Jewfro, I'm right with you. The exposure to the music I ended up actually liking was through early MTV, but I entered my senior year owning a total of five actual albums.

Damn, that's some cool dads.

It seems that every dickweed in school had a copy of "Licensed to Ill", which disguised that the Beastie Boys were actually talented.

I bought "Daydream Nation" solely because it was influenced by William Gibson.

Don't forget that "Cinematic Titanic" and "Rifftrax" are around right now.

It's funny, but in the pre-Internet era you were really out of luck hearing any music outside what was on the radio.
I got real tired of hearing Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd ALL THE TIME on the local 'rock' station.

That's a standard response from any religious take on 'science', though. I saw a 'science' textbook for a fundie school, and it explained that atoms are held together by the 'force of God' because 'no scientist can explain it'.

Is he afraid of Huey Lewis?

Disagree - it's an attack on faux democracy. This isn't the "100% of the vote" of the Soviet states. Note No. 2's dismay when he's running unopposed - 'very bad for morale', and taking humorous umbrage over 6's response of 'everyone votes for a dictator'. It's all a US-style election campaign.

Cold War Subversion
The shifting position of No. 6 on the Cold War (which, like most spy shows seem to gloss over any details) is subtle in COBB - where he identifies Nadia as Russian, she corrects him, and he reiterates "Russian" again. By the end of the show, he's the one correcting his old boss.
No. 2's speech…

Wasn't that just a washed-out version of a Wim Wenders film?

Hot Topic sells more than Nintendo and Family Guy T-shirts?

Mummies. 'Cause, you know, they got those bees. Bees are cool.

Wow, what irony! What's next, rain falling on a weatherman? Or a famous author having a book written about his life?
You have as much grip on the concept of 'irony' as Alanis - unless the pure stupidity of it was intentional, in which case you have as much grip on the concept of 'humor' as Gallagher.

Nothing New
A decade ago, MTV was ruining music videos (when they were still actually showing them) with running "IMs" from their most obnoxious fans taking up half the screen.

I'm a huge fan of the ol' "What can possibly go wrong?"

Jim Belushi is mankind's nemesis.

I'd hold it against him if he tried to pass it off as art, or if he said "This is all I'm doin' from now on, ridin' the crap movie train into money-town!"

Anywhere, I have to say - in all honesty - that I don't believe that. At least with respects to me.

Clinging to the past? Why, because I'm not automatically assuming that this will turn out great? As Katatloz pointed out, minus doesn't mean negative - not being a pollyanna about the buyout doesn't mean you're automatically assuming that it's the greatest disaster in human history.
I don't see reason for praise or…