Holy shit, seriously? The entire time I was listening to the Fagin Platt bit I was trying  to imagine how anyone could find it funny. I mean,  I'm usually along for the ride when CBB does something endearingly stupid and/or consciously annoying but that was just fucking BORING.

Vampire Weekend

"marital troubles and matchmaking"? If the Chinese government thinks marital troubles are entertaining to watch, clearly they've never seen an episode of American Horror Story.

**NOT SPOILERS** The kid the daughter has a crush on is a ghost. The mom from Six Feet Under is a ghost. The real estate agent is a ghost, the Two-Face guy is a ghost, and everyone on the ghost tour was a ghost. Oh, and the disabled girl WAS a ghost, but being hit by a car brought her back to life.

I dunno dude,  I'd never heard her voice until the live WTF but she sounded extremely bitchy and annoying, and that book of hers sounds like a thick slice of hell. Some vapid hipster chick telling stories about dating vapid hipster dudes? Think I'll pass.

Yeah totally. the pick-up guru in Magnolia was kinda the part he was born to play… It was a context where his smarmy confidence actually worked in his favor, whereas in Born on the Fourth of July he just seemed like an A-list star in a Vietnam Vet costume trick-or-treating for Oscars.

Who to root for? I haven' t been so conflicted since Scott Stapp and the members of 311 got into a fistfight!

"Perhaps reflecting our collective exhaustion with '90s nostalgia and reactionary re-embrace of the retro '00s"

Yeah what's the deal? All (two of) their hits sound like they were done by one guy with a synthesizer. Factor in the fact that they don't get publishing royalties because their big hits are covers and it's an MC Hammer type economic downturn…

This picture is sadder than any photograph taken during the great depression.

I didn't think that episode was so bad but yeah, it's hard to overstate just how messed up Doug sounded. It was seriously not far off from those Michael Jackson tapes they've been playing at the Conrad Murray trial. Topical!

I understand what Tasha Robinson wuz saying about a movie's reputation… Recommendations from friends always seem to bring out the skeptic in me. Even if someone is telling me how unbelievably BAD something is, I find myself thinking "come on, how bad could it be?" But that's separate from the phenomenon of  "silly-ass…

Supergrass never seemed to really get their due either, although Jay Reatard seemed to like them.

Good show! I would like to add Compulsion to the list of pretty good bands from the 90's nobody remembers. They were an Irish band that kind of blended grunge and surf-rock. Not the greatest, but their album Comforter had its moments.

Yeah Pop-Up video was pretty awesome, but just like Behind the Music, it's pretty boring when it's focused on current artists. It's interesting to get some behind-the-scenes info on iconic vids you've seen 100 times (like "New Year's Day"!) but I haven't seen any of the videos from this show once, and all of the songs…

Ugh, this sounds like a piss poor replacement for AL-TV! Seriously, AL-TV was amazing, and possibly one of the best examples of how improbably cool actually MTV was once upon a time. I mean, shit, they used to give Al 3 hours to play weird-ass videos and do comedy skits and fake interviews… And seriously, those…

You're not really being that much more Hyperbolic than Hyden here. And hey, it's a pretty great album.

So basically this is like that movie Heckler, in which Jamie Kennedy rounded up a bunch of bloggers who dared to write mean things about the well-regarded film Son of Mask and called them nerds while his friends stood around and laughed?

Cancer.

I dunno, I thought the "All About Lee" Who Charted? Was a bit much… I like that character in small doses and all, and there were some gems in this episode (that whole bit about throwing Howard into a bush to restrict his movements was pretty funny), but Howard's gravelly Lee voice got, well, a little grating!