I agree with you that it's not as simple as "I didn't hear [x] by the time I was [age], so I can't like it." But I do think your age-of-first-intake matters. I first encountered (g00d) hip-hop as a frustrated, angry, confused pre-adolescent, and I was probably a lot more receptive to its themes than I am now as a…

Agreed. For a thirteen-year-old with raging hormones and a pre-2000s level of exposure to int0rweb porn, it's certainly possible to get worked up over Jami Gertz as the teenage vampire babe, but really, it's a crap movie.

I wasn't talking about feeling embarrassed for liking things. I'm a 28-year-old married man who proudly owns a DVD copy of The Little Mermaid, for pete's sake. What I was saying is that when I listen to metal, I feel embarrassed for the guys who are making it, because they seem oblivious to how dorky it is - but I…

missed the boat
For me it's metal. In fact, I've gone back and forth with my father (a metalhead since his teenagerdom in the 70s) and my wife (a nearly lifelong metalhead) over the merits of metal many times. To them, it's this raw cathartic sound of rage and badassedness and whatever else… to me, I just hear a…

what's that chick's problem?
turns out she was raped by a Hollywood director before she got pubes.

I'm going to go ahead and pretend that I can tell whether you're being sarcastic or not, decide you're not, and agree with you. Because Purple Rose of Cairo is exactly the movie I was thinking of when the word "nihilism" popped to mind.

Bravo. Said it a thousand times better than I ever could've.

Look, all I know is, the one thing I "got" while watching damn near every film Woody Allen ever made was the overwhelming sense that I was watching a hack build a tautology of unearned cynicism out of pithy cleverness and a bratty refusal to engage the world as it actually exists. I'm not even going to pretend that…

Also, given the lack of any true insights into the embarrassingly transparent Woody Allen character who staggers through each and every Woody Allen movie:

can I just add to the list?
Also:

What is de problem wid Michael Jackson? De king of pop. Hoo-hoo. Hee-hee.

first!
first!

littlealex:

Thick, dark blood, I'm guessing.

…quite possibly through the same portal.

huh?!
THAT'S "blazing fire"? It looks more like "meek, wan, yellow sunshine on an overcast day."

I love how this thread is about to devolve into a snark-fest between morons on the relative merits of the United States and Canada. It's going to make Thornton v. Ghomeshi look intelligent and civil by comparison.

Hey, it's his show. If he'd decided to dick-slap Billy Bob and call his band "Grouchy Dickweed and the Giggling Pussies," it's his prerogative, and it'd be hard to argue Mr. Woodcock didn't deserve it.

It's also a little-known fact that all Canadians wear flannel shirts and travel exclusively by moose.

You're the vulgarian, you fuck.