make the performance…

I actually am less disturbed by the Robin Hood thing than the idea that anyone would turn Cloud Atlas into a movie. If anyone gets to do it, it ought to be Tom Twyker. Perfume demonstrated that he understood how visual cues could be hyper-referential without distracting from the over-all story. The Wachowskis will…

I kept thinking about this, too, because the newer definition of black swan looms large in my mind of late — particularly after reading that awful book of the same title.
Maybe they are related. One of the big themes of the film is getting Portman's character to "release the black swan within" -i.e, to live a little,…

Wife & I spend some rare time away from the kids to go see Black Swan, not really expecting to run into sold-out shows, and boy, were we wrong. This almost messed up our plans entirely. So, yeah, maybe there's some method to Fox's marketing/release strategy, even if I don't quite get it.
Perhaps they are hoping to…

My wife and I saw this together, and we both laughed at many of those scenes you described. (Not Winona stabbing herself in the face, though. That was somewhat gruesome.) I, too, have to believe that those scenes were set up to be funny, or at least a different kind of release, much like fake-outs are in horror…

@LP — Piker! You totally have a job that allows you to time-shift your periods of responsibility. I expect pre-noon levels of awesomeness from you!
— gphatty, who used his morning off on absinthe, pie making, and sobering up again to go to in-laws for T-day.

@ rjbennett: That chart was great. Thank you. It makes thinking about the characters even more fun.

Seriously. When the remasters were released during the last year, there was an immediate flurry of internet traffic on P2P networks, and clandestine hand-offs of DVD's containing every Beatles song ever, all over again, in whatever format you could desire. A whole cottage industry of "trading" so to speak. Who's…

@Miller — Yay! Someone else does this, too! I hope that you have more success with "Hi, Dr. Nick!" than I do, because no one ever seems to get it.

so far, I don't see . . .
Stop Making Sense. I realize that it could technically be a bit of a cheat, as it is the soundtrack to a concert film, but I listened to that album long before I ever got a chance to see the film, and I loved that cassette to death.
Almost literally, since I had a full extended version, and…

Before seeing them live, with New Pornographers, I would have totally dismissed them as well. Hushed, pretty songs, with no meat. Lyrics that might be interesting, if you could make them out at all. (Murdoch did not sing with any confidence on the first couple of albums, which did not help.)
But: damn, that band put…

If Caulfield was truly religious, I would argue that —like most religious folks — it doesn't stand in the way of her getting a paycheck. I Netflixed TiMER — it was streaming recently, and it had Caulfield in it — and that movie, she's totally baby/sex crazed. (It's the premise, really — everyone who wants to gets a…