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For shits and giggles, "Friends of P." peaked at #7 on the Billboard Modern Rock Charts this very same week in 1995:

HOW IS OZYMANDIAS NOT NOMINATED. Sorry, it deserves all caps.

If you're innocent, you will fall to an honorable Christian death. If you are, however, the bride of Satan, you will surely fly your broom to safety. At that point you will report back here for torture and beheading.

She looks like a John Waters movie.

The Furnace of the Lambs

In my head I keep pronouncing it "Llewelyn" (as in the "People's Court" Doug Llewelyn, also of Nirvana "In Bloom" fame).

Remember MTV's Sex in the 90s? I definitely remember being educated by those.

Spanning two decades!

I've seen this book on other people's bookshelves, and now it's appearing in mine.

Bacchus Simple

The Roman Who Wasn't There

Spaique Gionnes

Here's a cool thought — a variety of creatures/stories/situations from the books exists in a town as a somewhat normal facet of life (like a live-action and more serious "Nightmare Before Christmas"). But then a really scary something-or-other comes to town, and needs to be defeated.

That one seemed legitimately terrifying because of how it could actually happen to you.

I can't wait to see this!

Do you have to blow on the underside of the soap to get it to work, too?

It always irks me when an exclamation point is used in a professional statement.

Sizzler?

I'll Stand By You is great!

The cover of "Dead Souls" by Nine Inch Nails on the Crow soundtrack got me interested in Joy Division, then New Order, then Depeche Mode. So it worked out.