My friends and I have a theory that even the most die-hard ALW haters have at least one of his musicals that they are fully, passionately, non-ironically obsessed with. Mine is Jesus Christ Superstar. I'm not sure how much of that is the music itself, though, and how much is just the sheer vocal power of Carl…

It is on Ebaum's World, though:

Yeah, I can only stomach that song - or any Taylor Swift song, really - if I'm emphatically not listening to the lyrics.

My ultimate childhood trauma that I am still recovering from 20 years later is the freaking Rite of Spring dinosaur massacre segment in Fantasia. I still have to fast forward through that shit because I can't handle watching dinosaurs collapse and wallow in dust pools as they slowly die of exposure in time to…

My favorite by far is this one, which features a cat dressed as a man dressed as a woman dressed as a cat:

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My introduction to them was through their song Orange Blossom, which from what I can tell is more representative of their sound.

not to be That Person, but Brad Neely did Wizard People and Neil Cicierga did Potter Puppet Pals. I only know this because I was irrationally, life-consumingly obsessed with both my freshman year of college

Chowwww down at Chick fil a/Even if you're gay/CHOW DOWN AT CHICK FIL A

Agree. Plus I think the flashbacks put more emphasis on how difficult it is to love and care for an addict. Both the present day scenes and the flashback were just as much about how Nicky's addiction impacted the people around her - whether it was her mom, her fellow junkies, Luschek, or Red & Morello.

Oh my god, I was so obsessed with Our Lady Peace in high school. That's a band that went off the rails later on in their career - Raine Maida's vocal range in Starseed is the most unhinged, amazing thing ever, and he just completely stopped using his voice after Spiritual Machines. Thanks for reminding me of my…

Or a giant statue of herself pissing eternally on a little Katya

Beautifully said.

Can we have a Rufus Wainwright Power Hour? Pleaseeeeeee.

his name is Paul Revere…

"Some Milk Duds… for my milk buds." <— Bud is rapidly scaling the favorite child chart for me.

It's fantastic. Watch it!!

OMG. I am generally indifferent to U2 but that was beautiful.

With a Russian funeral march looping in the background.