I've been listening to YMIW for about a year now, and I like it generally (as well as Pete's standup), but the Garlin episode really brought to the fore something that has been bothering me so much that recently I've had trouble finishing episodes:

Lee Garner Jr. is awesome.

"Swingers or Crashers?"
"Fred Claus."

"This job is definitely not worth eleven-five a year."

Speaking of heartwarming rape…
…a la "Gone with the Wind," check out "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers," which is gorgeous and catchy and fun, and which also features Howard Keel using the Rape of the Sabine Women as a pep talk, so his brothers will go kidnap (and presumably assault) the women they barely know, and…

I'm lucky, in retrospect, that when I dressed as Hitler for Halloween '95, it was just to a party with other high schoolers. Most of them thought it was just as "clever" as I apparently did, and those who were offended (surely they must have been there!) didn't let on.

I always treasure the moment toward the beginning of "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" when he's leaving Tuco to die, and the words "The Good" appear on the screen. Here's your hero, folks. By default.

I was hoping to see "Marie Provost" on here.
The best part of that song is after the lines quoted above ("She was a winner/that became the doggie's dinner"), when Lowe suddenly enters the song himself with the hilarious, callous line, "She never meant that much to me."

You mean the mob only did me a favor to get something in return?
Oh, Fat Tony.

I am also curious—in a completely sincere, non-confrontational way—about what music you don't object to. What isn't adolescent musing? What isn't ironic posturing? What music do you find affecting, or poignant, or catchy, or grown-up, or whatever it is you like about music?

But this is what I'm saying. LCD being watered-down, boring, bland, far from interesting, and of poorer quality than all other dance music are all opinions. They are tastes. To say that people don't find it boring because they don't know the history of electronic music assumes a lot, ignores what people respond to in…

I totally get how the decision was reached.
What Murphy does is not to everyone's taste, and I get that. But what I don't understand is this boilerplate dismissal that amounts to, "Who cares about some white 40-year-old hipster whining about not being cool?" (or "whining about getting older," or whatever)

And do we have a job Sarah's girlfriend could do?

1906!
If this gets Bird one step closer to making his movie about the San Francisco earthquake, that'll be good enough for me.

Oh good
Another chance for Bogdanovich to tell everyone he knew Orson Welles.

His way with fictional cliffhangers
will almost certainly be better than his way with telling his life story.

I know it's crazy, but some of us latched onto "Kid A" because we think the music is fantastic.

Claude's right, re: Shawshank. You talk about a movie whose flaws stare you in the face.

YES. "Christmas Island" and "Charlie Brown Christmas" are the only Christmas albums I have. The first Christmas song I hear each season (by choice—thank you, retailers) is the Guaraldi version of "O Tannenbaum."

"I wasn't in the situation room that night,
but I'll bet all the money in my pockets against all the money in your pockets that it was LEO, WHO NO ONE ELECTED!"