The North Koreans aren't coming here until global cooling rebuilds the Ice Bridge from Asia to Alaska. Then all hell's breaking loose.

What's stopping China from reinserting all the Chinese references and digitally alter the ending, such that the Wolverines come to accept and embrace their new Nationality?

Tipper Gore Verbinski would produce a supernatural TV drama without all the dark themes and adult language.

Criminally underappreciated.

E.Buzz for the win!

On the plus side, if it was good, I'd never have gotten to see it, because my husband has a family-wide Tom Cruise boycott.

Top Summer of 2010 Shoot em Ups

I just won't play the album. If you want me to rank my top 150 REM songs then Country Feedback, Belong, and Half a World Away will rank right up there.

Undertow was pretty great live during the Monster tour.

1.Life's Rich Pageant
2.Green
3.Fables
4.Chronic Town
5.Reckoning
6.Automatic
7.Document
8.Monster
9.Accelerate
10.New Adventures
11.Murmur
12.Around the Sun
13.Out of Time
14.Up
15.Reveal

I suspect they're clearing May 25
for a 3 hour Marriage Ref.

Monster is their last truly good album, held up by the strength of the non-singles (the last 3 in particular: You, Circus Envy, and Let Me In), and making up for Strange Currencies and Bang and Blame.

@ Old Guy - And therein lies the problem — my favorite REM songs are ones where the music leads and the lyrics follow, from their murky mumbled first songs through even "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" The instrumentation and singing on their best songs hold up without a need to understand what the hell Mr. Stipe is…

Go pick up "Monster" and "New Adventures in Hi Fi " on eBay or in a bargain bin. It'll be worth your $3.

If the band had continued on the path they were on with "Around the Sun," Steven, your original piece would have seemed prescient. I didn't even bother ripping much of "Up" or "Reveal" to my computer. Thankfully the band pulled out of the nosedive.

I hear(t) you
The three albums that followed New Adventures really worked to sully the band's legacy. Each release brought with it hope and then crushing disappointment. I cherish a few of the songs written in that period, and will go to the mat for "Parakeet" and "Worst Joke Ever" for reasons that I can't even fully…

Whichever Airport had the plane sink to the bottom of the ocean was the best.

Wolves, Franco

The Second and a Half Sign
I'm fearing that Charlie Sheen is going to be inextricably connected to the 2012 end of the world.

NBC, television's other network.