Excuse me for sharing, but because of this article I just pulled up a bunch of X songs online and this thing, which I haven't seen in a long damn time:

Did some googling. That dub also had the Sex Pistol's documentary DOA, which I remember as being pretty good, but I was never that into the Pistols, and enjoyed the music of "Decline…" a lot more. The other thing was called EBN (Emergency Broadcast Network) and I remember it being about 30 minutes long, and contained…

I can not count the number of times I listened to X's "More Fun in the New World" on cassette. The tape had died and I was 5 years older before I figured out that most people don't consider it one of their best. I still haven't listened to any of their other albums and found the anthology to be disappointing — I've…

Car parts
Congotronics is a fine, fine album and I'm looking forward to hearing this next one. I really enjoy tinkerers and inventors, and was definitely attracted to that part of this band's story, that they made their own amplification out of car parts, etc. It certainly gave their music a unique feel. And I think…

Nikki Cox. It's Nikki Cox. Turns out my brother was the key to that nugget of knowledge. He remembers what I'm talking about, but neither of us can find it. Doesn't show up on her IMDB page, though we're both positive it was her. Maybe some kind of straight-to-video edutainment thing? I'm at a loss.

Music fests
I haven't been to a music fest since, like, 1996 (Warped Tour, motherfuckers!), and I've had zero inclination to go, except that I think Bonnaroo would be totally sick. I think I would love all of the bands mentioned here, even the ones I've never heard of.

I spoke too soon. It is not Jenny Lewis you were referring to, it is Emivly Schluman, who was in fact on Small Wonder and Troop Beverly Hills. She is also not the redhead I'm looking for. How many damn redheads are there?

I think the girl you're referring to, Phiadria, from Troop Beverly Hills is indie darling Jenny Lewis (of Rilo Kiley and solo work), aka Fred Savage's love interest in The Wizard, the feature length commercial for the NES. I looked through the IMDB page for Small Wonder and had no luck there. Drat. For the record, it…

Hijacked! Help me out Memory Kings
All right, I've done this trick three times now, but I am in awe of the awesome power of the A.V. Club commentators wield when it comes to identifying shit from my past. This is why they rebooted Ask the A.V. Club, cause you smart fuckers knew it all already.

I'm a little unclear on your opinion. I do, however, have a fair grasp on your level of comfort with copying and pasting. You, sir, are an expert.

I fucking love Acid Bath.

It was a fine tool. Alas!

Nejastic, you were spot on. Shit, it's been a long time on that one. About time Hollywood made a movie about it!

Talesworth Adventure
Looking at the screenshot for Talesworth Adventure took me back to a game I played a few times around 1989 or so. The graphics were worse, but the keys and doors looked similar, and it had a similar top down view. There were worms (were they worms?)

I rock Hulu on an old ass G4 with a PPC processor. Netflix Watch Instantly is a no go, but Hulu works fine.

I almost bought that the other day, but picked up The Algebraist instead, which I have not started. I read Consider Phlebas and Matter, which I guess is the first and newest ones. You thinking I should've stuck with reading the Culture books in order, as you implied you were doing?

Holy hell, I haven't thought about DARYL in years. Fucking robot could eat some ice cream, couldn't he?

…they just get really, really high?

I've been reading some Iain Banks lately as well (speaking of raging lefties, as so much of this comment board seems to be doing). I've read two so far, and enjoyed them all of the way through the end, which seemed to arrive very suddenly in both cases. These were both Culture books. You?

Man, I know. I have no idea why that song did that to me. It was, frankly, very weird. I mean, there's certainly songs I've disliked before, songs I've turned the radio off because of, but that one…boy, just made something in me go crazy….and want to kill John Lennon.