Along with Herb Alpert
Mitch Miller is one of those names I associate with the innumerable bins of thrift store records I browsed when I was a teenager. He and Herb (well, really the whole A&M Records crew of that era - Claudine Longet, The Sandpipers, Sergio Mendes and Brasil 66, etc) were heavy presences in those…

Whoa there
Maybe I'm horribly out of the loop (always a possibility) but I had absolutely no idea Jean-Pierre Jeunet had anything new coming out.

forget_it_jake: Many thanks. I am indeed graduating in May. The honeymoon is over.

Those damned Mindset Lists
I must say, as a current Beloit College student (at least for a few more weeks), I just about dirtied my britches when I saw the shout-out in Tasha Robinson's paragraph. Just about made my day. Thanks, AV Club!

Why the Hell Not?
Kinky Freidman is one of the few reasons I can find these days to be proud of being a native Texan. My parents introduced me to his awesome column in Texas Monthly, which ran up until he announced he was running for governor. I met him at the VFW (or maybe American Legion) Hall in Menard, TX, and I…

A fine list
and I very much enjoyed reading it, but I just have one small nitpicky correction: I'm pretty sure the town in "Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada" is Van COURT, Texas. There is no Van Hunt. No one else probably notices or cares because I doubt that many grumpy, territorial native West Texans browse these…

I've only seen
"The General" and "Sherlock, Jr." but goddamn if those aren't two of the most audacious, astonishing comedies ever made. The sequence, mentioned above, where Buster walks onto the movie screen and into film after different film, is one of the greatest is American cinema, up there with Groucho's mirror…