A Koopa Troopa?

[@Beast_of_man:disqus wakes up next to the head of a macrame horse]

"FUCK THOSE ASSHOLES"

Good Lord, no. The last thing I want is for the AVClub comments to become infested with .gifs. It's the only thing Disqus has going for it. BoingBoing is damn near unreadable now. I09's comments are the worst.

[Spike Lee angrily tweets Paul Lynde's address]

Not a Lou fan, but this is a nicely-written review.

The one cover they did that I weirdly don't care that much for (I don't hate it, it just seems less revelatory than their covers usually are) is their cover of "Ceremony" - not only one of my favorite songs in its original incarnations, but in its Galaxie 500 cover form; and even Radiohead's…

Or the intro to "Clampdown", or "Somebody Got Murdered", or…

It's some bullshit, especially since I keep refreshing this page.

That song is in my running for most amazing piece of music ever. I have had…out-of-body experiences while listening/dancing to it. (And I agree that this version is kind of the definitive one, though I like some of the others as well).

I think the first Neko song I heard was "Deep Red Bells", and…yeah.

If you think that was heavy, you should have seen the original script, by Frank Darabont.

Check this boot out, it's a very good compilation from their final tour (opening for Tom Petty):

Zooropa is great, but Pop didn't stick with me. I should revisit it sometime.

I saw a doc on Joshua Tree once and the band talked about how "Streets" was a song that they just kept kicking around and kicking around and couldn't quite figure out how to make it work, and that intro was almost a fiddly-accident they just sort of grafted on - and suddenly, the song not only worked, but became the…

My experience of "This Woman's Work" was almost as embarrassing as Party of Five - it's in a lesser John Hughes movie (with Kevin Bacon, Elizabeth McGovern, and Alec Baldwin) called She's Having A Baby. Emotionally-manipulative as hell (it scores a "pregnancy crisis" sequence where the pregnant McGovern may lose the…

How do you feel about Chromatics' cover?

Further down the nerd exhaust pipe, is there a design reason the docking bays and hangars are all lined up along the "equator"? On earth, we launch rockets from near the equator if possible, to take advantage of the planet's rotation to gain some speed for the rocket. But the Death Star doesn't rotate, does it? And…

I hate myself for asking this, but what is the trench's design purpose to begin with? Offering some protection/concealment to the exhaust ports by recessing them from the main surface?

I might edit/reword it, using the word 'binary' there probably confuses people into thinking of zeroes and ones.