Whoa, he's right. It did star George W. Bush.

I'm surprised at all the love for the Will Farrell movie. I rented it over the holidays thinking it would be something stupid but mildly amusing to watch with my parents and my sister's kids. Instead it was just an uncomfortable slog through a movie that seemed to be aimed at kids except that it had really dirty…

I watched this back in the early 90s after reading about it on a list of Quentin Tarantino's favorite movies. I loved it back then as a teenager but after reading this I'm curious how it would play for me today. I remember One Eyed Jacks was also on the list - didn't like it at the time but I should probably give…

When I saw the third Pirates of the Carribean movie in Prague they randomly inserted an intermission just before the finale. I would welcome an intermission in most long movies but in this case it was just annoying because it woke me up when they raised the lights.

In good ol' Asia there are numerous places where you can buy anything on DVD for less than a dollar and you can see new releases in Gold Class for less than the price of a matinee here in the states. Why the fuck would you want Netflix?

"You get promoted from Guidance Counselor to Principal. Collect an extra $1,000 on Payday."

I was a huge Weird Al fan as a kid back in the 80s but when I got into "real" music I quit listening to Al and only knew the bigger songs that got airplay. The thing is, since the heyday of me listening to Weird Al was before I knew anything about music, I never got the style parodies. It never occurred to me that…

It's not exclusively a game podcast but I like the Totally Rad Show. I'm not crazy about the new daily format but I gotten used to it. I tried out Weekend Confirmed and it was okay but at 2+ hours a week is an awful lot of time to listen to people talk about video games.

The Bugle is the best podcast I discovered this year. I like Kermode and Mayo but I had to drop them when I realized I was listening to entirely too many film podcasts. Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz's Radio Spiritworld was great even though there's only been one episode so far and no indication of when more…

I used to occasionally listen to SModcast until I got such a backlog of episodes I quit. It can be very, very funny, but when it's not, it's excruciating. Basically, when you hear Kevin Smith light up a joint you can get ready with the fast forward button unless you're really into stoned guys trying their hardest to…

It's been years since I heard it but I remember that Lost Change album being surprisingly good. There were a few months in the early 2000s when that was an album I was chasing in record stores but those BBE discs were hard to find.

Scott Walker
I'd never heard of Scott Walker before but I checked out "The Drift" years ago when it popped up on lots of Best of the Year lists. I never got into it though because it was way too weird and inaccessible for me at the time. Then earlier this year I watched "30th Century Man" and I finally got who Scott…

I'd never listened to these guys until I saw them sandwiched between Vinny Chase from Entourage's band and Talib Kweli at this weird election night Rock the Vote show. Definitely not my kind of thing but they put on a fun show. I would wholeheartedly and unashamedly pretend to be into them if I was trying to bang a…

I thought OLS was a huge disappointment at first but it's grown on me quite a bit. Even more egregious is the distinct lack of Grinderman 2 on those lists. I mean… the fuck?

I'd read the shit out of that column. I grew up on punk but lost touch with it around 2000. Now when I try to catch up I just feel like the weird old dude with the Exploited t-shirt we used to get to buy beer for us at the gas station around the corner from the all ages show.

I thought that was a trolly comment of made-up genres/groups until you mentioned Dubstep and Balearic I went, "oh, wait, maybe it's a real thing." Downloading the Whistla mix now. Cheers.

In Canada, Cheesasaurus Rex hangs out with the Catsupseratops.

All I know about XTC is that "Dear God" song and that the lead singer kind of looks like the bad guy from "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" so imagine my surprise when all of a sudden I realized I'm listening to a cover of a song that Kirb and Chris sampled on their excellent "Niggaz and White Girlz" mixtape.

Alright then, what the fuck is with the reference to Anacortes, Washington? I even googled that shit and I still don't get it.

No, but his mohawk has a cameo as the guidance counselor.